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(2009) |
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"Unable to parse what he sees, James finds meaning, at last, in his misreading."
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(2009) |
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"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"
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(2009) |
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"As Food, Inc. shows, these pretty, red, genetically engineered tomatoes are signs of a dodgy future already here."
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(2009) |
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"Nothing if not self-aware, this update of Joseph Sargent's 1974 thriller begins by rearranging the class dynamics."
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(2009) |
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"This strategy -- cutting away before a likely punchline -- is Year One's preferred mode."
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(2009) |
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"Whatever Works, a reported reworking of a 30-year-old script, is overtly old."
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(2009) |
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"Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars."
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(2009) |
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"It's only the start of Abu Laila's long, long day in Laila's Birthday (Eid milad Laila), and already, he's impatient."
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(2009) |
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"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."
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(2009) |
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"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."
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(2009) |
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"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."
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(2009) |
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"Only a few minutes into Rudo y Cursi, the brothers are discovered playing grand and gloriously boyish fútbol."
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(2008) |
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"Julia is a mix of fantasy and tragedy, with the violence amped up and the background noisy and lurid."
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(2009) |
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"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."
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(2009) |
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"Overrated as truth may be, in The Brothers Bloom, Penelope (Rachel Weisz) is supposed to signify it."
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(2009) |
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"It's late in Terminator Salvation when Arnold Schwarzenegger makes his much-hyped non-appearance."
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(2009) |
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"Taken together, the three movies in Tôkyô! create a frightful, smart, and lingering impression."
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(2009) |
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"So Yong Kim's remarkable film never spells out exactly what Jin or Bin is thinking, the camera implies how they see."
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(2009) |
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"For all its attention to local "color", Fighting focuses on the white boy's progress."
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(2009) |
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"Tyson is about the processes that make Mike Tyson."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The Soloist illustrates Nathaniel's internal life -- his music and his madness -- in reductive, sensational imagery."
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1/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Ghosts of Girlfriends Past submits that Connor deserves to be saved by Jenny. But it never shows how or why she should bother with him."
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"You know you're in trouble when the most appealing element your film is Tom Arnold."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The limits of control are simultaneously intimate and global. And Isaac De Bankolé's face reveals just as much as you can know."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The much-anticipated movie reintroduces all the characters from the franchise's first iteration, but its most intense and rewarding focus is friendship between Kirk and Spock."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Mature, slow-moving Lennon assassination drama."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Serial killer thriller runs out of time, momentum."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Super Size Me guy heads to the Middle East."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Grim, brutal bad-cop drama isn't meant for kids."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Violent action flick paints a grim, bloody future."
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(2009) |
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"Lymelife features frustrated, confused kids, and frustrated, self-obsessed adults."
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(2009) |
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"As unusual, even sensational, images appear, it becomes clear that Forbidden Lie$'s more conventional images are also up for challenges, that they can no longer be assumed to be true."
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(2009) |
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"Paul H-O's hurt feelings over being the overlooked man in a relationship with a famous woman, are surely familiar and not especially provocative."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Based on the infamous Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force case in Tulia, Texas, American Violet makes clear the corruption and racism that pervades the official structures of its fictional town."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In this new universe where facts are mutable and ends are means, so-called ethical triumphs can only be short-term."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In this carefully observed and impressively minimalist movie, Sugar redefines and refines his art."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Who Does She Think She Is? shows the daily chaos facing women artists trying to keep pace with families and ambitions, activist politics and personal choices."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Enlighten Up! is at least occasionally skeptical of the premise that true things might be articulated and disseminated."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Certainly, the sex was exciting, as well as controversial. But Plato's Retreat also represented an effort to think through the mores behind monogamy, to challenge assumptions and imagine an alternative."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Almost as soon as he appears in Goodbye Solo, the optimistic Solo is confronted with another perspective, belonging to a weary fare named William."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"When the straggling survivors in The Objective learn they are expendable, they are also, much like the Nostromo crew, upset."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"For all its bright banter and flashbacky fanciness, Duplicity boils down to this rudimentary formula: morality and success are functions of beauty."
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9/10 |
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"The focus of Hunger is emphatically the death of Bobby Sands, specifically, what happens to his body, viewed from a tragic outside and, to an imaginative extent, a determined inside."
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2/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In the poorly paced and ineptly edited Haunting in Connecticut, Matt is surrounded by dark shadows, ooky male choruses, and reflections of tortured corpses in dirty glass."
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Fast & Furious is everything it sounds like: crass, unoriginal, and mostly tiresome."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In the documentary, Robert Blecker Wants Me Dead, New York Law School professor and well-known retributivist Blecker submits he can measure -- in his gut -- who deserves to die."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It is striking that Brothers at War approaches this profound and complicated relationship between brothers by way of trauma and death."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Chocolate (Chokgohlaet) offers sensational martial arts set pieces -- beautifully choreographed, exquisitely colored, and acrobatically shot."
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Chewie knows his place in this determinedly un-new Friday the 13th: Asian Nerd About to Die."
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2/10 |
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(2009) |
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"What is John Salley doing in this movie?"
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