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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 25 Jun 2009

These men live, barely, on a cocktail of adrenaline and testosterone, and yet The Hurt Locker hones in on the fatalistic psychology of the…

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Review of Séraphine (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 18 Jun 2009

During the film I craved energy, but by the end I realized that I just wanted a story that stood a bit closer to its interesting, well-played…

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Review of Whatever Works (2009)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 18 Jun 2009

Some may observe that two of every three jokes fall flat, but I'm a little bit amazed that Allen would toss that one good third into such a…

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Review of Dead Snow (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 18 Jun 2009

Can't resist the urge to make the mordant comedy implicit in these movies more literal than it should be…

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Review of Love n' Dancing (2009)

By Sean Gandert (81) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 16 Jun 2009

The bottom line is that a few pretty dances aren't enough substance to make for a fulfilling, or even moderately entertaining movie when the…

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Review of Treeless Mountain (2009)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 12 Jun 2009

Relying on the essentially inert performances of child actors, So Yong Kim draws on a deep understanding of how movies work but also taps into…

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Review of Away We Go (2009)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Jun 2009

Away We Go breathes…

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Review of The Hangover (2009)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Jun 2009

While I'm not ready to call the film a triumph, its approach to humor is smart enough to benefit greatly from low expectations…

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Review of Pontypool (2009)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 04 Jun 2009

It's perfectly modulated horror of the imagination, à la Orson Welles' adaptation of The War of the Worlds, with potent ideas about what corrupts,…

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Review of Drag Me to Hell (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 03 Jun 2009

Even if Drag Me to Hell isn't particularly scary, even if it idly disregards its potential, it's been a long time since a horror movie of such…

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Review of The Girlfriend Experience (2009)

By Sean Gandert (81) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 May 2009

What it is, though, is a defiantly independent work that deftly addresses the darker elements of the nation and humanity without quite giving up hope…

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Review of Terminator Salvation (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 May 2009

A steady camera in action sequences goes a long way…

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Review of Girlfriend Experience (2008)

By Sean Gandert (81) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 21 May 2009

What it is, though, is a defiantly independent work that deftly addresses the darker elements of the nation and humanity without quite giving up hope…

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Review of X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 03 May 2009

The sort of listless movie that fans fear and general audiences endure on idle summer nights year after year, mostly just because it's there…

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Review of Sugar (2008)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Apr 2009

Some of the surprise of seeing a major new talent appear from thin air is lost in even a strong sophomore effort, but Boden and Fleck have…

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Review of Sugar (2010)

By Robert Davis (91) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 09 Apr 2009

Some of the surprise of seeing a major new talent appear from thin air is lost in even a strong sophomore effort, but Boden and Fleck have…

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Review of The Haunting in Connecticut (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 06 Apr 2009

To its credit, the movie seems to understand that the primal appeal of these stories lies as much in the appearance of solemn dead people as…

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Review of Knowing (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 06 Apr 2009

Trades occasional moments of inspiration for obvious allegory and second-hand action sequences that shoot for stark seriousness but can barely…

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Review of Bolt (1995)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 06 Apr 2009

Unmistakably bears the conflicting influence of Pixar and Disney's old ideals…

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Review of The Last House on the Left (2009)

By Jeffrey Bloomer (47) for Paste Magazine (2,906) on 06 Apr 2009

More a thriller about family ties taken to unimaginable extremes than an attempt to engage with any real subtext…

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