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"Raunchy romantic comedy has a softer side, too."
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4/5 |
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"... The Wachowskis have created a blast of pure pop family fun; Speed Racer's a bright, bold visual spectacle designed for kids."
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"Even minor Mamet can be a source of major satisfaction, especially with an actor as compelling as Ejiofor in the lead."
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"It's as if someone snuck a hefty slug of bourbon into your cherry cola; all of the sugar and flavor and fizz you expect from a well-made comic-book movie are there, but there's something a little more grown-up going on behind them."
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2/4 |
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"Deception is star-filled and competently crafted, but so afraid of real sexuality that it instead offers us soft-lit perfume-ad images, and is erroneously convinced that moviegoers won't be able to spot lazy storytelling once their glasses are steamed up"
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3/5 |
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"Stoner social satire is rude, crude, and funny."
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1/5 |
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"Tedious slasher flick is both gory and boring."
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3/5 |
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"Medical thriller mixes extreme violence, sex."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A boxing comedy with a potty mouth and warm heart."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Retro London heist caper may not interest kids."
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3/4 |
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""Screwball comedy" implies a certain snap and rotation -- a velocity to the gags and a vector to the plot -- but the people who made Leatherheads don't quite have the strength of arm or skew of angle to make Leatherheads truly screwball ..."
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"It's an intellectually and morally challenging film that'll still have you shouting at the screen and lurching in your seat with every jolt."
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3/4 |
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"... While (Drillbit Taylor) may not be consistently brilliant or laugh-out-loud funny all the way through, it is at the least consistently amusing."
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3/4 |
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"Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day may be a fairly small-scale comedy, but it delivers tremendous satisfaction, and that's a victory in and of itself ..."
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1/4 |
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"In an age where ... audiences reward blood-and-thunder films ... at the box office, greenlighting 10,000 B.C. must have seemed logical. I can imagine someone pitching the film ...by saying "It's like 300 .... plus 9,700!""
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"With The Other Boleyn Girl, the sheen and shine of the clothing and sets can't quite blind us to the fact there's very little drama under all the drapery, and you'll recall the textures of the fabrics long after you've forgotten the threads of the plot."
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"... While Spurlock may not actually answer the question of where, he actually tackles, with humor, probing wit and a certain grace, the much more important question of why."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"If Lee had actually directed his performers ... Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins probably would have been a better movie. But frantic flailing isn't consistent forward motion."
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4/5 |
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"Shotgun Stories is, at heart, a film about people who discover what they have to let go of, and who confront the terrifying possibility of hope."
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4/5 |
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"Bomb It! is a brisk and bracing portrait of the state of the art. Of course, the fact that the art is often a crime comes up ..."
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3/5 |
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"Be Kind Rewind, like last year's great Sundance film Son of Rambow, is a celebration of the power of film and the joy of the movies; not just great art, but also great trash."
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4/5 |
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"Definitely, Maybe has the 'meet cute,' but it also has all the things that can come after -- the awkward moments, the scary possibility of hope, the comforts of sadness, the tough talks, the ugly partings, the hard-won reconciliations."
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2/5 |
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"Vantage Point's summed up by its name; from some angles, it looks like an above-average studio thriller, but from others it falls out of sight fast."
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"Gonzo is as energetically flawed and rivetingly reckless as its subject, and somehow that seems exactly right."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Nichols's cut, gutted version (of Aaron Sorkin's script) offers a few cheery, breezy moments of rat-a-tat comedy, but Charlie Wilson's War stops being funny when you realize we're living in the sequel."
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"The Kite Runner doesn't just make us watch the battling kites in the skies over Kabul; it makes us truly see the people below, in many ways for the first time; that's the film's greatest achievement, and ultimately the best reason to see it."
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3/4 |
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"" ...even if Alvin and the Chipmunks has one hand reaching for your wallet, at the very least its heart seems to be in the right place.""
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4/4 |
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"I don't know how well I Am Legend will hold up on repeat viewings, or over time -- but while it's happening, I Am Legend is a slick, scary, superbly made action/science fiction/horror film with a lot more art, heart and smarts than you'd expect."
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3/4 |
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"... Darabont's made what can best be called a grade-A B-movie, full of jolts and jumps and classic monster-movie tricks played out with old-school showmanship and thoroughly modern special effects."
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2/4 |
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"Some are calling Beowulf the future of movies, but it would be a lot easier to swallow that hype if ... anything in the movie suggested the people who made Beowulf were invested in making something good instead of just interested in making something new."
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3/4 |
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"American Gangster isn't bad or poorly-made or unsatisfactory; it's just good enough to make you painfully aware of all the ways it could have been better, too big and observed to watch as simple entertainment and too glossy and glib to watch as meaningful"
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"The cast's performances and Swicord's sense of tone give it just enough charm to work."
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Heartbreak Kid is a shabby, sleazy train wreck ... and anyone who backed it ... before its being made or rewards it with money or acclaim upon its release should feel, if they can feel at all, something like shame."
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0/4 |
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"You could probably make a good movie out of Good Luck Chuck's pitch; that just didn't happen here. And I like a good, funny, smutty comedy; the problem is that Good Luck Chuck is a bad, unfunny smutty comedy."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"From bloody opening to bleak coda, The Kingdom pulls off something unexpected and unsettling: It's a popcorn movie that leaves the taste of ashes in your mouth."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Game Plan is as cute as a pail of kittens and about as orderly, but ... it works as a pretty solid example of how the skillful execution of some of the oldest plays in the book can still get the ball to the end zone."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"... As the credits roll at the close of Into the Wild, you don't feel like you've celebrated a life spent on the road less traveled; you feel like you've just witnessed a slow-motion suicide."
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(2007) |
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"Earnest and fact-filled ... and completely inert; it's like looking at a civics class diorama."
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(2007) |
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"A heartwarming, fish-out-of-water family comedy."
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(2008) |
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"Manages -- in graceful and bleak ways, in unblinking yet sympathetic depictions of family life -- to take an all-too-familiar plot and still find something fresh in it through skillful and well-crafted execution."
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(2007) |
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"Hood's direction globe-trots with a spring in its step, and he's got a handle on action, too."
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" It would be easy to pass by Starting Out in the Evening through any one of a number of possible snap judgments -- too New York-y, too low-budget, too digital -- but you'd also be missing out on three of the best performances of the year."
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(2007) |
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"While Pitt is fine here -- he's as enigmatic and half-seen as you'd want an icon to be -- it's Affleck who impresses."
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(2007) |
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"Phoenix and Ruffalo probably signed on to Reservation thinking that parts this good were few and far between; they were right, and watching the two of them at work is the greatest pleasure Reservation Road has to offer."
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(2007) |
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"Captain Mike Across America is an information-free, narcissistic and self-congratulatory high-pitched whine from a sore loser."
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(2008) |
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"When Schwimmer managed to get Pegg on board, his good fortune became ours."
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(2007) |
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"Sleuth isn't incendiary or ground-breaking; it's a chance to see two very good actors (who also happen to be movie stars) work with very good material under the direction of a very good director."
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(2007) |
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"Michael Clayton is at its best when it sticks to hard-bitten, this-is-how-the-world-works scenes between employers and employees, fathers and sons, executives and lawyers."
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