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(2009) |
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"[C]heeky, baffled madness... [but] there is no doubt that the yearning and the questioning and the skepticism it all encapsulates about modern masculinity is achingly authentic..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Zemeckis... appears to have given up making fantasies for grownups in favor of making theme-park attractions designed to do nothing more than shut the kiddies up for 90 minutes..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"This is the same kind of put-on as the low-budget phenomenon Paranormal Activity. Except it's far more effective (at least at first)."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]here's a anesthetized feel to this sedate biopic that suggests a wrongheadedness in its focus: maybe the more interesting part of her life was after she became the icon of fashion..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"In a few brief moments, Thurman's Eliza springs to life... but it's not Thurman's fault that those moments are few and far between."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[R]iotously awful and simultaneously vile, this orgy of sexualized violence with no point except to give itself something to jerk off to..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"The action bits make you feel like you've had pure adrenaline pumped into you, but the attention to artistic detail... is like something you'd expect from a Hollywood epic..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[F]orgeteth thou the unpleasant autopsy and toxicology reports. Seeth how Michael was a man and yet not a man, a man and yet a seraph of spirit and light and moonwalking."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] quiet, reflective film... Earhart is not an icon or a symbol: she's a human being... [T]he assumption of autonomy... is a luxury rarely accorded to women in our pop culture, and it is wonderful to see here."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It all feels very small and surprisingly indifferent to its own potential magic, like the pilot for a TV series that might find its groove in its second season but isn't anywhere near there yet."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's creepy, and it's weird, and it's something like a mecha minstrel show, particularly in how the film pretends to a 'robots are people too' theme yet fails itself to treat them as such."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Does no one else see that the few genuinely creepy and original moments here are so few and far between that this would have been far more intriguing as a YouTube short...?"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A]n absolutely thrilling story, one both hilarious and poignant, about a man who is downright classical in his flaws... Michael Sheen, who always has a hint something impish and elven about him, is absolutely perfect..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[Y]ou probably cannot ever go wrong with a flick set in the City of Light and starring one of the most luminous actresses ever to grace the arthouse screen..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[I]ronic but sincere. We could even call it postsnark... [T]his could be, attitudinally, the first movie of the second decade of the 21st century..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[V]ery much itself, confident and certain and no more and no less than what it needs to be, if the goal were merely to transfer Sendak to the big screen..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[E]mblematic of the unpleasant streak that runs through the American zeitgeist today... that we have to do away with... the rule of law and that pesky Constitution in order to 'save' America..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Someone once said that perfect movies are boring and only flawed movies intriguing... And then along comes a movie like An Education, about which the number of things that are absolutely perfect is impossible to measure... and it's thrilling and ca"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Maybe it's pointless to complain about the shocking lack of elegance to an instantly forgettable bit of multiplex fluff like Couples Retreat. It's like complaining about the food at Applebee's..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]rue uncomfortable brilliance... downright seditious... ask[s] probing questions about the lies that we, in our world, may be dealing with on a daily basis..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[O]utrageously violent and outrageously funny... plays up what could be its most shocking moment with exactly the right blend of impudence and absurdity and tragi-comedy..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[W]orks within Hollywood conventions of storytelling to handily demonstrate that just because a tale is familiar doesn't mean it can't be fresh and funny and edgy, too..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] lovely reminder of what a cinematic treasure Owen is: his palpable charisma... works even better when we're already inclined to sympathize with him."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Tucker Max [is] a child. A toddler. A three-year-old screaming, "Poopie, poopie, POOPIE!" at the top of his lungs in the middle of the supermarket..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's not only the best possible ode to Keats' work, this lovely gentle poetic film, it's the best possible ode to Fanny, as well: If she made him feel the way this movie feels, that must have been a powerful love indeed."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"This sprawling portrait of the Red Army Faction... is neither an apologetic for the anarchist gang nor a condemnation of it, but rather a fascinating exploration of the shift in the zeitgeist of that era..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] potent satire on corporate malfeasance and a deliciously twisted -- half biting, half poignant -- portrait of the people do who corporate evil, with the added piquance of it being based on [a] true story..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"I'd never have expected that the movie would be saved, just a little, from being complete bullsh*t by the presence of Aaron Eckhart."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's as if everyone in Jennifer's Body knows they're a character in Jennifer's Body: The New Movie From Badass Chick Screenwriter Diablo Cody..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]reat[s] the charming nonsense of food falling from the sky like weather with exactly the sort of bouyant nimbleness it deserves..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"What could have been a maddening portrait of spoiled self-entitlement is, instead, a plucky tale... Zellweger creates a nice portrait of chin-keeping-up-erness combined with encroaching self-awareness...."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Oh, the squandering! It's like setting a story on Mars and then pretending we're just out in the Arizona desert."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's as if Jane Austen and Monty Python collaborated on an episode of The West Wing..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] mysterious conundrum of a film that is beautifully grim to behold and actually sort of massively depressing by the time it's over... but in a good way..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Made on the cheap compared to Hollywood flicks, this thrillingly original and heartfelt Mexican film is a truly human story about the impact of technology on individuals and on society."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's visually incomprehensible, emotionally empty, thematically nihilistic, almost entirely plotless... and it thinks those are virtues."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Plopping a 45-year-old actress... into a role clearly intended for, at best, a 23-year-old is a bizarre way to deal with the role shortage [for older women]."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"The unfunny glom of half-assed sitcom scenarios -- all setup and no punchline -- that make up Extract play like a rejected episode of King of the Hill..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A]stonishes with me its simplicity, its uncomplicated wisdom, its visual salience..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's death porn, pure and simple..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"Gruesomely agreeable twists on standard vampire motifs abound in this elegantly ambitious film..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"He's the best American filmmaker working today whom you've never heard of: Ramin Bahrani has the exquisite talent of making the ordinary and the mundane soar into realms of rarefied and unexpectedly moving drama."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[M]ade me feel like I'd missed out on something amazing by being born too late to have been a part of this. And even if that's a fantasy, it's okay."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[N]ever coheres into a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts, as Miyazaki's true classics have done..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"When Bobcat Goldthwait writes and directs a feature film, we should probably expect something a little... different. And -- *whew* -- that's what this pitch-black comedy offers."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"People have names like Ryden Malby only in the movies. And we're only expected to like people like Ryden Malby in the movies... though I don't see why we should give in to that kind of peer pressure."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"I'll give Robert Rodriguez this: He follows his own vision... But Ed Wood followed his own vision, too..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[S]low-boil sinister, delivering the kind of simmering menace that few films can bother to take the time for these days..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] bleakly comic revenge fantasy... [that] is, hilariously, all about acknowledging the power of cinema: have your revenge, but have it on film..."
[movie review] |
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's possible that this appallingly awful excuse for a raunchy comedy is meant to be satirical, but I suspect it's merely shockingly incompetent, even grading on the raunchy-comedy curve."
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