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Review of Sugar (2010)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Follows its own path, defying stereotypes and avoiding just about every sports-movie cliché and fish-out-of-water convention, all the way to the end…

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Review of The Invention of Lying (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Gervais' satiric barbs on religion, beauty, disillusionment and the basic human need for hope aim for our comfort zones, and they all hit home…

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Review of The Wrestler (1984)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Rourke makes you feel every ache, disappointment and battle scar, both inside and out…

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Review of Madea Goes to Jail (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Perry clearly knows what his fans like, and he gives it to them -- by the shovelful…

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Review of Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Grownups will enjoy the witty dialog and zippy script, especially when it makes playful nods to big sci-fi popcorn romps like Twister, The…

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Review of Bandslam (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

A message that never gets old: On stage or in high-school hallways, sometime it's the losers that turn out to be the real winners…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (1975)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Stretches to spectacular, big-screen proportions the soaring, roaring fancy of Maurice Sendak's classic 1963 bedtime tale…

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Review of Food, Inc. (2008)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

One word of caution: Eat before you see it. After it's over, the idea of a swing through the drive-thru might not be so appetizing…

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Review of Hannah Montana: The Movie (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Basically super-sizes the formula of the successful television series for a Hannah-hungry audience of multiplex moppets…

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Review of Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

This flawed, fractured fairy tale fails to scare up many chuckles or much charm. As Ebenezer Scrooge himself might say, Bah, humbug…

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Review of Terminator Salvation (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Bangs and clangs and has some impressive effects, but it seems to have forgotten one thing: These movies used to be giddy, rock 'em, sock 'em…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

A rocking, rolling action drama about alien castaways that just want to go home, an evil corporation that wants to capitalize on them at any…

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Review of Taking Woodstock (2009)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

Does a great job of recreating the time, place and people that came together to make something magical in the middle of the summer of 1969…

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Review of Taken (1999)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

As Kim, Maggie Grace is a bit old to convincingly portray a boppy underage teenager, although she appears to be giving her best to a one-dimensional…

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Review of Up! (1976)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

No matter how you look at it, through the innocent eyes of a child or the wider, wiser worldview of an adult, the bright, buoyant Up brims…

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Review of Taken (2008)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 28 Sep 2011

As Kim, Maggie Grace is a bit old to convincingly portray a boppy underage teenager, although she appears to be giving her best to a one-dimensional…

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Review of Milk? (2012)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 27 Sep 2011

A poignant lesson about the ripples of impact one impassioned individual can have, regardless of sexual orientation, and regardless of the cause…

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Review of Milk (2005)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 27 Sep 2011

A poignant lesson about the ripples of impact one impassioned individual can have, regardless of sexual orientation, and regardless of the cause…

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Review of The Dark Knight (2008)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 27 Sep 2011

Even if this wasn't Ledger's final role before his untimely death last year, his Joker would still go down in cinema history as one of the…

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Review of The Reader (2008)

By Neil Pond (477) for American Profile (252) on 27 Sep 2011

A holocaust movie with a deep, twisting dive into a dense tangle of thorny moral, ethical, situational and emotional issues…

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