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Film ratings [17]: It’s Not Complicated
The return of Film Ratings! Unfortunately, because a lot of films had to be skipped, I was left with a lot of mediocre films. Terminator Salvation, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and It’s Complicated are just three major disappointments on schedule here.
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2009 in Film: The Best-of Edition
A year ago, if you had asked me which film would win the 82nd Academy Awards top-prize, I would have answered that Nine was most definitely one of the contenders. The Weinstein Company had a sure-fire winner on their release schedule. An Academy Award-winning director with a Best Picture musical in his name; a cast [...]
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Film ratings [15/16]
“You! Yeah, you in the suit! Take a shower, hippie!”— Carl Fredricksen Carl Fredricksen is one of the most endearing characters in recent film history. He’s a grumpy old and eccentric man who loved his wife beyond everything. And he hates people who bother him. (Who doesn’t?) It also helps that Fredricksen was partly based [...]
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Film ratings [13/14]
“Are you kidding me? RoboCop?!”— Anchorwoman There is only one good scene in RoboCop 3; an anchorwoman recites the fabricated news that RoboCop has once again killed a lot of people. Then, in the best performance of the film, her face turns to puzzlement and, while standing up, she shouts to her colleague, “C’mon, this [...]
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“Precious”
Trust me when I say that Lee Daniels’s Precious will be one of the best films of 2009. Yes, I’m making that statement by only having seen the trailer — sue me. Gabourey Sidibe is fierce, believable and incredibly talented as the main character, Precious Jones. If this girl is willing to work for it and to take good acting decisions, I’m foreseeing a great career for her.
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Film ratings [12]
“People like Sheba think they know what it is to be lonely. But of the drip, drip of the long-haul, no-end-in-sight solitude, they know nothing. What it’s like to construct an entire weekend around a visit to the launderette. Or to be so chronically untouched that the accidental brush of a bus conductor’s hand sends [...]
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