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83%
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Paranormal Activity (2009)
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"Perhaps the Most Relevant Horror Film in our Reality Television-Obsessed Society. For Now."
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Jimmy O
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73%
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Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
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"Gene Siskel Once Said Non-Human Character Work or Don't Work Based on Their Eyes and There's a Lot Going On Behind Them Here."
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Jimmy O
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75%
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Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)
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"Moore Sacrifices Narrative Thrust for Contemporary Relevance But Still Ends on a Strong Note."
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Jimmy O
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90%
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Zombieland (2009)
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"If You're Going to Infect Your Horror Comedy with Toilet Humor, Can't We At Least Explore What Zombies Do When Nature Calls?"
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Jimmy O
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87%
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Big Fan (2009)
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"A Strong, Tightly-Wound Character Study That Suffers Minimally From Its 1st-Time Director."
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Jimmy O
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89%
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World's Greatest Dad (2009)
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"Sly and Subtle. Not Bad for the Guy from the Police Academy films."
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Jimmy O
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63%
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Extract (2009)
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"Mike Judge Hasn't Got Over his Alliance with the Workers in Order to Make an Effective Flick about being The Man."
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Jimmy O
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88%
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Inglourious Basterds (2009)
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"Pretentious? Narcissistic? Gory? What's Not to Love?"
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Jimmy O
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26%
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The Goods: Live Hard, Sell Hard (2009)
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"Needs Less Sentiment and More Charles Napier. But Still Rapid-Fire Funny in Nature."
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Jimmy O
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91%
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District 9 (2009)
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"Not As Innovative As Everyone Wants to Give it Credit For, But Still An Interesting Blast."
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Jimmy O
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24%
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Little Ashes (2009)
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"A Pretentious Mess of a Bio-pic In the Worst Sense of the Phrase."
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Jimmy O
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60%
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A Perfect Getaway (2009)
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"After a Disappointing Summer, This is Good B-Movie Pulp Fiction."
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Jimmy O
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68%
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Funny People (2009)
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""Funny People"'s Problem is Not How It Mixes Apatow Humor with Sentiment But How It Tacks on the Needless Leslie-Man/Eric Bana" Subplot."
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Jimmy O
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97%
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The Hurt Locker (2009)
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"Just Another Day at the Office...Except These Guys Might Not Get Home. But a Brilliant, Technical Marvel."
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Jimmy O
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96%
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Food, Inc. (2009)
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"A Weak Version of "Fast Food Nation". But Hey, Any Film That Bashes Agri-Business Is All Right With Me."
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Jimmy O
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84%
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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)
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""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" Looks Good and the Cast is Great. But the great mythology doesn't kick in until the last thirty minute."
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Jimmy O
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67%
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Brüno (2009)
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"A Vapid, Empty and Relatively Hateful Flick. And this is From Someone Who Loved "Borat"."
|
Jimmy O
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|
67%
|
Away We Go (2009)
|
"A Great, Beautiful Flick about the Confusion of Relationships."
|
Jimmy O
|
|
33%
|
Terminator Salvation (2009)
|
"While it's pretty sermonizing in its sci-fi sort of way, Salvation does pack a dazzling punch."
|
Jimmy O
|
|
94%
|
Slumdog Millionaire (2008)
|
"No Matter What Genre Boyle Delves Into, this is a Beautiful and Suspenseful Fairy Tale."
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Jimmy O
|
|
92%
|
Frost/Nixon (2008)
|
"For a film that should have been smart and fun, Frost/Nixon turns out to be a stodgy romance to the concept of "heroic" modern journalism."
|
Jimmy O
|
|
94%
|
Milk (2008)
|
"It's Amazing How Van Sant Can Pull Off Such Grace and Grit the Same Year he Gives Us to Prententious Nonsense of Paranoid Park."
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Jimmy O
|
|
45%
|
Yes Man (2008)
|
"Could Jim Carrey Be Playing the One Loan Officer Who Sent Our Economy Into Ruin. Or is the Flick Just Bad?"
|
Jimmy O
|
|
76%
|
Appaloosa (2008)
|
"A western bromance."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
65%
|
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
|
"Kevin Smith sees homemade porn as the end of the empire."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
59%
|
W. (2008)
|
"Josh Brolin develops an ingenious physical tic that encompasses the President: He talks with his mouth full, like a man who's bitten off more than he can chew."
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Stephen Himes
|
|
54%
|
Mamma Mia! (2008)
|
"As for Meryl Streep, you sense that she's thinking what you're thinking: That she can't actually be in this movie."
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Stephen Himes
|
|
83%
|
Tropic Thunder (2008)
|
"A journey into Hollywood's heart of darkness."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
85%
|
Ghost Town (2008)
|
"If, say, Tom Hanks had been cast in the lead rather than Rickey Gervais, "Ghost Town" would be "Wings of Desire" for the "You've Got Mail" crowd. Thankfully, it's more cantankerous."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
78%
|
Burn After Reading (2008)
|
"Tries to be "The Big Lebowski" of the War on Terror."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
73%
|
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
|
"Introducing the new Lloyd Dobler!"
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
87%
|
Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008)
|
"Del Toro seems to use this movie as batting practice for The Hobbit."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
71%
|
Wanted (2008)
|
"Never has a mainstream movie made more of a fetish from splattered brains."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
17%
|
The Happening (2008)
|
"Shyamalan's religious ideas are a lot like Bush's: Nearly theology free."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
87%
|
Kung Fu Panda (2008)
|
"'Chinese' in the way that Springfield-style cashew chicken is 'Chinese.'"
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
41%
|
Hancock (2008)
|
"Hancock suggests the Colin Powell 'Pottery Barn' argument, but before it gets really interesting, veers wildly off course."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
51%
|
Get Smart (2008)
|
"Hollywood has no idea what to do with Steve Carell."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
93%
|
Iron Man (2008)
|
"The brillance of Downey's performance is that Tony Stark is more of an impenetrable, unstoppable force than Iron Man."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
53%
|
Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay (2008)
|
"If you're really, really high, you might think that H&KEfGB suggests that we are only truly free when we transcend our own racial identities."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
52%
|
Leatherheads (2008)
|
"Clooney tries to Flags of Our Fathers if directed by Preston Sturges."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
21%
|
Semi-Pro (2008)
|
"Jackie Moon is every other Will Ferrell character in John Stockton shorts."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
79%
|
Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
|
"The metaphysical angle is too awkward: Horton comes off like a Giant Flying Spaghetti Monster."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
80%
|
The Spiderwick Chronicles (2008)
|
"Like "Terabithia," willfully darker than most children's fare."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
70%
|
Definitely, Maybe (2008)
|
"Will Hayes' only flaw is that he's too idealistic--in the same way that John Edwards cares too much for poor people."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
91%
|
Hairspray (2007)
|
"Like your high school's production of "Grease": A musical about sex with a chastity belt strapped to its waist."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
21%
|
Fred Claus (2007)
|
"Paul Giamatti is forced to play Santa like a socially awkward version of Vince Vaughn"
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
82%
|
Talk to Me (2007)
|
"Even Martin Sheen is keepin' it real."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
52%
|
Margot at the Wedding (2007)
|
"Nicole Kidman hasn't been in a movie this bleak since "Dogville.""
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
88%
|
Waitress (2007)
|
"Completely inauthentic in every detail--the cinematic equivalent of an apple pie from Perkins."
|
Stephen Himes
|
|
96%
|
The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters (2007)
|
""When We Were Kings" for dorks."
|
Stephen Himes
|
74%
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