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Halloween II a Gory Dud
 Halloween II a Gory Dud 
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Aug 28, 2009 5:42 PM CDT

Halloween II a Gory Dud

Critics yawn over Rob Zombie's horror remake

(Newser) - Dimension Films refused to screen Rob Zombie's Halloween II for critics—which is looking like a wise move based on the reviews coming out:
  • "Creatively comatose, even by the standards of a sequel to a remake," writes Rob Nelson in Variety. "Zombie's hatchet job on the series
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Woodstock Not Worth the Trip
 Woodstock Not Worth the Trip 
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Aug 28, 2009 1:08 PM CDT

Woodstock Not Worth the Trip

Mixed reviews for 1960s coming-of-age flick

(Newser) - Taking Woodstock isn’t really about the music: it’s more about coming of age on the outskirts of the festival. Critics are lukewarm about Ang Lee's latest effort:
  • “You can’t deny the smiling mood that wafts through the film like incense,” admits Anthony Lane of the
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The September Issue Delivers
 The September Issue Delivers 
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Aug 28, 2009 11:43 AM CDT

The September Issue Delivers

Offers new look at notorious Vogue boss

(Newser) - The September Issue is a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Vogue’s September 2007 issue—and at the woman in charge of it all. RJ Cutler's film may change minds about editor in chief Anna Wintour and her brutal reputation:
  • Stephanie Zacharek of Salon calls the film “documentary
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Big Fan Scores with Critics
 Big Fan Scores with Critics 
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Aug 28, 2009 11:06 AM CDT

Big Fan Scores with Critics

(Newser) - Critics are big fans of Big Fan, a funny yet tragic look at football devotees directed by The Wrestler screenwriter Robert Siegel. Here’s what they’re saying:  
  • Star Patton Oswalt “gives a tour de force performance,” writes Ray Greene of Box Office Magazine, and Siegel finds
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Terror Docudrama Baader-Meinhof Impresses Critics

(Newser) - Critics are largely impressed with Germany's blood-drenched epic The Baader-Meinhof Complex, following the group of young, sexy radicals who terrorized the country for years. A selection of reviews:
  • It's a "taut, unnerving, forcefully unromantic film," writes New York Times critic Manohla Dargis, who praises director Uli Edel for
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Critics Find Basterds Glorious
 Critics Find Basterds Glorious 
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Aug 21, 2009 10:34 AM CDT

Critics Find Basterds Glorious

(Newser) - Not every critic loves Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds, but many do, and they really love it. Here’s what they’re saying.
  • It’s not just Tarantino’s best movie, “It's the first movie of his artistic maturity,” writes Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle. It
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No Honors for Post Grad
 No Honors for Post Grad 
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Aug 21, 2009 9:53 AM CDT

No Honors for Post Grad

Unoriginal comedy leaves no mark

(Newser) - Post Grad tells the story of the tribulations of a recent graduate unable to land a job. Critics give it poor grades:
  • Star Alexis Bledel “works her Gilmore Girls charm to the hilt, but no amount of cerulean-eyed sparkle can transcend this level of thudding mediocrity," writes Jeannette
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Miyazaki Makes Magic Again in Ponyo
 Miyazaki Makes 
 Magic Again 
 in Ponyo 
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Aug 14, 2009 1:33 PM CDT

Miyazaki Makes Magic Again in Ponyo

(Newser) - Hayao Miyazaki has done it again with Ponyo, an animated re-imagining of the Little Mermaid story. Here’s what critics are saying:  
  • Ponyo is, in a word, "magical," writes Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times, a “poetic, visually breathtaking work by the greatest of all animators.
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Nobody's Sold on The Goods
 Nobody's Sold on The Goods  
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Aug 14, 2009 11:26 AM CDT

Nobody's Sold on The Goods

(Newser) - On paper, The Goods ought to be—well, good, given that it has plenty of funny people on both sides of the camera. Didn’t turn out that way. Here’s what critics are saying:
  • Seemingly pulled “straight out of Will Ferrell's discard pile,” the flick is a
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Traveler's Wife a Waste of Time
 Traveler's Wife a Waste of Time 
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Aug 14, 2009 9:00 AM CDT

Traveler's Wife a Waste of Time

McAdams-Bana love story is 'dull,' 'sappy'

(Newser) - Critics have one good thing to say about the Time Traveler’s Wife, the love story of a man doomed to bounce through time: Eric Bana looks good naked.
  • “Watching Mr. Bana frequently strut his seminude stuff, nimbly avoiding the full-frontal reveal even as he flashes some discreet cheek,
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District 9 Is 'Magnificent Trash'
 District 9 Is 'Magnificent Trash'
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Aug 14, 2009 6:17 AM CDT

