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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       3/5      Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans (2009)      "Cage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)      "At last, Anderson has made a film that is nothing but a succession of autumn-gold shoebox dioramas." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Uncertainty (2009)      "Bobby and Kate are puppets on strings, both pulled roundabout through McGehee-Siegel’s phony proving ground toward a howler of a final exchange." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe      "The film slowly loses the sobering toughness of its initial inquiry, and finally comes off as bloodline-biased hagiography." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)      "Given the months-long hype, what’s most bewildering about Sundance sensation Precious is its overall shrug-worthiness." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)      "Wiseman’s films are as much living organisms as they are subjective portraits." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)      "The biggest surprise of Carol is that this frustrating auteur, so often in thrall to his digital palette, here uses it to freshly illuminate a time-honored text." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      The House of the Devil (2009)      "When the Karo syrup finally hits the fan, the film loses its footing some, but only because no concrete explanations could possibly do justice to West’s expert buildup." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)      "Duffy orchestrates the resulting carnage like an inebriate spinning fourth-rate Peckinpah tales." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Amelia (2009)      "Told in final-flight flashback (naturally) with cumulus cloud scene wipes (of course!), Earhart’s life is reduced to a series of solemnized wide-screen tableaux populated by locale-specific extras acting as starstruck filler." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      Night and Day (2009)      "Which of the protagonist’s interactions are real and which are artist’s fancy? Hong never lets on, preferring to set character and audience adrift within his motion-picture Rorschach test." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Where the Wild Things Are (2009)      "There’s an incessant disconnect between what we hear and what we see; the true soulfulness of Sendak’s parable never emerges." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Black Dynamite (2009)      "As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!" [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Couples Retreat (2009)      "It’s too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Adela (2009)      "Alix knows how to frame a shot to emphasize his character’s ever-shifting emotional states, but there’s something missing, an elemental sense of space that would better complement the heroine’s figure-in-a-landscape distress." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Good Hair (2009)      "It doesn’t matter if Rock is in a Harlem barbershop or an Indian hair-weave factory -- there’s always a punch line or a snooty eye-roll to be had." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      An Education (2009)      "Lone Scherfig directs it all as if it were a breezy lark, so a third-act tonal shift makes for an incongruous, excessively moralistic fit with everything that’s preceded." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Visual Acoustics: The Modernisms of Julius Shulman (2009)      "Visual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Pandorum (2009)      "As the credit “Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson” attests, this is hackwork of the highest order, lacking in all poetry and barely comprehensible aurally or visually." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Chelsea on the Rocks (2009)      "It makes sense that, within his own act of remembrance, Ferrara would include a hotel tenant’s home-movie footage of the September 11 attacks. The underlying message, in both cases, is the same: Never forget." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Fame (2009)      "There are enough hoary soap-operatic plottings for a thousand Gossip Girls (emotionally distant parents, almost-rapes, suicide attempts), yet Tancharoen individualizes each crisis so that no one character comes off as a mock-universal surrogate." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Surrogates (2009)      "Surrogates is an A-list blockbuster that would fit, damn proudly, on the lower half of a double bill." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      The Boys Are Back (2009)      "Owen brings insight and honesty to this otherwise by-the-numbers adaptation of Simon Carr’s memoir, which director Scott Hicks bathes in shimmering golden tones as if the characters lived at the end of the rainbow." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Whiteout (2009)      "Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a U.S. Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Bright Star (2009)      "Writer-director Jane Campion approaches the tale with an artiste’s respectful solemnity, but it too often comes off like Twilight transplanted across oceans and centuries." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      The Informant! (2009)      "The Informant! is one of [Soderbergh's] ugliest works, photographed on the RED digital camera system in such a way that depth of field is meaninglessly flattened into backlit brown mush." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Gamer (2009)      "Crank’s Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor direct with their usual flashy brio, and basso profundo Keith David has a sublime cameo as a cop indignant at the thought of a pistachio peanut butter sandwich." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Walt and El Grupo (2009)      "This Disney-sanctioned documentary on Papa Walt and company’s 1941 visit to South America is a dull, dry bit of mythmaking." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      9 (2009)      "Save the voice work, which is celebrity-heavy and mostly undistinguished, 9 is a marvel to take in, especially the individual character designs." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      Liverpool (2009)      "Objects have any number of unique symbolic attributes, but their meanings become increasingly and intriguingly malleable through Alonso’s patient, long-take purview." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Halloween II (2009)      "Zombie remains committed to showing how violence lingers with, and perverts, all who are touched by it, yet his carnivalesque approach often undercuts his very real empathy." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      The September Issue (2009)      "Vogue VIP Anna Wintour slinks through this highly entertaining vérité documentary like a stoic, sunglasses-bedecked fetish doll." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Taking Woodstock (2009)      "Lee and Schamus make history blandly palatable; in the process, they rob the times and the people they’re portraying of their complications." [movie review]      Time Out New York       1/5      Art & Copy (2009)      "It doesn’t matter how much garrulous delusion the subjects spout. [Director] Pray buys it wholesale and propagates the myth that there’s something to respect about getting inside people’s heads and rewiring them into mass-consumptive lemmings." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Shorts (2009)      "The effort is certainly more appreciable than the execution." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      The Headless Woman (2009)      "An astounding portrait of a person entirely out of sync with her own existence." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Inglourious Basterds (2009)      "Detractors and proponents alike will see what they want to see in this two-and-a-half-hour World War II fable, which hits all the beats of a retribution-laden genre piece without ever entirely satiating character or audience bloodlust." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Yasukuni (2009)      "The film is a trying yet worthwhile sit, not only for the information it relates, but for the sensations it elicits." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      I'm Gonna Explode (2009)      "The title of the film promises something revolutionary, but all we get, aesthetically and thematically, are second-gen hand-me-downs." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Import/Export (2009)      "Import Export demands we contemplate the horror and the beauty of existence in equal measure." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Adam (2009)      "It’s hogwash of the highest order, a romanticized take on disability that sees it both as God-gifted higher calling and seductive precoital bling." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      You, the Living (2009)      "No one views the world like Roy Andersson does. That fact alone is enough to recommend the Swedish director’s latest collection of interconnected, often single-take vignettes." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      Lorna's Silence (2009)      "It’s an entirely new world that we’re left in -- a place where the rules of the movie we’ve just experienced no longer apply." [movie review]      Time Out New York       5/5      In a Lonely Place (1950)      "The genre trappings of this noir masterpiece -- which details the short-lived relationship between live-wire screenwriter Dixon Steele (Bogart) and his goldilocked muse Laurel Gray (Grahame) -- don’t matter a whit." [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Kagemusha (1980)      "At worst, the film is an empty vessel that places blind trust in affected stillness and symmetry... the movie quite often switches on a dime to more deep and meaningful textures." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)      "Radcliffe, in particular, comes off bored and distant, more hitting the marks than baring the soul." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      Blood: The Last Vampire (2009)      "This live-action adaptation of Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s popular anime one-off from 2000 appears to have been made by a company of finches tweeting, 'Cheap…cheap.'" [movie review]      Time Out New York       3/5      Bye Bye Birdie (1963)      "For all its annoyances -- and there are many -- the film somehow sears its way into the mind’s eye." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/5      Public Enemies (2009)      "It might sound damning to say that the film resembles a bullet-riddled carcass just barely clinging to life, but it’s exactly this ephemeral sensation, which Mann sustains for the entire two hours plus, that distinguishes Public Enemies." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/5      The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)      "It’s a big ol’ wallow in unpleasantness, a film that relies on simplistically patriarchal antagonists and vague, wet-willie cries for intervention." 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