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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       B+      Taken (2009)      "Taken is a knuckleheaded action movie about kidnapping and sex slavery. Or, Taken is a subversive thriller about girls gone wild and American hegemony. Or, both." [movie review]      Cinepinion            The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)      "A lame, clueless, exhaustingly straight-faced portrait of the contemporary city." [movie review]      The L Magazine       A      The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)      "Pelham is hilarious without ever succumbing to being goofy, without ever surrendering its grit or its gravity." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B-      Tell No One (2008)      "A diversionary end-of-summer time-killer." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Terminator Salvation (2009)      "Cormac McCarthy for the Transformers crowd." [movie review]      The L Magazine            That Evening Sun (2009)      "When the rest of the cast and crew can't keep up, being such a talented performer becomes a fault. Holbrook doesn't just deserve better material; he needs equitalented colleagues." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Theatre of Blood (1973)      "The real pleasure here is watching Price exercise his campy range, not only by hamming his way through the grand speeches of the Great Tragedies but also by appearing in a variety of costumes, in that grand English style of dress-up..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Them (2007)      "You know the French--it isn't content to be, merely, an exceptionally effective thriller, which it is, but sees necessary to double-up as a metacinematic examination of horror film and its theory." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      There Will Be Blood (2007)      "Though set around the turn of the 20th Century, There Will Be Blood is, in its pitting of capitalism against revivalism, conspicuously more about the state of the union at the turn of the 21st." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Thirst (2009)      "God knows that now, more than ever, we need another vampire movie. But seriously %u2014 we could use a good one." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Time (2007)      "Time is not by any stretch a romantic film, and yet it left me swooning...for its form. It may be a bit overreaching and intellectually confounding; maybe in the end it doesn't all come together, but it's a thrilling challenge to see if it might." [movie review]      Cinepinion            The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)      "If you cut through the romantic veneer that thinly blankets [this] epitome of manipulative women's weepies, you find the creepiest Tinsel Town picture since the pedophilic and incestuous 17 Again..." [movie review]      Cinepinion       3/5      Timecrimes (2008)      "All romantic hurdles can be overcome, Vigalondo suggests; all it takes is a lot of hard work, some murder, and a little fringe science." [movie review]      The L Magazine       2/5      To the Limit (2008)      "Rather than succumb to the vicissitudes of reality, and construct his film to follow suit, the director infuriatingly behaves as though a climax and an anticlimax are interchangeable." [movie review]      The L Magazine       5/5      Tokyo Sonata (2009)      "Kurosawa has fashioned his masterpiece: a biting, sensitive and comprehensible film that is also human, contemporary and political." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B-      The Touch (1971)      "All of the hugging and kissing amounts to very little...merely scenes from a marriage (wink wink), and an affair." [movie review]      Cinepinion       C      Traitor (2008)      "It has Muslims. Lots of Muslims." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)      "Did Hasbro produce this in association with the Department of Defense and Palin 2012?" [movie review]      The L Magazine       A-      Triad Election (2007)      "Essentially a string of brilliant set-pieces, it escapes from feeling contrived despite its clear American influences (Gordon Willis should feel flattered) by nailing the essence of the crime picture while sprinkling fresh flourishes in the margins." [movie review]      Cinepinion       C-      The Tripper (2007)      "If only the film had the credibility of thematic focus and narrative discipline to back up its politics...it could've sat proudly on the shelf next to Joe Dante's Homecoming." [movie review]      Cinepinion       C+      Twilight (2008)      "A sequel there will be, not only because Twilight made a gazillion dollars on a meager budget but because these are Vampire Times." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992)      "Fire Walk with Me is as mean-spirited an "f*** you" to Twin Peaks fans as the final episode was, Lynch bitterly purging the show and its characters from his psyche. Appropriately, the film opens with the smashing of a television set." [movie review]      Cinepinion       3/5      Tyson (2009)      "For better or worse, this is Tyson on Tyson--not The True Story of Mike Tyson." [movie review]      The L Magazine

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