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09/11/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "In 50 years, film lovers will look back on '9' as the debut feature of an original talent." |
| 2. |
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11/19/10 |
Outstanding |
 "It takes a particular talent to build an action movie around a static figure literally stuck between rock and hard place. Boyle has the gift." |
| 3. |
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04/17/09 |
Very Good |
 "Thomas Lennon and Melora Hardin provide some comic relief as Mike's nerdy friend and the fetching high school principal on whom he nurses a crush.... mildly diverting." |
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02/06/09 |
Good |
 "The animation nominees are more diverse, and involving, than their live-action counterparts." |
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02/19/10 |
Very Good |
 "Darkness and disaster loom large in this year's selection of five Academy Award-nominated live-action shorts.... Nevertheless, there are glints of humor here..." |
| 6. |
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11/13/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a preposterously diverting, instantly forgettable, big-screen video game." |
| 7. |
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03/16/12 |
Very Good |
 "...this potty-mouthed and drug-laced reimagining of the 1980s TV show has one of the highest laughs-per-minute ratios since the 'Naked Gun' films." |
| 8. |
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09/30/11 |
Very Good |
 "Levitt, the definition of nuance, is touching, funny, and fierce - an unusual combination of moods, but deeply affecting." |
| 9. |
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07/15/11 |
Outstanding |
 "...a compassionate character study of a man modeling the values of heart, hard work, self-respect, and self-reliance to his spawn." |
| 10. |
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10/16/09 |
Very Good |
 "...unsettling, shaggy, surrealistic pillow of a movie - a mixed bag more funny-strange than ha-ha..." |
| 11. |
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02/04/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a deadpan comedy best described as the Coen Brothers Norwegian style... Like its star, Molander's film walks the line between funny ha-ha and funny awkward." |
| 12. |
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11/04/11 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...nearly as funny as the first and funnier than the second... succeeds in its heroic quest to leave no stoner unturned. Think of it as 'Airplane!' with controlled substances." |
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09/17/10 |
Very Good |
 "China's greatest living director chose to remake the Coen Brothers' 'Blood Simple' in feudal China. The result is akin to using a frayed shoestring to make a silk purse." |
| 14. |
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05/22/09 |
Very Good |
 "Egoyan's most affecting film since 'The Sweet Hereafter'..." |
| 15. |
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04/22/11 |
Very Good |
 "Though G-rated, I don't think it's suitable for those under 6, and they should be prepared for real animal behavior. But it's deeply involving and primally moving." |
| 16. |
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03/05/10 |
Very Good |
 "Carroll purists are likely to dismiss this 'Alice' as spuriouser and spuriouser. But who expects a faithful adaptation of a literary classic from Timothy Beetlejuice?" |
| 17. |
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10/23/09 |
Very Good |
 "Though this traditional story about a defiantly nontraditional woman doesn't always soar, it fits Hilary Swank, its producer/star, like a jumpsuit." |
| 18. |
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10/23/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Disarming and unexpectedly poignant... contrasts the knowledge learned in school with that learned from life." |
| 19. |
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05/15/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "The sequel is a little like 'CSI: Vatican City' - a professor and a physicist search for a stolen casket of antimatter before it blows St. Peter's to kingdom come." |
| 20. |
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10/28/11 |
Moderate |
 "...an airless, bilious, endless pageant of pseudohistory." |
