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The Remake of a Fantastic South Korean Fright Flick Does Not Live Up to the Originalnew
The Uninvited is relatively useless to those who watched and loved the original, but audiences new to the story might get a few good chills out of it.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-05-2009 |
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Animated Documentary 'Waltz With Bashir' Works Well on Every Levelnew
Waltz With Bashir is about the process of coming to remember, and how we should present those memories. In the way it acknowledges its own myopia and self-concern, it's one of the most honest and innovative films of the millennium.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-05-2009 |
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The 'Underworld' Prequel Drives a Stake Into the Franchisenew
Lots of incomprehensible action, kooky color contact lenses and some horribly stilted line deliveries make this the year's first really, really bad movie.
Tucson Weekly |
Bob Grimm |
02-05-2009 |
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Dazzling Design and Solid Storytelling Propel the Animated 'Azur and Asmar'new
Movie reviewers like to use the word "dazzling" to describe things like Steven Spielberg's scrotum and the Treaty of Westphalia, but here it is indicative of a visual spectacle that so absorbs the eye that one cannot look away.
Tucson Weekly |
James DiGiovanna |
02-05-2009 |
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Cash Documentary Says Nothing Newnew
Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison is not especially penetrating; it's more of a puff piece using archival photographs and current-day interviews.
The Portland Mercury |
Ned Lannamann |
02-05-2009 |
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'He's Just Not that Into You': The Longest, Most Unnecessarily Complicated Chick Flick Evernew
He's Just Not That Into You looks like a fun, awesome chick flick, and parts of it live up to that promise —- but unfortunately, this bitch is long, and by the time it finally ended, it felt more grueling than any bad date I've ever had.
The Portland Mercury |
Alison Hallett |
02-05-2009 |
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'Memorial Day': Boned and Readynew
Memorial Day displays major cojones with its graphic depiction of human brutality, but its in-your-face didacticism comes with loads of naivete.
New York Press |
Eric Kohn |
02-05-2009 |
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'Fanboys': Honoring Geek Eruditionnew
Dull social commentators compare Star Wars to religion, but Fanboys commemorates how crazily fans anticipated the opening of Star Wars Episode I:The Phantom Menace. Fanboys is actually about the sweetness of innocuous/inane adolescent passion.
New York Press |
Armond White |
02-05-2009 |
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Scintillating 'Coraline' Opens a Case of Curious Buttonsnew
Henry Selick, who also directed Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, presents an ingenious fusion of delicate stop-motion animation and splashy 3-D gimmickry.
Creative Loafing (Atlanta) |
Curt Holman |
02-04-2009 |
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The Passion of the Ram: 'The Wrestler'new
The Wrestler is a moving character study, featuring an amazing lead performance from Mickey Rourke.
Little Big Man: 'Notorious'new
Biggie Smalls' large life is reduced to a by-the-numbers biopic in Notorious.
Claude Miller Themes the Holocaust With Some Tact and Family Dramanew
Leave it to the French to show Hollywood how to tastefully handle the Holocaust. While far from perfect, Claude Miller's affecting and intimate family drama A Secret captures the complexities and challenges of being a Jew in France in the run-up to World War II.
Metro Times |
Jeff Meyers |
02-03-2009 |
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Insulting Sellers: Steve Martin and Company Cash In Again
The second installment in the "Pink Panther" do-over franchise is enough to make you wish that the ghost of Peter Sellers would come back to haunt every human and animal that contributed to what amounts to cinematic sacrilege.
City Pulse |
Cole Smithey |
02-02-2009 |
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Tags: Harald Zwart, The Pink Panther 2
'Coraline' Turns a Dark Fairy Tale into a Dazzling Stop-Motion Horror Film
What potential viewers will need to wrap their heads around is that while Coraline may be about childhood, it isn't really for children.
Salt Lake City Weekly |
Scott Renshaw |
02-02-2009 |
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Renée Zellweger Says You’re Fired!new
A corporate tool, but a stylish corporate tool, Renée Zellweger is dispatched from sunny Miami to rural Minnesota to close the local factory. The effect is like Fargo without the wood-chipper.
Seattle Weekly |
Brian Miller |
02-02-2009 |
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