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(2009) |
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"This ain't the real 12 Rounds. Not the actual movie. It's more like a storyboard. Or an animatic. That's it. Just to give you an idea of what the real movie's gonna look like. Man, you're gonna love it, I swear."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Efron dominates the screen with his charm and his effortless comic timing..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Emmerich wasn't content to merely make the biggest disaster movie ever: he had to make every disaster movie ever... [I]t's like something Ed Wood would have made if he had a budget..."
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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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"[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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"Eisenberg has a quirky, sensitive cool that distinguishes him from the slew of teen or almost-teen movie ranks of the moment..."
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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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"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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"[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's all presented so earnestly... that you barely realize at the time how preposterous it all is. Intrigue! Cubans! The Bay of Pigs! JFK! It's the coming-of-age tale filtered through the mind of Oliver Stone,"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A]n angry, old-fashioned, and very, very welcome polemic..."
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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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"[A] ridiculously entertaining night at the movies.... [I]t's as completely ludicrous as the book it's based on, of course, but it moves so fast and with such confidence that you barely have time to notice."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"I'm still not 100 percent convinced that this wonderfully bittersweet documentary isn't entirely a put-on."
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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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"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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"[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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"[A] tad overearnest and just a wee bit preachy... But the heartfelt authenticity ... cannot be denied, and it more than overcomes whatever storytelling faults their approach has..."
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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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"[T]he ambition of the movie makes it sort of intriguing, too, even if it fails -- spectacularly -- in the end..."
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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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"Aren't we [women] adorable in all our irrational shrieking harpy juvenile shallow materialistic glory? We so are!"
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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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"[A] deliciously clever, convention-busting flick with more soul than you'd expect..."
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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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(2009) |
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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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"[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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"[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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"[An] elemental tale of childhood fantasies and nightmares... uncomfortabl[y] honesty about the dark side of being a kid..."
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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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"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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"The constant escalation to [the filmmakers'] inventive insanity is so breathtaking, it's like a slap in the face to the tired hacks who make the glossy hidebound junk that passes for an action movie these days."
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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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"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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"[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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"[Raimi] is challenging the typical ethics of the modern horror story..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's not deep: it's a wispy-light meringue of a romantic spy-versus-spy comedy. But it is smart. It expects that you're keeping up with the tricks it's trying to pull on you."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"It's not that this lovely-to-look-at nature documentary is bad: it's just that it's completely redundant as a film."
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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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"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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"[T]ouching and funny, and magically absurd and at the same time pointedly real... genius..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[D]amn if there ain't enough street racing in this here street racing movie..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"The first rule of Fighting is: You don't talk about Fighting. So please just pretend you can hear me giggling derisively instead."
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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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(2009) |
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"What could have been something hearty and earthy and bouncy and sexy is instead unpleasant like sweaty bedsheets... sweaty with someone else's sweat, that is."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[T]his difficult, uncomfortable film... deconstructs the notion of what 'evil' is... Subtle and sharp in how it turns over notions of revenge and grief, forgiveness and empathy, compassion and understanding..."
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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]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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(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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