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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE            17 Again (2009)      "Unsettling borderline-incest and -pedophilia sequences crammed between as many clichés (and product placements) as possible." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B      Adoration (2009)      "From any objective standard, [Egoyan's] films...are awful. So why are they so damn appealing?" [movie review]      Cinepinion            Afterschool (2009)      "Palely imitative...which no amount of Bela Tarr pacing, no cloak of arthouse legitimacy, can hide. This **** is a sham." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Alien Trespass (2009)      "A Technicolor photocopy pastiching pastiche. It fetishizes not the 1950's but its empty pop culture signifiers. And as such, it doesn't just signify nothing--it's insignificant." [movie review]      Cinepinion            An Education (2009)      "Another clich-soused bildungsscreenplay. So, that on screen it's anything other than an object of infuriation is a near-miracle, one that owes its...lack of utter failure to its stellar cast and its extra-Hollywood pedigree." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Antichrist (2009)      "For a while it's wonderful...grappling with the contours of grief, the effects of toddler suicide, the limits of psychotherapy and the dynamics of marriage. And then Charlotte Gainsbourg has to spoil it all by doing something stupid..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B-      Away We Go (2009)      "Jim and Pam: The Movie" [movie review]      Cinepinion       B-      Beeswax (2009)      "Bujalski is the Apatow of the Underground." [movie review]      Cinepinion       C+      La Belle personne (2009)      "It's more CW than Canal Plus, and there's nothing wrong with that--in theory, anyway." [movie review]      Cinepinion       A      The Box (2009)      "A parable about The Wars, about Americans' willingness to kill strangers in exchange for prosperity--as long as they don't have to get their own hands dirty, of course." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Broken Embraces (2009)      "Almodóvar's movie about movies...feels half-realized, the hasty production of an unpolished draft." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Bruno (2009)      "Bruno, really, works as a parodic primer on How to Become a Celebrity, mocking A- through D-listers, as well as those who aren't even on a list..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       4/5      Coraline (2009)      "[It] might be thematically unremarkable, even dishearteningly cynical, but it compensates with an unpredictable visual vocabulary that's anything but." [movie review]      The L Magazine            District 9 (2009)      "Because District 9 packs some social-issues seriousness into its sci-fi wackiness, I'm tempted to hold it to a higher standard than it could live up to; the movie is superlative popcorn fare, but disappointing Cinema..." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Drag Me To Hell (2009)      "Goofy old-school racism..." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B+      Duplicity (2009)      "The story's joints creak under gutsy narrative demands, but Gilroy's serviceable direction manages to keep the scriptopuzzle together. The film's pleasures derive from watching him get away with it." [movie review]      Cinepinion       C      Earth (2009)      "It feels like this has all been done before. And better." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Every Little Step (2009)      "At turns compelling and dull, moving and irritating, funny and eye rolling--much like A Chorus Line itself." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Friday the 13th (2009)      "There isn't really a lot to live up to. The movies were trashy then and they're trashy now." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Funny People (2009)      "Apatow has to be one of the most inefficient storytellers in Hollywood, and it's amazing that he gets away with it film after film." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B      Gomorrah (2009)      "It succeeds photographically, as neo-realism, but with its focus spread across so many characters and shallow stories, it offers little personal or emotional insight, let alone context, into its visual revelations." [movie review]      Cinepinion       C-      Halloween II (2009)      "Myers is Operation Enduring Iraqi Freedom incarnate..." [movie review]      Cinepinion            The Hangover (2009)      "The filmmakers, like their characters, [are] just a bunch of asses, perpetuating the worst of society." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Harmony and Me (2009)      "[It] has nothing going for it: not its ghastly DV aesthetic, not its mangled sense of humor, not its go-nowhere narrative, not its casual non-performances, not its haphazard editing." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)      "More like And the Hot-Blooded Teens." