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01/23/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a short, beautiful, characteristically sublime memory piece by the great British auteur Terence Davies.... Davies is adored by those who adore him, and clearly I'm one." |
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01/23/09 |
Very Good |
 "I had the distinct sensation of being a young bookworm again, falling into a world as vividly real as it is impossible." |
| 3. |
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01/30/09 |
Very Good |
 "How much do I want to believe in America 2.0 as a place where a Suit might help factory workers survive hard times? Enough to swallow 'New In Town'..." |
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02/06/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a high point in Henry Selick's career of creating handcrafted wonderlands of beauty blended with deep, disconcerting creepiness." |
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02/06/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "Real-life fanboys know that the release of this mildly cute, mildly drooly, majorly too late spoof/homage has been delayed for more than two years." |
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02/06/09 |
Moderate |
 "...some folks born with telekinetic powers face off against shady government types who want to harness those powers to build an army of, I don't know..." |
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02/13/09 |
Good |
 "...the star of the pic may well be NYC's Guggenheim Museum and Istanbul's Grand Bazaar, both of which figure in cool action chase sequences..." |
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02/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "The great Polish director Andrzej Wajda musters the power of classical filmmaking and personal emotional investment to dramatize a stunning atrocity long covered up." |
| 9. |
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02/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Don't look for resolution, romanticism, or comic relief in this underworld tour... Instead, there's the power of damning truth." |
| 10. |
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02/27/09 |
Good |
 "...not much happens in Disney Digital 3-D that couldn't have happened in Disney Five Minutes Ago 2-D..." |
| 11. |
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02/27/09 |
Excellent |
 "...absorbing, undeniably troubling... Morgan Dews stitches together the elements of an American family undone by drink, infidelity, and the mid-20th-century blues." |
| 12. |
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03/13/09 |
Good |
 "...the makers of 'Sunshine Cleaning' aren't exactly subtle about their recycled ideas..." |
| 13. |
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03/13/09 |
Excellent |
 "...celebrates the bluesy, soul-baring Portuguese musical genre known as fado.... artful... uses Lisbon as a backdrop and incorporates dance as well as live music..." |
| 14. |
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03/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Kiyoshi Kurosawa finds just the right melancholy tone to suit a new and all too familiar kind of horror: economic downsizing." |
| 15. |
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03/20/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a disturbingly avid re-creation of the last six weeks in the life and slow, self-imposed wasting of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands (Fassbender)..." |
| 16. |
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03/20/09 |
Very Good |
 " 'Duplicity' doesn't have depth -- but it does have Julia Roberts... benefits from prescription-strength chemistry between leading lady and leading man." |
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03/27/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...follows the luxury-loving pooh-bah and his indispensable, since-forever lover and business partner, Giancarlo Giammetti, through a season of magical dresses..." |
| 18. |
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03/27/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "No one is spared the film's constant ingratiating gobbling and repurposing of humor, attitudes, and pop cultural references better appreciated in their original forms..." |
| 19. |
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03/27/09 |
Poor |
 "...a misshapen adaptation... A painfully miscast Sarah Jessica Parker nervously flips her hair and waves her hands, sitcom-style..." |
| 20. |
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04/03/09 |
Excellent |
 "...a warm tone, along with the picture's bright, saturated, anti-CGI look, is a welcome respite from jokes, irony, and the postmodern malaise of know-it-all-ness." |
