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Review of Management (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 13 May 2009

This is one motel comedy that does not warrant an extended stay…

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Review of Next Day Air (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 06 May 2009

It's hard to make a movie that ends with blazing guns and dead bodies and still send the audience away laughing, but Next Day Air finds the…

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Review of American Violet (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 30 Apr 2009

American Violet is an earnest muckraker about the justice system that won't win points for style, but wins plenty for substance…

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Review of Sugar (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Apr 2009

Sugar has its own knuckle curve - it takes familiar images of the U.S…

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Review of Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Apr 2009

The movie is a small wonder, because it's not the work of a practiced filmmaker - Sacha Gervasi is a writer and Anvil fan who shot the movie…

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Review of The Soloist (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Apr 2009

It's not A Beautiful Mind, and there are some missteps here. But it's an unusually honest movie about homelessness and about newspapers…

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Review of Sugar (2010)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 22 Apr 2009

Sugar has its own knuckle curve - it takes familiar images of the U.S…

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Review of Observe and Report (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 09 Apr 2009

Director Jody Hill presents all of this as a comedy, somewhere between absurdist and black -- like Napoleon Dynamite meets Martin Scorsese…

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Review of Fast and Furious (1924)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Apr 2009

Fast and Furious milks the cars/chicks/hip-hop vibe for all it's worth, which is roughly $8, if you're male, 18 and under…

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Review of Adventureland (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Apr 2009

Adventureland is not as uproarious as Superbad, but has a little more heart, and is a cut above most one-crazy-summer teen movies…

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Review of Fast and Furious (1939)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Apr 2009

Fast and Furious milks the cars/chicks/hip-hop vibe for all it's worth, which is roughly $8, if you're male, 18 and under…

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Review of Fast & Furious (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 01 Apr 2009

Fast and Furious milks the cars/chicks/hip-hop vibe for all it's worth, which is roughly $8, if you're male, 18 and under…

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Review of Sunshine Cleaning (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Mar 2009

It's every overhyped indie you've seen, and maybe didn't like, and yet it's often quite likable…

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Review of Knowing (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Mar 2009

It's meant to be creepy, but the movie's gloomy atmospherics are consistently undone by Cage's strange, disinterested (and possibly Botoxed)…

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Review of Duplicity (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Mar 2009

An all's-fair-in-love-and-espionage movie tailor-made for a pair of glamorous stars…

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Review of I Love You, Man (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Mar 2009

While some are pigeonholing I Love You, Man as just another bromantic comedy set in the smelly recesses of the man-cave, it has a fresh spin…

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Review of The Great Buck Howard (2008)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 19 Mar 2009

Audiences crave the mental comfort food of an accessible good time, and Buck Howard is an affectionate ode to the kind of performer who provides…

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Review of Crossing Over (1983)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Mar 2009

The finished product looks as though it was designed to satisfy egos, not viewers…

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Review of The Last House on the Left (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Mar 2009

It's a typical neo-horror thriller that replaces suspense with grotesque clinical violence…

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Review of Crossing Over (2009)

By Gary Thompson (1,554) for Philadelphia Daily News (1,596) on 12 Mar 2009

The finished product looks as though it was designed to satisfy egos, not viewers…

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