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(2009) |
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"Wrestling star John Cena is the dead weight that drags down this brainless but energetic action picture."
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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(2009) |
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"A rare example of a flat-out Indian horror movie [that] borrows liberally from The Amityville Horror playbook and familiar Asian horror tropes, but the haunted soap opera is a new wrinkle."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A flat-out gorgeous vision of a devastated world whose script is as thin and formulaic as the imagery is rich and original."
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AMCtv.com |
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(2009) |
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"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, It Came From Outer Space should be blushing like a schoolgirl, because this deadpan recreation of 1950s sci-fi movies is a tribute to its low-budget, high minded charms."
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"Using archival footage, interviews and actors, writer Sophie Sartain and director Roberta Grossman celebrate Senesh’s fierce courage without idealizing her."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"An stew of international genre influences that plays like a Vietnam-era cross between Blade and TV's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with elaborate martial arts sequences."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"Richard Kelly's convoluted moral thriller gets off to a terrifically eerie start but collapses beneath the weight of its Big Ideas."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"It's a shame the film isn't more artful, but an imperfect look at [the] accomplished, unpretentious [dancer/choreographers Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder] is better than none at all."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"An energetic, if uneven, movie masala whose ingredients include broad comedy, fists of fury, dark family secrets and musical numbers."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A colossal bore of a teen fantasy movie ... crammed with trite, prepackaged lessons."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"A mean-spirited throwback to the nastiest, cruelest home-invasion movies of the '70s and '80s ... And I mean that in the best possible way:"
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"Coraline is meant for children. But it's neither infantile nor condescending. It has a moral... without being preachy or sanctimonious, bypasses the cynical formula that makes so many animated features so headache-inducing."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Though admirably serious and ambitious, this fish-out-of-water comedy-drama ... is a jumbled collection of moments that range from the touching to the tedious."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"District 9 is a bracing breath of fresh air [that] wears its influences well, integrating them into a well thought-out drama about what it means to be human ... a drama with big guns, car chases and exploding cars."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Very Bad Things meets Knife in the Water in ... [this] thriller about not-so-bright young things trying to cover up a nasty accident."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A bold, brash, unsubtle bogey tale full of buzzing hell-flies, repellenet effluvia and black-and-white moral lessons: One step off the path of virtue and everyone knows where you're going, missy."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"Tony Gilroy's dryly jaunty, globetrotting, spy-vs.-spy romp is ... just good enough to make you wish it were better."
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Miss FlickChick |
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"The film doesn’t force an artificial resolution on their battle of wills, which may be the most enlightened thing about it."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"The gay-themed Eulogy for a Vampire is dead serious about its mix of eroticism and horror, but the more serious it tries to be, the campier it becomes."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A sly, witty and utterly enchanting adaptation of Roald Dahl's mordantly whimsical book about a thoroughly domesticated gentleman fox who pines for days when the world respected his wildness."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Call this go-round "Friday the Umpteenth" and be done with it."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A streak of genius runs through this dystopian vision of a world in where VR games are played with real people ... it touches some exposed nerves before retreating into clichés."
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AMCtv.com |
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(2009) |
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"It's hard to say who's the real monster here: Sure, the ghoulish Grace is some kind of vampire-zombie something ... but in Solet's movie (s)mother love comes in all shades of crazy."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"The impending magical apocalypse and the agonies of young love get equal time in this fantasy with its roots planted firmly in the realm of real human relationships and experience."
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Miss FlickChick |
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"Sasaki’s documentary really shines when she gives center stage to the grateful artists whom they helped nurture."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"If you love a nerve-stretching build up to a seriously creepy payoff, you'll want to see for yourself."
