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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE            Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)      "Not a thing in this movie is subtle, from its cheesy special effects to its by-the-numbers storyline to its cardboard cutout characters." [movie review]      PopMatters            Whip It (2009)      "What Whip It does make clear is that all girls are expected to perform, whether expectations are embodied by parents or audiences." [movie review]      PopMatters            Zombieland (2009)      "Zombieland does well enough in its early minutes, then picks up a little unexpected speed when Columbus meets another "noncannibal survivor" (played by a perfect Woody Harrelson)." [movie review]      PopMatters            Coco Before Chanel (2009)      "Coco Before Chanel cannot get out from under the romantic fabrications and excesses that ostensibly annoyed its subject." [movie review]      PopMatters            An Education (2009)      "If the story of Jenny's inevitably hard lesson is standard, An Education comes up with a few moments that give pause." [movie review]      PopMatters            Amelia (2009)      "Amelia provides only a cursory look at Earhart's commercialization, more a way to delineate her marriage troubles than investigate her self-image or her treatment as a pop star." [movie review]      PopMatters            Where the Wild Things Are (2009)      "Feelings of loss and frustration, acted out so loudly, raucously, and repeatedly, are at the center of Where the Wild Things Are." [movie review]      PopMatters            Pirate Radio (2009)      "Pirate Radio leaves out any mention of the usual historical and cultural background, say, sex as a potential means of mixing races and classes." [movie review]      PopMatters            Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)      "Intergenerational dilemmas -- how to be foxes, to be individuals and also parts of communities -- form the complicated heart of Fantastic Mr. Fox." [movie review]      PopMatters            Loot (2009)      "A treasure hunter who has travelled far and wide looking for long-lost fortunes, Lance Larson's questing serves as point of departure for the beguiling documentary, Loot." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Maid (2009)      "Full of tension, the first scene in The Maid (La Nana) sets up Raquel's grim and limited world." [movie review]      PopMatters            Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)      "As much as This Is It recalls Jackson's genius, it perpetuates the exploitation that shaped his life." [movie review]      PopMatters            Paranormal Activity (2009)      "The titular and sometimes distressing activity in Paranormal Activity serves as a mostly banal metaphor for the couples relationship." [movie review]      Nitrate Online            Law Abiding Citizen (2009)      "Jamie Foxx's Nick mostly repeats the part played by Denzel Washington in Ricochet, the superior first incarnation of Law Abiding Citizen." [movie review]      Nitrate Online            Couples Retreat (2009)      "It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle." [movie review]      Nitrate Online            La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet (2009)      "Work is at the center of Frederick Wiseman's absorbing documentary, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet." [movie review]      Nitrate Online            The Fourth Kind (2009)      "Where is Fox Mulder when you need him?" [movie review]      PopMatters            The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)      "Setting up easy targets, The Men Who Stare at Goats seems less clever than behind the times." [movie review]      PopMatters            Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)      "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire is concerned with lasting effects of poverty -- on individuals and especially, on communities." [movie review]      PopMatters            2012 (2009)      "As the action becomes less fabulous and more repetitive over 2012's 150 minutes, the philosophical debate ratchets up." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Good Soldier (2009)      "The familiar format helps to underscore what's extraordinary about these stories, the fear and indignity felt by the soldiers." [movie review]      PopMatters       9/10      Lorna's Silence (2009)      "Even as the camera follows Lorna, it never quite keeps up, though it's unclear whether she's eluding your interpretation or her own." [movie review]      PopMatters       4/10      Paper Heart (2009)      "Paper Heart is increasingly focused on the tension between Cera and Yi's supposedly real romance and the camera's imposition of structure and self-consciousness." [movie review]      PopMatters       6/10      A Perfect Getaway (2009)      "The home video sets up A Perfect Getaway's frank understanding of itself as formula." [movie review]      PopMatters       5/10      Julie & Julia (2009)      "Julia Child's letters home are vivacious, illustrating her generosity and wit, her