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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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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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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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"May have an indie budget but equally evokes the rich landscapes of early Terrence Malick and the grimy grindhouse tales of the '70s, converging poetically into its heartmashing climax."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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3/4 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's an all-ages type of show, doesn't cost much, you'll laugh a few times and smile even more. Then when he makes his way around again to DVD and onto cable, you may just be inclined to take in another matinee."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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3.5/4 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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"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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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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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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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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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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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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"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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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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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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