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REVIEW: Moviegoers, beware: You might 'Catch' something (St. Louis Post-Dispatch) - Hollywood movies are full of jerks. Most of those jerks are adversaries who test the hero. But far too often these days, the jerks are badly written heroes who test the audience's patience with rudeness and stupidity.

Catch and Release (Rolling Stone) - Starring: Jennifer Garner, Sonja Bennett, Timothy Olyphant, Juliette Lewis,... Review: Do we ever know the person we love? That's the question haunting Gray Wheeler (Jennifer Garner), whose fiance dies on the eve of their wedding, leavin... Rating: 2 Stars

Movie review: Throw back 'Catch and Release' (Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune) - If it should happen that one day Netflix includes "Catch and Release" among "Movies you'd also enjoy," consider cancelling your subscription. The gnomes that control the movie recommendations function are mocking you. This is a film that set out to be a romantic comedy but became a joke. Not in the ha-ha way, but in the you-poor-thing-I-am-so-embarrassed-for-you way. It's not even much fun to ...

Movie Review: 'Catch and Release' (San Antonio Express News) - It takes a special skill to juggle bittersweet humor and real-life pathos on a movie screen, especially for a first-time director.

Review: 'Catch and Release' is uneven (AP via Yahoo! News) - Writer Susannah Grant, directing for the first time with "Catch and Release," seems to be aiming for the same kind of meaty chick flick she's come up with before in "28 Days," "Erin Brockovich" and "In Her Shoes."

Movie Review: Babel (Blogcritics.org) - It is unfortunate that Alejandro González Iñárritu, who is clearly a talented director, still sells himself short. Ever since 2000's Amores Perros , the film which granted him international notoriety, he has been working with screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga within a very closed formula of sorts: accidents having dire consequences on the lives of people involved, even if by the most tangential ...

Stage Review: 'Scoundrels'is good musical from great Hollywood roots (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) - How hard can it be to turn a movie comedy into a musical comedy? You already have plot (always the sticking point), characters and funny stuff, not to mention audience familiarity. All you have to do is write some songs.

Survivor of New York police shooting recalls friend's last words (Seattle Times) - A survivor of the 50-shot police fusillade that killed a groom on his wedding day recalled Wednesday lying on his dying friend as they both...

Review: Garner chick flick a cold fish (Charleston Daily Mail) - "Catch and Release" is an all-too-appropriate title for the glum new Jennifer Garner movie. This fish should be thrown back.

Movie Review: 'Catch and Release' (Tucson Citizen) - "Catch and Release" is a would-be heartwarming movie that eschews genuine human interaction in favor of meaningful glances, pregnant pauses and an acoustic guitar soundtrack