Ninja Assassin (2009)

RATING (0 to ****): **With promises of the next "Shoot 'Em Up", the Wachowski Brothers give us "Ninja Assassin", directed by their Second Unit man James McTeigue. It's a film that promises a lot of blood, and there is a lot of it. Most of it is CGI (think Takeshi Kitano's... More

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Brothers (2009)

RATING (0 to ****): *1/2Welcome to Oscar season, which is appropriately bleak and pessimistic given the low quality of this year's movies. While "Precious" continues to be overhyped and overpraised, Jim Sheridan's remake of Danish film "Brothers" is just another indicator... More

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The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day (2009)

RATING (0 to ****): *. . .I apologize for the lack of full review, as there's not much I can really say in a fair trial of Troy Duffy's "The Boondock Saints II: All Saints Day", except that it's a very lovely title for a vigilante flick. The film goes through tons of... More

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Precious: Based on the Novel PUSH by Sapphire (2009)

RATING (0 to ****): *1/2A forewarning: if you did not like the trailers of one of this year's most acclaimed movies, which is praised for its allegedly touching story and supposedly outstanding performances from its eclectic cast, for the reason that you thought it looked... More

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Best Movies of the 2000s

Although most of this decade has been spent in excessive nostalgia (mostly for the 80s), it was not without a bulk of great, highly memorable cinema. Filing this list down to 10 was incredibly hard and I ended up having to throw out some new favorites for...

1. WALL-E (2008)
2. Metropolis (2002)
3. Punch-Drunk Love (2002)
4. Before Sunset (2004)
5. The Descent (2006)

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The Best and Worst Films of the 2000s

Now's that crazy time of the decade where people don't give a shit that the millennium actually started in 2001, not 2000 (which was when the world was supposed to end, although the apocalypse was promptly postponed another 12 years.... More

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