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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Skewers the world of contemporary art in a way that's insightful and funny without becoming a broad parody."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 D |
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(2009) |
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"Feels like it was written by high school students who have watched Die Hard a lot."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 C- |
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(2009) |
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"Very little creative energy was expended in making this film."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"A very long, very loud, and very stupid disaster flick that apparently accomplishes what it set out to do, which was to be long, loud, and stupid."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 A |
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(2009) |
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"It's as close to perfect a romantic comedy as I've ever seen."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"It's actually a humorously bittersweet story buoyed by likable performances, and not an oh-geez-here-comes-another-film-about-a-saintly-disabled-person movie."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Another well-wrought and intriguing drama by Egoyan."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Another well-wrought and intriguing drama by Egoyan."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The story has the feel of one plucked from experience, and Mottola fills the movie with authentic little touches."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 C |
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(2009) |
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"It achieves its hokiness by design, which renders it artificial and flat."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Small pleasures aside, the movie doesn't offer anything particularly memorable or inventive."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 F |
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(2009) |
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"My biggest surprise is scanning the credits and not seeing the name Wayans or Prinze Jr. anywhere."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 D+ |
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(2009) |
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"In the running for the dullest, most lifeless biopic of the decade."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"There's nothing not to like about this charming, lovely little comedy."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Resides in that magical place where movies are breezy, funny, and smart but also realistic and thoughtful."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"I get that saving the world from disaster is important business. But is it too much to ask for it to be fun for the audience?"
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Imagine a Saw film with a slower pace and more pretentious ambitions."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B- |
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(2009) |
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"It's entertaining as far as it goes, a highly watchable portrait of one of America's most distinctive communication tools."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"The fun and merriment take a backseat to the sci-fi elements, which are probably not what the intended audience is looking for."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Maya Rudolph and John Krasinski are so down-to-earth they seem like two of your closest friends."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B- |
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(2009) |
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"A spry teen melodrama whose refusal to pander to its audience is refreshing."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"The technical quality would have been terrific 10 years ago but looks cheap now, and while the basic story has potential, the execution is mediocre."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A riotously funny look back at the behind-the-scenes madness of "Troll 2," and at the unlikely success it has had in recent years."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 A- |
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(2009) |
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"This is one of the cleverest, most consistently funny spoof movies since Airplane!"
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Speaking of being blindsided, The Blind Side is good enough to make me almost forgive Sandra Bullock for All About Steve"
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Even with its occasional lapses into random weirdness, it remains watchable and engaging, often suspenseful, even creepy."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Hathaway should be embarrassed, and Hudson should ask Hathaway what it's like to still be capable of feeling embarrassment."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
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 D |
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(2009) |
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"Fails for all the reasons you'd expect it to fail."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"This is a happy movie, tinged with bits of melancholy, and a joy to watch."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Funny, yes. Astute in its satire, not as much."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 C- |
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(2009) |
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"Has only a few traces of Moore's wit and humor, and they're nearly lost in the fog of his indignation."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 B- |
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(2009) |
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"Keeps the tone just dark enough to be effective without being too scary, and always funny but not cartoonish."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 A- |
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(2009) |
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"Almost relentlessly energetic and loony, bursting with random sight gags and subtle, whip-smart comedy."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 D |
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(2009) |
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"There's some torture, a lot of blood, some deaths, the usual routine, but without any suspense or ingenuity."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 D- |
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(2009) |
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"When is the right time to release a hollow, one-dimensional, unfunny, illogical, mindless comedy with a poorly defined protagonist and a dumbly formulaic plot?"
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 |
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 A- |
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(2009) |
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"There is more imagination and invention on display here than in all the films of January put together."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
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 C |
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(2009) |
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"The cast's enthusiasm goes a long way toward keeping the whole mediocre affair from becoming completely intolerable."
[movie review] |
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Film.com |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"You're liable to watch the whole thing with an expression of bafflement on your face, surprised, delighted, and alarmed by what you're seeing."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 |
 |
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| |
 F |
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(2009) |
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"So to all the world's 8th-graders I say this: Don't give up hope! Keep making the same jokes you're making now, and you may one day be a filmmaker, too!"
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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 |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
|
"Once you get past the relative novelty of it (they're ZOMBIES, but they're also NAZIS!!), Dead Snow is only so-so."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A fine film that's gently funny and moving and not the least bit challenging or controversial."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
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 C |
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(2009) |
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"Charles Dickens' lifelong wish to have his story retold as a three-dimensional cartoon has finally been realized. At last his soul may be at peace."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 B- |
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(2009) |
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"Even with a second half that's significantly less compelling than the first, it earns points for its seamless special effects and its subtle but pointed sense of humor."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
 |
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 A- |
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(2009) |
|
"It's outrageously dark and twisted in the most delightful ways, a frenetic funhouse of terrors that causes almost as much laughter as pants-wetting."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
 |
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| |
 C |
|
(2009) |
|
"It's not aggressively bad. It's more like a dumb, energetic puppy."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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 B |
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(2009) |
|
"Gilroy handles it expertly and maintains a light, jaunty tone."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
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| |
 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"If Colin Firth and Kristin Scott Thomas firing snarky bon mots at people for 90 minutes doesn't sound entertaining, I don't know what to tell you."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
 |
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| |
 B |
|
(2009) |
|
"A perfectly good comedy with a lot of laughs and several fine characters."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
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 |
| |
 C- |
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(2009) |
|
"Tries to do so much in so little time that no characters or storylines get the attention they would need to succeed."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
|
 |
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 A- |
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(2009) |
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"Feels like the distillation of everything Anderson has ever done, boiled down to its barest essentials."
[movie review] |
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EricDSnider.com |
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