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'Every Little Step' Is a Life-Affirming Look at Performancenew
Every Little Step, the absorbing documentary about the 2006 revival of the Broadway hit A Chorus Line — in other words, a movie about the casting of a musical that's about actors auditioning for a musical — is a rabbit hole well worth tumbling down.
The Memphis Flyer |
Addison Engelking |
06-26-2009 |
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Tedious Exposition Slows Michael Bay and His Toys in the 'Transformers' Sequelnew
Everything is bigger, bolder and badder in Revenge of the Fallen, and if it weren't for the endless, clumsily delivered exposition, the film would work like gangbusters as the ultimate garish escapism.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'Cheri' Works as a Wax Museum of Genresnew
It takes a prim-and-properness that few Americans can fathom to make an R-rated film about a hooker and her lover and not display heaps of sweat-covered skin, but that's the headspace that master Stephen Frears inhabits in Cheri.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'Away We Go' Is Chicken Soup for the Hipster Soulnew
Away We Go is an unequivocal triumph for Sam Mendes, above all else because the honest moment he uncovers amidst this series of vignettes packs a wallop.
Orlando Weekly |
Justin Strout |
06-25-2009 |
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'Sin Nombre' Gets an Under-Told Story Rightnew
Its utter lack of romanticism about riding the rails doesn't preclude Sin Nombre from finding heart in the land it traverses or between its characters.
Arkansas Times |
Sam Eifling |
06-25-2009 |
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Bullock and Reynolds Have Great Chemistry, But the Movie Around Them Falls Apartnew
Hopefully, The Proposal won't be the only time Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds share the screen—because the movie isn't half as good as the stars occupying it.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
06-25-2009 |
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A Perfectly Charming Rom-Com Couplenew
Away We Go is no masterpiece, and it aims far lower than it thinks it does, but for all that, it's passably decent.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
06-25-2009 |
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'Little Ashes' Burns Time Instead of Blazingnew
Little Ashes is as pretty as an illustrated picture book, with wind-blown fields of Andalusian grass and gorgeous cliff-side seascapes, but has only about as much to say.
Boise Weekly |
Jeremiah Wierenga |
06-24-2009 |
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'Objectified''s Subjects Plot a User-Friendly Universenew
Gary Hustwit's Objectified is more an appreciation than a critique of something utterly ubiquitous -- in this case product design -- and a few stellar personalities behind it.
San Francisco Bay Guardian |
Dennis Harvey |
06-24-2009 |
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Michael Bay Pimps His Transformers Ridenew
The sequel to 2007's Transformers is measurably better, simply by virtue of its utter commitment to spectacle.
Willamette Week |
Aaron Mesh |
06-24-2009 |
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An Outrage Porn and a Decorously Hammy Frou-Frounew
The Stoning of Soraya M. is cheap and degrading and it stinks from here to Tehran. Meanwhile, Cheri is an insubstantial bit of fluff.
East Bay Express |
Kelly Vance |
06-24-2009 |
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'My Sister's Keeper' Turns on the Waterworks
Nick Cassavetes' three-hankie weepy lurches during moments of music-video sequences, and gratuitous voice-over narration from members of the Fitzgerald family as they struggle with their terminally ill daughter Kate (well played by Sofia Vassilieva).
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
06-22-2009 |
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'The Last International Playboy': Peter Pan as Serial Daternew
Starting like Girls Gone Wild and finishing more like Jay McInerney, this indie tale of a rake's progress is considerably sweeter than the marketing and early scenes would indicate.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-22-2009 |
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'Food, Inc.': Michael Pollan Tells Us How to Eatnew
Problem is, no matter how much many viewers will (inevitably) agree with all the eat-local, food-miles, and change-big-agribusiness arguments here, we've already had a stomachful from prior books and films. Who else is this movie trying to reach?
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
06-22-2009 |
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'Away We Go': A Journey Through Life With Baggagenew
See it for the many lovely performances, although the film's vision of Gen-Y nesting is liable to leave you up a tree.
Austin Chronicle |
Marjorie Baumgarten |
06-19-2009 |
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