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• • Rated PG-13
A Lot Like Love

A Lot Like Love takes place over the course of seven years, but it feels like real time. It’s as if the script (by actor Colin Patrick Lynch) were pinched from Richard Curtis’ wastebasket: Strangers Oliver (Ashton Kutcher) and Emily (Amanda Peet) bump fuzz in an airplane lavatory and spend the rest of the film bantering cutely and coming thisclose to a real relationship, only to be thwarted by chance and putatively delightful misunderstandings. Will they get together? It’s hard to care, not because the answer is obvious—the answer is always obvious in the mass-market romantic comedy—but because the characters are so generic and tiresome that it’s like watching a long-form Taster’s Choice commercial punctuated with peppy AAA needle-drops, dorky montages, and creaky dialogue, delivered leadenly. It’s tempting to blame the actors (who, shall we say, lack range?) for this debacle, but the whole production is simply as mediocre and half-baked as Hollywood gets. Reviewed by MI.

 

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Century Cinemas Del Monte Center
1700 Del Monte Center, Monterey
373-8051
Golden State Theater
417 Alvarado St., Monterey
372-4555
Maya Cinemas
153 Main St., Salinas
757-Maya
A Christmas Carol (3D) (2009)
10:15am; 12:20; 2:30; 4:30; 6:55
A Christmas Carol (2009)
11:10am; 1:20; 3:30; 5:40; 7:50; 10:05
The Blind Side
12:15; 3:15; 6:15; 9:15
Michael Jackson's This is It
10:20am
2012
10:10am; 10:50am; 11:55am; 1:35; 2:00; 3:20; 5:05; 5:50; 7:05; 8:45; 9:20; 10:30
Planet 51
10:30am; 11:15am; 12:45; 1:30; 3:05; 3:50; 5:15; 6:05; 7:30; 8:10; 9:45
Boondock Saints 2: All Saints Day
7:20; 10:20
The Men Who Stare at Goats
12:10; 2:20; 4:50
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
10:00am; 10:45am; Noon; 1:00; 1:45; 3:00; 4:00; 4:45; 6:00; 7:00; 7:45; 9:00; 10:00; 10:35
The Fourth Kind
10:10pm
Northridge Cinemas
350 Northridge Shopping Center, Salinas
449-4168
A Christmas Carol (3D) (2009)
11:50am; 2:20; 4:50; 7:20
A Christmas Carol (2009)
12;45; 3:20; 5:45
Michael Jackson's This is It
6:35; 9:15
Paranormal Activity
8:15; 10:35
2012
11:40am; 12:50; 2:00; 5:30; 6:45; 7:55; 9:00
Astro Boy
11:35am; 1:55; 4:15
The Fourth Kind
Noon; 2:35; 5:00; 7:35
The Blind Side
11:25am; 1:00; 2:25; 4:00; 8:25; 10:00
Planet 51
11:45am; 12:55; 2:15; 3:25; 7:15; 8:20; 9:45; 10:45
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
11:30am; 12:30; 1:30; 4:30; 5:30; 6:30; 7:30; 10:30
Osio Cinemas
350 Alvarado St., Monterey
644-8171
New York, I Love You
12:20; 2:40; 5:00; 7:30; 9:50
Paranormal Activity
12:15; 2:15; 4:30; 7:00; 9:15
An Education
12:30; 2:45; 5;00; 7:15; 9:30
Amelia
Noon; 2:25; 4:50; 7:15; 9:40
A Serious Man
Noon; 2:20; 4:40; 7:00; 9:20
Coco Before Chanel
12:10; 2:35; 5:00; 7:25; 9:45
Cannery Row IMAX Theatre
640 Wave St., Monterey
372-4629
Sharks (3D)
11:00am; 2:00; 5:00
The Polar Express (IMAX)
Noon; 3:00; 6:00
Star Trek (IMAX)
8:00
Lighthouse Cinemas
525 Lighthouse Ave., Pacific Grove
643-1333
Bright Star
10:20am (Sat and Sun only); 3:10; 8:00
Michael Jackson's This is It
12:45; 5:40; 10:30 (Sat and Sun only)
The Men Who Stare at Goats
9:45am (Sat and Sun only); 11:45am (Sat and Sun only); 1:45 (except Fri); 3:45 (except Fri); 5:45 (except Fri); 7:45; 9:45 (Fri and Sat only)
The Blind Side
11:30am (Sat and Sun only); 2:10; 4:50; 7:30; 10:15 (Fri and Sat only)
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
10:30am (Sat and Sun only); 1:15; 4:15; 7:00; 10:00 (Fri and Sat only)

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