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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Feeds our ever-growing need to root for talented performers seeking that proverbial big break."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Smaller, intimate, personal and fragile. It almost feels as if nothing happens ... until you step back and realize everything is happening in this film."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is what happens when the guy who directed two "Home Alone" movies collaborates with the screenwriter of "Looney Tunes: Back in Action.""
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Comparisons to "2001" or even Ridley Scott's "Alien" aren't far-fetched."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's an "Inconvenient Truth" for food, minus the droning Al Gore and a handful of PowerPoint slides."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Goes for broke on sentiment but overlooks important details that make decent films great."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Preachy, nihilistic, derogatory and unfocused."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The third time's less of a charm and more of a thin attempt to cash in on the success of the previous installments."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"More enamored with the Dillinger myth than with the actual man."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The first film I've seen this year that made me feel something."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"an overly sentimental movie-of-the-week, masquerading as counterprogramming to Michael Bay's box-office-blasting robots."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The quintessential Michael Bay movie, though in this instance I mean that as high compliment."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"At its best, "Year One" is offensive. ... At its worst, however, it's downright repulsive."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(1927) |
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"The main reason to stop on PBS when the network airs "Easy Virtue" a few months from now is to witness Biel's complete departure."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's the undeniable chemistry %u2013 both romantic and comedic %u2013 shared between Reynolds and Bullock that ultimately carries "The Proposal" over its mediocre, formulaic writing and predictable plotting."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Warmly lit and beautifully acted, but cynical enough %u2013 and chock-full of enough dark humor %u2013 to avoid what might have been unbearably schmaltzy."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Bahrani's his experimental (and, some might argue, pretentious) dramas can wander off course in search of honest emotion, often to the detriment of his story."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A frothy concoction that thrives on the improvisational creativity found on a stage."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Pays such attention to detail ... that it's easy to forget you're watching a work of fiction and not a documentary about a real-life star on the rise."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A one-sided account of Mike Tyson's compelling rise and fall, told by the man who lived the tale."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Follows an offbeat path to reach that destination, and most will enjoy the journey."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Proves Raimi still knows how to crawl under an audience's skin."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Stout performances and Helgeland's screenplay keep "Pelham" grounded."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Nia Vardalos is the new Yakov Smirnoff"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"as much of a nonsensical head-scratcher as the source show."
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"good, not great, Pixar"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"applies big-budget defibrillator paddles to the hulking franchise but can't breathe fresh life into the now 25-year-old concept."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"never comes close to duplicating the urgent pacing of Brown's crackling source material"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"With one film, J.J. Abrams has made Star Trek younger, flashier, sexier, funnier, and less intelligent, but more exhilarating than it has been in decades"
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a rare type of disaster... putrid"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"McConaughey is mildly coasting. He has danced these steps before."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In this day and age, you simply cannot produce unsophisticated animation like the kind on display in the campy Battle for Terra and hope to compete."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"entertains as much as it educates"
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There's no real structure to Jordan's film, so stories haphazardly begin and disappear without ending"
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"peddles safe humor that's mashed up and spoon-fed to an audience craving toothless comedy"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"now, at least, I understand the hoopla surrounding this spunky, cool, and charismatic young performer"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"comes about as close to Moore's intent as we're likely to see in adapting the sprawling Watchmen into manageable, feature-length form"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"traces its bloodline back to the paranoia peddlers of the 1970s"
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"leaves no fin unturned"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"finds sharp laughs in the nooks and crannies of the formula"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"an interesting story, sporadically told in an interesting way."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"reminds us how, in 120 minutes, a picture can go from "I can not wait to see that" to "I never want to see that again.""
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a riveting military drama, a popcorn thriller masquerading as a political potboile"
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Filmcritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Brilliant... beautiful and incredibly moving."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"the flimsiest comedic premise of Carrey's career"
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Do you miss Archie Bunker? Then Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino is the movie for you... Graceless and insensitive."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"powerful"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"alternately painful, perplexing, awkward, melodramatic, and slow to overwhelm."
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"If there's a single misstep in Ron Howard's expertly calibrated Frost/Nixon, it eluded me."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Van Sant's tender human-interest story, which showcases Sean Penn's considerable talents, is a closer relative to earlier efforts such as Finding Forrester or Good Will Hunting than to recent, abstruse features like Elephant and Gerry"
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