resolve and sense of humor." [movie review]      PopMatters       1/10      The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)      "The Goods' vulgarity is not new or clever or even comically shocking. It is, instead, prosaic and repetitive." [movie review]      PopMatters       3/10      The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)      "The question of her own "free will" niggles at the edges of Clare's experience throughout the movie named for her." [movie review]      PopMatters       6/10      Bandslam (2009)      "Knowing that you know the drill, Bandslam leaves out most too-explanatory details, and lets the kids be kidlike rather than movie-kidlike." [movie review]      PopMatters       5/10      District 9 (2009)      "In District 9, racism provides the white guy with a very special growth experience." [movie review]      PopMatters       4/10      Shrink (2009)      "As all of Shrink's seemingly disparate stories begin to fall too cleverly into each other, it's easy to be distracted by some fine performances." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Ugly Truth (2009)      "Concerns about truth and untruth can't mean much in a movie called The Ugly Truth." [movie review]      PopMatters            G-Force (2009)      "G-Force's dedication to egregious stereotypes is hackneyed and indefensible: this is how racism lives on." [movie review]      PopMatters       5/10      Orphan (2009)      "It's not a bad idea for a horror movie, that the seeming victims are not innocent and their complicated past weighs on their present." [movie review]      PopMatters       4/10      Fragments (2009)      "Even as it makes a show of complexity Fragments seems determined to pull together its various story strands." [movie review]      PopMatters       7/10      Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation! (2009)      "Russell Mulcahy and other artists look back fondly on Australian exploitation films for Not Quite Hollywood, sometimes wondering just how they were able to get away with it." [movie review]      PopMatters       8/10      The Cove (2009)      "In between the exciting sequences of the team setting up equipment and being nearly captured, The Cove includes interviews with persuasive sea life experts and not-so-convincing local Japanese authorities." [movie review]      PopMatters       7/10      Flame & Citron (2008)      "Throughout this compelling film, the assassins want to believe they're doing righteous work: they're fighting Nazi occupation forces, after all." [movie review]      PopMatters       6/10      Thirst (2009)      "Full of ache and desire, Tae-ju seems the ultimate embodiment of the title of Park Chan-wook's new film, Thirst (Bakjwi)." [movie review]      PopMatters       8/10      Beeswax (2009)      "If it's rare to see sisters at the center of a smart, mature, and artful movie, it's even more surprising to see them so keenly in tune." [movie review]      PopMatters       6/10      The Disappeared (2008)      "A complicated family dynamic is the point of departure for The Disappeared, part horror movie, part psychological study." [movie review]      PopMatters       7/10      The Way We Get By (2009)      "The Way We Get By stays focused on the greeters' mix of loneliness and determination, the pleasure of feeling needed and the pain of growing old." [movie review]      PopMatters       5/10      Off Jackson Avenue (2009)      "In Off Jackson Avenue, Olivia is gutsy, shrewd, and fed up in a way that makes her look ripe for a Quentin Tarantino movie." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Beaches of Agnes (2009)      "In The Beaches of Agnès, the "game" of cinema is endlessly fascinating, as what was and what can be come together on screen." [movie review]      PopMatters            Cheri (2009)      "Chéri's saga of bad parenting ostensibly has to do with designs and rituals of love." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)      "The gallant, educated, and sensitive outsider, will do right by Soraya, unlike the loathsome, fearful, and petty neighbors who killed her." [movie review]      PopMatters       6/10      Public Enemies (2009)      "Sensational and turbulent, the relationship between John Dillinger and Melvin Purvis sold newspapers and attracted newsreel audiences. It was good for business." [movie review]      PopMatters       6/10      Burma VJ (2009)      "Burma VJ articulates a circular, daunting, and inevitable logic: visibility = life." [movie review]      PopMatters       8/10      Moon (2009)      "In brief, stark moments, Duncan Jones' movie makes plain how awful it is to be so solitary, how utterly impossible it is to consider this existence a "living."" [movie review]      PopMatters       5/10      Yoo-hoo, Mrs. Goldberg (2009)      "Yoo-Hoo, Mrs. Goldberg is amiable and formally conventional, a portrait that doesn't mean to provoke, but to revere." [movie review]      PopMatters       8/10      Humpday (2009)      "In Humpday, Andrew can't help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself." [movie review]      PopMatters

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