District 9 Is 'Magnificent Trash'

(Newser) - The aliens are despised outsiders stranded in post-apartheid South Africa in District 9, a film whose mix of social commentary and blood-spattered B-movie standards makes it the sci-fi movie of the year, say critics.
  • Betsy Sharkey, Los Angeles Times: The movie is "a scathing social satire hidden inside a
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Paper Heart Is Beguiling, Enigmatic
 Paper Heart Is 
 Beguiling, Enigmatic 
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Aug 7, 2009 3:02 PM CDT

Paper Heart Is Beguiling, Enigmatic

'Quasi-documentary' blends fact, fiction

(Newser) - One's enjoyment of Paper Heart, a hard-to-pin-down fictional love story wrapped inside a real-life documentary about love, “will hinge almost entirely” on how the viewer feels about writer and star Charlyne Yi, writes Jeannette Catsoulis in the New York Times. Yi and co-star Michael Cera have been linked romantically...

Overwrought G.I. Joe 'Everything You Could Want'

(Newser) - Most critics—who didn't have access to advance screenings, normally a huge red flag—agree that G.I. Joe: the Rise of Cobra isn’t anything but a popcorn flick. For some, that’s enough. For others, not so much.
  • "It’s all put together with such verve and
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Giamatti Hot in Cold Souls
 Giamatti Hot in Cold Souls 
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Aug 7, 2009 10:04 AM CDT

Giamatti Hot in Cold Souls

Soul-searching film leaves critics mixed

(Newser) - Paul Giamatti—who plays an actor named...Paul Giamatti—wows critics in Cold Souls, but some say the comedy as a whole, in which a man has his soul removed, leaves something to be desired.
  • "Cold Souls has its flaws, and it threatens to sag into a Paul-like morbidity,
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Julie & Julia Tasty Despite One Cook Too Many

(Newser) - Dual biopic Julie & Julia would have been a lot better if it had focused solely on Julia Child, say critics, but Meryl Streep's performance as the famous chef more than compensates for the second, weaker storyline about a blogger who tackles Child's recipes.
  • Moira Macdonald, Seattle Times: 
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Apatow's Funny People: Insightful, Smug, Too Long

(Newser) - Judd Apatow doesn't dispense entirely with his raunchy humor in Funny People, but his venture into more serious themes meets mixed success with critics. Most, however, love Adam Sandler as a gravely ill comedian confronting the emptiness of his life.
  • Peter Travers, Rolling Stone: "Apatow scores by crafting the
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Critics Shrink From Adopting Orphan
 Critics Shrink From 
 Adopting Orphan 
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Jul 24, 2009 2:33 PM CDT

Critics Shrink From Adopting Orphan

Critics mixed on scary-kid horror film

(Newser) - Critics are divided over Orphan, a horror flick about an adopted child who makes scary things happen:
  • “Actors have to eat like the rest of us, if evidently not as much, but you still have to wonder how the independent-film mainstays Vera Farmiga and Peter Sarsgaard ended up wading
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G-Force Spins Its Wheel
 G-Force Spins Its Wheel 
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Jul 24, 2009 12:13 PM CDT

G-Force Spins Its Wheel

(Newser) - If their mission was to please critics, the adorable spies of G-Force have failed. Here's what the critics saying:
  • Director Hoyt Yeatman should be ashamed, writes Ty Burr in the Boston Globe. “If you can’t squeeze a decent movie out of talking 3-D superagent guinea pigs, you may
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In the Loop Is Bloody Good Fun
 In the Loop Is Bloody Good Fun
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Jul 24, 2009 11:18 AM CDT

In the Loop Is Bloody Good Fun

British political satire tells of path to war

(Newser) - In the Loop is a blistering, satirical tale of unsavory characters in the British and American governments pushing their nations to war in the Middle East.
  • “While In the Loop is a highly disciplined inquiry into a very serious subject, it is also, line by filthy line, scene by
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Ugly Truth Is Pretty Bad
 Ugly Truth Is Pretty Bad 
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Jul 24, 2009 7:20 AM CDT

Ugly Truth Is Pretty Bad

(Newser) - Battle-of-the-sexes comedy Ugly Truth combines the worst aspects of male-friendly gross-out comedies with the worst aspects of female-friendly romantic comedies and the results aren't pretty, say unimpressed critics.
  • Refer Guzmán, Newsday: The movie "does a disservice to both genders. Its crass sex jokes feel like chum for mentally
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