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B |
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(2009) |
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"What [Moore] offers isn't an argument as much as a polemic. But as in the past, he proves a skilled polemicist,...[and] looked at dispassionately, it's fun."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"A turgid tale of adultery among the rich and boring."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"So bad it ought to be based on a video game."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Particularly silly...the sort of emptily bombastic popcorn movie that might make you wish you had a surrogate to go and sit through it in your place."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Riddled with cliches from beginning to end...[a] misguided exhumation of what was once a pretty lively piece."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"An earnest comedy-drama, which covers familiar territory but in an unpretentious, and so reasonably pleasant fashion."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"You have to give Cody and her cohorts credit for trying to pump some new blood into a stale genre, and there are moments of inspired cleverness...but they're not frequent or sustained enough."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"Yeah, love happens. So does something else. Sappy, overemphatic and cloying...[a] mountain of narrative cliches."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Doesn't soar like Up, but it stays afloat long enough to remain a pleasant family treat."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A mellow, pictorially attractive period piece in which the characters seem actually to breathe rather than merely pose, as so often happens in such films."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A movie of chuckles rather than belly-laughs...but they really add up. In its unforced, loopy way, this is one of the funniest pictures of the year."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Intricacy of construction takes precedence over depth of meaning or characterization, and the work entailed in figuring things out isn't rewarded by any emotional insight."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"You have to admit that it's faithful to its source. The original was lousy, and so is this retread."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"This isn't so much sitcom fare as dinner-theatre material, directed without an ounce of style or panache and played more broadly than an old vaudeville routine."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"A hopelessly cliche-ridden tale that wouldn't be out of place on a family-oriented cable channel but is several sizes too small for the big screen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"An Antarctic-set murder mystery that might have played well on the printed page but emerges as a slushy mess on the screen."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"A sweet, sentimental, occasionally naughty, attractively mounted piece of old-fashioned hokum that will appeal to audiences, mostly female, of a certain age."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A peculiar but oddly effective portrait...of a loser not so much trapped as unwilling to try to escape."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Plenty of glitz but precious little substance...an oddly toothless portrait of a bruising business."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"While visually arresting, 9 is narratively a pretty familiar piece, and at once too mature for children and too childish for adults."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"A virulently ugly, unpleasant movie to look at as well as an incredibly stupid one, an insult to the eye as well as the brain."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"One might be tempted to call it perfectly dreadful if it didn't seem inappropriate to utter the word 'perfect' anywhere within miles of it."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"May be about a minor artist, but it's a major success."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't likely to snag Guggenheim another Oscar, but it's interesting enough, even for non-fanatics."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"An anemic, meandering ensemble comedy that just sputters along lamely before ending, apparently of sheer exhaustion."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't startlingly new, but it's a nice twist on a familiar formula, and should satisfy anyone who wants to see the postman, as it were, ring yet again."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"Putrid...fails to be remotely frightening and just settles for being utterly repulsive instead."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Warner Bros. is demanding a surcharge of viewers for the privilege of seeing the movie in 3D. Actually the company should be paying them for sitting through it at all."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"While [it] has a certain quirky charm--mostly due to its star--the overall effect is rather pallid."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"The scruffiness is hardly accidental, but it gives the picture a gentle warmth and easy charm that make it as pleasant, if as passing, as a warm summer breeze."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Leaves your hope for something not just unusual but tasty unquenched."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Though it suffers some stumbles along the way and definitely chickens out in the end, for much of the running-time it's a deliciously deadpan satire on the cults that grow up around dead celebrities."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"For fans of such activities, footage of their idols in action may be enough, but even they might find the movie overall surprisingly ordinary."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"A feature-length sitcom,...the kind of slight, vacuous comedy that evaporates long before it completes its tedious circuit to a foreordained happy ending."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Both overstuffed and, despite the profligacy, curiously tedious. It must be admitted, though, that the 'wishing rock' seems to work. I wished devoutly for Shorts to end, and eventually it did."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"So long as you don't mind twisted history and elaborate riffs on genre convention, you should find that there's much to savor here, not least Waltz's magnetic villainy."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Trite but self-important tale of a professional boy-toy in contemporary L.A.,...nothing more than a wallow in old-fashioned melodrama."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"Crass, stupid and ineptly made, this car-lot farce is so awful that it ought to qualify for the "Cash for Clunkers" program on grounds of polluting the atmosphere."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Given its bizarre imagery and offbeat attitude, it's like The Little Mermaid on acid. [But] it's visually beguiling, and that more than makes up for the strangeness."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"The coolest, most intelligent action movie of the year. It's visually striking and provides an adrenaline rush, but it also has a brain."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"This sappy romantic fantasy proves that a movie doesn't have to be a CGI extravaganza based on a video game, comic book or toy line to be inordinately dumb."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't going to win any awards, but it's a distinct step up from most striving-against-the-odds high school movies."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"Practically a compendium of everything that's wrong with Hollywood action flicks nowadays--a non-stop orgy of cheesy, chaotic CGI effects unencumbered by any human dimension."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Will genre fans take this totally artificial, over-the-top serial-killer movie as a straight thriller, or understand it as the parody one hopes it's intended to be?"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"For all the talent invested in Julie & Julia, it's ultimately a bland cinematic dish that needed more comedic spice."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Part documentary, part fictional romcom, and all twee."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Old-fashioned melodramatic claptrap, served up in ridiculously overblown style...another deeply embarrassing misfire from a man once considered a major American filmmaker."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"If you're old enough to remember the goofy double bills that American International used to churn out in the fifties, you'll have some idea of the quality of this movie. Whether you'll consider that an attractive proposition is another matter."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"An unabashedly activist, one-sided piece of cinema, but a very effective one that probably won't find wide distribution, though it should."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't all that bad...but it lacks magic, and except as a harmless diversion for the youngsters on a rainy afternoon, you can safely hold off until it shows up on DVD."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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