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"As the action becomes less fabulous and more repetitive over 2012's 150 minutes, the philosophical debate ratchets up."
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(2009) |
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"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."
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2/10 |
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"Before An American Affair is over, you can be sure that Adam will learn a very familiar life lesson."
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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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6/10 |
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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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(2009) |
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"If the story of Jenny's inevitably hard lesson is standard, An Education comes up with a few moments that give pause."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Knowing that you know the drill, Bandslam leaves out most too-explanatory details, and lets the kids be kidlike rather than movie-kidlike."
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(2009) |
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"In The Beaches of Agnès, the "game" of cinema is endlessly fascinating, as what was and what can be come together on screen."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"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."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The film makes clear in readings from Hannah Seneh's diaries and poems that her dedication to building a Jewish state has shaped her legacy."
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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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(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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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Burma VJ articulates a circular, daunting, and inevitable logic: visibility = life."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"California Dreamin' mostly observes a series of complicated personal interactions, its point helped along by Doiaru's speeches concerning the ongoing American failure even to try to comprehend the populations it invades, assimilates, abuses, and buys off."
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(2009) |
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"Chéri's saga of bad parenting ostensibly has to do with designs and rituals of love."
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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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(2009) |
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"Not a thing in this movie is subtle, from its cheesy special effects to its by-the-numbers storyline to its cardboard cutout characters."
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(2009) |
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"Coco Before Chanel cannot get out from under the romantic fabrications and excesses that ostensibly annoyed its subject."
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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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(2009) |
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"It's some kind of trick when a film can make Jason Bateman look unsubtle."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"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."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Stacy Peralta's documentary traces the emergence of gangs in L.A., as well as their contexts and causes."
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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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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In District 9, racism provides the white guy with a very special growth experience."
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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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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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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Jay McCarroll seems at home in front of the camera, and in Eleven Minutes, he's found an ideal situation: star of his own show."
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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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"Everlasting Moments is simultaneously epic and poetic, mostly predictable but punctuated by breathtaking images."
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(2009) |
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"Intergenerational dilemmas -- how to be foxes, to be individuals and also parts of communities -- form the complicated heart of Fantastic Mr. Fox."
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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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(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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"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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"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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"Where is Fox Mulder when you need him?"
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Even as it makes a show of complexity Fragments seems determined to pull together its various story strands."
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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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(2009) |
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"G-Force's dedication to egregious stereotypes is hackneyed and indefensible: this is how racism lives on."
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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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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"As much as the victims and aggressors in Naples mafia movie Gomorrah seek to repress consequences of gangsterism, they are, of course embodying them."
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(2009) |
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"The familiar format helps to underscore what's extraordinary about these stories, the fear and indignity felt by the soldiers."
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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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1/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The Goods' vulgarity is not new or clever or even comically shocking. It is, instead, prosaic and repetitive."
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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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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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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"He's Just Not That Into You is a standard chick flick, which isn't necessarily a bad thing: it's cute and comic and organized according to fixed, mostly ancient gender roles."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In Humpday, Andrew can't help but compete with Anna, who has stolen his bro, or more precisely, his slowly receding notion of himself."
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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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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Tom Tykwer's thriller shrewdly introduces Lou (Clive Owen) as he observes rather than acts."
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