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Review of Strongman (2009)

By Mike Miliard (6) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 03 Dec 2009

Ten years in the making, Zachary Levy's film is a stark and arresting study of a simple man trying to do good with what he's got…

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Review of Pandora and the Flying Dutchman (1951)

By Gerald Peary (163) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 03 Dec 2009

Lewin's pseudo-Somerset Maugham story is pretentious and unconvincing, descending into fantasy hokum involving sailor ghosts and a cursed protagonist…

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Review of The House of the Devil (2009)

By Brett Michel (122) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 03 Dec 2009

Less is more, and writer/director/editor Ti West knows it -- until he forgets near the end of this babysitter-in-peril nailbiter…

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Review of Up in the Air (2009)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 03 Dec 2009

No director pulls off the bait-and-switch as craftily as Jason Reitman…

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Review of Defamation (2009)

By Gerald Peary (163) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 03 Dec 2009

Shamir is smart enough to move his film beyond shrill polemics and into more observational territory: Israeli high-school kids visiting Poland…

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Review of Planet 51 (2009)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 19 Nov 2009

It's all a creepy mishmash of sci-fi and fantasy classics that director Jorge Blanco tarts up with an unwholesome preoccupation with pee, anal…

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Review of Bronson (2009)

By Shaula Clark (23) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 19 Nov 2009

Done differently, the cat-and-mouse brawling could get tiresome, but Tom Hardy as Bronson -- with his shaved head, handlebar moustache, and…

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

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 19 Nov 2009

The film comes close to collapsing into exploitation or self-parody. Thank Sidibe's extraordinary performance that it doesn't…

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Review of The Blind Side (2009)

By Chris Faraone (17) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 19 Nov 2009

Without adding too much cheese, director John Lee Hancock channels genuine emotion from the Michael Lewis book (and the reality) that prompted…

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Review of The Messenger (2009)

By Shaula Clark (23) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 19 Nov 2009

Director Oren Moverman's feature-length debut is a little like The Hurt Locker in the way it uncomfortably probes a little-known military organelle…

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Review of Black Dynamite (2009)

By Shaula Clark (23) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 12 Nov 2009

As Dynamite kung-fu-fights his way through a vast conspiracy involving smack-addled orphans, malt liquor, and the best (read: worst) exploding-car…

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Review of Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)

By Jason O'bryan (2) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 05 Nov 2009

The place where consciousness runs into itself is where this author reigned supreme, and Krasinski brings Wallace's concentric, self-aware…

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Review of Gentlemen Broncos (2009)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 05 Nov 2009

Having peaked with his debut, Napoleon Dynamite, Jared Hess has settled into being a family-friendly John Waters -- which is redundant, since…

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Review of Saw VI (2009)

By Tom Meek (408) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 29 Oct 2009

Editor-turned-director Kevin Greutert shows confidence behind the camera -- still, one can only hope that Jigsaw's gruesome Pecksniffian pedagogy…

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Review of American Casino (2009)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 29 Oct 2009

Putting a face on the incomprehensible figures, the film takes a look at some of the victims, middle-class professionals who bought into the…

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Review of Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)

By Shaula Clark (23) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 29 Oct 2009

Harry Potter this ain't. But it's fun all the same…

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Review of 35 Shots of Rum (2009)

By Peter Keough (994) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 29 Oct 2009

Understated, beautifully acted, and with an exacting soundtrack, 35 Shots of Rum goes down easily but packs a subtle kick…

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Review of Good Hair (2009)

By Shaula Clark (23) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 21 Oct 2009

Good Hair is a film that will make your head itch to know more…

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Review of The Yes Men Fix the World (2009)

By Lance Gould (5) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 21 Oct 2009

When the butts of the jokes are mid-level losers at meaningless conferences, the guerrilla theater seems misdirected, even cruel…

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Review of Astro Boy (2009)

By Chris Faraone (17) for Boston Phoenix (1,372) on 21 Oct 2009

Serious Tezuka fans will likely appreciate the sharp multi-dimensional presentation, even as they resent Osamu's being pimped out for Obama…

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