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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       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            The Hurt Locker (2009)      "Unable to parse what he sees, James finds meaning, at last, in his misreading." [movie review]      PopMatters            Imagine That (2009)      "Why anyone imagines children want to see Eddie Murphy's internal struggle may be the first question posed by Imagine That, but it's hardly the last" [movie review]      PopMatters            Food, Inc. (2009)      "As Food, Inc. shows, these pretty, red, genetically engineered tomatoes are signs of a dodgy future already here." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3 (2009)      "Nothing if not self-aware, this update of Joseph Sargent's 1974 thriller begins by rearranging the class dynamics." [movie review]      PopMatters            Year One (2009)      "This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode." [movie review]      PopMatters            Whatever Works (2009)      "Whatever Works, a reported reworking of a 30-year-old script, is overtly old." [movie review]      PopMatters            Dead Snow (2009)      "Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars." [movie review]      PopMatters            Laila's Birthday (2009)      "It's only the start of Abu Laila's long, long day in Laila's Birthday (Eid milad Laila), and already, he's impatient." [movie review]      PopMatters            Drag Me To Hell (2009)      "Christine's monstrosity is hardly so daunting as that of the evil spirit stalking her, but it's of a piece with Drag Me to Hell's mostly vague cultural critique." [movie review]      PopMatters            Pontypool (2009)      "In Bruce McDonald's suitably weird zombie movie, the coin of the shock jock's own realm -- language -- is the source of all the trouble." [movie review]      PopMatters            Outrage (2009)      "Kirby Dick's documentary argues that it's long past time that the many stories that shape closeted gay politicians' lives and careers be sorted out." [movie review]      PopMatters            Rudo and Cursi (2009)      "Only a few minutes into Rudo y Cursi, the brothers are discovered playing grand and gloriously boyish fútbol." [movie review]      PopMatters            Julia (2008)      "Julia is a mix of fantasy and tragedy, with the violence amped up and the background noisy and lurid." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Song of Sparrows (2009)      "The goldfish flopping in the sun is an image typical of Majid Majidi's films, fable-like and seemingly simple even as it is also complex." [movie review]      PopMatters            The Brothers Bloom (2009)      "Overrated as truth may be, in The Brothers Bloom, Penelope (Rachel Weisz) is supposed to signify it." [movie review]      PopMatters            Terminator Salvation (2009)      "It's late in Terminator Salvation when Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-hyped non-appearance." [movie review]      PopMatters            Tokyo! (2009)      "Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression." [movie review]      PopMatters            Treeless Mountain (2009)      "So Yong Kim's remarkable film never spells out exactly what Jin or Bin is thinking, the camera implies how they see." [movie review]      PopMatters            Fighting (2009)      "For all its attention to local "color", Fighting focuses on the white boy's progress." [movie review]      PopMatters            Tyson (2009)      "Tyson is about the processes that make Mike Tyson." [movie review]      PopMatters       5/10      The Soloist (2009)      "The Soloist illustrates Nathaniel's internal life -- his music and his madness -- in reductive, sensational imagery." [movie review]      PopMatters

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