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9/10 |
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"At last, here's a movie that takes the wimpy, tortured, hopelessly-in-love boys from the other movies and tells them to grow up."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Comes across as a less contemplative, more motion-driven version of its predecessor, The Da Vinci Code."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"You'll learn nothing new here about chasing the dream, but this non-fiction story may convince you to make room in your heart to appreciate the combination of earnestness and doggedness that some people maintain."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The good acting provides an example of what might make this kind of formula work, but it's quite an uphill battle when one can see the scripted situations acting as comic fallbacks."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Homophobia] deserves confrontation, but when done in the manner of the movie here, it is less enlightening than it is just plain squirmingly funny."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Anyone knows we all come here just to see the girl kick serious behind. At least she does just that, and after a while Chocolate mainly and plainly feels like the exhibition that it is."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Anytime one of these [stop-motion animated films] turns up, and turns up well, we should show gratitude for the treasure."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Raimi going back to his roots, showing that he hasn't forgotten how to exercise his wickedly mischievous side to put on a hell of a show."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It might be saying something that I preferred to see [Giamatti and Wilkinson] in action than the two actual leads of the film."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"General unoriginality contributes to 'The Fast and the Furious' series' own issue as a 'seen one, seen 'em all' series."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Light entertainment with little to call memorable ... but at least therein exists some detectable evidence that the filmmakers had a soft spot for G.I. Joe and simply wanted to deliver its essence to the screen."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A curious snapshot of urban America during a particular pressured time; it doesn't have a generally nice view of people, but a frankness about the film's subject drives it -- when the chips are down, it's all about business."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"On the whole, it's a fine film, and yet I'm disappointed that it didn't more greatly acknowledge the gravity of the impending conflict."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Plays] itself as a mystery/thriller with something profound to say at the end, when we've pretty much heard a lot of this already."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Bullock is totally at home in this territory, and she remains fun to watch, but I do wish she would get stronger, possibly more original comedic material."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Woo had the chance of a lifetime ... to film one of the greatest Chinese stories, and blew it by tinkering with it so much that not only is it no longer the story many of us know and love, it's also a version that can't even be considered on par."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Works enough within its own rules, its own container, but blunts its own real-world impact along the way."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In order to become a new Star Trek, facets of its old personality must inevitably be sacrificed, while modern flavor -- faster pace and a little sass -- is infused."
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Street Fighter fans like me will be blissfully playing Street Fighter IV, with this movie occupying our minds as little more than a disposable curiosity."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It neither adds to nor subtracts from the mythology. And with Judgment Day upon us, there's no more tension, nothing compelling left to explore."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If you took a still shot of one of them in the middle of an action sequence, you'd need to think for about a second or two to really understand what you're looking at. The visual design of these Transformers appears decidedly uncinematic."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Suffers from a meekness -- its scares never dig deep and are more sensational than disturbing, and its storyline has been modified to something more conventional."
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"How powerful are the folks at the Pixar Animation Studios? Their latest offering, Up, can possibly make you cry within the first 15 minutes."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A movie fascinating to watch while asking us to contemplate moral relativity, the futility of life ... and other heady concepts you might fully expect to find in not just another comic book movie."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It's funny how much I'll forgive just to watch Jackman play this raging mutant again."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Better viewed as an illustration of the extreme dynamics of a friendship of personality contrasts than as a movie about illegal abortion or oppressive Communist regimes."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It's a bit overloaded, though I love Luhrmann's obvious enthusiasm."
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10/10 |
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(2008) |
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"An ode to finding one's creative side and the joys of being able to share one's creations with others."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A certain rawness and despairing urgency is never quite achieved for the message the film wants to deliver, and so it remains a well-intentioned, well-produced, yet generally unmemorable entertainment."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"What Bolt lacks in originality it makes up for in execution."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Brothers Joel and Ethan Coen could direct a movie like Burn After Reading in their sleep, and I don't mean that as a slight."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Frankly, if Clint Eastwood added some arias, this might've made a pretty good opera."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Che Guevara, it seems, shall ever be a symbol, and Che doesn't even seem interested in cracking that, thus leaving us no more enlightened than when we stepped in."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Arnaud Desplechin's headfirst dive into the complex relationships within a middle class French family is a messy, captivating, and very much living affair."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The creakiness of the plot mechanics and the light condescension I detect don't have me looking forward to the third Narnia movie."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"I like seeing directors try to branch out, but Chow's attempt just doesn't feel particularly well thought-out."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"As a product of our globally-aware disaster-ridden times, Cloverfield touches upon interesting themes ... But it doesn't do much more than just glaze over [them]."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Fincher mainly succeeds in making the movie charming, a ride as gentle and whimsical as its protagonist, a technical triumph backing, yes, a curious narrative."
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10/10 |
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(2008) |
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"[Gotham City] stands in for any of today's civilized nations and becomes ripe for thematic exploration. And Nolan wastes no chance to utilize this world for a tale about how fragile our morality is."
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"After it's through, a lot will have been said about friendship, injustice, and both faith in and letdown from the legal system, along with the intriguing thought that moral fortitude provides both its own punishments and rewards."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Gets by with a solid traditional mounting and a healthy interest in the dynamics of a growing micro-community."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"If the movie has a skeleton which betrays its artifice and deliberateness, its actors give it real human flesh and blood."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Everything you'd expect it to be: a well-acted British period piece with lavish attention to period detail, about discontented characters in a royal family. And that's about it."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It isn't enough for director and writer Fatih Akin to show that we're all only a few degrees from each other across countries; rather, he's also interested in the level of connectedness."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"While Hou's cinematic techniques are as sound as ever, this time it feels as if they're being used to peer into nothing of particular, specific significance."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"[Chan and Li] punch, kick, jump, and fall all over in an extended sequence that never feels too long."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"For a film that's been lauded for its daring display of full-frontal male nudity, I got the nagging feeling that it actually played things pretty safe."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Langella gives Nixon a chance at audience sympathy -- for everything you know and possibly hate about the man, you can see, through the performance, that third dimension."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Realistically depicts the relationship between the allure of criminal activity and times of desperation."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The urgency of the [first-person] perspective plus the general sense of hopelessness for humanity add up to a sense of despair."
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