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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"works best when it immerses us in the vulgar mayhem, rather than when it's asking us to care too deeply"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"exceeds its whimsical indie-film touches because it is rooted in the kinds of recognizable truths that give weight to what would otherwise be simply amusing"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a weird and wonderful but narratively lacking post-apocalyptic fantasy"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"has just enough oddball gags and adolescent humor to fill a two-minute trailer, but its heart and soul are deeply invested in the slightly shaky, awkward, geek-chic moroseness of indie-art dramedy"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If it didn't come from a major studio, I would think the film is a satire of romantic comedies, or at least some kind of avant-garde experiment in testing the limits of audience identification"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"one wonders how much more engrossing its nick-of-time shenanigans would have been had we cared for the central character ... or even found him remotely interesting"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an intriguing and frequently exciting experiment in using 3-D computer-generated animation for serious-minded entertainment"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a confident and even touching bit of genre twisting, with its best moments providing plenty of anticipation for what else Johnson has up his sleeve"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For those willing to endure the shocks and actually think about them afterwards, the film's jokes work on multiple levels, although it is hard not to feel that there is some diminishing return this time around"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"in our brave new world of Glenn Beck-style paranoia, anger, and histrionics masquerading as political discourse, Moore's sarcastic mugging seems very nearly quaint"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"funny and at times wonderfully weird, and even has a few meaningful things to say"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"t is as though Gaiman's novel were written with Selick's visual approach in mind, and it's hard to imagine the story being told in anything other than the film's seamless blend of tactile and digital media."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"takes full advantage of the technologies available, but fails to illuminate or otherwise expand Dickens' story in any meaningful ways"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a sharp-edged science fiction parable that mixes metaphor and violent action with such dizzying confidence that you leave the theater feeling charged and alive"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"good, malicious fun that revels in its own absurdity, lack of lofty ambitions, and determination to drag you down with it"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"has the kind of narrative trickery that draws us in, but it's ultimately up to the actors to keep us interested, and in this regard the film is something of a mixed bag"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"mocks idiots, hypocrites, and all the other clueless denizens of life who make it difficult for everyone else, but the bile is balanced with affection for the ordinary people who make the world turn"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"pretty much everything you need to know about this by-the-numbers clunker is summarized in the one-word title"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"would be a genuinely terrible movie (even as far as horror sequels go) except for its mordant sense of humor"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"the film's one genuine charm is its ridiculous and clever use of nonsensical words and phrases to discuss R-rated material under the PG-13 umbrella"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a frightening film, easily one of the most important of the recent spate of socially conscious documentaries"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a new version of incredibly stale material, with a modern shine, a little more gore, and pretty much nothing else"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"feels like too little that's been strung out too far"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a cleverly vulgar comedy that manages to take a tired conceit and make it feel inventive and consistently funny"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"while the film has its moments of visual elegance, its lack of narrative rhythm and jumbled sense of forced plot points will leave ravenous Potter fans griping about what's been left out and those poor souls who haven't read the books perpetually confused"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"works at times as an effectively creepy chiller that loses its way only near the end when it starts getting too sensationalistic for its own good"
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a visceral, heart-pounding experience that is easily the best film yet to made about the current war in Iraq and also one of the best war films of the past decade"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"finds room to celebrate the inner caveman without discarding all of the refinements"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The jokes don't always hit like they should, but there is a pleasant familiarity that mixes well with the sense of adventure to underscore the film's warm-n-fuzzy proclamations about the nature of family and togetherness."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"tweaks the story just into the realm of dark humor, but without ever losing the sense that it is fundamentally a tragedy"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Tarantino is much less interested in the gory possibilities of the premise than he is in old-fashioned suspense and tension"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a relatively engaging, if not terribly convincing, variant on the evil corporation thriller"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a terribly unwieldy vehicle built on an inherently funny premise that just can't sustain what Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson eventually want to heap on it"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a quirky, sometimes schmaltzy British dramedy that mixes meaningful ruminations about growing old with broad black comedy"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"the various ingredients Diablo Cody tosses into the script blender mix into a lumpy mess, rather than the smooth concoction you might expect."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"awash in culinary imagery, and it's enough to make you want to run out, purchase some Le Creuset cookware, and start deboning a duck"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"perhaps the movie isn't quite weird enough, so instead of seeming inspired in its dementedness, it just seems inept and desperate"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"rectifies the original's bizarre tonal range, but also dilutes its thematic power by completely discarding the critical portrayal of vengeance as a zero-sum game"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"gets by on its goofy, absurdist charm and gonzo characters without ever making a significant impact"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I cannot image a visual record of any kind doing a better job of showing us what might have been, which makes it both a cause for celebration and its own unique tragedy"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a brightly colored mash-up of pop-culture gags that speeds at you so fast and furiously that it feels like a rush even if you can't remember much about it the next day"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an intriguing existential space oddity"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"undeniably hokey, but also giddily effective, with the 3-D turning what might otherwise be a routine slash-and-hack job into a ridiculously gory theme park ride"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an amusing concept that still holds some charm now, although it also lends itself to bombastic overkill, which sequels are naturally inclined toward anyway"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a strange, slightly disconcerting, and at times aggressively insistent wince-inducing comedy"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a stylishly empty stab at the genre that makes no bones about its obviousness even as it introduces a deliberately racialized twist"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a carefully staged deconstruction of our assumptions about horrorshows about preternaturally manipulative and malevolent children"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"too much of the film devolves into hectic action sequences that makes you feel like someone suddenly dropped you into a blender and turned out all the lights"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"absolutely bone-chilling"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a good-natured, but awkward and often unfunny comedy that bounces from sad-sack pathos to slapstick action parody"
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