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72%
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Enter the Void (Soudain le vide) (2010)
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"There is a line between mind-blowing and mind-numbing, and Noe crosses it early."
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Clint O'Connor
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66%
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Tamara Drewe (2010)
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"A bland bed-hopping comedy that never finds its narrative focus."
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Clint O'Connor
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20%
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The Tourist (2010)
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"Depp and Jolie lack sparks, but The Tourist is a light little lark of a mystery-love story."
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Clint O'Connor
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36%
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Burlesque (2010)
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"You know how movie stars lie and say they never see their own films? The hilariously bad Burlesque would be a great opportunity to actually follow through on that."
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Clint O'Connor
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93%
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127 Hours (2010)
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"James Franco is fantastic, and director Danny Boyle finds interesting ways of telling Ralston's story that thankfully do not rely on pedestrian flashbacks."
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Clint O'Connor
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48%
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Love and Other Drugs (2010)
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"Smart, sexy and funny, Gyllenhaal and Hathaway help make this the rare, entertaining love story."
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Clint O'Connor
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79%
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Fair Game (2010)
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"Working for the CIA can be a real drag. Naomi Watts and Sean Penn bring Valerie Plame and Joe Wilson vibrantly to life, and Doug Liman steers clear of pedantic politics."
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Clint O'Connor
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55%
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Morning Glory (2010)
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"It has a formula, but it's a successful one: excellent cast meets clever script meets talented director."
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Clint O'Connor
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39%
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Due Date (2010)
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"Zach Galifianakis manages to mix quirky-just-this-side-of-crazy with facial expressions that at times are strangely expressionless. "
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Clint O'Connor
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32%
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For Colored Girls (2010)
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"Tyler Perry's ambitious adaptation charts the black female experience in America and tackles the big issues: rape, infidelity, murder, mental illness, loneliness."
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Clint O'Connor
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68%
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Conviction (2010)
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"A bit too plodding and obvious. On the plus side, Conviction offers the talents of America's most under-appreciated actor: Sam Rockwell"
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Clint O'Connor
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62%
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Howl (2010)
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"You can attach many labels to Howl. Cinematically Enthralling is not one of them. Too bad, because James Franco is excellent."
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Clint O'Connor
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51%
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Stone (2010)
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"Stone is a movie about fragile souls. About how fragile we all are. "
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Clint O'Connor
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47%
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Hereafter (2010)
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"Deep into his career, the great American director Clint Eastwood has made a European movie."
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Clint O'Connor
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79%
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Nowhere Boy (2010)
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"Blessedly absent of all rock star-biopic piffle, this sharply made film deftly drops in hints and whispers of John Lennon's future while visiting his tormented past."
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Clint O'Connor
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72%
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Red (2010)
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"Parker, busy with her TV series Weeds of late, doesn't make a lot of movies. So it's a pleasure to see her tossing off sly asides in the face of danger."
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Clint O'Connor
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89%
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Waiting for Superman (2010)
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"Interesting and touching."
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Clint O'Connor
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64%
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Secretariat (2010)
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"The great John Malkovich is a hoot as Secretariat's trainer. How did he ever get into a Disney movie?"
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Clint O'Connor
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71%
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Never Let Me Go (2010)
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"For all of its hot-button medical-ethical issues, Never Let Me Go avoids sci-fi cliches. Young Izzy Meikle-Small almost steals the whole movie."
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Clint O'Connor
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96%
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The Social Network (2010)
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"The Facebook flick is a kick-in-the-head tale of ambition, friendship and betrayal. Fincher and Sorkin turn hacking, blogging and coding into action scenes. "
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Clint O'Connor
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89%
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Let Me In (2010)
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"Though it's a too-soon remake, Matt Reeves' genre-defying gem is a real grabber, with terrific performances by Chloe Grace Moretz and Kodi Smit-McPhee. "
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Clint O'Connor
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67%
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Jack Goes Boating (2010)
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"I love Philip Seymour Hoffman, but his directing debut, like so many American Indies, features strong characters cursed by a lack of story, purpose and pacing."
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Clint O'Connor
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50%
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole (2010)
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"If you're taking your kids, you should know this isn't a kids' movie. It's being promoted as "from the studio that brought you Happy Feet." But this is Angry Talons."
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Clint O'Connor
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29%
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The Virginity Hit (2010)
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"A big fat bunch of nothing. Excruciatingly dull. "
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Clint O'Connor
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55%
|
Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)
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"Oliver Stone bathes his boardrooms in the glossy sheen of deceit. Strong performances by Michael Douglas and Shia LaBeouf make this fun, if not quite riveting."
