The week in film: ’22 Jump Street,’ ‘The Signal’ and more

HollywoodandFine.com After I saw “22 Jump Street,” I noted publicly that, while it was funnier than “21 Jump Street,” so was my root canal. (Although the latter did include laughing gas.) Still, the bar wasn’t particularly high. So why is this film currently floating atop the Rotten Tomatoes chart with …

The week in movies: ‘Bad Words,’ ‘Need for Speed’ and more

HollywoodandFine.com OK. I’ll admit it: My favorite film this week is also the most transgressive. It’s full of vicious one-liners that are guaranteed to offend, well, the easily offended. Jason Bateman makes his directing debut with “Bad Words,” the rudest comedy about an adult dealing with kids since “Bad Santa.” …

‘Smashed,’ reviewed by Marshall Fine

HollywoodandFine.com The best films about recovery from addiction are not about reaching rock bottom and making that choice to stop. Rather, like “Smashed,” they’re about the very real and difficult task of going on, in an emotionally unshielded and intensely vulnerable way. Addiction, after all, isn’t about loving the substance …

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