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A- |
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(2009) |
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"The utter freedom of camera movement evokes a visceral sense of buoyant jubilation that immediately connects us to the movie's setting."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The light-heartedness of the movie's tone goes from pratfall humor to a wrenching depiction of the consequences of foolishness."
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Carey Mulligan, in a star-making turn, makes this into one of the best films of the year."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""This is It" is here to rescue us from the tabloids and remind us what true star power looks like."
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"It just never takes off."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"It true to the tone of the series, a combination of teenage angst and outrageous grotesquery, with the recognition that sometimes it can be hard to tell the difference."
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Beliefnet |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"If you think it's a good idea to begin a movie for children by killing off a young boy in an industrial accident as his father looks on, raise your hand. Anyone?"
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Maurice Sendak's spare, poetic, and deeply wise book has been lovingly unfolded into a movie about the child -- and the wild things -- who live in all of us."
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Beliefnet |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"This is not just a bad film; it is a despicable one."
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Should be seen by everyone, especially mothers and daughters, to remind us that all hair is good hair and that beauty is more about how we feel than how we look."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Once again, meticulous and imaginative production design and a level of opacity far beyond most mainstream releases is often confused with profundity."
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Beliefnet |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"We just keep wishing they would get out of the way and let us enjoy the pretty scenery."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Moore's most telling argument is about the extinguishing of the middle class, and the consequences of losing the crucial foundation of our economy and our culture."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Watch Gervais' face as Mark uses his new ability to provide encouragement, and enjoy a comedy that may be about the invention of lying but knows how to tell the truth."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Zombie films provide many opportunities for comic juxtaposition of dire circumstances with trivial detail and the deconstruction of our assumptions."
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Beliefnet |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Barrymore gently sells the niceness of it all. It turns out that roller girls just wanna have fun and that the sisterhood of the traveling skates is one big happy family."
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"It is a revealing reflection of its target audience: kids used to keeping up to date via tweets and Facebook status lines...the entire audience diagnosed with ADD."
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Cody has a few nice points to make here about the frenemy dynamic of some girl-girl relationships: the drama, the connection, the power plays, and the excitement."
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Like some of the food made with the substances produced by the corporation at the heart of this story, this movie is pleasant but leaves a sour aftertaste."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"This is a fresh and clever film, with both wit and heart, a family delight, more fun than a hailstorm of jellybeans followed by pizza flurries."
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Beliefnet |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Even Aniston cannot make the antics forced on her by this screenplay look adorable."
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The songs and Henson's sensitive portrayal of the woman who has neglected herself and her home keep us involved."
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Tim Burton protege Shane Acker has proven a better student of the letter of his mentor's work than the spirit."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"It goes to 11."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Somewhere, like the pea in the bed of the princess, is an idea that could be interesting. Unfortunately, it's smothered in 20 mattresses of awful and 20 more of dumb."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"It has no flair."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Opie, I don't think we're in Mayberry any more."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Some will appreciate the combination of vision and happenstance that led to the festival and its place in public consciousness as a marker for a generational shift."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"3D is X-treme film-making and thus well suited to the X Games, hyper-intense, hyper-dangerous, hyper-what are they thinking? sports that are closer to stunts."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Christoph Waltz matches Lecter, Vader, and the Wicked Witch of the West with a performance that shows off his fluency in English, German, French, Italian...and evil."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Instead of running around and shrieking, this story posits an even more believable reaction to an alien invasion --- a bureaucratic one."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"This is slash and burn, shock and awe comedy and it's cheery outrageousness makes enough of it work to, in Don Ready's terms, make the sale."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Like the book, the movie gets weaker as it becomes more convoluted and far-fetched in the last third of the story."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A little edgier than "High School Musical" and a little smarter than the usual tween fare, "Bandslam" is a refreshing late-summer treat for tweens, teens, and their families."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Stunning bursts of imagination and sensational, almost psychedelic images make the film a garden of unearthly delights."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Writer/director Max Mayer has crafted a sensitive, even lyrical, script that quickly makes us care about both of these characters."
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"This is a movie about food and love and courage and dreams and lots and lots of butter, and doing something -- cooking or acting -- brilliantly and with gusto."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"What works best in the film are the special effects, clearly the primary focus as the talented cast gets less attention than the CGI and wire work."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Kempner has a real gift for making these almost-forgotten lives fascinating and vital."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"What starts out as an intriguing dance between two different themes ends up as a brawl in which crass and shallow wins by a TKO in the 23rd round."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Spacey is mesmerizing as the "compassion fatigued" Carter. The pain and anger of his character are palpable, as is his heart-wrenching frustration."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Top voice talent and good 3D computer graphics cannot make up for the fact that this film is utterly synthetic as well as crass, loud, and vulgar."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"There is little chemistry between co-stars Katherine Heigel and Gerard Butler in this charmless war of the sexes story, but there is even less between its two genres."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"By the time we see those first, early moments of heady connection, we realize how the sweetness of those initial feelings will become almost unbearably poignant."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Once again, J.K. Rowling and screenwriter Steve Kloves expertly blend the most intimate and personal of teenage feelings with the grander concerns about the fate of the world."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Takes the tiredest and most predictable elements,wrings out any authentic or appealing detail, and then drags out every single set-piece to the agonizing breaking point."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"In this diligent but somehow chilly and uninvolving retelling of the story the details seems right and Depp delivers a performance of enormous depth, maturity and appeal."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The sweet nature of this film is engaging and the adorable characters designed by illustrator Peter de Seve make this movie both satisfying and fun."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"How far would you go to save your child's life? How far should you go? Those are the questions posed and largely ducked in this film based on the book by Jodi Picolt."
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"#transformersfail"
[movie review] |
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Beliefnet |
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