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	Title Critic	Review Date	Rating	Quote
1.	2012 Bob Mondello	11/13/09	Poor	"There's perhaps 40 minutes of cheesy but genuinely spectacular special effects -- the stuff you came for -- and two additional hours of painfully idiotic plot."
2.	A Single Man Bob Mondello	12/11/09	Outstanding	"An exquisite, almost sensual grief suffuses every frame of 'A Single Man.' "
3.	Angels & Demons Bob Mondello	05/15/09	Fair	"...there's only so much Ron Howard can do with novelist Dan Brown's genuinely idiotic plotline..."
4.	Animal Kingdom Bob Mondello	08/13/10	Excellent	"Welcome to the jungle, suburban style: white picket fences and beasts of prey.... its gangster conventions feel as if they're in the service of a modern-day Greek tragedy."
5.	Best Worst Movie Bob Mondello	05/14/10	Moderate	"Celebrity's tough to let go of, apparently, even when you know it's undeserved. Best Worst Movie doesn't plumb that thought very deeply..."
6.	Broken Embraces Bob Mondello	11/20/09	Excellent	"...what you might term a lushly tragic lark -- a heartfelt, if not quite heartbreaking, paean to romance and to the romance of cinema."
7.	Brothers Bob Mondello	12/04/09	Very Good	"Sheridan takes his time establishing characters, works nuances rather than plot twists, and avoids histrionics... when the emotional fireworks come, they're explosive."
8.	Brüno Bob Mondello	07/10/09	Good	"...when things feel real, they can get scary-real... pretty bleeping funny."
9.	Buried Bob Mondello	09/24/10	Good	"...there is never a shot outside the box. If your point is to keep things tight, you have to have the courage of your restrictions."
10.	Clash of the Titans Bob Mondello	04/02/10	Fair	"Everything's bigger and louder and faster, and if much of the action is therefore incoherent, the 'Transformers' crowd is going to be cool enough with that."
11.	Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs Bob Mondello	09/18/09	Excellent	"...brings some real-world crunch to the story.... the filmmakers have also served up a little food for thought, along with a lot of laughs."
12.	Coraline Bob Mondello	02/07/09	Excellent	"...the first stop-motion film to be actually conceived in 3-D, so it's worth finding a theater playing it that way, so you can get the full effect..."
13.	Creation Bob Mondello	01/22/10	Very Good	"...sharp central performances... arresting visuals... if the film takes some liberties, they generally make sense dramatically... has ample grace on its side."
14.	Cyrus Bob Mondello	06/18/10	Very Good	"...a squirmy kind of comedy that's all about the awkward situations real people find themselves in.... the vibe stays down-to-earth and almost entirely unpredictable."
15.	Departures Bob Mondello	05/29/09	Excellent	"...a delightful surprise, at once an engaging dramedy and an eloquent social statement..."
16.	Despicable Me Bob Mondello	07/09/10	Good	"...agreeably offbeat... It's all thoroughly adorable... with a retro afterglow."
17.	Earth (2009) Bob Mondello	04/22/09	Very Good	"...features footage from the televised nature series, 'Planet Earth.' But when a subject is as big as all outdoors, the big screen has some advantages."
18.	Easy A Bob Mondello	09/19/10	Very Good	"...in most high-school comedies, the high jinks tend to be so lowbrow that even a nod in a literary direction deserves extra credit."
19.	Easy Virtue Bob Mondello	05/23/09	Moderate	"...the director treats the story throughout as the melodrama it always was underneath -- the tale of a hypocritical family and a lady with a past..."
20.	Every Little Step Bob Mondello	04/17/09	Excellent	"A briskly self-aware, thoroughly stage-struck portrait of a theatrical portrait."

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