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Girls! Girls! Girls!: 'Fired Up' Offers Snacks on Snacks
A shameless celebration of female nubility, Fired Up! is a peppy teen sex comedy that draws on a perfectly pitched pop music score, a bevy of scantily clad cheerleaders, and the quick-fire camaraderie of its skirt-chasing buddies.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-16-2009 |
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We're Just Not That Into Drew Barrymore's Latestnew
Greg Behrendt’s know-it-all bossiness may work for a putative self-help handbook, but it doesn’t set quite the right tone for a chick flick aimed at a generation of females who, whether they know it or not, have been sufficiently empowered by the women’s movement to want to direct their own lives.
L.A. Weekly |
Ella Taylor |
02-13-2009 |
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Tom Tykwer Zings 'The International'new
What, might you ask, is the cause of all this cloak-and-dagger skullduggery? Well, I could tell you, but then I’d have to bore you.
L.A. Weekly |
Scott Foundas |
02-13-2009 |
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Steve Martin's Career Drops to Its All-Time Lownew
It's maddening to watch somebody as gifted and funny as Steve Martin stumbling about in trash like The Pink Panther 2.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-12-2009 |
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Fungi Doc Too Goofy to Alter Mindsnew
Ron Mann's Know Your Mushrooms struggles with its own identity. Too goofy and light-hearted to be genuinely interesting but too shallow and ham-handedly "stoner-friendly" to appeal to the incense and Animal Collective set, the end result is stuck in limbo.
Fast Forward Weekly |
Patrick Doyle |
02-12-2009 |
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One Oscar-Nominated Animated Short Stands Outnew
Yes, the Japanese entry has a French title. You know why? Because fuck you and your antique sense of national boundaries, that's why. It's also, by far, the best of the lot, and if it doesn't win the Oscar, it'll just be the conclusion to an argument whose premises include Paul Blart: Mall Cop and the candidacy of Sarah Palin.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-12-2009 |
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Boy Meets Girl, European Stylenew
Moscow, Belgium, a rare Flemish crossover and award-winning romantic-comedy hit is a mix of world cinema, a typical character-driven European film with shades of American indie fare and its own authentic and unique flair.
Santa Fe Reporter |
Stephen Rubin |
02-12-2009 |
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Bankers Are the Enemy in Two Subprime Filmsnew
Your neighborhood bank may have long lines, employ irksome tellers, and consistently screw up your balance. But at least it never tries to murder you, right?
Washington City Paper |
Tricia Olszewski |
02-12-2009 |
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The Perfect Vampire Movie: 'Let the Right One In' Is Far Superior to 'Twilight'new
It is a rare movie indeed that comes across as instant horror classic, multilevel preteen wish-fulfillment fantasy and Euro-arty critical darling all at once. Rarer still that such a movie should be coming soon to a theater near you.
Charleston City Paper |
Jonathan Kiefer |
02-11-2009 |
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Bad Banks Are Back: Clive Owen and Naomi Watts Sizzle in 'The International'new
The timing of this smart, savvy thriller couldn't be better, what with its corporate-banks-are-evil theme and a hero who yells at banksters that he wants "some fucking justice." And, of course, Clive Owen is always welcome on my movie screen.
Charleston City Paper |
Maryann Johanson |
02-11-2009 |
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Movie Buzz: In Voguenew
Isla Fisher takes the lead role in the big-screen adaptation of Sophie Kinsella’s much-loved ‘Shopaholic’ series, but her love is for fashion, not men.
Metro Spirit |
Mariah Gardner |
02-11-2009 |
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'Friday the 13th' Revisits Vintage '80s Horror
Marcus Nispel proves that he knows why the franchise endures: At its core, it's less about terror than it is about comedy.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
02-10-2009 |
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Mafia Rules: Neapolitan Crime Syndicate Comes Up for Inspection
Roberto Saviano’s tell-all mafia expose provides rich narrative soil for director Matteo Garrone (The Embalmer - 2002) to weave together five stories of mob-related corruption sucking dry the Italian industrial province of Naples and its squalid suburbs and infecting the entire financial landscape of the European economy.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-09-2009 |
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'Push' Has Solid Premise But Not Much Elsenew
What Push's heroes need is super-Prozac. Instead they get one chase scene after another, as McGuigan plasters over the many plot holes with quick cuts, flashbacks, changes of film stock, and disturbing glimpses of Fanning’s milky upper thighs. It’s entertaining, in a nervous, just-ate-ten-boxes-of-Nerds kind of way.
The Georgia Straight |
Ron Yamauchi |
02-09-2009 |
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The African Diaspora and Its Beautiful Discontentsnew
The puzzlingly punctuated title of Nurse.Fighter.Boy is a tip-off that characters here are to be taken with several grains of mythopoeic salt.
The Georgia Straight |
Ken Eisner |
02-09-2009 |
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