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12/18/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the film's 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 when the maid passes out while serving breakfast to her employers." |
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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." |
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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." |
| 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 |
 "Abetted by an observant cast, debut director Cherien Dabis navigates across politically and emotionally fraught terrain with a warming inflection of humor and a mother-hen's attention to the needs of all of her characters." |
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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.' 'The Girlfriend Experience' has something to elevate and exasperate fans of both." |
| 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; the training reveals itself through 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, which is what you do when your reserves of wit are bankrupt." |
