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83%
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The Double Hour (2011)
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"What a surprise and delight then is first-timer Giuseppe Capotondi's The Double Hour."
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Sean Burns
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59%
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Centurion (2010)
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"Even for the seasoned gorehound, Marshall's films hack off body parts you've never seen hacked off before -- or ever thought you'd want to."
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Matt Prigge
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81%
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Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)
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"The only thing it proves is that nerds can be just as shallow and mean-spirited as bullies."
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Sean Burns
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86%
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Get Low (2010)
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"Overdirecting in the worst amateur fashion, Schneider hard-sells a quaint story to the point where this allegedly humble little movie feels like it's puffing out its chest all the time."
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Sean Burns
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61%
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The Concert (Le concert) (2010)
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"It's a sweet-natured, agreeable-enough diversion, with just enough high culture, rowdy comic relief and flirtations with historical import that it's comfort food for art-house patrons of a certain age. "
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Sean Burns
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81%
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Countdown to Zero (2010)
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"Between economic meltdowns and catastrophic oil spills, it's easy to forget we're still perched on the brink of nuclear annihilation, too..."
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Sean Burns
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43%
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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
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"Had I known everyone was going to play to the back row, that's where I would've sat."
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Sean Burns
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93%
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
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"It's a happy, horny movie that loves its characters and their messy human imperfections. You will, too."
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Sean Burns
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86%
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Inception (2010)
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"A huge movie full of meaty ideas and eye-popping special-effects, yet much like Dark Knight, the go-for-broke ambition becomes a bit of a grind."
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Sean Burns
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69%
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The Girl Who Played with Fire (Flickan som lekte med elden) (2010)
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"It'd be a half-hour long if she'd just pick up the damn phone and answer a question or two."
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Sean Burns
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6%
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The Last Airbender (2010)
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"I can't even tell you what this movie is about. How many more chances are we going to give this guy?"
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Sean Burns
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49%
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)
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"Continues the mopey saga of sparkly vampires, shirtless werewolves and a heroine so cloyingly vapid she makes Carrie Bradshaw seem generous and self-aware. "
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Sean Burns
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55%
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The Killer Inside Me (2010)
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"If you dig the mushy, muffled sound of a man's fist slamming into a woman's mottled face while her jawbone quietly shatters, this is the movie for you."
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Sean Burns
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80%
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Cyrus (2010)
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"John C. Reilly gives his most naturalistic, human-scaled performance since his '90s work with P.T. Anderson."
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Sean Burns
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37%
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The City of Your Final Destination (2010)
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"The film is an endearing dinosaur, more suited for a museum than a multiplex..."
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Sean Burns
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45%
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Air Doll (Kūki ningyō) (2009)
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"Here's where I'm contractually obligated to refer to her performance as 'brave,' as that's trusty film-critic shorthand for 'naked a lot.'"
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Sean Burns
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74%
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Micmacs (Micmacs ą tire-larigot) (2010)
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"For anybody worried Amelie wasn't overstylized and cutesy-poo enough, director Jean-Pierre Jeunet finally disappears completely up his own twee-hole... "
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Sean Burns
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81%
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Solitary Man (2010)
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"A bit too-neatly designed as The Ultimate Michael Douglas Experience, it's an irresistible one-man show of arrogant entitlement and aching vulnerability."
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Sean Burns
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73%
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Get Him to the Greek (2010)
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"Let's face it, a little of this guy goes a long way."
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Sean Burns
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15%
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Sex and the City 2 (2010)
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"Shoes, money, outfits, shoes, vagina, money, shoes, jewelry, outfits, money, shoes."
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Sean Burns
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29%
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Survival of the Dead (2010)
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"Feels like one of those goofy old Star Trek episodes in which Kirk and Spock go back in time to make some sort of baldly allegorical point."
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Sean Burns
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58%
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Shrek Forever After (Shrek 4) (2010)
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"I've sat through four Shrek movies. Christ, the things I do for you people."
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Sean Burns
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79%
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Mother and Child (2010)
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"You'll wonder if the message of the movie is that the process of adoption turns women into vicious hags. But that can't be right, can it?"
