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MOVIE REVIEWS: 'The Heat' a New Twist on the Buddy-Cop Formula

"The Heat" stars Sandra Bullock and Melissa McCarthy as law enforcement agents with incompatible styles in a buddy cop comedy.

"The Heat" is rated R and runs 1 hour and 57 minutes. Click here for movie times in and around Woodstock.

Here's what the critics are saying:

McCarthy and Bullock are an odd and oddly likable team. Both actresses are fearless with physical comedy. Bullock specializes in awkward and uptight, McCarthy in aggressive and unfiltered. "The Heat" makes the most of those differences. — Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times

The Heat is the best female buddy-cop movie since, well, ever. The formulaic male-dominated genre needed some gender diversity. This action comedy pairing Melissa McCarthy with Sandra Bullock is no less predictable, but it's bawdier and funnier than most of its masculine counterparts. — Claudia Puig, USA Today

By emphasizing both the humor and the empowerment aspects of the picture, “The Heat” easily overcomes the occasional clunkiness along the way. — Peter Debruge, Variety

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Like Channing Tatum and Jamie Foxx in “White House Down,” Bullock and McCarthy and the chemistry they generate are far more compelling than the movie they’re in. — Ann Hornaday, Washington Post


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