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33%
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Knowing (2009)
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"As Knowing gets increasingly preposterous, and Cage's stony deadpan acting seems even sillier in context, a kind of slack-jawed joy may overtake you. How on earth did this movie get made?"
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Katey Rich
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35%
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The Slammin' Salmon (2009)
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"Easily the best work Broken Lizard has ever done."
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Joshua Tyler
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34%
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Alien Trespass (2009)
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"The movie's claim of being a "forgotten classic" gets less believable as the effects start looking more realistic."
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Katey Rich
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93%
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Sugar (2008)
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"A deeply felt, personal story, exposing in very specific microcosm the struggle experienced by thousands of immigrants each year."
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Katey Rich
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64%
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Duplicity (2009)
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"An effervescent burst of snappy writing, direction and star chemistry that burns a hole through the screen."
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Katey Rich
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85%
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Rachel Getting Married (2008)
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"This isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy."
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Brian Holcomb
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72%
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Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
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"Christine Jeffs is great with her actors, and takes a light, witty approach to the material that largely steers the movie away from the maudlin."
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Katey Rich
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83%
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I Love You, Man (2009)
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"Luckily there's no such thing as too much Jason Segel and Paul Rudd goofing around, but I Love You Man comes dangerously close to it."
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Katey Rich
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5%
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Miss March (2009)
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"Miss March caters so heavily to its juvenile audience it forgets the actual humans who should have been at the center of the story."
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Katey Rich
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43%
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Race to Witch Mountain (2009)
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"Instead of the next Schwarzenegger the Rock is the next Guttenberg and we have Disney to thank for it."
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Joshua Tyler
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64%
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Watchmen (2009)
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"If it had to be done, this effort is probably as good as it was going to get."
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Katey Rich
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64%
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Watchmen (2009)
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"Every bit as risky, edgy, and aspiring as it ought to be."
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Joshua Tyler
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18%
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Street Fighter: The Legend of Chun-Li (2009)
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"A meandering, confused, and worst of all boring crime syndicate accounting which takes forever to unfold and does everything it can to avoid actual fighting."
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Joshua Tyler
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58%
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Quarantine (2008)
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"Real no frills filmmaking. Anything that gets in the way of the main idea is stripped to the bone. This includes certain niceties like character, humor, and even story."
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Brian Holcomb
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29%
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Madea Goes to Jail (2009)
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"Stick Robin Williams in his Mrs. Doubtfire dress and have him join the cast of General Hospital and you'd have Madea Goes to Jail."
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Joshua Tyler
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23%
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Fired Up (2009)
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"It was the rampant homophobia, tossed in everywhere it didn't belong, that convinced me Fired Up! is just a hateful mess."
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Katey Rich
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82%
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Two Lovers (2008)
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"Genuine and affecting, Two Lovers hinges almost entirely on how good Joaquin Phoenix is."
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Joshua Tyler
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59%
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The International (2009)
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"Calculating and distant, as if instead of a movie we're watching a monetary transaction between a filmmaker and his audience."
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Joshua Tyler
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25%
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Friday the 13th (2009)
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"I have no idea what appeal anyone can find in this tired formula, especially when it's used so poorly here, 13 years after Scream parodied it so brilliantly."
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Katey Rich
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25%
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Confessions of a Shopaholic (2009)
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"Takes the whole chick lit package, the candy colored dresses and the personal chauffeurs, to a ridiculous, intolerable new level."
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Katey Rich
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41%
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He's Just Not That Into You (2009)
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"You may have to hold your nose to get through some of it, but He's Just Not That Into You is dangerously slick and attractive enough to suck you in regardless."
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Katey Rich
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22%
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Push (2009)
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"Push is NBC's Heroes, if anything ever happened on Heroes besides oh so mysterious prophecies and a litany of excuses to avoid action sequences."
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Joshua Tyler
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89%
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Coraline (2009)
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"Coraline works as long as you don't expect it to stick with you."
