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Review of Up in the Air (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

[Its] themes aren't necessarily original, but Up in the Air knows how to package them well, adultly, soberly, with its dependable script and…

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Review of The Hangover (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

Quite entertaining as an entry in this tried-and-true genre of guys going on a inadvertent wacky adventure, and I like how this one is set…

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Review of Avatar (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

Although it looks seamless and wonderful, I'm starting to wonder how worthy it really is to use high-end computer animation to top the next…

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Review of Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

[Precious] is a unique character, not self-pitying and sad, but rather stubborn and forward-looking in angry, almost narrow fortitude…

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Review of Avatar (2011)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 29 Dec 2009

Although it looks seamless and wonderful, I'm starting to wonder how worthy it really is to use high-end computer animation to top the next…

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Review of The Messenger (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 29 Dec 2009

Valiantly brings all wars to their ultimate endpoint: death and its effects on the fallen's loved ones…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 22 Dec 2009

Shows how most of us turn to film for both fantasy escape and an avenue to make the abstract past tangible, enough to even possibly, and powerfully,…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 15 Dec 2009

[Bigelow] may have finally given the Iraq War its definitive identifying film…

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Review of Capitalism: A Love Story (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 15 Dec 2009

Moore makes the stories of injustice he's gathered the real meat of his film; and as he tells them, he shows a continued disillusionment at…

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Review of Crazy Heart (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 15 Dec 2009

Not to say the movie doesn't work; if it didn't hit me like a ton of bricks, at least it did make a favorable impression, and I believe I have…

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Review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 13 Dec 2009

I'm starting to wish every auteur would go and make his or her own stop-motion animated flick; what a fantastic experiment that could be…

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Review of Invictus (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 10 Dec 2009

[Flows] with a simplicity that is almost childlike in its optimism…

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Review of A Serious Man (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 07 Dec 2009

As great a movie as the brothers have ever made…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 07 Dec 2009

Since the metaphor itself is pretty clear, Blomkamp goes for the visceral quality of the images and situations…

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Review of The Blind Side (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 28 Nov 2009

Incessantly positive because it's about good deeds and its ripple effects…

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Review of Food, Inc. (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 28 Nov 2009

It's a harsh feeling, but Food, Inc. does its job in just getting out the information that most of us probably want to ignore and shouldn't…

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Review of Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for ReelTalk Movie Reviews (1,771) on 24 Nov 2009

You'll learn nothing new here about chasing the dream, but this non-fiction story may convince you to make room in your heart to appreciate…

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Review of (500) Days of Summer (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 24 Nov 2009

At last, here's a movie that takes the wimpy, tortured, hopelessly-in-love boys from the other movies and tells them to grow up…

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Review of Brüno (2009)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 24 Nov 2009

[Homophobia] deserves confrontation, but when done in the manner of the movie here, it is less enlightening than it is just plain squirmingly funny…

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Review of Monkeybone (2001)

By Jeffrey Chen (849) for Window to the Movies (638) on 16 Nov 2009

Primed to be dark, twisted, and playful -- all exhibited traits of the works of the director, animator Henry Selick -- it is instead juvenile,…

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