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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"So smug and self-satisfied that it drains from the proceedings whatever charm there might have been."
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Fierce, fascinating, literate, ballsy, shocking, whimsical, devastating, brazenly inventive, and nothing less than wholly hypnotic."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard could have been more agonizing to sit through. As is, it is merely a disposable failure. The film just wanders along, complacent and insincere as it heads down a dead-end street."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Is The Time Traveler's Wife terrible? Not really. Striving for meaning as it revolves around the process of life, the film remains perilously thin and unenlightening."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A lovely and unique feast for the eyes and the heart."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Exceptionally entertaining, but also keenly knowledgeable about music and the history and reverence behind it. Bandslam is more unadulterated fun than it has any right to be."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Majestic and matter-of-fact in equal measure, District 9 provides purposefully difficult and uneasy food for thought to go along with its more visceral thrills."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Viewers certainly won't be able to accuse G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra of lacking in sound and fervor, but that's just the problem. With nothing else to latch onto, the picture's ceaseless bombastic overload grows tedious rather than exciting."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The alternating storylines are slight and conflict is severely lacking, but Meryl Streep and Amy Adams are extraordinary, lifting so-so material into an enjoyable, easy-breezy, late-summer trifle."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the sweetest cinematic confections of the year. Charlyne Yi is a new star in the making."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For the promise it held at the onset and the foolishly inane places it opts to travel to, this is a particularly arrogant letdown, a thriller with a rancid bite."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If a horror picture is supposed to scare its audience, then this one has misplaced that goal with an onslaught of broken limbs, chipped-out teeth, and melting pussycats."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Aliens in the Attic is inoffensively mediocre, bereft of subtext and depth but too playful to get terribly bent out of shape about its shortcomings. It could have been a whole lot better, but it also could have been a great deal worse."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Needlessly over-bloated, lumbering from one scene and subplot to the next without any sense of urgency or forward-motion. Once Judd Apatow realizes that less is sometimes emotionally and substantively more, he and his films will be all the better for it."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Nothing if not an intriguing failure. One does not care about what happens so much as one grows increasingly alarmed at where director Gyorgy Palfi will take his film next."
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The worst Walt Disney Pictures release in a decade. To describe this chaotic, charmless, pop culture-centric product as completely and utterly excruciating is almost too kind a criticism."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Katherine Heigl and Gerard Butler are charismatic with the right material, but that right material eludes them in this bland, rudderless romantic comedy."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An unnerving psychological thriller with the atmospheric elegance of classics like Rosemary's Baby, Don't Look Now and Dressed to Kill, masterful in its blends of style and substance, violence and mayhem."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Funny, poignant and uncommonly perceptive, growing all the more so the longer one thinks about it."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A remarkable achievement in imagination, storytelling, and underlying thematic relevance, a motion picture that visually dazzles as any respectably made blockbuster should, but also knows not to misplace the human element at the forefront."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A politically-incorrect savior, that rare comedy that revels in bad taste while also actually having something worthwhile to say about the world we live in and the senselessness of stereotypes."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A warm and usually winning shoestring-budgeted effort that proves money does not equate to real talent."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An honest, earnest, dryly cutting coming-of-age comedy. Travels down a road of nostalgia that accurately portrays that very specific moment in a person's life when he or she realizes high school—and childhood—is over for good."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Esoteric and a little frightening, a serious-minded sci-fi rumination for viewers who strive for more out of their genre pieces than pyrotechnics and jive-talking scraps of metal."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Downright amazing in the ways it has gone wrong. Taking into account the talent involved in front of and behind the camera, the finished product is almost a travesty."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The third and easily most haggard entry in the disposable franchise."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A raw and unnerving thriller that gets its impact from taut, intimate suspense scenes low on bombast and high on the potential costs of military duty."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A motion picture of notable sensitivity and beauty, hamstrung emotions kept to a minimum. Tough, touchy, provocative, and exceptionally moving."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Putrid, offensive and life-sucking. Early word is describing this woebegone fiasco as the next Batman and Robin. Having seen both, Joel Schumacher has every right to protest the comparison."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Minor, to be sure, but Woody Allen's most unabashedly sunny movie in years."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Creative desperation leads to slapdash boredom in Year One, a substandard Monty Python wannabe that hasn't a story so much as a series of bad, barely connected sketches."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Bullock and Reynolds play off each other with a real zing and zeal, but the narrative journeys down an avenue so formulaic the viewer's heart shatters at the very realization of it."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Norwegian zombie film is pretty standard, by-the-numbers fare, so generic it might as well have been shot by a soulless Hollywood studio."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't so much offensively bad as it is offensively, soul-suckingly ordinary. It is safe to say the young ones will be far from riveted by a film set in the world of investment firms and financial bigwigs."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A complete bastardization of everything that was so taut, substantive and memorable in the classic 1974 original."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A road movie made up of what feels like a half-dozen exquisitely realized short films, Away We Go sends the viewer out smiling."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A glib, drab, fatally unfunny study in mean-spirited mediocrity. Goes down about as easily as Benadryl spiked with tequila."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Not a big departure from what Vardalos has done in the past, but there is less cloying artifice this time around, in a romantic comedy where the love story takes a backseat to the more meaningful tale of a lost woman coming into her own as a person."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie races around to nowhere in particular, more concerned with rarely spectacular spectacle than a beating heart."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Deliciously scary and wickedly tongue-in-cheek, Drag Me to Hell is devilish fun that cinema lovers of all kinds owe themselves to experience. So entertaining it ought to be a crime."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Pixar has done better in the past, but, until their next masterwork arrives, Up will do nicely as the winsome fable it is."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Sasha Grey's participation deserves to be but a footnote in the context of a compact, fascinating, meticulously constructed motion picture with far more to offer than one unfamiliar with director Steven Soderbergh might be expecting."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Amy Adams, spunky and incandescent as Amelia Earhart, is so fun to watch that she almost makes up for the dopeyness surrounding her."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"So is Dance Flick worth recommending? Not for everyone, or for many. But there is an exuberance in the direction, and a certain not-easily-offended audience who will eat it up. You know who you are."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The emotional element takes a backseat to the special effects, but Terminator Salvation is pulpy and fun as a rousing summer diversion, and more than respectable for being the fourth part in a twenty-five-year-old series."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An astute slice-of-life, a sympathetic character study, and an offbeat love story all rolled into one satisfying package. Mixes genre conventions with an appetizing quirkiness in an overall confection of bliss."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Languid, over-bloated, preachy and too reliant on coincidence. Sometimes comes off as a pushy lecture produced and directed by Kirk Cameron."
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Reprehensible trash that has no business showing up on a theatrical marquee. With no one to care about, nothing to learn, and no place to go, the miserable plot just sits there and rots."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Pulsates with a life and fire that the former series entries never quite equaled. So much is going on in each frame that one sits smiling for the duration, drinking in the images while yearning for a repeat viewing."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Compared to the previous X-Men features, even the scope and grandeur feel miniscule. The movie ultimately just sits there, sputtering on fumes, without giving the audience something to invest their interests in."
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