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Les herbes folles (2009)      "On the surface, [it']s about obsessive romantic love; a bit deeper, it's about an elderly cineaste's obsession with the movies." [movie review]      Cinepinion            The House of the Devil (2009)      "On the one hand, we should commend horror directors that choose not to revel too long in geysers of blood (for not "Eli Rothing"); on the other, build-up without satisfying denouement is exasperating." [movie review]      The L Magazine       1/5      I Love You, Man (2009)      "If this is with whom us average Americans are supposed to empathize, we deserve our recession." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs (2009)      "Ice Age's real agenda: Drill, baby, drill!" [movie review]      The L Magazine            In the Loop (2009)      "Anglo and American comic actors are meeting somewhere in the middle, finally catching up with their country's politicians who have been collaborating, troublesomely, for years." [movie review]      The L Magazine            The Informant! (2009)      "The more prolific Steven Soderbergh becomes, the more his movies feel like perfunctorily adumbrated rough drafts..." [movie review]      The L Magazine            The Informers (2009)      "Each story adds up to nothing individually...and The Informers is exactly the sum of its parts." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Inglourious Basterds (2009)      "Tarantino's coup is to replace one set of tropes with another: his latest is a Western, spaghettisploitation with a National Socialist twist, merely disguised as a war movie...As such, he gives the W.W. II movie a much-needed kick in the ass." [movie review]      The L Magazine       B-      Is Anybody There? (2009)      "If Caine were as sick as his character appears, this would be a worthy performance to go out on, regardless of the iffy material that it supports." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B      Jerichow (2009)      "Is The Postman Always Rings Twice a novel rooted in steamy sex or in social conditions? Solicit an American's opinion and you're sure to hear that it's about the sex. The hot, violent sex." [movie review]      Cinepinion       B      Jerichow (2009)      "Is The Postman Always Rings Twice a novel rooted in steamy sex or in social conditions? Solicit an American's opinion and you're sure to hear that it's about the sex. The hot, violent sex." [movie review]      Cinepinion            Julie & Julia (2009)      "[Is] blogging a substitute for motherhood?" [movie review]      The L Magazine       3.5/4      Kabei: Our Mother (2009)      "Yamada and crew almost go so far as to suggest that the Japanese had their A-bombs coming to them, if it weren't for the achingly sympathetic family at the film's core." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       D+      The Limits of Control (2009)      "An exercise in pseudo-stylishness finds Jarmusch clinging to a faded notion of what constitutes cool, to an ideal of hip that smacks distastefully of the '90s--back when this brand of indie-pretentious, faux-mystical hitman bull could pass muster." [movie review]      Cinepinion       3/5      Medicine for Melancholy (2009)      "Too often [its] dialogue smacks of college-freshman outrage...and stale insight, though its identity-crisis concerns and sense of injustice are well-intentioned." [movie review]      The L Magazine       3/5      Memorial Day (2009)      "What the film lacks in complexity it makes up for in moxie." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)      "Monsters vs. Aliens is really Gays vs. The Church" [movie review]      The L Magazine            Moon (2009)      "A glum, existential, psycho-philosophical mystery rooted in the tropes of retro sci-fi [is also] an exploration of space madness, the modern married man and corporate ethics." [movie review]      The L Magazine       2/5      Must Read After My Death (2009)      "That the characters here are 'real' makes little difference; they're still, at this point, cliches, belying the promise of the Levittown Dream for the thousandth time." [movie review]      The L Magazine            New York, I Love You (2009)      "This isn't a film by and for New Yorkers, a series of love letters from hometowners and transplants; it's a shallow portrait sketched by casual admirers, outsiders looking in through cliché-tinted lenses." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian (2009)      "[There's] nothing really going on here: spectacle after dull spectacle, broken by America's horseplaying comic nobility on cruise control, as though just showing up is funny." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Paper Heart (2009)      "Ask a stupid question and you get a stupid movie." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Paranormal Activity (2009)      "The haunting is a metaphor for the challenges young couples face in building successful relationships..." [movie review]      The L Magazine            Paris (2009)      ""Ritzy, shabby, trashy Paris," as one character describes it, told through ditzy, flabby, flashy filmmaking." [movie review]      The L Magazine       2/5      Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)      "Its heart is in the right place for these dark recession-depression days, defending the consumer at the expense of the corporation." [movie review]      The L Magazine

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