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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Mostly ages us through its sloggy, spoon-fed narrative that has us, like its surrounding characters, just waiting for it all to be over."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the ballsier comedies to come from a big studio in some time that's likely going to tear at audience's expectations but, hopefully, will have them appreciating its creators."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It seems deftly appropriate that they would decide to remove the two 'the's from the title, the most replaceable word in the English language and compensate their absence with two of the most transparent ciphers to ever get above-title billing."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The only real nostaglia on display (much like the overplayed rock soundtrack of the park's speakers) is the feeling that you've just seen and heard this story all before."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For a film that only flirts with the idea of closure it may be best to just keep an open mind and enjoy the company of some fine actors playing funny characters trying to find the same answers that all of us are."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I couldn't list ten pure comedies from 2008 that produced as many laughs as The Slammin' Salmon and the way this year has started, it's hard to think that wouldn't hold true for 2009 either."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I Love You, Man doesn't need the 'talk' to speak to the guys in the audience, because just about everything that needs to be said is right there on the screen and is usually accompanied by a huge laugh."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Craven himself has said that the 2009 is a marked improvement over his film and some fans I know balked at such a statement. Only the truth is they should keep repeating to themselves, 'Craven was right. Craven was right.'"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There is much to like about Watchmen. But it's not without its flaws and if the end result is as faithful as adaptations come, they go as far back as the source material."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The only debate that Crossing Over will inspire is whether or not it's supreme awfulness is enough to qualify it for so-bad-its-good status."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The Maxim revolution kicks off with Fired Up and the fact that even the now Hammond-less skin mag's name is nowhere to be found on the title, should tell you that even they are trying to maintain some dignity."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Humpday uses it absurd premise for maximum comic discomfort and its this approach that should have audiences unable to look away unless they are doubled over in laughter."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The International could have turned out to be a prescient statement about our times instead of one that increasingly droops our eyelids just when it should be opening them."
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0.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A miserable failure that maintains no attempt to reimagine the villain, the cliches, or the bloody kills and it becomes a depressing experience that offers zero enjoyment and even less fright."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Once the pieces became clear that directors Charles & Thomas Guard were content on being M. Night Shyamalan instead of Ji-Woon Kim, it's enough to make any purist feeling tainted."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"David Fincher was simply not the right man for the job and it shows at every turn in a film that is a complete and utter failure at everything it set out to tackle."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Accompanied by one of the worst scores I've heard in some time, Seven Pounds follows its lead by continually trying to bury its final note under another one and constantly sounding like the composer missing the beat over and over and over again."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Much like the self-help guru it enables, it exists solely to get your money like a good little follower and then ask you to ignore the doubt that comes with having plunked down exorbitant theater prices for a barely average comedy."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"And you thought Walt was kidding when he told his son early on that people would show up after the funeral because he 'suppose they heard there's gonna be a lot of ham.'"
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An overall lame piece of science-fiction and an even lamer parable that fails to distinguish its own ironies of what's worth saving when filmmakers like Derrickson pee all over something so many of us cherish."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Doubt ends on a note so ridiculous, so heavy-handed and over-the-top that it would have been right at home during some cartoon parody of pretentious Oscar do-gooders trying to shout its message towards your 6-D glasses."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In the spirit of teaming up franchises, if Lions Gate were to continue reviving hope with The Punisher, maybe the next time around he can protect the winner from VH-1's Scream Queens against the other Jigsaw in Saw VI."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Without George W. Bush, the Frost/Nixon conversations may have become just another anecdote of remembering when - instead of confronting audiences with the ironies of two wartime Presidents not owning up to the mistakes that were made."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"By unnecessarily extending the film (and shortening what should have formed its crux), Australia manages the almost unfeasible feat of becoming a less honest film than Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Skirting somewhere in-between his bombastic, arms-flailing work in the disasterous All the King's Men remake and the man-child of I Am Sam, Penn goes well past impersonation and commands each and every scene with sympathy and determination."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It will be curious to see how Casino Royale enthusiasts react to Quantum of Solace. Their action palette will certainly be quenched but they may be thirsty again immediately after."