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Clint O'Connor
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52%
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Going the Distance (2010)
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"It's heartless and soulless, flimsy and formulaic."
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Clint O'Connor
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66%
|
The American (2010)
|
"A suspenseful, well-crafted ride. Clooney is excellent, evoking Eastwood and McQueen with a tense singularity of purpose."
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Clint O'Connor
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51%
|
The Switch (2010)
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"Suffers from screenplay-speak and sluggish pacing. I kept waiting for one genuine moment. Aniston lacks presence and motivation. She's an extra in her own film."
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Clint O'Connor
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62%
|
When You're Strange (2010)
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"Not many fresh insights, but riding along with The Doors is still a good time, whether you buy into the Jim Morrison mythology or not."
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Clint O'Connor
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35%
|
Lottery Ticket (2010)
|
"The premise has potential but the execution is wobbly. At least Mike Epps is funny as a reverend seeking earthly rewards."
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Clint O'Connor
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37%
|
Eat Pray Love (2010)
|
"Elizabeth Gilbert's phenomenally popular memoir was funny, insightful, and well-written. Amazingly, so is the film. "
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Clint O'Connor
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81%
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Countdown to Zero (2010)
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"A smart, sharply made nuke-nightmare documentary that is suitably sobering and completely horrifying."
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Clint O'Connor
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78%
|
The Other Guys (2010)
|
"Adam McKay likes his comedies goofy and overloaded. This is no Anchorman or Talladega Nights, but there are good low-rent laughs thanks to Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg."
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Clint O'Connor
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43%
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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
|
"I like these three guys. I'd just rather catch them in a different movie."
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Clint O'Connor
|
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86%
|
Inception (2010)
|
"Writer-director Christopher Nolan swims into the swirly sea of the subconscious in this beautiful, blindingly clever film."
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Clint O'Connor
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94%
|
Winter's Bone (2010)
|
"Jennifer Lawrence is superb in Debra Granik's graceful film about gritty people."
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Clint O'Connor
|
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80%
|
Cyrus (2010)
|
"Jonah Hill plays manipulative-possessive-needy to good sly effect as the strange-funny Cyrus. "
|
Clint O'Connor
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85%
|
A Single Man (2009)
|
"The singular sensation of A Single Man is Colin Firth."
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Clint O'Connor
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49%
|
The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
|
"Bella Swan, you two-timing Tessie! Must every great love story take the shape of a triangle? Couldn't we get a rectangle or a trapezoid?"
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Clint O'Connor
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52%
|
Knight & Day (2010)
|
"Though it boasts the shiny white teeth star power of Tom Cruise and Cameron Diaz and offers a cute premise, Knight and Day is a flimsy enterprise."
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Clint O'Connor
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87%
|
Please Give (2010)
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"Here's a sentence I've typed before: Rebecca Hall is the best thing about this movie. The British actress raises the level of every production she touches."
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Clint O'Connor
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96%
|
Exit Through The Gift Shop (2010)
|
"Can we trust a director/tour guide who appears only in shadow with an electro-scrambled voice like one of those "60 Minutes" mob informant interviews? Yes!"
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Clint O'Connor
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99%
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Toy Story 3 (2010)
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"I know you don't want to hear that a movie with a "3" in the title is really good. But it's really good. "
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Clint O'Connor
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66%
|
The Karate Kid (2010)
|
"True, we did not need a Karate Kid remake. But this touching film stands on its own. The rare appeals-to-all-ages kind of movie."
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Clint O'Connor
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47%
|
The A-Team (2010)
|
"Great summer escapism. An action comedy where the action IS comedy."
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Clint O'Connor
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72%
|
Get Him to the Greek (2010)
|
"The drugged-out, womanizing, self-obsessed, rehab-riddled rock star has preened many times on screen. But Russell Brand makes Aldous Snow more than a coked-up cliche."
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Clint O'Connor
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9%
|
Marmaduke (2010)
|
"Well, at least the dogs are cute."
|
Clint O'Connor
|
|
74%
|
Splice (2010)
|
"It's a bird! It's a platelet! It's a hot bald chick!"
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Clint O'Connor
|
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35%
|
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (2010)
|
"A dud in the desert. A sultan of stink. Why is Jake Gyllenhaal wandering ancient Perisa speaking with a British accent?"
|
Clint O'Connor
|
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82%
|
Panique au village (A Town Called Panic) (2009)
|
"Who doesn't love giant, snowball-launching robot penguin movies? "
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Clint O'Connor
|
75%
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