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Review of Me and Orson Welles (2008)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

I've seen plenty of great impersonations of Orson Welles and yet I've never seen any of them come remotely close to this…

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Review of The Young Victoria (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

This is a film that lives and breathes, one that latches onto the viewer like a soothingly enchanting breeze on a hot summer day…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

In short, this movie somehow does Doyle proud, and unlike other revisionist takes on the detective gone horribly wrong (like 1985's Young Sherlock…

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Review of Avatar (2011)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

[Cameron] is still the king of action and suspense, the last third such a visceral whirlwind of kinetically staged mayhem my eyes almost popped…

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Review of Broken Embraces (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

The filmmaker kept me continually off balance, my laughs having to find their way through a shower of tears all while the unyielding tension…

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Review of Invictus (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

On the flip side, both Damon and Freeman deliver exemplary performances, and even if the accents aren't perfect the way they dig deep inside…

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Review of Sherlock Holmes (2011)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 28 Dec 2009

In short, this movie somehow does Doyle proud, and unlike other revisionist takes on the detective gone horribly wrong (like 1985's Young Sherlock…

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Review of The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 21 Nov 2009

Stewart and Pattinson seem to be going through the motions, marking time until they can be done with this series and move on to other projects…

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

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 21 Nov 2009

Precious is very, very good and is superbly acted by its entire ensemble cast…

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Review of The Blind Side (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 21 Nov 2009

There is a quiet restraint to it all that is at times quite remarkable, the film's most emotional moments happening when I usually least expected…

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Review of 2012 (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 13 Nov 2009

Emmerich and Kloser don't know when to quit, the last half hour in particular such a wet noodle slog of turgid awfulness any good will I might…

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Review of The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 06 Nov 2009

The cast gamely tries and Heslov does his best to keep things moving but nothing anyone does can mask the fact there's just no there there…

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Review of The House of the Devil (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 06 Nov 2009

The finale has energy to spare, all of it leading up to a gloriously shocking coda that, while not new, seriously made my skin crawl…

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

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 06 Nov 2009

The film is a convoluted mess of ideas and mythology, and while all of it is potentially interesting none of it is fleshed out near well enough…

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Review of The Box (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 06 Nov 2009

This picture moved me and made me think, and while the items on the filmmaker's mind aren't exactly earth shattering to me they were deeply…

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Review of Ong Bak 2 (2008)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 06 Nov 2009

The first thing to know about Ong Bak 2: The Beginning is that there is no story…

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Review of Amelia (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 06 Nov 2009

Its insights are mostly superficial in nature, and where I was hoping for complexity and nuance all I received were melodramatic platitudes…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (1975)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 15 Oct 2009

By the time it was over I was deeply unsatisfied, and while I did see glimmers of my own childhood here and there I didn't see enough for the…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 15 Oct 2009

By the time it was over I was deeply unsatisfied, and while I did see glimmers of my own childhood here and there I didn't see enough for the…

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Review of Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

By Sara Michelle Fetters (1,688) for MovieFreak.com (1,674) on 15 Oct 2009

It is a nasty and morally bankrupt piece of work, true, but it is also incredibly entertaining, and as far guilty pleasures go I think this…

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