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AMCtv.com |
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(2009) |
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"A fresh, darkly funny blend of crime [graverobbing, to be precise] and supernatural hijinks ... that delivers an offbeat but carefully balanced mix of shocks, homages and uneasy chuckles."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A delirious pastiche of WWII movie tropes via the naughty Nazi pictures that flooded Italy in The Night Porter's wake ... Tarantino knows exactly how vulgar it is to spin pulp entertainment from the iconography of mass murderers, and how bracingly"
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"It's more clever than funny ha-ha, and has a handful of seriously creepy moments ... the movie a smarty-pants horror buff cooks up while ticking off grade-Z slasher clichés."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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""Front-loaded with a pervasive sense of unease ... but once the plot's wheels start grinding in earnest, [it] follows that runaway subway train off the rails.""
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"The remake of Wes Craven's notorious rape-revenge shocker is a crowd-pleaser rather than a grim moral lesson about the price of doing very bad things, and as long as the downbeat lead-in doesn't put them off, the third-act payoff will have audiences cheer"
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"Poised somewhere between an outright art movie and a mainstream Indian feature, [this] behind-the-scene look at the hopes and shattered dreams of aspiring Mumbai movie stars could as easily have been called "What Price Bollywood?" or "Run, Vikram, Run.""
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A pathetic excuse for a comedy [that's] actually ... a feature-length effort to reposition Playboy's brand of squeaky-clean titillation as relevant to young men weaned on internet porn."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"This fish-out-of-water comedy about two UK-raised young men of Punjabi descent summering in India with one youth's aging grandfather is overlong and painfully cliched."
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Miss FlickChick |
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2/6 |
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(2009) |
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"This briskly paced remake of the 1981 slasher goes easy on the cheesy 3-D effects while delivering lots of seriously nasty gore."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"Kabir Khan uses thriller conventions to address such issues as the suspension of civil liberties and the [US] government's ever-expanding power to harass, detain and deny due process to detainees."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Atlanta-based playwright Tyler Perry owns the urban moral fable, but the handful of others clamoring for their piece of the pie include mega-church entrepreneur T.D. Jakes, ..."
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"Engaging, fast-paced documentary about the glory days of Australian exploitation movies that will delight existing fans of scurrilous films from Down Ynder and recruit new one from the ranks of moviegoers who aren't offended by extensive nudity, violence"
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"A big, bad bundle of biopic cliches, a glitzy whitewash filled with wince-inducing dialogue and propelled by a smug, from-beyond-the-grave voiceover."
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Miss FlickChick |
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3/6 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s a thoughtful, sometimes revealing look at creative lives and the forces that shaped them."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"Cobbled together from chunks of Battlestar Galactica, The Descent, Serenity, Cube, Resident Evil, Event Horizon and Alien ... Pandorum is an efficient scare machine if you ignore the plot contrivances."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"A campfire story for the cyber generation, a bogey tale wrapped in time codes and misplaced faith in the power of technology to banish ghosties, ghoulies and long-leggedy beasties."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A a genre-busting maverick of a movie, guarenteed to infuriate and astonish in equal numbers ... if you like your shocks laced with brain-teasing creepiness, Pontypool is the way to go."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"Between the unwieldy load of back story and the painfully underdeveloped characters, this infelicitous combination of Jumper, X-Men and TV's Heroes manages to be dull and exhausting at the same time."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"The high-minded antithesis of 2012... The Road is mired in morning-after misery, set in a world where fear of a living hell is more reasonable than hope of heaven."
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AMCtv.com |
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(2009) |
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"When torture porn becomes as snooze-inducing as lecture hall, it's time to call it a day."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"Specialty audiences may appreciate this downbeat Filipino drama about an impoverished family trying to hold it together while running a porn theatre, but its unvarnished sex scenes won't play for mainstream tastes."
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"This old-fashioned psychological ghost story ... repeatedly compels supposedly mature and intelligent people to do preposterous things in order to keep the plot moving."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Welcome to Skank Ho sorority, where you'll skills like covering up the grotesque death of one of your sisters during a mean-spirited prank."
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Horror Hacker |
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(2009) |
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"Is the new Star Trek movie perfect? Absolutely not. But I went in an original Trek fan ... and came out feeling oddly elated, grateful for the things that worked and secure in the belief that the rough spots will work themselves out in the a"
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