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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 16 Oct 2009

Sure, Where the Wild Things Are is darker than Dracula's sunset cup of Joe…

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Review of Couples Retreat (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 09 Oct 2009

With Couple's Retreat, we're hoping for a Wedding Crashers redux we can turn into a date night. But all we get is something else to bitch about…

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Review of The Invention of Lying (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 02 Oct 2009

The Invention of Lying isn't atheist propoganda, it's just a movie. And while it's clever, it's not ungodly funny…

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Review of Zombieland (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 30 Sep 2009

Rarely does a movie treat its kill shots with such modern artistry, and dissect its own campy horror clichés with thoughtfully appropriate…

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Review of The Informant (2008)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 21 Sep 2009

Not only does Matt Damon channel schlepiness with a real-life fat suit, a bad mustache and ties that look like there were cut from Vegas carpets,…

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Review of The Informant! (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 21 Sep 2009

Not only does Matt Damon channel schlepiness with a real-life fat suit, a bad mustache and ties that look like there were cut from Vegas carpets,…

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Review of It Might Get Loud (2008)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 17 Sep 2009

Somehow we got two rockin' documentaries about air guitar and even one about the electric car before we got a solid movie about the life of…

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Review of Extract (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 03 Sep 2009

Extract feels less like a movie, and more like a collection of small biz campfire stories you've heard from buddies at networking breakfasts,…

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Review of Inglourious Basterds (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 20 Aug 2009

Despite the trailer's first impressions, Inglourious Basterds is much more than Brad Pitt with a funny accent and a few Hitler-stache cameos…

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Review of District 9 (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 13 Aug 2009

You've never seen a movie like District 9, but you're likely to now see many more...Unless the big studio heads dispatch their own men in black…

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Review of Julie & Julia (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 06 Aug 2009

Cooking shows haven't just jumped the shark, they've pan-seared its still-beating heart and served it as a $40 mini burger with a side of couscous…

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Review of (500) Days of Summer (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 30 Jul 2009

Sometimes love is a battlefield; but in (500) Days of Summer it's a pillow fight in which the Posturepedic puffballs have more personality…

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Review of The Hurt Locker (2008)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 24 Jul 2009

Let's be honest, war movies as a genre have slipped behind sappy Scientology sci-fi flicks and movies based on board games…

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Review of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 14 Jul 2009

Someone needs to tell that man-boy wizard that sequels, like gallons of milk left on the equator, aren't supposed to get better with age…

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Review of Brüno (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 10 Jul 2009

Bruno has enough gay heat to toast a Pop Tart in the Pope's ass…

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Review of Away We Go (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 03 Jul 2009

They're not really f$ck-ups, they're just self-absorbed slow starters with smelly Birkenstocks, like many of us…

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Review of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 24 Jun 2009

I'd rather listen to Mr. Roboto on a loop for 150 minutes than watch Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen again…

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Review of Year One (2009)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 18 Jun 2009

Year One is easy to hate, especially if you loathe Jack Black's hammy shtick, think Michael Cera peaked in Arrested Development or you have…

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Review of Year One (1974)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 18 Jun 2009

Year One is easy to hate, especially if you loathe Jack Black's hammy shtick, think Michael Cera peaked in Arrested Development or you have…

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Review of Up! (1976)

By Mike Ward (328) for Richmond Times-Dispatch (308) on 29 May 2009

I laughed, I cried, I spooned a balloon animal…

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