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Appaloosa (2008) |
"Crackling eccentric verbal wit as Harris' marshal seeks to 'button up this town tighter than a nun's corset' while overcome by Zellweger's irresistible flirty charms, because she 'chews her food nicely and even takes a bath before going to bed." |
Prairie Miller |
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Bangkok Dangerous (2008) |
"A toxic blend of hitman midlife crisis, homicidal existential angst and a little surprise sex tourism on the side, this arty assassin fare is held together by sheer force of personality grim reaper guru Cage, no matter how cranky the guy can be." |
Prairie Miller |
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Battle in Seattle (2008) |
"In the continued acceleration of doc and drama cross-breeding, the movie is adept at fleshing out opposing points of view leading to a city under siege, but setting the stage for a tad too impartial percolating political passions." |
Prairie Miller |
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Blindness (2008) |
"A stunning masterpiece, enriched by the enormously talented Moore who conveys with startling assurance, the excruciating pain of human awareness and consciousness, that sight can ironically bring." |
Prairie Miller |
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Body of Lies (2008) |
"The macho swagger of these US espionage interlopers around the planet has all the finesse of a wrestling ring, while imperialism is made to come off as really sexy. Body Of Lies: An Amman Gangster." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008) |
"In no way a fashion statement about sleepwear, but rather a solemnly imaginative political statement about the Germans asleep when it came to exactly what was going down during the Nazi regime. The Final Solution meets The Pied Piper." |
Prairie Miller |
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Brick Lane (2008) |
"A movie whose visuals are lovely to behold and lyrically awash in sensuality and desire, but sets the lives of women back at least a few centuries." |
Prairie Miller |
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Burn After Reading (2008) |
"The Coen Brothers go undercover creatively for this playful spy comedy, twisting colliding plot schemes and lines alike while juggling online stranger sex and an uncooperative ex-CIA extortion victim with violent tendencies." |
Prairie Miller |
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Cadillac Records (2008) |
"Stealing the show, so to speak are Beyonce's mesmerizing Etta James, Eamonn Walker's stunning Howlin' Wolf impression, and Mos Def's hilariously irreverent reprisal of rock 'n roll's young rabble-rouser founding father extraordinaire, Chuck Berry." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Cake Eaters (2009) |
"Disease of the week suds are subverted in Kristen Stewart's oddly empowering disability sex romp. And though Cake is half baked at times, these impulsive humans going for the metaphorical dessert in life while skipping real sustenance, has a goofy appeal." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Caller (2009) |
"Multinational corporate terrorism as narrative second fiddle to mock sleuthing around via poetry and existential sweet nothings dropped into a voice concealment cell phone device. The Caller: Dial-up assisted suicide by gumshoe." |
Prairie Miller |
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Changeling (2008) |
"Exceedingly commendable and daring fact-based Hollywood filmmaking. And resonant with an integrity and uncompromising truth certain to give the best of outsider indies a run for their money. A seasoned Hollywood screenwriter couldn't make this stuff up." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Children of Huang Shi (2008) |
"Breathtaking photography, but Hollywood's view of history as usual, no matter where on the planet, as mere backdrop for the personal lives of glamorous white people. Casablanca meets the white man's burden, and doesn't amount to a hill of beans." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Chocolat (2000) |
"Delicious like the candy!" |
Veronica Mixon |
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Choke (2008) |
"Talky odyssey about a lewd leading man and glum sex addict in sexaholic rehab when not, well, having sex. Possibly the first on screen designated dirty young man ever. I See Nude People." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Deal (2008) |
"The Deal could have had a more solid impact with a leaner script shaving off some of those subplot detours. And can we drop those lewd seduction routines in these movies already that hello, would never get the babe in the real world." |
Prairie Miller |
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Death Race (2008) |
"Social commentary on greed and war along with sexed up female con backseat drivers, is thin pretext for the incessant, at times visually surreal heavy metal havoc orgy of war machine, napalm shooting designer macho-mobile boy toy vehicular homicide." |
Prairie Miller |
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Disaster Movie (2008) |