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If the Weinsteins had any soul themselves they would take this film and bury it along with every other film they seem to these days instead of trying to cash it in as some misbegotten tribute to Bernie Mac's legacy."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"David Wain's Role Models can both stand proudly alongside the recent spate of vulgar R-rated comedies and provide definitive proof why we no longer laugh at Sandler's films."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dear Zachary is not just Oscar-worthy material, but Oscar-requisite. If the Academy's documentary branch can't find a way to nominate this film (and then promptly reward it) then there's more than one corruption of justice that needs to be investigated."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's an intricate piece to the puzzle of self-examination that began in Adaptation and continues into one of the most challenging, exasperating and beautiful works to hit theaters since probably Eternal Sunshine."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Changeling is no escape, but more of a two-hour plus trap that never springs on us; a story of three parts that is thematically as absentee as the child himself."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Albeit ambitious in its fairness to the man at times and centered by an award-worthy performance by Josh Brolin, there's an irony that Stone's rush to judgement prevented him from creating a film with a more lasting legacy."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"After Ridley's less-than-stellar stretch including Matchstick Men, Kingdom of Heaven, A Good Year and American Gangster, expectations are medium at best and Body of Lies does nothing to raise them."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Many critics will make some quip on the film's title doing precisely that to the audience looking for a little inside baseball, but there's so much general familiarity going for it already, why add to it?"
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"With one head-gnawing plot contrivance after another, it may think it's the wacky Iraq version of Easy Rider but is more like this year's Around the Bend or Diamonds."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Kubrickian Hitchcock elements are out front and personal, but D.J. Caruso keeps things nicely slick and swift so the film reminds you, maybe not of those legends, but certainly of someone like John Badham at his 1983 peak."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Arriaga's attempt with poignant reconnections at the end can't strike the emotional footnote it wants at the fade as he's muddled it up trying to get us to make all the obvious connections from the previous 100 minutes."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"We already had one Other Boleyn Girl this year, but even as the occasional blip of droll humor breaks up the monotony and 'tell me something I don't know' developments, it's still quite a dullard's affair."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Maher's holy trinity comes in the form of the words 'I don't know' and it's the lesson he wants to shout from the pulpit, even if there's some arrogance in believing that he knows everyone else is wrong."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The bullets may not be comparable to the Yuma remake or Kevin Costner's underrated Open Range, but the men holding the guns are still the same. So what if they're just a little bit different?"
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Lakeview Terrace waves bye-bye much earlier on than it should and that's a shame because it would have been so nice to see such lofty reflections getting along in a thriller for mass consumption."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Whenever Christian McKay is on screen, it's transportive. So it's a shame that Linklater didn't see the egotistical irony in the title and just make a film all about Orson Welles. It's what he would have wanted."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film's tone between dark comedy and creepy psychodrama just never works and alternates with such mellowness that it's impossible to get a grasp on how we should feel about either 'victim.'"
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"You wish there was a little less grumbling and more of the Before Sunrise/Sunset feel that we get in the final half hour which is quite special. Put Michael Cera and an escalator in your climactic scene and somehow magic is born."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The pacing isn't quite as screwy as the premise and it winds up with the occasional lag while it chases too much of any particular subplot"
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"I [have] a little crush on Ghost Town and I'll stand by it as one of the best surprises of 2008."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If Rian Johnson took a page from Raymond Chandler for Brick, then it's one of Wes Anderson's eyes he's plucked out for his latest."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"We're in for a bumpy ride on Anderson's Bi-polar express where the line between homage and ripoff is never as blurry as his action sequences. His Ben-Hur chariot race would have needed nothing more than one set of horses, a couple human heads and a wheel."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Despite its breezy quality and occasional big laugh, The Rocker just never completely clicks as A-side material."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Stiller has rediscovered the subversive humor from the best moments of his career and created a near-classic that is his funniest film since the remake of Meet the Parents."
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