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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If I want to spend 90 minutes with better lighting on the ninja's body than the fighting, give me Lucinda Dickey in Ninja III: The Domination any day of the week."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Wishing it was Chicken Run and never achieving the depth of Where The Wild Things Are, Anderson and Baumbach create a half-fun, half-humdrum affair that I'm sure they will enjoy watching over and over."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Hopefully someday we'll look at Patriotville as just a flash of a very specific time in our nation's history and we'll be able to laugh at more than just the elements that make it a really solid comedy."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Anyone who enjoys this film and feels that the 'point' had been made must sit in their own padded cell with nothing but a copy of the documentary Dear Zachary to see what a true miscarriage of justice looks like."
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The sort of innovative storytelling that will see Where the Wild Things Are mentioned in the same breath as some of the best family films ever made."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A giant black hole in the center of the comedy universe sucking in the best ideas and situations from other entities into an inescapable ride to nothingness."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Guys may remember this film as the finest collection of ladies who almost take it all off ever assembled. But in-between all the underwear and fetish outfits is a rather amusing collection of stories described by its very title."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Mary and Max has the look of a kids picture but is another chapter in the growing evolution of animation for grown-ups."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The chemistry between the two of them is so beautiful and the astonishing poignancy of the final scene, done with all of just one line of dialogue is applause-worthy in and of itself."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The first two acts are the best with the radiance of Mulligan's performance putting all eyes on her and subsequently seducing us into her discoveries."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite films like Transformers and G.I. Joe cleaning up at the box office, Zombieland, even with its earned R-rating, is the one true film this year that reminds us of what its like to be a kid at the movies."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Whip It is the kind of film that you can't quite recommend but certainly wouldn't begrudge other people for liking either."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"May be the first film from the perspective of a Van Wilder villain and by the time this vile, amateurish and supposed true story is over, you may feel as if you've just spent 100 minutes looking through Michael Myers' first mask."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A pathetically worthless horror piece from nearly top to bottom that fails in virtually every genre and subgenre it wanders into."
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The Invention of Lying deserves to take its place as a modern American comedy classic right alongside such worthy counterparts as Groundhog Day and Idiocracy."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I suspect that this is a film that speaks to those who believe Every Breath You Take is a love song."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film's performances and a selection of perfectly timed comic conversations are individually better than anything seen in this year's big comedy hits, The Hangover or Paul Blart: Mall Cop."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"After two and a half hours, it's impossible to question the greatness within but hard to ignore what also makes it his most laboring and flawed feature to date."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Robin Williams' best work since his psycho double-dip in 2002 with Insomnia and One Hour Photo and that's paired with Goldthwait's finest outing as both a writer and director."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Struggling to fill out its 80 minutes before the final codas, The Goods has the definitive feel of a film that has been chopped up and left for dead. Of course you have to wonder how bad the cut footage is if this is all we're seeing."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As a writer herself and a woman in an even more cutthroat business, you would think that Ephron might shed off her usual goody-goody fantasies and stick one to Powell. Heh, ridicule in a Nora Ephron film? Even Julia Child would raspberry that one."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Park's welcome streak for dark comedy does overcome the monotony here and there, but when the sun finally comes up we're left with little but scattered particles of something that tried to do something good, but ultimately failed."
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(2009) |
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"This is a far more complex and thoughtful examination of the transition to adulthood and how we deal with death rather than just another zombie flick."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Sandler has turned in his best performance to date and Apatow has joined the ranks of other distinguished writer/directors like James L. Brooks and Cameron Crowe."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"These remarkable individuals contribute to a story that is not just indescribably moving but is a timeless metaphor for our country."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a poorly directed wannabe horror film that nevertheless contains more laughs than The Proposal, The Ugly Truth, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past and Land of the Lost combined. Is that a compliment? Kind of."
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0.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"While it may have been directed by a man, albeit one with all the talent of a water bra, it's screenplay is credited to three women who have managed to make Defending the Caveman seem like the height of exposing our Martian tendencies."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Can you remember the last time you saw a topical political satire with rapid-fire obscenity (morally and literally) and character exchanges that would rival the best of the screwball era?"
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Probably the closest this generation has come to having their own Annie Hall."
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A film that stands on its own, The Half-Blood Prince is the purest example of virtuoso storytelling we have seen all summer and maybe all year joining a short list that includes Up, Away We Go and The Hurt Locker."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A film so badly executed that you have to wonder if Larry Doyle (who serves as screenwriter) ever read his own book, let alone wrote it."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"While there are some big laughs to be had, Bruno ultimately fails at its more grandiose intentions as a sharp satire about our obsessions with celebrity and tendencies towards homophobia."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Those who seek it out, I suspect, will have no problem in another decade citing the names of the Coens, the Wachowskis and the Edgertons on their list of siblings who used noir to find the light towards a successful and acclaimed filmmaking resume."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"We've been left with a film that can't settle on which history it wants to tell and ends up dispelling the myth that a new film by Michael Mann is a cause worth celebrating."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is the single worst film to be released thus far in the summer of 2009 and that's a whole helluva pile of bad to overcome in achieving that title."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Anne Fletcher has practically established herself as the anti-feminist, playing more to the hopeless ring chasers out there rather than those who might be insulted at the prospect of independent women needing a man in their lives to complete them."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Is this some statement on what happens to white collar criminals in prison? They come out and interject sodomy jokes when they're trying to be taken seriously? Is this how we should expect Gordon Gekko to be in the Wall Street sequel?"
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The debut screenplay of Dave Eggers and Vendela Vida have given Sam Mendes quite the gift in just one of the many pieces that make this one of the best films of 2009."
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0.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With The Hangover Todd Phillips has officially become the Uwe Boll of comedy."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Land of the Lost will have kids asking if they can just go see Up again. Hopefully mom and dad have a little money left after blowing it on this."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Raimi's fans will no doubt be pleased that he's whipping out the greatest hits. But just the same, it's the greatest hits package equivalent to Peter Gabriel's best-of album not including In Your Eyes."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Saying Up ranks somewhere right in the middle is like dissing the bottom half of the top 10 titles that any genre has to offer. And if that is where Up appears on the list of 2009's best films, then so be it."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"By the time it looks like Richard Dawson's Running Man crew created another stunt body double to get audiences all riled up, all the nostaglia has been sucked out thanks to a script unworthy of a direct-to-video sequel."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Angels & Demons only exemplifies the problems with both movies and, thanks in part to a headsmacker of a third act, winds up being worse than its predecessor."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Few will remember Powder Blue as a desperate copy job of Paul Thomas Anderson's brilliant Magnolia but rather as the film where Jessica Biel finally took it all off."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"At 15 minutes, it might be deemed an interesting experiment. At ONE-HUNDRED and 15 minutes you have a film that tests the limits of the audience's control to stay awake and in their seats."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For nearly its first hour, I felt I was witnessing Abrams hitting every beat just right, only to see him and his writers spend the final hour getting just about everything wrong."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"May not be the final drop in the X-Men cash bucket but its clear that whatever creative well fans wished upon for their beloved series has been officially dried up."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"You know you're watching a bare-bones, witless screenplay when the writers can't merge the Dickensian parable with the morals of modern-day casual sex by making a good old-fashioned Yet-To-Come joke about the final ghost."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Ends up, ironically, burying the lead beneath underdeveloped subplots and characters as well as a final act that seemed desperate to wrap itself up to meet its own deadline."
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