New Year's Eve (movie)

“The Incredible Burt Wonderstone” would have to pull a rabbit out of its hat to avoid a disappearing act at the box office. Despite its bigger budget and higher-profile cast, the magic comedy starring Steve Carell and Jim Carrey will have to...

Ashton Kutcher is living a double life, or so his latest profile in Esquire magazine would have us believe. On one hand, he's an actor who's taken goofy, likable-guy kinds of roles and parlayed them into a career and, on the other, he's a tech-geek,...

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One of the most buzz-worthy titles at this year's Sundance Film Festival is already off the market. "jOBS," the festival's closing-night film starring Ashton Kutcher as Apple founder Steve Jobs, will be released by Open Road Films in April, the...

Sort of the pregnancy version of such recent all-star comedies as "New Year's Eve" and "Valentine's Day," director Kirk Jones' ("Waking Ned Devine") compendium of several couples' birth-awaiting stories - inspired by the Heidi Murkoff best-seller - offers...

As a true survivor of show business, Hector Elizondo is well-suited to a show titled "Last Man Standing." Now playing Tim Allen's boss on the Tuesday ABC sitcom, the veteran of more than 50 years of stage and screen work admits it took some cajoling to...

Perennial Razzie favorite Adam Sandler had another banner year when it comes to bad movies, landing 11 nominations in the race for the worst of Hollywood 2011. The comedian's record-destroying total included his work in or for three films: "Jack and...

Too much of anything is a bad thing, and unfortunately, the movie "New Year's Eve" has too much of everything. An abundance of subplots distract viewers from realizing there isn't actually a point to the movie. I expected, in a film including such an...

It was only last year that director Garry Marshall's “Valentine's Day” raked in enough moolah to reach 23 on Box Office Mojo's highest-grossing “romantic comedy” list. That was apparently enough to trigger a follow-up — not,...

Director Guy Ritchie established his credentials for outrageous noisy action flicks with "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels." He put the dignified Sherlock Holmes series on steroids with his first big budget effort in 2009. He added top-notch special...

“New Year’s Eve” is a movie that if nothing else has a lot going on. The film consists of multiple stories each with its own handful of recognizable actors. The logic is that everything can’t possibly fail at once and everyone...

Let's hope your New Year's Eve is better than the movie titled "New Year's Eve." This hectic ensemble comedy has so many interwoven story lines and exudes so much synthetic good cheer that it leaves you feeling exhausted long before midnight strikes....