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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       A-      The Box (2009)      "Some of Kelly's ambition is folly, but when he fails, he fails big. This is one of my favorite films of the year." [movie review]      Film Blather       C-      The Fourth Kind (2009)      "What I want is to commission a remake of The Fourth Kind, this time by someone who is more concerned with storytelling than with showing off." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       A-      Where the Wild Things Are (2009)      "It's a coming-of-age fairy tale, delivered with remarkable subtlety, patience, and confidence in its young audience." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       D      Couples Retreat (2009)      "Aside from a few almost accidental Vaughn- and Bateman-isms, there is not an amusing moment in the entire 107-minute film -- and no insight, or heart, or even genuine sweetness, either." [movie review]      Film Blather       B-      Surrogates (2009)      "If the movie gets a bit hokey on the surface, its haunting undercurrents never let up." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       A      The Road (2009)      "John Hillcoat's faithful, near-perfect adaptation beautifully captures McCarthy's synthesis of all-encompassing darkness and enduring hope." [movie review]      Cinematical       B      Jennifer's Body (2009)      "It's better than Juno, I think: more layered, more interesting." [movie review]      Film Blather            Paranormal Activity (2009)      "Paranormal Activity will please horror fans and is an even better date movie; it's funny, too." [movie review]      Cinematical            Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)      "Herzog is having every bit as much fun as Cage here, toying with renegade cop movie cliches and working in a pulpy mode he hasn't touched for a while." [movie review]      Cinematical            Up in the Air (2009)      "This is Reitman's third film, and I've liked them all about the same: recommended with reservations." [movie review]      Cinematical       D+      Coco Before Chanel (2009)      "Coco Before Chanel's approach is classic arthouse: handsome, measured, respectful, and soul-crushingly bland" [movie review]      Cinematical       A      The White Ribbon (2009)      "An utterly nerve-wracking, edge-of-my-seat experience - certain scenes that consisted of little more than, say, a measured conversation between father and son are, in context, unbelievably suspenseful." [movie review]      Cinematical       C+      The Last Station (2010)      "Why tackle a subject as legendary as Tolstoy if you're just going to turn him into a doddering coot?" [movie review]      Cinematical       C+      G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra (2009)      "The definition of cinematic empty calories. It's like stuffing your face with cotton candy in lieu of dinner." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B-      Funny People (2009)      "The weakest of the three films Apatow has directed -- though certainly not of the dozens he has produced -- but its shortcomings feel like growing pains rather than diminishing returns." [movie review]      Film Blather       B      Orphan (2009)      "The most committed, downright unpleasant child-from-hell movie imaginable. It makes The Good Son play like Pollyanna." [movie review]      Film Blather       B+      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)      "That Half-Blood Prince stays true to Rowling's downbeat, morose vision is a testament to the integrity of this franchise and the fortitude of its fans. The movie is quiet, graceful and restrained." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B      Humpday (2009)      "It milks its edgy high concept for plenty of laughs, but it also does more. Shelton has made a touching, quietly disturbing comedy about the way our minds can take us prisoner." [movie review]      Film Blather       B+      Public Enemies (2009)      "Uses the gangster movie form to say something profound and unexpected about the way we respond to evil." [movie review]      Film Blather       F      Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)      "Critics blithely refer to movies as 'painful' all the time, but this is the real deal." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       A-      Moon (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B+      Up (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       C      Terminator Salvation (2009)      "Big, handsome, loud and dumb -- and it dishonors everything that preceded it." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       D+      Angels & Demons (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B+      Star Trek (2009)      "Here is the highest compliment Abrams and company could have hoped for: They leave Star Trek better than they found it." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B-      X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       --      Earth (1999)      Click here to see the review! [movie review]      Film Blather       C-      Mutant Chronicles (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       C      The Soloist (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       B-      Earth (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       D+      17 Again (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       B+      State of Play (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       B-      Alien Trespass (2009)      "An affectionate, almost reverent homage to the science fiction of the 1950s: Not a lampoon so much as a faithful recreation." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       C      Fast & Furious (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       B+      Shuttle (2009)      "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." [movie review]      Film Blather       B-      Monsters vs. Aliens (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B-      The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)      "Far more intriguing than your average PG-13 genre entry." [movie review]      Film Blather       A-      Slammin' Salmon (2009)      "90 minutes of truly inspired comic mayhem." [movie review]      Cinematical       B      I Love You, Man (2009)      "Will be remembered as the movie that turned Paul Rudd from a dependable supporting player into a comic force to be reckoned with." [movie review]      Cinematical       D      Race to Witch Mountain (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       C      Watchmen (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       D+      Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       A      Two Lovers (2009)      "So rich, so fully realized that it inspires the same sort of awe as one of Henry Selick's stop-motion-animated wonders." [movie review]      Film Blather       B      Coraline (2009)      "Deeply frightening, telling a story that could bore into your kids' nightmares if you're not careful." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       B-      Push (2009)      "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." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       --      The Uninvited (1944)      Click here to see the review! [movie review]      Film Blather       C+      The Uninvited (2009)      "Squanders 70 strong minutes with a pointless gotcha that I don't think anyone will much appreciate." [movie review]      Film Blather       C-      Inkheart (2009)      "For a movie about the power of books and stories, it's a bit ironic that Inkheart is itself so poorly thought through." [movie review]      Film Blather       C-      Outlander (2009)      "For a movie about aliens and Vikings, Outlander turns out to be awfully rough going." [movie review]      AMCtv.com       --      Unborn (2003)      Click here to see the review! [movie review]      Film Blather

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