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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In the final forty-five minutes the movie starts to feel very long and played-out."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A rather dull meat-and-potatoes slasher film front-loaded with lots of tedium where character development used to go."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...it's fun to watch Tom Hanks hoof it all over Vatican City for two hours, trying to save some cardinal from being licked to death by Illuminati puppies, or whatever..."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A great film that I will never, ever subject myself to again."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie's shambling, matter-of-fact approach to pulpy material is funny, as is its steadfast avoidance of visual hype."
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0/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Really, is there supposed to be any entertainment value in this thing, or is it meant to be a ponderously stupid endurance test?"
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The best thing about the movie is that, if Kelly was really aiming to please the average popcorn-munchers, he fails. He can't help it."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Brüno is hit or miss for its first half or so but picks up steam as it goes along."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A considerable achievement of visual dread."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie also has the most emotionally perfect final shot since Shaun of the Dead, which, like this film, did not originate in Hollywood."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If you have the stomach for Donkey Punch, you've seen it before in some form or another."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie is manic and gross, all right, but not much fun unless you enjoy watching an attractive 29-year-old woman getting punished repulsively over and over."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's not a bad film -- it runs smoothly, creates an environment and a mood. But fans of Judge's previous work might do well to scale their expectations back."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This series has clearly run out of ideas. The deaths are tired."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Sometimes you just want a pizza. But what if you're served a pizza with no cheese and half the slices gone? This Friday the 13th fails at being even fun trash."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are bits and images in this film that would ensure praise from the horror-fan crowd if they weren't in a Halloween movie directed by Rob Zombie."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There's a better cast here than there deserves to be."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Kathryn Bigelow has shown Hollywood how it's done: The Hurt Locker is the strongest and most satisfying thriller in years."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...a long, strange pop artifact, studded with instant-classic moments and sealed with a legitimately great image..."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Stays on the level of a smarter-than-average Saturday-night demon-fest. It's still better than most of what we horror fans are served, haters be damned."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Unfortunately, the movie gets nutty in its second half (probably the same half that will endear the film to its inevitable cult fans)."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...just an impersonal Saturday-night revenge flick, of the sort that Michael Haneke's Funny Games (either version) eviscerated and made irrelevant."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"As a posthumous document, This Is It offers a veiled, vaseline-lens look behind the curtain. As a cultural event, it's more than a little creepy and depressing."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Monsters Vs. Aliens is a fine rainy-Sunday diversion, but if you want real monster and alien fun, hit up Netflix and rent some of the classics that inspired it."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Brutally, demonically funny."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Competently directed junk, with a script that abandons logic at every turn and dialogue that even some snarky teenage girls seated behind me could predict out loud."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Clenches its teeth grimly as it blunders through its overstuffed plot."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Actually makes its premise work and delivers substantial creeps."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"An entertaining cerebral chiller."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Ponyo towers over this summer of empty toy-related blockbusters. It will end up as one of the best films in American release this year."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"I'd rather see an honest film about exactly what would happen if they'd told the truth. Failing that, a competent, scary, witty horror film might've been nice."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...a full-blooded and busy adventure, a promising restart."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There is a kind of artistry in the sheer craft and intensity on display. But don't let that stop you."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"To watch the original Pelham and then to watch the new remake is to witness, irrefutably, the decline of mainstream Hollywood filmmaking."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"High craft in the service of an oppressively dull story."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This movie loves Halloween so much you can almost taste the candy corn."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"New Moon doesn't have much of a plot; the bulk of it is Bella moping around. But director Chris Weitz knows a thing or two about love..."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Tyson doesn't pretend to be a balanced picture, but it's a fascinating peek into a teeming, demon-filled brain that isn't like anyone else's."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...a strange and gorgeous beast indeed, not without problems, a mesmerizing epic folly of the sort hardly anyone attempts any more. It is absolutely sick with ambition..."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a strange (and moving) heffalump indeed, a future cult classic if ever there was one."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Whip It, the directorial debut of Drew Barrymore, is friendly and fun-loving and nurturing, as she seems to be."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The sort of thing I would've loved when I was thirteen. Unfortunately, that was 25 years ago."
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0/5 |
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(2009) |
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"When Ramis went home every night from filming, did he honestly think he'd shot anything funny?"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's a fundamentally lazy and witless film."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"One of the stupidest and most boring films of the year."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"There's considerable pleasure in Appaloosa's respect for the undramatic. It doesn't go where you'd expect..."
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0/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Who recut it, Stevie Wonder?"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Been there, seen that. But it's not the notes, it's how Cage plays them."
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A glowing valentine to creativity in opposition to commerce."
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Keeps sentimentality at a minimum, and takes its potential cliches (the rich hellraiser, the gay butler) and finds something fresh in them."
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