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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A high school fantasy where few classes are taken, tests are a figment of one's imagination, and the students, all of them stock exaggerations, roam the hallways without a thought in their puny minds."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Giant-sized, explosive and technically astounding. This is no less than the end of the world Roland Emmerich is dealing with, and he tosses into the pot so much delirious spectacle that, yes, there are even kitchen sinks in sight."
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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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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Ranks down there with Battle for Terra as the year's weakest animated venture."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As a universal tale of the post-adolescent experience, Adventureland is knowledgeable and wise, virtually every bone in its body an honest one."
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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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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"When Mary tearfully confesses that she wears her red boots because they make her toes "feel like ten friends on a camping trip," the viewer doesn't know whether to explode in laughter or die from the osmosis of Sandra Bullock's own humiliation."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the more memorable teen-oriented horror movies of the last few years. As much a comment on the objectification of women as it is a grimy, violent, enthralling slasher pic."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Overly glorifies its human subject, cautious to get its hands dirty and dig beneath the surface of Earhart's public life. And yet, even so, Hilary Swank is a joy to watch."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A resonant coming-of-age story, at once tough and delicate, that signifies how much times have changed in the proceeding fifty years, and, in other ways, how much they have stayed the same."
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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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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A fairy tale gone fatalistically wrong, the stark opposite of happily ever after. Impresses with its sheer dauntless, sobering nerve."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A morbidly insensitive insult."
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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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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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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Sanctimonious claptrap—a 'can't-we-all-just-get-along' plea wrapped in futuristic warfare, dirty dishwater animation, and dreary plotting."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If a Hallmark greeting card could throw up, the puke would come in the form of The Blind Side."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Goes off on a bunch of wild, convoluted tangents that don't add up and grow sillier by the minute. By the time nosebleed epidemics, watery portals and NASA experiments are added into the mix, the picture has walked off a ledge it never recovers from."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Where's Thin Lizzy when you need them?"
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Bride Wars is being released early in January, typically a stomping ground for bad movies. In this way, it has been perfectly placed."
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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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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Anyone up on current events and at least passingly familiar with the history of the U.S. will learn few new insights. What they will learn is that they have seen this all before, and done better, by a director who seems to be going through the paces."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There is an undoubted vision behind the cameras, one that is bound to only crystallize if the powers-that-be give this potential new franchise the nurturing it deserves."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It is often not the case that genuine originality shines through in studio filmmaking, but that feat has been more than achieved here."
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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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"Not even a radiant star performance from Isla Fisher is enough to chip away the mold from a derivative plot that can't be believed for a second."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A foreboding, whimsical, altogether spectacularly mounted fable."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"After traveling to Eden with the shallow, self-involved, unpleasant twits that populate Couples Retreat, you'll be wishing they'd all have packed their bags and gone straight to hell, instead."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The chaotic onslaught of gruesomely violent and graphically sexual exploitation is so ugly and ceaseless this time that it eventually numbs, and then bores, the viewer."
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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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2/4 |
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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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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Children not already familiar with the past iterations of A Christmas Carol will be in heaven if they can get past the spookier elements, while the rest of viewers will be happy with, if not quite euphoric for, what Robert Zemeckis has cooked up."
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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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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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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A few times each year, a movie comes along that makes the viewer just want to shake his or her head in disbelief at the ineptitude that has found its way to the screen. Dragonball: Evolution is amazing in its badness."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A caper without intrigue and a romance without humanity, this disastrously wasteful star vehicle manages quite the feat by both crushing the viewer's soul and devouring their spirit in two hours flat."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Every bit as majestic and eye-opening as the title infers."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The plot strands wander all over the place with minimal focus, adding up to one overwhelming question: what was the point?"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Some of the students specialize in classical music, others in dance, and still others in singing and acting, but the one thing they all have in common is their apparent enrollment in Clichés 101."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The kind of groovy, easygoing, good-hearted affair that manages to entertain despite its shortcomings. Fanboys will leave you with a smile across your face for ninety minutes."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A defibrillator could have only helped."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As brashly dumb as all the earlier pictures in the series, but this time there is also a more rampant mean-spirited streak running through it."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A purpose-free, self-serious yawner that is just dreary, uninspired and hopelessly forgettable."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The destination of the title is never in any doubt, but the getting-there is giddily devious and playful. For the fourth outing in a thought-tired series, The Final Destination has some surprising sparks of life to it yet."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It goes without saying that Fired Up! is predictable, but that wouldn't have mattered were there a semblance of reality or charm to the proceedings."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"In a land of recycled ideas and remakes, The Fourth Kind is a valiant original, no matter how deceptive it may ultimately be."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Proudly wears its genre formula on its sleeve, and really, who could ask for anything more? Walking into a Friday the 13th movie, one should know what to expect. On those grounds, the film delivers."
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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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.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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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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