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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..."
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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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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[W]ill linger in your imagination just as the novel did... [A]chingly romantic but never schmaltzy and never less than charming and surprising..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[C]alculated for sweet, feel-good blandness. And not the rock 'n' roll kind of feel-good, either, unless you think the Jonas Brothers rock hard."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[F]loored with surprise that this could... feel so fresh, so original, so like nothing I'd ever seen before..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[C]annot help but be more miss than hit..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[M]y good Mr. Fanboy, I give you G.I Joe: The Rise of Cobra, the world's first weaponized movie!"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[G]iddily joyful performances [by] Adams and Streep: spending time with them is like spending time with the kind of friends who support you and love you no matter what..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Smug? Damn, this is a self-satisfied, arrogant excuse for a film, in which the red-herringness is piled on with outrageous aplomb till there can be no doubt that Twohy is daring you to guess what's up and hoping you're not up to it, or not caring if you a"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"The CGI guinea pigs are startlingly realistic-looking... which will charm kids, and the whiz-bang nonsense they get up to... is exactly the stuff of silly, entertaining moviegoing."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Five minutes into the film, I already was hating these monsters. The kids, I mean, not the aliens..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]oo-earnest, underemotional... [but Dancy] and Byrne are what make this a movie worth seeing, for their delicacy and tentativeness in coping with one another..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Think 'guerrilla journalism'... The Cove is not polite, and it is not demure...."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]he Apatow TV project this bleak but shrewd movie harkens back most to is The Larry Sanders Show... [T]he Hollywood funny people weren't funny there, either..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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"I could have used more of this show about death that's full of life, more of the genre-busting, wordplay-playing black comedy/romance/mystery/cooking show about learning how to love a rainy day."
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(2005) |
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"[M]ight be the best TV series ever..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[W]hat kind of self-hat[red] is involved on the parts of three female screenwriters who collaborate to create [a] horrid female protagonist... and then go on to treat her in such an unforgivable way[?]"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Oh, how I wish it were true that Orphan was a knowing parody, instead of an unwitting one..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2006) |
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"[T]he British-eye view on the momentous lunar mission, combining rare archival news footage from the BBC with 40-year-old tutorials from BBC science reporter James Burke..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[Offers a] surprisingly complementary chirpy sense of humor and bleak sense of horror... [N]arrow[s] down the hugeness of the novel into a diptych depicting the choices of adolescence..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"In the real world, this would be called... passive-aggressive... but in the world of adolescent romantic comedies, this is deemed a charming and daring act by a 'nice guy'..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Baron Cohen's daring and fearlessness as a cultural critic is in as grand a form here as it was in Borat, his last adventure in... lampooning... kneejerk ignorance and superficiality."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"This is how far cartoons have descended in the last decade and a half: The Lion King was Shakespearean. Ice Age is Everybody Loves Raymondean."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[F]rustrating and fascinating... Backstory? Forget it. Motivations? Never mind. This is a movie that exists completely in its own moment -- not in the past, not in the future."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[L]ike that last rush of endorphins they tell us floods our bodies to prepare us for death... [W]ants you to sob, but with bittersweet acceptance and saccharine grief, not with rage or anger or denial..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[L]ike the most totally awesome artifact ever of the end of the American empire... loud, obnoxious, sexist, racist, juvenile, unthinking, visceral, and violent... and in love with ourselves for it."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[S]et[s] back the noble causes of blasphemy, rational thinking, and humanism about a century... doesn't even have the nerve to be profane..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Deeply moving in its subtle journey through regrets, memories, and the profound affection that inanimate objects can inspire in us..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[C]ontrived... shameless in its cheap pandering... descend[s] to its most slapsticky just as it's maybe about to touch on some genuine feeling as if it assumes its audience has the emotional maturity of a kindergartner..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] comprehensive rundown of the duplicity of some of our leaders and much of our corporate mass media... howls with rage..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[O]ddly underpowered, disappointingly scattershot... [A] blandly tedious workplace 'comedy'..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] rollicking tale that unspools in urgent real time... and is jam-packed with literally breathtaking action."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"If Noel Coward had written Meet the Parents, it might look something like [this]: wickedly funny and also (or perhaps therefore) entirely free of poop jokes."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[S]erves only to show us a reprehensible example of the worst of American manhood, and of American celebrity...."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A] steaming pile of stereotypes and sitcomery, a pathetic excuse for a comedy, a romance, and a movie."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[M]erely a cynical attempt to mine some cash from one of the few remnants of Generation X's collective childhood that has yet to be picked over for the sake of nostalgia..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]hinks it's edgy and envelope-pushing, but there's nothing terribly risque or dangerous about it... [H]int[s] at possibilities far more dangerous than it ever dares go near..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Gore fans hoping for buckets of blood will be disappointed; thoughtful horror fans who appreciate that a truly scary movie is mostly in your head will love it."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[C]heerful and fantastical yet never unrealistically optimistic... [T]he cleverness and originality of Up is nearly boundless..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[Raimi] is challenging the typical ethics of the modern horror story..."
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