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01/07/09 |
Moderate |
 "Lahti burns through a thinly written role with a surprising level of warmth... Palminteri looks tired of twitching his shoulders and working a pompadour in two-bit roles like this." |
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01/08/09 |
Moderate |
"In terms of inspiration, 'Yonkers Joe' breaks about even with its eponym." |
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01/14/09 |
Good |
 "...watching these women perform is a striking lesson in ballet's rigorous aesthetic alchemy -- and the extreme, exquisite individualism that prevails." |
| 4. |
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02/18/09 |
Excellent |
 "...attempts to address the generational, economic, and religious problems dividing modern India... it does so in an unapologetically broad, whacked-out way..." |
| 5. |
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02/19/09 |
Excellent |
"...it's pretty much irresistible and, in that sense, represents the enigmatic India of today as well as anything ever could." |
| 6. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
02/26/09 |
Good |
"A roomful of topless 10-year-old girls leap and pointe for their lives, then each one is flexed and patted down, like a thoroughbred colt, before an affectless panel." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
02/26/09 |
Excellent |
"...each of Bollywood's four food groups (corn, cheese, treacle, and nuts) present and accounted for." |
| 8. |
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03/04/09 |
Outstanding |
 "Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008... masterful, engrossing..." |
| 9. |
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03/05/09 |
Outstanding |
"...the movement toward consensus raises the richly complicated question of how to decide not only what is right but what is best." |
| 10. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/05/09 |
Outstanding |
"Nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 2008..." |
| 11. |
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04/01/09 |
Moderate |
 "...lightweight... winds up focusing on the least interesting/most predictable tension of them all, that which arises between herself and her handpicked, inflexible star." |
| 12. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
04/02/09 |
Moderate |
"Churchill grows impatient for her subject's big breakthrough.... you get the feeling the director wants to tell her Godless charge not to choke on it." |
| 13. |
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04/15/09 |
Very Good |
 "The endless tableaux of mundane activity, petty disappointment, and failed interaction bear cumulative fruit; Zhang holds his series of quotidian moments long enough for small pockets of fear and longing to be emptied slowly..." |
| 14. |
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04/16/09 |
Moderate |
"...friendly, lightweight... the director winds up focusing on the least interesting/most predictable tension." |
| 15. |
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04/16/09 |
Good |
"...watching these women perform is a striking lesson in ballet's rigorous aesthetic alchemy and the extreme, exquisite individualism that prevails." |
| 16. |
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04/22/09 |
Good |
 "...provides thorough, balanced, often playful evidence of the perverted educational ecosystem of Manhattan's upper-crust parents. They insist they have no choice..." |
| 17. |
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04/29/09 |
Moderate |
 "The tension between wanting to root for these women and ultimately being faced with what you're rooting for (a pair of pinwheeling boobies) goes completely unresolved." |
| 18. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
05/07/09 |
Poor |
 "The ensemble cast includes Donald Faison as a pothead deliveryman who mistakenly delivers a massive cocaine drop to two ineffectual thugs (Mike Epps and Wood Harris)." |
| 19. |
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05/08/09 |
Poor |
"...a skeletally plotted story of a drug shipment gone awry... 'Next Day Air' is a straight shot up the middle." |
| 20. |
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05/14/09 |
Poor |
"...a sort of Keystone Cops sequence of events is set into motion. Except there are no cops, not much farcical energy, and none of the satiric edge it would take to pull off the film's grim denouement." |
