REEL TIME: Glenn Close wears a strap-on and Katherine Heigl squeezes out another poopfest

With the help of City Paper film critics, Josh Middleton counts down this weekend's eight new-movie releases, including One for the Money, Albert Nobbs and Man on a Ledge.

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REEL TIME: Glenn Close wears a strap-on and Katherine Heigl squeezes out another poopfest

POSTED: Friday, January 27, 2012, 3:49 PM

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No. 7: Who thought it would be a good idea to make a movie about a man who's threatening to leap from a high-rise building? The audience is smart enough to know that if he jumps the movie's going to end. I give it a big ol' "boooo!" right off the bat. And City Paper critic Shaun Brady agrees, saying that Man on a Ledge is "so formulaic that it doesn’t even stick by its own title, yanking [lead actor Sam] Worthington back from the ledge and into a run-of-the-mill running and shooting climax." Boo! Read the rest of his review here. (Pearl, UA 69th Street, UA Grant, UA Riverview)

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