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 Woodstock Not Worth the Trip 

Mixed reviews for 1960s coming-of-age flick

Aug 28, 09 1:08 PM CDT
(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
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entertainment • music • film • movie review • rock and roll • Ang Lee • 1960s • Woodstock • Taking Woodstock

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 The September Issue Delivers 

Offers new look at notorious Vogue boss

Aug 28, 09 11:43 AM CDT
(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 “
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film • movie review • Vogue • Anna Wintour • documentary film • RJ Cutler • The September Issue

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 Big Fan Scores with Critics 


Aug 28, 09 11:06 AM CDT
(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
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sports • football • movie review • New York Giants • The Wrestler • sports movie • Patton Oswalt • Robert Siegel • Big Fan

(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
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Germany • movie review • Baader-Meinhof gang

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 Critics Find Basterds Glorious 


Aug 21, 09 10:34 AM CDT
(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
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Quentin Tarantino • movie review • World War II • Inglourious Basterds

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 No Honors for Post Grad 

Unoriginal comedy leaves no mark

Aug 21, 09 9:53 AM CDT
(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
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 Miyazaki Makes 
 Magic Again 
 in Ponyo 


Aug 14, 09 1:33 PM CDT
(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
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animation • movie review • Hayao Miyazaki

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 Nobody's Sold on The Goods  


Aug 14, 09 11:26 AM CDT
(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
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comedy • movie review • Jeremy Piven • The Goods • Neal Brennan • James Brolin

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 Traveler's Wife a Waste of Time 

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

Aug 14, 09 9:00 AM CDT
(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
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film • movie review • Rachel McAdams • Audrey Niffenegger • Eric Bana • Eric Bana nude • Eric Bana naked

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 District 9 Is 'Magnificent Trash'


Aug 14, 09 6:17 AM CDT
(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
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Peter Jackson • movie review • aliens • science fiction • Jay-ZTV • district9 • Neill Blomkamp

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 Paper Heart Is 
 Beguiling, Enigmatic 

'Quasi-documentary' blends fact, fiction

Aug 7, 09 3:02 PM CDT
(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... More »

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(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
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 Giamatti Hot in Cold Souls 

Soul-searching film leaves critics mixed

Aug 7, 09 10:04 AM CDT
(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
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film • comedy • movie review • Paul Giamatti • Jay-ZTV

(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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(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
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comedy • movie review • stand up comedy • Adam Sandler • Judd Apatow • Seth Rogen

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 Critics Shrink From 
 Adopting Orphan 

Critics mixed on scary-kid horror film

Jul 24, 09 2:33 PM CDT
(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
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entertainment • film • movie review • Peter Sarsgaard • Vera Farmiga • Orphan

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 G-Force Spins Its Wheel 


Jul 24, 09 12:13 PM CDT
(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,
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entertainment • movie review • Jerry Bruckheimer • computer animation • 3-D • G-Force

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 In the Loop Is Bloody Good Fun

British political satire tells of path to war

Jul 24, 09 11:18 AM CDT
(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
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film • satire • movie review

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 Ugly Truth Is Pretty Bad 


Jul 24, 09 7:20 AM CDT
(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
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movie review • Katherine Heigl • romantic comedy • Gerard Butler

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 Critics In Love With (500) Days  


Jul 17, 09 10:29 AM CDT
(Newser) - Critics are head over heels for (500) Days of Summer, a boy-meets-girl flick that shakes things up by telling the story out of order. Here’s what they’re saying:  
  • The movie “turns the genre on its empty head and sees relationships for what they are—
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movie review • romantic comedy • Zooey Deschanel • Joseph Gordon-Levitt • Marc Webb

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