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(2009) |
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"The script is condescending to its characters to the point that poor Jennifer Coolidge should file abuse charges."
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"I'd love to be at a screening of "The Fourth Kind" in Nome, where it's sure to be greeted as a comedy."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"The craft on display here is stunning...and the actors are up to the von Trier's challenges, but...It's a cerebral piece of horror, one that keeps you at arm's length."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Hilary Swank certainly looks the part and...fits the period well, ...but although her Amelia talks about her love of flight, Nair fails to really make us feel it."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"...despite his fine attention to detail, a great cast and a deliciously edgy build, West can't bring his film to the finish line."
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Director F. Gary Gray seems to have picked up on some "Seven"-like aspects of the script to arrive at the film's visual look, but the effect it produces is more like "Saw V" crossed with every clichéd film about...a workaholic coming to appreciate his fam"
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"..worth the effort for the four pieces called out - Nair's is deep and playful at the same time, Attal's very well written and acted. Hughes' is perhaps the best example of the theme...while Akin's is the most visually inventive and mysterious"
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"In this amazing, if not perfect adaptation, the filmmakers subtly create an alternate reality for Max...and they have done it in an incredibly imaginative and moving way."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...a better balance of the human element against that of politics and courtrooms would have given the film a stronger emotional hook."
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"...one of the best sports films ever made, despite the paucity of play on the actual field. Many think Sheen has been unfairly overlooked by the Academy for past performances, but his Brian Clough is a career best."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"...may be set in Bora-Bora, but it's about as much fun as a lock down with an obsessive religious cult."
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Relative newcomer Carey Mulligan makes a huge splash in the title role with a complex performance that balances a sophistication beyond her years (and her upbringing) with the vulnerability of youth."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...a surprisingly in-depth documentary in which a niche subject - black women's hair - turns out to touch upon all type of societal issues from self-esteem and ideals of beauty to economics to sexual intimacy."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A n intricate dual character study."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"...Ferrara has left a testament to a beloved place whose spirit has been corrupted by commerce."
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A+ |
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(1999) |
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"Inventive, hilarious, witty, touching and exhiliarting, (the final climatic scene which follows an airline's baggage handling system is heart stopping) "Toy Story 2" is that rarest of things - a perfect film."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson...take the old adage 'if God didn't exist, man would have to invent him' and have their main character do just that. Unfortunately, the underpinnings of their conceit don't hold up very well..."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"[The filmmakers] serve up one of the year's most entertaining films...by concocting a few riffs to keep playing on and coming up with the inspired casting of Jesse Eisenberg and Woody Harrelson as a perfectly mismatched buddy team."
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A |
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(2009) |
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"The Coens are going for the whole enchilada here - man's search for meaning, the existence of God, pattern and randomness in the Universe, and the essential solitude of the human condition."
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"With "Bright Star," writer/director Jane Campion has made a film that is like a flip, 'civilized,' version of "The Piano's" exotic wilderness."
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"...Morgenthaler shows influences from Miyazaki to cinematic action/adventure films. "Princess" is a real disturbing dazzler."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...unlike the manipulation of facts and imagery used to make his cases in "Bowling for Columbine" and "Fahrenheit 9/11," here a more restrained Moore comes across as more fair and even handed than he has in years"
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Although [Oren Peli] has borrowed liberally from films from "The Blair Witch Project" to "The Exorcist" and a dash of "Lost Highway," "Paranormal Activity" is a sterling standout in a genre that usually disappoints."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...despite cliched characters and parents straight from central casting, the performance numbers are executed by some pretty talented kids and Megan Mullally and Bebe Neuwirth are intriguing as the school's singing and dance instructors."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...a biopic that is two thirds soap opera and one third character study...Fontaine does little to root Chanel's future career in her past."
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...an American independent that let us experience a different kind of minority lifestyle."
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"...had the potential to bring some real girl power to the horror genre [but] it's a major disappointment across the board."
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"...a coma-inducing collection of unimaginative sermons, tasteless symbolism and one of the most crass uses of product placement to come down the pike in some time"
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Terrific use of 3D, beautiful size perspective, a stunning rendering of the ocean and witty character design make it an eyeful, while the script delights with puns, sight gags and pop culture nudge-winks."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Damon gives one of the best performances of his career here, a sneak-up-on-you the-dupe-as-duper narrator."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"...seems more French than Japanese with its chaotic gathering and multi-layered and constant dialogue."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"James Nesbitt is searing in a performance that bubbles both with rage and a tightrope type of wit."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"It is a mystery why star Beckinsale...keeps wallowing in junk food genre fare....a might more entertaining than watching snow on your television."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"This is the type of film that used to marketed by the early Weinstein Miramax, a crowd pleaser whose foreign origin and assured direction make it seem like art for the masses."
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A change of scenery to Austin, TX, shows a distinct lack of mumble...These characters may still be a bit unsure of themselves, but...have become a whole lot more articulate and sexually confident."
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"...a dismal looking affair with flat sound. If it's title sounds like something that might happen in a dentist's office, that's about what sitting through it feels like."
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"...features the singular most awful line of dialogue in a movie this year..."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"...a fascinating dual character study lodged within a somewhat stodgy film."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Meadows gives his film so much forward thrust it feels like a road movie as it follows the ramblings of his two young leads."
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...mostly a big bore that delivers on few of its promises...Cutler's inadvertent focus on Coddington suggests a conceptual change during filming stuffed into a pre-conceived marketing campaign."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"while "Taking Woodstock" is a bit of a shaggy dog story, Lee uses a subtle build to show how 'three days of peace, love and music' transformed a rural farming community."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...cowriter/producer Bernd Eichinger, who gave such depth to a much shorter historical period in "Downfall," here eventually loses his audience by refusing to streamline his cast and focus on a few significant events. It's a 10 part miniseries stuffed in"
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Goldthwait takes a double pronged approach to the concept of celebrity death - and who knew how timely his subject would become - by looking at how society leaps to put those who die unexpectedly on a pedestal while their inner circles seek to profit."
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Quentin Tarantino is like a kid in a candy store reinventing WWII... [with] a wallop of a climax that reimagines a cinema auditorium as a Holocaust gas chamber by way of the throne of the great and powerful wizard of Oz."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...the filmmakers never really make us buy that this man was so averse to violence he was willing to sell out his friends - for profit mind you - to help save the British. And yet the film really works as a political thriller."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"...both the somewhat sentimental tale of a senior citizen making a change in the life of a child and a movie that forges its own path with unexpected developments."
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A |
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(2009) |
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"I can't recall when I last noticed such a lovely and distinct color palette used in a documentary...a poetic reflection on man facing his mortality."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"As we get to know each of these three guitar gods, what impresses isn't what draws them together, but what separates them. As such, the central conceit of having the three meet doesn't really work..."
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Despite a few chuckles, this loud, obvious and raunchy comedy suffers from a worse fate than its cheesiness - it's utterly forgettable."
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...a sci-fi parable about bigotry and corporate greed that, backed by Jackson's special effects house WETA, brings a whole new world to the Science Fiction genre."
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