"Movie metaphor junkies be on high alert, for a horny Dr. Phil, Michael Jackson hiding out in a car trunk with a little boy and a pet chimp for good measure, and a bad imitation Juno blasting lactating breast milk as a deadly weapon." |
Prairie Miller |
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Doubt (2008) |
"If Shanley is condemning any rush to judgment, why is the deck so solidly stacked, not just against Streep's shrew, but all the women? Not to mention dismissing priest pedophilia as a conspiracy theory by mean nuns, considering the alarming public record." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Duchess (2008) |
"Not just another royal goddess in a gilded cage costume drama, the film couldn't be more current now, when women bidding for the highest political offices are told to go home and take care of their kids or iron male shirts. Sexual subversion in corsets." |
Prairie Miller |
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Elsa & Fred (2008) |
"Loads of erotic chemistry between these two Madrid geriatric lovebirds without the least benefit of raging hormones, a septuagenarian object of desire longing for a male with interesting vices, and screen dreams sexing it up, La Dolce Vita style." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Express (2008) |
"If the best thing said about a football movie, oddly enough, is that it can be entertaining for anyone who could care less about sports, then this is a solid touchdown. Skeptical couch potatoes take heart, a knowledge of the game is rarely required." |
Prairie Miller |
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Fear(s) of the Dark (2008) |
"Most chilling is the voiceover by Guillaume Depardieu, who in a real life horror that casts a shadow of its own over this production, just died suddenly and tragically. He's a withdrawn young student, the plaything of a pet insect reborn as a horny coed." |
Prairie Miller |
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Frozen River (2008) |
"Hunt has achieved a remarkable work with Frozen River, that is both a poignant and exquisitely life-affirming sisterhood rite of passage, and a rare glimpse into the overwhelmed but enduring spirit of the Mohawk Nation." |
Prairie Miller |
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Hamlet 2 (2008) |
"Can a frustrated actor pen a Hamlet sequel reviving dead characters via a time machine with Jesus, Einstein and Hillary Clinton? If this daring, irreverent social satire has its say, those lunatic possibilities may prove just that on screen." |
Prairie Miller |
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Hounddog (2008) |
"While the sexualization on screen of a twelve year old actress is dismissed by the filmmaker and some anti-rape organizations because it's intended to focus on a grave crime, one hand washing the other is not the point." |
Prairie Miller |
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House of the Sleeping Beauties (2007) |
"More aptly titled Sexually Desirable When Drugged, the movie features slumbering sex slaves in what seems like a necrophiliacs brothel for grumpy old men, and nothing less than a romanticized and lusty aesthetic portrayal of date rape." |
Prairie Miller |
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How About You (2008) |
"Teeming with tremendous depth of feeling inhabiting these sassy seasoned seniors, and tempered with lifelong wisdom whether on or off screen, that declares in no uncertain terms, get used to it." |
Prairie Miller |
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How About You (2008) |
"Teeming with tremendous depth of feeling inhabiting these sassy seasoned seniors, and tempered with lifelong wisdom whether on or off screen, that declares in no uncertain terms, get used to it." |
Prairie Miller |
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How to Lose Friends & Alienate People (2008) |
"A scandal sheet satire that wears its antisocial tendencies on its sleeve, the movie takes aim at the inane gossip rag media world. But more often than not avoids punishment to fit the tabloid grime, that calls for more caustic rather than giddy strokes." |
Prairie Miller |
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Humboldt County (2008) |
"A culture clash movie pitting '60s free spirit internal exiles against the dog-eat-dog success obsessed youth of today, and that may similarly divide critics along these generation gap lines." |
Prairie Miller |
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In the Realm of the Senses (1976) |
"Baring much more than bodies, Oshima delves deeply into subconscious carnal desires under the influence of society, and the eternal human contradictions between liberating sexual impulses and erotic enslavement." |
Prairie Miller |
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Lakeview Terrace (2008) |
"Worst case scenario moviemaking, with interracial mating as the cinematic incendiary device of choice, along with Jackson's honed terror tactics that can make you shrivel with the slightest disapproving snarl." |
Prairie Miller |
