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9 By Rex Reed 9/21/11 12:08am

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Dolphin Tale is Something Fishy

Three things that make everybody happy: Christmas, ice cream and dolphins. A delightful new family film called Dolphin Tale is not a Christmas story; it takes place in Florida, so you wouldn’t know it even if it was. But you get everything else, and the way things are going at the movies these days, two out of three ain’t bad.

This is the kind of movie with end credits for days, postproduction edits for years, and nobody cares. What matters is how lovable the dolphin is, and on that score everyone can rest easy. Read More

3 By Daniel D'Addario 8/17/11 12:17pm

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Dustin Lance Black’s Broadway Play Announces Casting: Morgan Freeman, Marisa Tomei

Dustin Lance Black's 8, a staged reading on Broadway depicting the legal battle over Proposition 8, is to star Morgan Freeman, Cheyenne Jackson, Anthony Edwards (of ER), Christine Lahti (of Chicago Hope), Rob Reiner, Marisa Tomei, and Yeardley Smith (little Lisa Simpson--or her voice, at least), the American Foundation for Legal Rights announced today. (AFER Read More

By Christopher Rosen 12/11/09 1:58pm

Opening This Weekend: Matt Damon Gets in a Scrum for Morgan Freeman, Peter Jackson Rattles The Lovely Bones and Tom Ford Goes Mad Men

A pair of Oscar-winning directors debut new films this weekend, but all anyone really wants to talk about is the King of the World. Thanks to some embargo-breaking reviews, the first (and second and third) word on James Cameron's Avatar has finally reached the masses. And, apparently, it's better than it looks! (Be honest, Read More

By Rex Reed 12/08/09 10:23pm

I’m Cheering for Morgan Freeman

InvictusRunning time 134 minutes Written by Anthony Peckham Directed by Clint EastwoodStarring  Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon

If I went to Clint Eastwood’s rousing, rah-rah Invictus with less enthusiasm than some of my colleagues, it’s because I am weary of all these worthy filmmakers churning out movies about South Africa nobody wants to see, and I dreaded Read More

By Rex Reed 7/15/08 3:41pm

Bat to the Future

THE DARK KNIGHT RUNNING TIME 152 minutes WRITTEN BY Christopher and Jonathan Nolan DIRECTED BY Christopher Nolan STARRING Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart, Michael Caine, Gary Oldman, Morgan Freeman, Maggie Gyllenhaal

Some folks take metaphysical pleasure from the New Batman Philosophy According to Christopher Nolan: that good and evil lurk side by Read More

By Rex Reed 6/24/08 4:48pm

Angelina and the Atonement Guy Miss Target in Killer Thriller

Wanted Running Time 110 minutes Written by Michael Brandt, Derek Haas and Chris Morgan Directed by Timur Bekmambetov Starring James McAvoy, Angelina Jolie, Morgan Freeman, Terence Stamp

Even in the summer garbage dump of bloated bilge aimed at computer hackers and sleepwalkers with I.Q.’s under 40, a bucket of swill called Read More

By Spencer Morgan 6/17/08 3:59pm

Ruda Awakening

Morgan Freeman and his wife, Myrna Colley-Lee, were the first to arrive. They stepped out of a town car in front of the French restaurant Tocqueville on East 15th Street and made their way to the empty bar area. Neither knew what to expect; the hostess, Ruda Dauphin, had called it a “salon.” They were Read More

By John Heilpern 4/29/08 3:59pm

Nichols, Freeman Can’t Make Country Girl Awake and Sing

And so it’s back to the ’50s (again). “All plays are dated,” Harold Clurman wrote in steadfast support of Clifford Odets in 1970. “They are products of their time.” Yes; but everything depends on how much the dated-ness shows.

In the current Broadway revival of Odets’econd to last play, The Country Girl, it shows Read More