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Ponyo (2009)

Wondrous, weird, and sweetly innocent, Ponyo is a tale bursting with love, which is recommendation enough for the young and the young at heart.
Green Zone (2010)

Serves up soldiers, spies, politicians, reporters, and Iraqi civilians who speak almost entirely in clichés.
Remember Me (2010)

Only slightly edgier and no more sensible than a Nicholas Sparks story.
Bigger Than Life (1956)

The sort-of picture-perfection of the suburban home...is a tenuous cover for the unpredictability of life, the short distance between the American Dream and the American nightmare.
A Prophet (2010)

Malik’s boxed-in circumstances certainly press ethical questions for the viewer, but in Rahim’s psychologically acute performance, Malik is never less than understandable—more often than not, he’s disturbingly sympathetic.
Alice in Wonderland (2010)

More tiresome than entertaining, especially with mind-numbing CGI exhaustion setting in early.
The Ghost Writer (2010)

The director’s shrewd and witty approach to the material demonstrates his finely tuned sense of the absurd.
Shutter Island (2010)

Multiplex entertainment this distinctive and provocative doesn’t come along every day: it’s a head trip well worth taking.
Saint John of Las Vegas (2010)

Conspicuously pointless...an underachieving comedy of awkwardness.
The Negotiator (1998)

This highly incredible story lives and dies on its leading performances, so it's a damn good thing someone hired Jackson and Spacey to go toe to toe.
Logan's Run (1975)

Despite its grabber of a premise, Logan's Run flaunts poorly developed plot specifics; as such, it's terminally silly. Nevertheless, as a camp curio, it still has an odd but undeniable staying power.
Heat (1995)

A stealth epic, framing an urban jungle and making its own kind of contemporary history by pairing acting giants Robert DeNiro and Al Pacino in what has arguably become the preminent cops-and-robbers movie.
Gamer (2009)

What to make of short-attention-span artists satirizing a short-attention-span world?
Black Dynamite (2009)

Well-mined comic territory...dutifully—and it must be said, expertly—recreates the rough cinematography, cheesy production design...and incidental music that sounds like chintzy soul crossed with a Quinn-Martin TV score.
The Stepfather (2009)

Any subtlety or implicit social satire to be found in Joseph Ruben's original went out with the last neighborhood trash pickup. Too bad the service was canceled before it could haul away this waste-of-time remake.
The Final Destination (2009)

There’s absolutely no reason for The Final Destination to exist other than the only one Hollywood studios really care about: a cynical cash grab.
Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths (V) (2010)

As punchy superhero entertainment for kids goes, this is fairly provocative stuff that should get the young'uns thinking along with their thrills.
New York, I Love You (2009)

Some of the twelve short films are nice enough, some are shaky and a few are outright awful...
Revanche (2009)

A potent mood piece lifted by gorgeous cinematography, resonant performances and, above, all, Spielmann's sensitive filmmaking.
Coco Before Chanel (2009)

A rather dull and unchallenging account of one woman's ambitious social climb in a man's world...If Chanel's early years were really this boring, why bother with them?
The Time Traveler's Wife (2009)

The Notebook with a sci-fi twist...this love story made up of signs and wonders suggests to savor the time you have.
Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

'It's going to get Biblical!'...sets new standards of lunatic plotting as it goes about its smiting.
The Last King of Scotland (2006)

Graham Greene it's not....Whitaker's striking work aside, The Last King of Scotland is insipid, obvious movieland history.
Walk the Line (2005)

A dash more authentic--or, at least, more subtle--than its Hollywood spawning and Taylor Hackford's come-on-strong take on [Ray] Charles would seem to predict.
The Last Station (2009)

Winds up feeling strangely perfunctory. This is subject matter that should fascinate, rather than deliver an occasional droll observation.
From Paris with Love (2010)

If only Morel and Besson would have committed to satirizing, instead of merely exploiting, this superficially cool, destructively cold archetype of American firepower, they could’ve had more than multiplex filler.
Surrogates (2009)

A smart little genre outing, an endangered species in modern Hollywood.
When in Rome (2010)

Can I interest you in a nice nap?
The House of the Devil (2009)

A very impressive formal exercise in style and restraint...
Doctor Who: The Complete Specials (TV) (2009)

Davies, and especially Tennant, made Doctor Who more catchy than campy...
Extraordinary Measures (2010)

Predictable and, in the end, embarrassingly sappy...[but] does touch on some interesting points about the ethics of drug trials and approvals, the entrepreneurial spirit, and the challenges of doing important work that isn’t a sure thing...
Michael Jackson's This Is It (2009)

A hall-of-mirrors investigation of extraordinary talent, emotionally stunted personality, a performer’s process, and the cruel mistress of celebrity...but it also serves as a powerful performance version of a last will and testament.
Weeds: Season Five (2009)

No one can accuse the show of shrinking from dark psychological themes: the leading character of Nancy Botwin (Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker) has spun more wildly out of control with each season...
Cheaper by the Dozen 2 (2005)

Okay, everybody, back to your shopping--there's nothing to see here.
The Lovely Bones (2009)

It’s a mark of Jackson’s lack of restraint as a filmmaker that the mystery-thriller elements and fantastic visualizations overtake the domestic drama that is the novel’s true raison d’être.
Cliffhanger (1993)

As preposterous as this "Die Hard on a mountain" flick is, Cliffhanger remains one of the zestier big-budget action pictures of the nineties.
Last Action Hero (1993)

Considered a dunderheaded big-budget flop in its day, Last Action Hero looks considerably better now in its creative self-parody.
Jennifer's Body (2009)

Sets thoughts swirling about three bitch-goddesses: the teenage variety (namely Megan Fox’s Jennifer), “success” in the commercial cinema, and that fickle mistress called hype.
The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009)

Endearingly packed to the rafters with ornate anachronistic artistry, Gilliam’s Imaginarium is a great place to window shop—and get lost for a spell.
Youth in Revolt (2010)

Call this one the thinking boy’s sex romp.

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