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Will the Kutcher Kurse be broken?

In Ashton Kutcher's entire lackluster career, he has never been in a film with more positive reviews than negative. It doesn't even matter if you give him a bit part. If he's in your movie, you will get more pans than raves. If you were to re-release Casablanca unchanged except for a brief insert of Kutcher into a crowd scene, anyone who has ever praised the film will rush to re-evaluate it.

This week he comes out in New Year's Eve, the latest Garry Marshall rip-off of Love, Actually. The previous Marshall/Kutcher collaboration, Valentine's Day (also a rip-off of Love, Actually), produced only 18% positive reviews, and Marshall himself has not received a "fresh" tomato for any film he's directed after 1991, so I don't expect this one to break the Kutcher Kurse, but you never know.

The other film in wide release this week is The Babysitter with Jonah Hill. For reasons not apparent to me at the moment, neither the theater counts nor any reviews are available.

You are stuck with those two choices unless you live in NY or LA, in which case you can check out Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (94%), or Young Adult (82%), or any of several other arthouse runs by Oscar wannabees.

"Scoop, are you implying that Kutcher is not in line for an Oscar this year?"

Well, I don't know if "implying" is the correct word.