Movie & TV Editorial Reviews
'Guys With Kids' serves lukewarm formula
By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY - September 11, 2012
Jimmy Fallon is co-creator of a bland and forgettable sitcom that stumbles over familiar ground.
NBC finds a 'New Normal': Good comedy
By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY - September 9, 2012
The controversy may draw viewers, but the sweet family story will keep them.
Fall TV night-by-night: The other freshmen
By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
Obviously, not all the new TV series can make fall's top 10. USA TODAY's Robert Bianco offers quick takes on the rest of the freshman class.
'Bachelorette': Messy, mean-spirited
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 7, 2012
These Bridesmaid-zillas aren't fun to watch, and bizarre tone shifts don't help, either.
These 10 fall shows separate themselves
By Robert Bianco, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
USA TODAY TV critic Robert Bianco picks the most promising new series coming to broadcast TV.
'Chicken With Plums' has its virtuoso moments
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 7, 2012
The film, about a man whose violin, and life, is demolished, is told in a magical realist style, and has an exotic flavor worth sampling.
'The Words' is a literary scoundrel itself
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 7, 2012
Bradley Cooper plays a man who longs to be a writer, but may not have what it takes. Then the man finds a yellowed manuscript.
Offbeat 'Sleepwalk With Me' is no snooze 
By Claudia Puig, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
Comedian Mike Birbiglia's semi-autobiographical film has a low-key style that is alternately funny and melancholy.
'Side by Side' documents death of film spool
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
George Lucas, James Cameron, Martin Scorsese and others offer a bittersweet farewell to the photochemical process.
'For a Good Time, Call' may arouse interest
By Scott Bowles, USA TODAY - September 6, 2012
Like a lot of sexual banter, the sitcom-styled film does its share of teasing, but amounts to nothing serious.
