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2.5/5 |
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"There are chases and escapes, morals and messages, comedy and character... but when the fur stops flying, it still feels more frozen than fresh."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Public Enemies isn't quite a summer blockbuster -- but it's got more brains and guts than almost anything else playing out there, and stands as a fascinating movie to think about over the 4th of July."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"My Sister's Keeper doesn't pull any punches, and it doesn't tell any lies, and it earns every feeling and thought and memory it brings to the audience."
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Redbox |
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0/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The best thing about "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is that it's perhaps the funniest movie of the year ... "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is not as bad as "Transformers"; somehow, in the face of long odds, it is actually worse."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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""Year One" is the kind of stuff Mel Brooks would have whipped up back in the day -- and, frankly, whipped through in about a half-hour."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The Proposal's a fairly good-natured but weak proposition -- it's a movie you might enjoy on an evening's date, but it's not one you'll want to spend the rest of your life with."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The old-school The Taking of Pelham One Two Three takes you by the throat; this new one, well-made as it is, just takes you for granted."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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""In an age when most big-budget science fiction films are made by people with no respect for science or fiction, Moon is a welcome pleasure."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"John Lennon famously said "Life is what happens when you're making other plans." Away We Go works as smartly and touchingly as it does in its finest, funniest moments when it reminds us that sometimes, making other plans is how your life happens."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The interesting thing, though, when you actually see "Land of the Lost," is that it ... essentially functions as a high-cost, high-gloss parody of itself."
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MSN Movies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Exactly the shot of drinking-age-and-up comedy the summer needs before the soda-pop PG-13 sticky-sweetness of summer blockbuster season hits."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Up may be the first Pixar film about actual people, and for all of its computer-generated visions and 3D inventions it's always about human emotion and human experience."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Raimi's made this "Drag" a race, designed to chill you, thrill you and give you an excuse to clutch your date's arm with each of the many jolts and jumps it delivers as it twists and turns to the finish line."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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""Terminator Salvation" promised moviegoers a war between the human heart and the cold, cruel efficiency of machines. So why then is it so mechanical itself, so good at repetition, so preprogrammed and clunky?"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A slick, speedy thriller that cuts between mystery and murder at an agreeable enough tempo to make two hours go by."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Gritty '70s-style thriller is cynical, grim, and violent."
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Common Sense |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Eastwood drama deals with racism and other raw stuff."
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Common Sense |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Tense, violent WWII thriller offers lots to talk about."
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Common Sense |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Vampire vs. werewolf prequel is heavy on gore, low on fun."
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Common Sense |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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""If Rudo y Cursi weren't subtitled, it might seem a little too familiar, for all of its cultural differences and South-of-the-border flavor ... But the journey's the point here, not the goal. ...""
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"I can name exactly three and a half things "Star Trek" gets wrong -- and I can name about a thousand that Abrams and his cast and crew get absolutely, pitch-perfect, elegantly right."
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MSN Movies |
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3/5 |
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"Modest monster flick is great fun for teens."
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Common Sense |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are a few laughs in Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, to be sure; you can even hear them over the sound of Charles Dickens spinning in his grave."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If you're not a die-hard X-Men comic-book fan, you're going to be lost, and if you are a die-hard X-Men comic book fan, you're going to be disappointed."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Stylized, slapdash sci-fi bloodbath is gory and grim."
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Common Sense |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"the weirdest thing about Fighting is how it seems to be fighting itself, as if there were a much longer movie left on the cutting room floor"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The Soloist is like its two protagonists: It's a little messy and beaten up in spots, but ultimately it's decent and dignified."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Grisly, gory, over-the-top action-parody isn't for kids."
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Common Sense |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Not only avoids shooting itself in the foot, but occasionally makes the dodging look like dancing -- and Thomas Lennon steals the film."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"State of Play mixes murders and mergers, foot-chases and fact-checking, gunshots and cutting cynicism; it's the rare suspense film with style, muscle and brains."
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AMCtv.com |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Inept movie based on anime series has lots of martial arts action."
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Common Sense |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Brilliant drama about rough redemption is for adults only."
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Common Sense |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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""A hymn to the human spirit, played in power chords ... It isn't just better than most music documentaries; it's better than most documentaries, period.""
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Cinematical |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Hannah Montana: The Movie, like an Elvis film, is an all-American corporate product designed to please people fast and make money, an occasional treat like a soda pop or a cheeseburger ... and just as bad for kids if that's all they ever consume."
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(2009) |
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"Cold Souls is a beautifully shot film, and it also becomes more than a little bit moving."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Sci-fi remake has big effects but no real power."
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Common Sense |
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Christian-themed horror film too intense for kids."
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Common Sense |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Retro-style sci-fi action spoof tries hard but doesn't work."
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Common Sense |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Mottola's made a movie that will work like a voodoo charm on a small-but-dedicated audience: onetime slackers who'll not only dig the soundtrack but, probably, be sure to get it on vinyl."
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MSN Movies |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The good news is that the movie's speedy and strong enough to deliver some well-tuned excitement, even if it's as bulky and brainlessly bright as the muscle cars it celebrates."
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MSN Movies |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Unoriginal, shoddy horror film is too gory for kids."
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Common Sense |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"So-so action movie has lots of fighting, other iffy stuff."
[movie review] |
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Common Sense |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Epic romance-drama is rough, rewarding, brilliant."
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Common Sense |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Monsters vs. Aliens has amazing 3D, solid gags, wacky concepts and great animation; I just wish that at some point along the way someone had been as passionate about the story as they were about the spectacle."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A stylish, sexy, con-artist caper that finds romance in risk and vice-versa, Duplicity ... is a movie so dashing and fun, you may not notice how smart it is until you replay it in your head a few times."
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AMCtv.com |
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(2009) |
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"Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Tokyo Sonata, is an unexpected pleasure -- not only because it's a departure from the J-horror films that made his name, but because it's also a startlingly rich, funny and strong drama, without a hint of the supernatural or unearthly."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Brutal, bloody, and bleak, The Last House on the Left is a rarity in an age of tepid remakes."
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AMCtv.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A lot of Sunshine Cleaning is about the kindness of strangers -- relying on others to get by, gaining strength by being the person someone else leans on -- but it also knows just how strange kindness can be."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Race to Witch Mountain" is made for kids, with a mix of family-friendly thrills and conspiracy mythos and special-effects action ... think of it as "The PG Files.""
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MSN Movies |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"... A bizarrely bleak blockbuster, as director Zack Snyder ("300") turns the rich, revisionist, justly praised, 12-part 1986 comic book into nothing less than an attempt to decode 20th century America through its pop culture and vice-versa."
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