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01/09/09 |
Moderate |
 "...pretends to be a satire of wedding mania, but since there's virtually nothing else to the movie, the satire comes depressingly close to endorsement." |
| 2. |
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01/16/09 |
Fair |
 "Marking its territory in the mind-boggling middle ground between 'Schindler's List' and 'Beverly Hills Chihuahua'... There are still cuddly pups and piddle jokes aplenty." |
| 3. |
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01/16/09 |
Poor |
 "It all makes you want to see a Bollywood movie, all right -- a good one." |
| 4. |
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01/16/09 |
Very Good |
 "...a churchy dramedy about a young African-American couple... Laughter through tears is director Bill Duke's M.O., and he hits the bull's-eye of that modest target." |
| 5. |
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01/16/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the movie morphs into a loopy heist thriller after a promising start as something entirely different: a gentle comedy of suburban underachievement." |
| 6. |
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01/16/09 |
Good |
 "...comes across like a Jewish Exorcist.... David S. Goyer has penned many scripts superior to this one, but he does make sure you're never far away from a big 'Boo!' " |
| 7. |
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01/16/09 |
Moderate |
 "...a glacial tale of adultery, features a 'miraculous' climax -- it mingles the living and the dead -- ripped off from Carl Dreyer's 'Ordet' (1955), one of the great religious films." |
| 8. |
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01/16/09 |
Excellent |
 "...a luridly unapologetic trip through the violence, hunger, verbal bravado, and money fever of the hip-hop world, which it views as both liberating and destructive." |
| 9. |
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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." |
| 10. |
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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." |
| 11. |
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01/23/09 |
Very Good |
 "Nothing moves quickly in German writer-director Doris Dörrie's plaintive drama... will reward patient viewers." |
| 12. |
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01/23/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...the fact that the psycho's weapon of choice is a pickax does lend itself to the 3-D treatment. But what really leaps out at you about the film is its lack of imagination." |
| 13. |
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01/23/09 |
Poor |
 "The first 20 minutes look like an Abercrombie & Fitch ad... this predictable film wouldn't be effective anywhere outside a DARE program." |
| 14. |
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01/29/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...humorless, scare-free... Michael Sheen and Bill Nighy do their best with the material, but this is easily the worst 'Underworld' so far." |
| 15. |
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01/30/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a propulsively outlandish thriller... Neeson -- a hulk with jackknife limbs -- makes Jason Bourne look like a man of tired reflexes." |
| 16. |
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01/30/09 |
Poor |
 "Horror standbys like mangled corpses and stone-faced children pop up regularly, but sibling directors Charles and Thomas Guard haven't quite nailed the genre's rhythms..." |
| 17. |
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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'..." |
| 18. |
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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." |
| 19. |
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02/06/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...turns romantic sanity into something so sanitized that it starts to make delusion look good." |
| 20. |
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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." |
