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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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""District 9" does show that Blomkamp is not without talent and could very well one day make a truly great genre film, even if he hasn't quite done so here."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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""Ponyo" is the kind of dazzling cinematic experience that will resonate in the hearts and minds of anyone who sees it for a long time afterwards."
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(2009) |
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"I was somewhat startled to discover that it actually has a few intriguing qualities amidst the blood and guts."
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(2009) |
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"Most of all, it comes as a bit of a relief to see a movie aimed at kids that doesn't come with the increasingly irritating 3-D gimmick, the distracting vocal contributions of big-name stars or elaborate backstories"
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(2009) |
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"Dancy and Byrne are both appealing enough performers and I can see how the two of them might click in a romantic comedy with a strong screenplay and tight direction but writer-director Max Mayer has neglected to supply them with either one."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Watching "G.I. Joe" is like being slapped across the face with utility-grade meat for two hours and for all I know, that is exactly what screenwriters Stuart Beattie and David Elliot & Paul Lovett did to get themselves in the proper frame of mind."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While the Julia Child material and Streep's performance are entertaining enough to warrant a recommendation, the other stuff is so dreadfully dull that you wonder why it even exists at all"
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A hugely entertaining pulp thriller that delivers the goods in a stylish an effective manner that beats most other recent films of its ilk like a gong"
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(2009) |
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"Some may complain about the lack of contextualizing material but what is on the screen is so exciting and energetic that most viewers will probably be too busy tapping their feet and swaying their heads to the beats on display to notice or care."
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(2009) |
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"One of the funniest films of the year and the most incisive piece of cinematic political satire to come along since Joe Dante's "Homecoming.""
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(2009) |
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"A film that promises to be an outrageous comedy exploring contemporary sexual mores winds up coming across as little more than this generation's "Baghead.""
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(2009) |
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"It just never quite comes together, either as a horror movie or as a goofy campfest."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a stupid, lazy, dully designed and messily executed piece of junk that will have little kids and parents alike squirming in their seats out of sheer boredom."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"By the end of the movie, you are rooting for the two of them to get together only because their foul union would presumably prevent other innocent souls from being sucked into their respective vortexes of pain and tedium."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Funny, enchanting, occasionally creepy and beautiful to look at, this is the kind of full-blooded fantasy filmmaking that used to emerge when filmmakers were more interested in telling stories than in selling Happy Meals."
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(2009) |
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"Luchini and Zern develop a nice rapport in their scenes together that helps to keep the whole enterprise afloat and Bourgoin is enough of a looker to explain why both would become so infatuated with her."
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(2009) |
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"Servillo does such a good job of suggesting the drive and intelligence of the man that he automatically becomes one of the great recent cinematic symbols of absolute political power and the questionable means utilized in order to achieve it."
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(2009) |
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"There are a couple of admittedly arresting images on display here and there--not enough to make this film worth watching but enough to make you hope that it doesn't take Lynch another 16 years to make another one."
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(2009) |
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"The best thing that one can say about this is that as utterly incoherent action extravaganzas go, it is at least an hour shorter than "Transformers 2.""
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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""The Hurt Locker" is not only one of the very best films of 2009, it is one of the very best and most exciting war movies of any kind to come along in a long time."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It is proof positive that this emperor of comedy has no clothes, a fact that he seems depressingly eager to demonstrate throughout."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"I have seen the future of comedy hell and it is named "I Love You, Beth Cooper," a creepy, deeply unpleasant and decidedly unfunny teen comedy that goes on for about 90-odd minutes and inspires nary a laugh, chuckle or guffaw."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A sumptuously designed and minutely detailed work that manages to remain compelling despite its essential familiarity while featuring top-notch contributions from everyone on both sides of the camera."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The filmmakers are content to give viewers nothing that they haven't seen before in the previous installments and even those who enjoyed those are going to come away from this one feeling bored and disappointed."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Two straight hours of emotional torture porn that is so brutally assaultive in its determination to jerk tears from viewers that it practically leaps off the screen and into their laps in order to get to them quicker."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"An exploitative propaganda piece that seems to exist for only one queasy reason--to allow Western audiences to witness the sight of a woman being brutally stoned to death in a sequence staged with all the sadistic delectation of a slasher movie."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite having lowered the artistic bar to Death Valley levels, director Michael Bay has somehow managed to figure out a way to slither beneath with the flexibility of the pole dancers-in-training that he prefers to hire as his female extras."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It is so bad, in fact, that not only do I feel as though I have sullied the fine reputation of "Life of Brian" by mentioning it in the same paragraph, I fear I may have also sullied the reputation of "Wholly Moses" as well."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the best films of its type to come around in a long while."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The experience of watching 'The Proposal" is not unlike attending a performance from a cover band specializing in the songs of Billy Joel--both offer up the prospect of two hours of mind-numbing blandness without a single original element on display."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the more delightful and disarming movies to emerge during this summer season."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If you are lucky enough to have seen the earlier classic, it is more than likely that you will find this version is something to be sneezed at after all."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A film so completely stupid and hateful that you get the sense that it was financed by the Atlantic City tourism board as a way of besmirching the good name of their chief competition."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"What should have been an entertaining diversion for audiences in the mood for an explosion-free evening at the movies instead turns out to be an excruciating misfire on virtually every level."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A combination of silly humor, startling scares and gags (in every sense of the world) that are simultaneously so goofy and gruesome that you won't know whether to laugh or barf. Trust me, in a film of this type, that kind of comment is high praise indeed."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Alternately funny, touching, exciting and visually dazzling, often all at once, this is the kind of film that you genuinely need to see twice in order to fully absorb everything it has to offer."
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(2009) |
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"It is certainly a success, thanks in large part to the lovely performances from the three leads."
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(2009) |
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"However, when it sticks to its strongest angle--attacking these people for their endless capacity for self-denial--"Outrage" does pack a significant punch and for this reason alone, it deserves to be seen."
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(2009) |
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"A shapeless and crudely made mess that looks and feels like what you might get from a bunch of kids screwing around with a camcorder at a family reunion (and considering the number of Wayans involved, that could actually be the case here)"
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(2009) |
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"Weisz pretty much single-handedly keeps the entire thing afloat with her truly charming and engaging performance."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The most fascinating and provocative work that Soderbergh has done in years."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This is yet another hard-sell "family" film that tries to bludgeon viewers into submission with loud and overly elaborate special effects set-pieces instead of charming them with a compelling story or any discernible traces of genuine wit and/or whimsy."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"That said, the real problem with "Terminator Salvation," when all is said and done, is that it never for a single moment makes a convincing argument for its own existence."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"not only does it fail to live up to the high standards of "Y Tu Mama Tambien," it doesn't even live up to the bar set by such earlier soccer films as "Victory," "Goal" and "Kicking and Screaming.""
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(2009) |
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"They seem to be real and they are certainly spectacular--too bad that one can't say the same for the film featuring them."
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(2009) |
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"This is one of those films that isn't nearly as interesting as the conversations that it may inspire."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"You most likely won't go to Hell for watching this film, though you will no doubt feel as if you are in Hell while watching it."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While "The Limits of Control" is a curiously unsatisfying work as a whole, especially when coming from a filmmaker of Jarmusch's stature, it nevertheless contains a number of undeniably engaging elements."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film is just another noisy space opera in which the humanity takes a back seat to the hardware, something that the real "Star Trek" managed to avoid at its peak moments."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This is such a mess of poor editing, cheesy special effects and unconvincing production design that even the Sci-Fi Channel might have had some qualms if it had somehow been offered to them."
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