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B |
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(2009) |
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"The rare picture nowadays that takes satiric aim at the pomposity of the world of high art and hits the target, even if the blows are more often than not only glancing ones."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Even the non-stop action of this movie isn't enough to conceal how completely nonsensical it is."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Highly derivative but still moderately enjoyable comedy...mostly because of Efron, who's easily the best reason to see the picture."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"The amount of inanity exceeds the quantity of the special effects...and the movie is filled to the brim with them."
[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 experiment you have to admire for the risks it takes even while being disappointed that it doesn't quite come off."
[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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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Sounds like the stuff of a Hallmark Hall of Fame telefilm, but happily Mayer's sensitivity and the skill of Dancy and Byrne raise it to another level."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Those who make an effort to respond to its challenges will find it an absorbing and haunting experience."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Yet another quirky coming-of-age tale, it's amiable enough but rather lackadaisical, and generates neither the laughs nor the insight needed to set it apart from the pack."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"It doesn't want to be camp, but it inevitably becomes so, because the very effort to replicate its models is so knowing that it comes across as insufferably arch."
[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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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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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Comes off more like a museum exhibit than a vital drama...Amelia never takes flight, but it certainly crashes."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Offers a message we've heard before, but it's one that bears repeating, and it's reasonably well delivered."
[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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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Takes what's essentially a soap-operatic plot and spins it into something very like cinematic gold...instructive about how a very familiar story can be given new vibrancy by filmmakers and actors working at peak form."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"As far as preposterous pulp is concerned, Angels & Demons is livelier than The Da Vinci Code. But it's still just preposterous pulp."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Affectionate but revealing...a deeply human piece that's hilarious one moment and touching the next."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Decked out in snazzy computer-generated animation, but comes across as more rote than exhilarating."
[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 limberness of the leads and the affable nature of Mendes' treatment soften the material's harshness and make it go down easily. You should tag along with Burt and Verona on their journey of discovery."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Merely lets the facts of forty years ago speak for themselves, and one can't deny that its dramatization of them has enormous energy and urgency."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Outrageously enjoyable...turns the genre conventions on their head to often uproarious effect."
[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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C |
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(2009) |
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"A pretty pallid, pedestrian affair, a very mild outer-space adventure with an ecological message that, in the age of Pixar, is unlikely to keep kids, or their parents, rooted to their seats."
[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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B- |
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(2009) |
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"If you're looking for an uplifting sports story, this one, familiar as it is, manages a winning score."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"Of direct-to-DVD quality, so you might as well wait until this one makes it to disc--and then skip it."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"Trash--grubby and nonsensical, with lame dialogue, wretched overacting and clumsily staged action sequences."
[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 and peculiar enough to hold your interest, in the end it proves to be pretty empty inside."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"For the most part it's a tearjerker that works...testimony to the good judgment--and good taste--of everyone involved."
[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 leave this chick flick disaster feeling like an escapee from a POW camp."
[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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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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"Notable mostly for its ultra-cutesy style, which smothers the convoluted tale in visual and verbal affectation so heavy that you almost choke on it."
[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 condescending picture that always takes aim at easy targets, fires away with a blunderbuss, and then pretends to be courageous for what it's done."
[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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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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D |
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(2009) |
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"There's Hollywood and Bollywood, but Chandni Chowk to China respresents something new--Follywood."
[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 numbingly wrong-headed period piece that misfires on virtually all cylinders...Hampton and Frears prove heavy-handed, and their clumsiness is magnified by the missteps of the cast."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"All winded wind-up and no dazzling follow-through. Hogwart's wizards have absolutely nothing to fear from this bunch of sad second-raters."
[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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C |
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(2009) |
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"As cool and elegant as its heroine. Unfortunately it's also equally impassive, opaque and--at least in this incarnation--dull."
[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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F |
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(2009) |
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"If the torture-porn genre isn't dead yet, this idiotic exercise in pointless sadism should kill it off for good."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Though in the end this garish, frantic, relentlessly cartoonish rom-com pretends to be a warning against mindless materialism, it spends most of its time celebrating it."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Deliciously macabre...an animated film with a true touch of dark poetry."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"A loud, crude, dreary misfire that feels like it was cobbled together from material cut from other lousy comedies."
[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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"The lack of subtlety...makes Crossing Over little more than an overwrought harangue."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Even if you're not a soccer fan you should respond to...another expert mining of historical record by Peter Morgan [that's] not so much a sports movie as a character study."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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