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Sean Burns
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87%
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Please Give (2010)
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"Nobody loves messy, human imperfections quite like writer-director Nicole Holofcener."
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Sean Burns
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74%
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Iron Man 2 (2010)
|
"You won't find a more overqualified cast this year. Then out come the CGI effects and everything becomes a yawn."
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Sean Burns
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70%
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Babies (2010)
|
"This isn't a movie. It's a screensaver."
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Sean Burns
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84%
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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010)
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"Pours a ton of genre influences into the archetypal Cuisinart, pureeing everything from chop-socky cheapies to The Road Warrior in a gargantuan, cheerfully anachronistic romp. "
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Sean Burns
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85%
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The Square (2010)
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"The Edgertons are in complete command of their craft, without bringing anything new to the party."
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Sean Burns
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76%
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Kick-Ass (2010)
|
"Finally, a comic-book superhero movie for people who are sick to death of comic-book superhero movies."
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Sean Burns
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52%
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The Greatest (2010)
|
"The title is incorrect."
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Sean Burns
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96%
|
Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers (2009)
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"Stop me if you've heard this one, but sometimes politicians get us into wars that last forever and go nowhere under false pretenses."
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Sean Burns
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95%
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Mother (Madeo) (2010)
|
"Do we laugh or do we cry? In Bong Joo-ho films, the two reactions need not be mutually exclusive."
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Sean Burns
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97%
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A Prophet (Un prophete) (2010)
|
"He's Michael Corleone for our new 'post-racial' era. The Scarface Obama."
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Sean Burns
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97%
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Ajami (2010)
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"Copti and Shani are promising talents, but they're a bit too clever for their own good."
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Sean Burns
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90%
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Fish Tank (2010)
|
"A cockney Precious with the volume turned down..."
|
Sean Burns
|
|
41%
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44 Inch Chest (2010)
|
"A smashingly acted but dramatically thin expose of men behaving badly that isn't nearly as revelatory as it seems to think it is."
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Sean Burns
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20%
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Legion (2010)
|
"Oh, what a wacky bunch of stereotypes in this diner! There's a rich guy, a black person and even Dennis Quaid!"
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Sean Burns
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85%
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The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) (2009)
|
"National Socialism: The Prequel."
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Sean Burns
|
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48%
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The Book of Eli (2010)
|
"It is nice to know that even after the apocalypse, people will still be listening to Al Green."
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Sean Burns
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|
33%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009)
|
"Peter Jackson is an infant sitting at the grown-ups table, and this proves once and for all he has no business making movies for adults."
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Sean Burns
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|
91%
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Crazy Heart (2009)
|
"Bridges raises the bar (har-har) for being shafaced onscreen, stumbling and vomiting his way to the stage in podunk clubs...""
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Sean Burns
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68%
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Youth in Revolt (2010)
|
"Michael Cera's act got old awful fast, didn't it?"
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Sean Burns
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64%
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)
|
"Terry Gilliam can't catch a break."
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Sean Burns
|
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70%
|
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
|
""The most pleasant surprise I've had at the movies since Star Trek.""
|
Sean Burns
|
|
56%
|
It's Complicated (2009)
|
"Meyers doesn't have to do much besides put these silly dynamos next to one another and let them enjoy riffing."
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Sean Burns
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37%
|
Nine (2009)
|
"Fellini is lucky that he didn't live long enough to see this."
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Sean Burns
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|
83%
|
Avatar (2009)
|
"The movie looks like the kind of gaudy, 1970s airbrush painting you'd see on a van owned by your stoner friend who goes to too many Rush concerts."
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Sean Burns
|
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75%
|
Invictus (2009)
|
"Freeman's Mandela is deeply flawed, single-minded when it comes to his job, and has a way with one-liners. In short, he's an Eastwood hero."
|
Sean Burns
|
|
85%
|
Me and Orson Welles (2009)
|
"The only problem is the me."
|
Sean Burns
|
|
91%
|
Up in the Air (2009)
|
"One of the things that makes George Clooney a great movie star is that he's always letting us know just how much fun he's having being George Clooney."
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Sean Burns
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