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Let the Right One In (2008) |
"A limited how-to on efficiently cracking necks after biting and draining them. But whether this frosty Nordic couch potato vampire gore is your cup of bodily fluid, will depend on your preference for bloodsucker cinema as a dish best served cold." |
Prairie Miller |
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Lockdown (2006) |
"Tracks the often frustrating years of efforts by pro-drug repeal organziations like the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, NY Mothers Of The Disappeared and individuals like music mogul Russell Simmons, to stand down indifferent politicians." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Lodger (2009) |
"The director playfully taunts with the copycat notion of a little of Jack The Ripper in any man, in this flashy when not murky copycat thriller, and those particular unhealthy fixations manifested in varying degrees on both sides of the law." |
Prairie Miller |
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Lullaby (2008) |
"Fresh from her Oscar nomination for Best Actress for Frozen River, Melissa Leo once again toughs it out as a trailer park action mom in a macho hardcore world, relying on brains over brawn fierce maternal instinct." |
Prairie Miller |
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Mamma Mia! (2008) |
"There's a neat free spirit versus family values message here, about a dad being no big deal when you can have three. Not to mention that family is more about who loves you, than whatever does or doesn't dangle between their legs." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Marathon Man (1976) |
"This exciting thriller still holds up!" |
Veronica Mixon |
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The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor (2008) |
"Not exactly mummy dearest, the movie does have a supply of magical moments of stylish sorcery in store. It's just that if you're a bit of a purist about archaeological flights of fancy, you're not likely to dig it." |
Prairie Miller |
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008) |
"All is forgiven in a wild money shot defining moment, when passion blooms in stereo off camera, as a studio hideaway's flashing voice level meters dance around, in synch with sex. A match ultimately made in digital heaven." |
Prairie Miller |
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Of Time and the City (2009) |
"Like a long, bickering marriage or a favorite pair of well worn out shoes, UK combo filmmaker and nostalgia buff Davies can't seem to resolve his unsettling but addictive love/hate thing with the city that informed his imagination for better or worse." |
Prairie Miller |
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Otto; Or, Up with Dead People (2008) |
"Veers between raw zombie cuisine, raw gay porn, high calorie sex that includes entrails-devouring as foreplay, and cranky anti-establishment rants against advanced capitalism. Not to mention that it's hard out there for a zombie too." |
Prairie Miller |
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Pineapple Express (2008) |
"There's a lot less time available to get high than just laying low, for this chemically disoriented pair. Pineapple Express, a mixed bag of assorted fruits and nuts, with doper loons on the lam waiting to inhale." |
Prairie Miller |
Tomato |
Pokémon the Movie 3 (2001) |
"Imaginative, colorful and fun for kids!" |
Veronica Mixon |
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Postal (2008) |
"Along the way to its parking lot showdown, a wacky property damage conspiracy to commit insurance fraud is uncovered between Osama and Bush. The darker, zany recesses of America as viewed from the Twilight Zone. Move over, Borat." |
Prairie Miller |
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The Price of Sugar (2007) |
"These Haitian sugar slaves are starved, beaten, disappeared, malnourished, and lacking uncontaminated drinking water, even as other far more privileged foreigners frolic in the waters of the DR's tropical tourist paradise nearby." |
Prairie Miller |
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Pride and Glory (2008) |
"Pride And Glory is anything but. And though rife with brutality and cynicism way too over the top to make sense of it all, the journey there stings with a raw and devastating emotional power. Abu Graib in Washington Heights meets Godfather in blue." |
Prairie Miller |
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Quarantine (2008) |
"An eye-popping both metaphorical and literal genocidal rat race scare scenario made especially haunting when it kicks in, with its post-9/11 domestic terror lurking around every corner, hyper-paranoid sensibility." |
Prairie Miller |
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Rachel Getting Married (2008) |
"Something old (cinema verite), something new (combo Buddhist-African matrimonial ambiance), something borrowed (Robert Altman) and something blue (the whole family). The Devil Wears Bridesmaid Garb." |
Prairie Miller |
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