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12/18/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the most authentic source of power comes from its star. Cruz has the self-mocking ability to fully inhabit her astonishing beauty and send it up in the same moment..." |
| 2. |
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10/30/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...finds the matriarch of a bourgeois Chilean household happily doing the dishes for her live-in servant and is later called upon to come to her rescue..." |
| 3. |
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10/23/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the squirm factor achieved by the Yes Men out-Borats Sacha Baron Cohen at his most confrontational." |
| 4. |
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10/23/09 |
Weak |
 "Jaa has erected a portentous platform for his high-flying athleticism, bearing none of the freewheeling spirit or humor that made his feature debut a guiltless pleasure." |
| 5. |
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10/02/09 |
Fair |
 "Riding a comforting crest of Latin-inflected folk music, this indulgent, postcard-pleasant documentary piles uneventful reminiscences atop studio home movies." |
| 6. |
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09/25/09 |
Good |
 "You've seen this story before, if not lived it yourself.... Dabis navigates across politically and emotionally fraught terrain with a warming inflection of humor..." |
| 7. |
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08/14/09 |
Moderate |
 "...you can't help but admire a horror movie that prompts us to wonder how vampires with a surplus of blood got by before the advent of Tupperware." |
| 8. |
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07/24/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...radiates with the sheen of a film that has been thought out within an inch of its witty and bountifully insightful life." |
| 9. |
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07/17/09 |
Good |
 "If the filmmakers do little to expand the vocabulary of the genre, they enhance our appreciation of that most undervalued sector of the American workforce, the city schoolteacher." |
| 10. |
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06/26/09 |
Poor |
 "...the worst kind of exploitive Hollywood melodrama, presented under the virtuous guise of moral outrage." |
| 11. |
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06/05/09 |
Weak |
 "...a brash and trashy romantic comedy that makes 'My Big Fat Greek Wedding' look like an exercise in restraint." |
| 12. |
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05/22/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Soderbergh taps into the nervy impulses of his earliest endeavor, 'sex, lies and videotape' as well as 'Ocean's Eleven.' " |
| 13. |
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05/01/09 |
Poor |
 "The relentless vulgarities would be almost tolerable if they were amusing, but Mark Waters's direction is so tentative that the film's single laugh happens over an hour in." |
| 14. |
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04/10/09 |
Fair |
 "It is as if the director had studied the comedies of Eric Rohmer and Woody Allen from top to bottom and come away with all the wrong lessons." |
| 15. |
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04/03/09 |
Moderate |
 "Those who fondly recall 'The Blob' would seem to be the crowd for a fastidious pastiche that attempts to coax laughs by maintaining a poker face." |
| 16. |
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03/13/09 |
Excellent |
 "Johnson is that rare sports-world emigre to the big screen: beefcake with an unerring instinct for the absurd... He is a sly delight..." |
| 17. |
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02/27/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Garrone was a painter before becoming a filmmaker... this reveals itself in stark images in which characters seem to get swallowed up by an unforgiving environment." |
| 18. |
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02/20/09 |
Poor |
 "...shackled by an oppressive penchant for snark and a glib tendency to reference older and infinitely better movies.... Will Gluck directs with frantic, go-for-broke pacing..." |
