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	Title Critic	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	Tennessee Tim Grierson	12/04/08	Fair	"...never quite summons up enough energy for the rest of us, who are along for the ride."
2.	$9.99 Ella Taylor	12/11/08	Good	"With writer Etgar Keret you never know where laughter ends and heartbreak begins, and so it is with these lost souls..."
3.	Gomorrah Ella Taylor	01/08/09	Outstanding	"...visceral but disciplined and beautifully acted movie... to devastating effect..."
4.	Bride Wars Robert Wilonsky	01/08/09	Poor	"An 88-minute film that feels as though it'll last till July..."
5.	Yonkers Joe Michelle Orange	01/08/09	Moderate	"In terms of inspiration, 'Yonkers Joe' breaks about even with its eponym."
6.	The Unborn Nick Pinkerton	01/08/09	Poor	"Tune out the battle royale bombast, and start wondering where to eat after the movie."
7.	Not Easily Broken Scott Foundas	01/08/09	Weak	"...played to the rafters for an unsteady mixture of Sirkian melodrama and 'You go, girl!'/'Oh, no, he didn't!' empowerment fable."
8.	Tracing Cowboys Ernest Hardy	01/08/09	Moderate	"David Morrison's cinematography gives 'Tracing' a meditative beauty. The rest of Jason Wulfsohn's sophomore feature, inspired by and constantly referencing John Ford's 'The Searchers,' is a little less successful."
9.	Notorious Robert Wilonsky	01/15/09	Good	"...thoroughly inoffensive... produced by Biggie's mom and executive-produced by Combs, who do just enough to burnish the legend without tarnishing it."
10.	Chandni Chowk to China David Chute	01/15/09	Fair	"If you're going to kick somebody with those feet, yaar, you've got to be able to see them when you look down."
11.	Hotel for Dogs Ella Taylor	01/15/09	Fair	"...the premise appears to have been slapped together on the back of a napkin, then pitched to a roomful of exhausted executives banging out the January release slate."
12.	Paul Blart: Mall Cop Luke Thompson	01/15/09	Weak	"...the movie briefly sputters to life when the passive policeman-in-training actually has to fight, and becomes a badass for a second or two."
13.	Owl and the Sparrow Tim Grierson	01/15/09	Very Good	"...might convince you that you've seen this movie before -- and, more importantly, that you don't want to see it again. Still, don't let that discourage you..."
14.	Inkheart Nick Pinkerton	01/21/09	Moderate	"...every concession's been made to keep the book's big cast of characters relatively intact while condensing 535 pages from the English-language hardcover..."
15.	Donkey Punch Nick Pinkerton	01/22/09	Fair	"...a workmanlike thriller that works as an (unconscious?) autocritique of mainstreamed Internet-age hedonism..."
16.	My Bloody Valentine 3-D Jim Ridley	01/22/09	Fair	"There's no excitement or terror in watching the 3-D execution of 2-D actors giving 1-D performances..."
17.	Prometheus Triumphant: A Fugue in the Key of Flesh Kristi Mitsuda	01/22/09	Fair	"...sets lofty goals for itself but fails to find an original entry point or live up to its objectives.... the naturalism of the nudity doesn't gel with the otherwise overdrawn aping of silent cinema aesthetics, and so it gives off a stilted rather than sexual aura."
18.	Growing Out Chuck Wilson	01/22/09	Good (Not Great)	"...screenwriter Garett Ratliff and director Graham Ratliff fritter away the comic potential of their setup.... Well produced but overlong, 'Growing Out' feels like a labor of love made by young filmmakers in need of a stern screenwriting professor."
19.	The Lodger Ella Taylor	01/22/09	Poor	"David Ondaatje, a first-time writer-director (and nephew of novelist Michael Ondaatje), is blessed with little technical skill and fewer ideas in his style-obsessed head..."
20.	Serbis J. Hoberman	01/28/09	Very Good	"For all its gross-outs, 'Serbis' is an essentially modernist enterprise in which figure and ground, character-driven narrative and celluloid spectacle, are in continual flux."

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