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"Uses the gangster movie form to say something profound and unexpected about the way we respond to evil."
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"Critics blithely refer to movies as 'painful' all the time, but this is the real deal."
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(2009) |
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"Like a lot of great scifi, it tells a small, self-contained story while hinting at something far larger and more troubling... It's one of the best movies of the year."
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"A wonderful film, bursting with creativity and remarkable, in the way Pixar efforts usually are, for being a 'family film' that doesn't pander and treats its story like serious business."
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(2009) |
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"Big, handsome, loud and dumb -- and it dishonors everything that preceded it."
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"May be a marginal improvement on its predecessor and source material, but at a brain-stabbing 140 minutes, it still reaches levels of tedium that are hard to conceptualize."
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(2009) |
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"Here is the highest compliment Abrams and company could have hoped for: They leave Star Trek better than they found it."
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(2009) |
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"Eminently disposable, but that's almost the point: Wolverine remembers the days when action flicks were action flicks, and we were content with visceral thrills and basic storytelling competence."
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(2009) |
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"The reason most movies don't include aliens, zombies, weird mysticism and a lot of swordfighting is that each of those elements... takes time to explore and nurture into something compelling."
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(2009) |
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"If the film is smarter and more ambitious than I expected, it is also less involving: a meandering, digressive plea for a social conscience that never finds a rhythm or a pulse."
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(2009) |
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"As a movie made with kids -- and mass consumption -- in mind, Earth labors under some frustrating limitations. But as a palatable, engaging reel of incredible nature photography, it has few equals."
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(2009) |
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"I suppose I should be impressed that 17 Again turned out to be bad in a way I did not anticipate: it is awkward and creepy."
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(2009) |
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"Foremost an intelligent, adult genre film -- the thriller antidote to Fast & Furious. It traffics in brainy old-school suspense, courtesy of a twisty plot that holds up under scrutiny."
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(2009) |
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"An affectionate, almost reverent homage to the science fiction of the 1950s: Not a lampoon so much as a faithful recreation."
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(2009) |
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"Any suggestions for the title of fifth film? How about Fast & Furious: I'm Gonna Kick Your Ass? Or, no, I know: Fast & Furious: Tokyo Drift."
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(2009) |
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"The characters are aggressive and mostly smart, the villain is fearsome and hateful, and the premise ('An airport shuttle ride descends into darkness') is brilliantly simple."
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(2009) |
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"As often happens, the best parts are the smallest -- throwaway moments shine (I particularly enjoyed the self-doubting self-destruct mechanism on the alien ship) while the big set pieces are quickly forgotten."
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(2009) |
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"Far more intriguing than your average PG-13 genre entry."
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(2009) |
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"90 minutes of truly inspired comic mayhem."
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(2009) |
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"Will be remembered as the movie that turned Paul Rudd from a dependable supporting player into a comic force to be reckoned with."
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(2009) |
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"The sort of earnest, haphazardly constructed kidflick that offers nothing for the over-12 set and not much for little ones who've seen a few real movies in their young lives."
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(2009) |
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"The movie was reportedly trimmed from four hours to two hours and forty minutes, and that turns out to simply not be enough time. All the material is here, but its scope and power are lost."
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(2009) |
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"I much prefer the flamboyant badness of the '94 flick to the attractive, even-keeled mediocrity of this one. Jean-Claude Van Damme's stock just rose considerably."
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(2009) |
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"So rich, so fully realized that it inspires the same sort of awe as one of Henry Selick's stop-motion-animated wonders."
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(2009) |
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"Deeply frightening, telling a story that could bore into your kids' nightmares if you're not careful."
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(2009) |
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"Push is supremely elegant, even beautiful; you can get lost in the visuals even as the narrative implodes. If ever there were a triumph of style over substance, this is it."
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(2009) |
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"Squanders 70 strong minutes with a pointless gotcha that I don't think anyone will much appreciate."
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(2009) |
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"For a movie about the power of books and stories, it's a bit ironic that Inkheart is itself so poorly thought through."
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(2009) |
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"For a movie about aliens and Vikings, Outlander turns out to be awfully rough going."
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(2003) |
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(2009) |
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"Exactly what you'd expect from the combination of its release date, genre, and MPAA rating"
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(2008) |
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"Valkyrie's suspense isn't of the rousing, creep-to-the-edge-of-your-seat variety. The film is cold, metallic; the tension it creates is more akin to dread."
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(2008) |
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"There's a thoughtful story here struggling to bloom, and the movie stamps it down at every opportunity. Even Jim Carrey's classic manic energy, usually so welcome, is oppressive."
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(2008) |
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"The film doesn't shove its message down your throat, and its prestige pic status belies its subtle intelligence."
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Streep and Hoffman are two of the most exciting actors we have, and their performances make Doubt an intense experience, almost akin to a thriller."
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(2008) |
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"The nonsensical result of shoehorning the same damn message into every 'holiday' movie, year after year."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Weakest as a biopic, but the context is fascinating, and Gus Van Sant presents it with elegance and clarity."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"These aren't vampires. These are fairies."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Bernie Mac's death doesn't make Soul Men any better, but it may make it worth seeing."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Continues the trend of R-rated comedies mixing serious don't-bring-grandma vulgarity with totally unironic, all-stops-out sweetness and sentimentality."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"The last half hour contains scenes that are almost obscene in their earnestness."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"It's long and messy, covering all the bases and then some, but it's also fantastically entertaining. Its 140 minutes feel more like 90."
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(2009) |
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"A droll and witty delight."
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(2008) |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"A thoroughly clichéd virginity-deadline teen comedy with none of American Pie's trangsressiveness (it's hard, these days) and little of Superbad's intelligence."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"It's esoteric, and its audience is small, but if you're part of it, you know who you are."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Mostly, this is Hollywood excess the way I like to see it: skillfully done, and with a beating heart."
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(2008) |
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"What could have been a blindly reverent biopic, and/or a tediously respectable prestige picture, instead at least tries to deal with the issues it raises, and tries to do so with with some subtlety and grace."
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