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01/08/09 |
Moderate |
 "Is there anyone old enough to care about weddings and naive enough to believe 'Bride Wars'?" |
| 2. |
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01/15/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a sweet, innocent family movie.... Friday, the Jack Russell terrier who's the leader of the pack, does more acting than most of the humans, and doesn't even get billing." |
| 3. |
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01/15/09 |
Moderate |
 "...will appeal to the large Indian audiences in North America and to Bollywood fans... I don't know a whole lot about Bollywood, but even I could name better possibilities." |
| 4. |
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01/15/09 |
Very Good |
 "Everything is a sitcom until Officer Blart goes into action, in an astonishingly inventive cat-and-mouse chase past myriad product placements, all of which find uses." |
| 5. |
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01/15/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a good film in many ways... shows how talent can lift a kid up off the street corner, but can't protect him in a culture of violence." |
| 6. |
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01/22/09 |
Moderate |
 "Lots of screams, horrible fates almost happening, close scrapes, cries for help, special effects, monomania, quick thinking, pluck, fear and scrambling." |
| 7. |
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01/22/09 |
Moderate |
 "...interesting as a collision of genres: the monster movie meets the Viking saga.... give it credit for carrying that premise to its ultimate (if not logical) conclusion." |
| 8. |
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01/29/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "It's always a puzzle to review a movie like this. On the one hand, it's preposterous.... On the other hand, it's very well-made." |
| 9. |
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01/29/09 |
Very Good |
 "...a well-crafted film that weaves a story not as predictable as it might seem.... When a movie like this is done well, it's uncommon. 'The Uninvited' is done well." |
| 10. |
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01/29/09 |
Moderate |
 "J.K. Simmons has grown a bushy beard... A bushy beard is the enemy of an actor's face unless he is playing Santa or attacking with a chain saw." |
| 11. |
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02/05/09 |
Very Good |
 "Credit is due to those who backed this film.... I wonder if Selick's approach would be suited to films for grown-ups adapted from stories by August Derleth or Stephen King." |
| 12. |
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02/05/09 |
Weak |
 "...an amiable but disjointed movie that identifies too closely with its heroes. Poking a little more fun at them would have been a great idea." |
| 13. |
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02/05/09 |
Moderate |
 "...a very far from perfect movie... Stop reading now because I am going to complain that most of its stories have happy endings. Not in the real world, they don't." |
| 14. |
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02/05/09 |
Weak |
 "I'm blasted if I know what it's about... It's like you're listening to shop talk in a shop that doesn't make anything you've ever seen." |
| 15. |
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02/05/09 |
Moderate |
 "I was smiling all the way through the opening credits... As the movie began, my smile faded. The actors are let down by the screenplay and direction..." |
| 16. |
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02/12/09 |
Moderate |
 "You're not planning to see this, and you wonder why anyone else is.... Anyone who thinks they can drown Jason Voorhees for the fifth time is a cockeyed optimist." |
| 17. |
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02/12/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "I like 'Confessions of a Shopaholic' about as much as I disliked 'Sex and the City.' Both are about clueless women, but this one knows it." |
| 18. |
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02/12/09 |
Very Good |
 "I enjoyed 'The International.' Clive Owen makes a semi-believable hero... As the plucky DA, Naomi Watts wisely plays up her character's legal smarts..." |
| 19. |
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02/19/09 |
Outstanding |
 "What an anguished story it tells, of a marriage from hell.... I watched this film horrified and fascinated. There is such raw pain here." |
| 20. |
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02/19/09 |
Outstanding |
 "...a vigorous thriller from Denmark that tells the classic noir story of a flawed cop trapped between a good wife and a bad woman.... The eternal triangle turns complex..." |
