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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       4/5      $9.99 (2009)      "Animation is so often used for frivolous flights of fancy that it’s something of a shock to see it employed in the service of a tale that emphasizes human foible and mortality." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      24 City (2009)      "Jia is one of the guiding lights of the sixth generation of Chinese filmmakers, and 24 City is a potent exploration of his constant theme -- the tectonic shifts that occur as the old gives way to the new." [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       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      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       2/6      Adoration (2009)      "The time-jumping narrative and self-consciously somnambulant mood undermine the writer-director’s zeitgeist-inspired thesis." [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       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       3/6      Angels & Demons (2009)      "How dark the con of Ron that he can so vividly simulate thought in what is truly an intellect-free enterprise." [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       2/4      Audience Of One (2009)      "It's a product of a dangerous sort of tunnel vision that afflicts a number of documentarians these days." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       2/6      Away We Go (2009)      "Away We Go in brief: the endless promise of profundity trampled by dime-store psychologizing." [movie review]      Time Out New York       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            Bart Got a Room (2009)      "A feather-light trifle." [movie review]      UGO       2/6      Battle for Terra (2009)      "Doe-eyed earnestness dulls every edge, and Eden-like naïveté reigns supreme." [movie review]      Time Out New York            Big Man Japan (2009)      "From deadpan to Ultraman." [movie review]      UGO       3/5      Black Dynamite (2009)      "As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!" [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       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      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      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            California Dreamin' (2009)      "What surprises and delights is how complete the work feels, finished in every way aesthetically and thematically, any longueurs or asides entirely part of Nemescu's indelible emotional tapestry." [movie review]      The House Next Door       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       2/6      The Country Teacher (2009)      "If great movies resulted purely from wizardly technical displays, then Czech writer-director Bohdan Sláma’s The Country Teacher would be a masterpiece to give Béla Tarr pause." [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       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       3/6      Duplicity (2009)      "Duplicity does indeed bend and buckle under the weight of many a final-reel revelation, though it never entirely collapses." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      The Edge of Love (2009)      "It’s all declarative surface, and director John Maybury treats the proceedings like a Josef von Sternberg wet dream, at once elegant, campy and desiccated." [movie review]      Time Out New York       2/6      Every Little Step (2009)      "There’s a terribly interesting story behind the creation of the musical phenom A Chorus Line, but don’t look to this confused and often self-congratulatory documentary to tell it." [movie review]      Time Out New York       4/6      Fados (2009)      "Carlos Saura’s documentary on the Portuguese musical tradition of fado is an inviting and immersive experience, the third piece of a song-and-dance triptych that also includes Flamenco (1995) and Tango (1998)." [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       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       3/6      Frontier of Dawn (2009)      "Garrel père reunites with Garrel fils for this frequently tedious rumination on rabid passion that still manages to linger in the mind." [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      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       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       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       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       3/5      Home (2009)      "The performers manage to overcome Meier’s schematic framework—too “modern-day fairy tale” for its own good—though the director clearly knows which collaborators and elements to enlist for game-raising purposes." [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       4/5      The Hurt Locker (2009)      "Director Kathryn Bigelow, doing her run-’n’-gun best, doesn’t mine traditional suspense so much as impart a queasy feeling of monotony." [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      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       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       3/6      Jerichow (2009)      "This is an expertly constructed thriller that never rises above the trappings of its genre." [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       4/6      The Limits of Control (2009)      "Jim Jarmusch's latest - his best since Dead Man (1995) - practically begs for dissection and analysis, but it's better, perhaps, to read the film's many repeated symbols, sayings and actions as mood enhancers rather than intellect stimulators" [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       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

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