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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'17 Again' demonstrates that Effron has rightfully earned some of the rampant adulation that has come his way."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's pointless to fault '2012' for being silly or perpetuating scientific and historic baloney. Instead, the new movie's unforgivable transgression is that it fails to make any of the apocalyptic destruction fun."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This broken affair is more entertaining than most successful ones."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Because '9' runs only 79 minutes, Acker almost gets by on the intricate and distinctive visuals."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"British actor Hugh Dancy manages an astonishing feat by making viewers empathize with a character that has trouble feeling empathy."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are still puke jokes in 'Adventureland' as there were in 'Superbad,' but it's nice to see that Mottola can help viewers get in touch with another body function, the beat of a heart."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Amelia' plays less like a movie and more like a timeline."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Scherfig and Hornby have a winningly droll sense of humor, but the main reason to see An Education is because they treat viewers as if they were as intelligent as Jenny."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bell's charm and finesse with a right hook help elevate Angel of Death from being a mundane straight-to-DVD offering."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's easy to think of Ron Howard's new effort Angels & Demons as more of an apology than a movie."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Away We Go' is still funny and occasionally touching, but it might have been even more entertaining if Mendes and the screenwriters hadn't tried to so hard to make us laugh."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's not surprising the film was Germany's 2008 submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Co-writer-director Todd Graff doesn't look at teens or their issues in a condescending light."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Hicks' rambling pacing and Cubitt's routine approach to the story prevent 'The Boys Are Back' from reaching its potential."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"With 'Bright Star,' New Zealand's Jane Campion ('The Piano') has managed to write and direct an engrossing film about a man whose achievements can only be found on the page and in the heart."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Unlike the con artists the movie depicts, 'The Brothers Bloom' rewards rather than exploits viewers by defying their expectations."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"But by pointing out how low some people will sink to hit the heights of fame, Baron Cohen can raise as many valid discussions as he can squirms."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"All of these seemingly disparate stories are related, but Arriaga connects them more slowly than an alert viewer can on his or her own."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It might seem like a fantasy for the baker interviewed in the film to be making $60,000 a year and benefits, but Moore proves the idea is less fictitious than the ones that sank Lehman Brothers."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Thanks to a radiant performance from Michelle Pfeiffer, 'Chéri' occasionally overcomes a storyline that never quite develops momentum."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A movie about the undead that never really makes it out of the grave."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' would probably still be entertaining in a conventional 2D format, the story is a natural for 3D."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'The Damned United' is a soccer movie that's really about a man's struggle with his most dangerous opponent--his own ego."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Writer-director Robert Zemeckis follows Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, so closely that he even makes the same error the author made with the first edition of the book."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Raimi can do more with a set of false teeth and a compelling, if deeply flawed, heroine that most horror hacks can with enough fake blood to flood the Great Basin."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Duplicity' is a cleverly charming and sophisticated film about treacherous people."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The new remake of the 1980 hit 'Fame' is not going to live forever and has clearly not learned how to fly."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"S-U-C-K! What does this movie do? It sucks! O-M-F-G! It sucks!"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bruckheimer and his crew should have imagined material that's suited for more than the bottom of a cage."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are some things that even Matthew McConaughey's laid-back charm can't fix."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The chilliest part of watching Gomorrah is knowing that it's inspired by real events."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While the Harry Potter movies have always been a wonderful excuse for jaw dropping special effects, it's gratifying to see the fantasy landscapes populated by wizards and witches with flesh-and-blood personalities."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"People often do stupid things for love. That doesn't mean it's worth making a movie about these acts of folly."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film's story is so dry and unimaginative that it appears to have been preserved in amber from an earlier era."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"When a children's movie like 'Imagine That' fails, it's tragedy that the magic spells in the move can't be used to escape the theater."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Whereas several recent films like the pompous 'Lions for Lambs' presented the current war in a didactically solemn tone, Iannucci has more to say by simply playing the crisis for laughs."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If Soderbergh's offbeat approach seems alienating at first, the film's second half is loaded with hilariously bizarre revelations, which are actually true to the case."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Tarantino assembles his complicated plot and multitude of players with only occasional allegiance to history. As a result, all bets are off, making the film and its twists harder to predict."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If you're going to make a movie about homicidal bankers, you don't get extra dividends for exaggerated body counts."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'The Invention of Lying' is based on a simple idea, but Gervais and Robinson come up with seemingly endless ways to maximize it."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Like a good number of films, 'Is Anybody There?' is saved from being a routine offering by the presence of Sir Michael Caine."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's a strange irony that any movie aimed squarely at an allegedly adult audience usually features enough gags involving feces and urine to delight six-year-olds for hours."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's too bad the new 3D glasses can't fix sloppy writing."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Jennifer Steinman's new documentary 'Motherland' follows a group of American women who attempt to get beyond their own suffering."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Must Read After My Death' feels less like a documentary and more like a loud scream for help."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"With all the oversized personalities that surround him, Stiller gets upstaged."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If the crisis the couple endures seems real, the resolution needs a little more work to be convincing."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Writer-director Jody Hill attempts a difficult balancing act, so he can be forgiven for occasionally stumbling between laughter and squirms."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Outrage' makes a convincing argument that legislating while living in the closet is detrimental to everyone."
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