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Joshua Tyler
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12%
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Pink Panther 2 (2009)
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"Apparently Martin and Zwart really did want to make a movie this aimless and derivative, aware that their target audience of children won't know what they're missing."
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Katey Rich
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31%
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The Uninvited (2009)
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"The Uninvited works better as a Maine travel guide than a horror movie."
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Katey Rich
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38%
|
Outlander (2009)
|
"A potentially fun idea that's held back by sub-par writing and a slow as molasses beginning."
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Joshua Tyler
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28%
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New In Town (2009)
|
"It takes a whole lot of chutzpah, and a real lack of imagination, to make a movie like New In Town in 2009."
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Katey Rich
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32%
|
Fanboys (2008)
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"Star Wars fandom has been celebrated in pop culture for decades, but we're still waiting for a movie that captures it with any real level of truth."
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Katey Rich
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87%
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Big Fan (2009)
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"Patton does something pretty amazing here, creating a character that is all at once comedic, heartbreaking, and supremely insightful."
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Joshua Tyler
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58%
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Taken (2009)
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"Taken is brutish and loud and slow in parts, but also undeniably entertaining."
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Katey Rich
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62%
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Lymelife (2008)
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"Rory Culkin brings a sort of quiet confidence to his role as Scott."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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79%
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Humpday (2009)
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"A surprisingly real male relationship examination."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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50%
|
Taking Chance (2009)
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"A tedious 85 minutes of Kevin Bacon saluting."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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57%
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Paper Heart (2009)
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"Charlyne Yi, while an odd choice as a leading lady, is just cute enough to root for."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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94%
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An Education (2009)
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"Beautifully shot with era defining wardrobe and hair."
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Joshua Tyler
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13%
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The Informers (2009)
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"Open endings work for some movies, but a story this depressing needs some resolution."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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85%
|
Black Dynamite (2009)
|
"You'll either love it and think it's hilarious, comedic brilliance or you won't get it at all. I know which side I'm on cats. Black Dynamite's!"
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Joshua Tyler
|
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87%
|
500 Days of Summer (2009)
|
"500 Days of Summer keeps its audience guessing, hoping, and perhaps most importantly feeling."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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88%
|
Adventureland (2009)
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"Wants to be one of those great John Hughes movies, but it doesn't have the poignancy to pull something like that off."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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72%
|
I Love You Phillip Morris (2010)
|
"Doesn't seem to know where it's going or why it's going there, and the result is an unusual movie that's entertaining but not particularly satisfying."
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Joshua Tyler
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33%
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)
|
"A couple of Segway jokes stretched to an hour and a half running time."
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Katey Rich
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60%
|
Spring Breakdown (2009)
|
"They're not reinventing anything here, but it's a better than sitting through The House Bunny if you're out there looking for a healthy dose of comedy girl-power."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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42%
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Brooklyn's Finest (2010)
|
"Richard Gere and his one facial expression are woefully miscast as Eddie Dugan."
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Joshua Tyler
|
|
90%
|
Moon (2009)
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"Moon won't disappoint, but it's not likely to stick with you either."
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Joshua Tyler
|
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51%
|
Notorious (2009)
|
"The untold side of the story haunts the frames of this standard-issue biopic."
|
Katey Rich
|
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19%
|
Righteous Kill (2008)
|
"Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?"
|
Brian Holcomb
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11%
|
The Unborn (2009)
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"An early contender for worst movie of the year."
|
Joshua Tyler
|
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10%
|
Bride Wars (2009)
|
"Bride Wars takes every ugly stereotype about women and weddings and dumbs them down even further."
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Katey Rich
|
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64%
|
Marley & Me (2008)
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"Its small moments of insight don't make up for the overall lack of drama or narrative, but they will evoke all the proper emotions out of an audience with tissues at the ready."
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Katey Rich
|
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73%
|
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
|
"We get it Fincher, some day we're all going to be dead. Now what?"
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Joshua Tyler
|
76%
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