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Review of Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 17 Aug 2011

A Trojan horse of a teen comedy that balanced lowbrow gags with subtle humor, genuine insight—Crowe spent a year undercover as a high-school…

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Review of One Day (2011)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

The ultimate end of the story reveals that it's all about Sturgess' suffering, which just isn't that compelling a topic…

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Review of Griff the Invisible (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

The little glimpses of everyday magic on offer here are lovely, from a universe suit to a porous apartment door, but they're not enough to…

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Review of Programming the Nation? (2011)

By Noel Murray (1,901) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

It's tough to keep track of everything Jeff Warrick's subliminal-advertising documentary Programming The Nation? does wrong…

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Review of Fright Night (1985)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

The film's greatest pleasures come from Noxon's script - which puts the sexual chaos created by Farrell's attractive bloodsucker front and…

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Review of Head in the Clouds (2004)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

The film feels more at home with sex than war, like a romance novel where the swinging lovers find their passions stirred by bombs exploding…

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Review of The Mother and the Whore (1973)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

As in the best films of John Cassavetes, The Mother And The Whore transcends the medium of film altogether and appears to capture life as it…

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Review of Where the Wild Things Are (2009)

By Josh Modell (41) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 16 Aug 2011

Spike Jonze has recently said in interviews that his chief goal ...was to try to capture the feeling of being 9…

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Review of Simply Irresistible (1999)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 13 Aug 2011

Somehow both formulaic and bat-shit insane…

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Review of The Help (2011)

By Scott Tobias (1,684) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Aug 2011

The whole thing is rigged for crowd-pleasing payoffs - a bit about chocolate pie gets more mileage than a Prius - and those payoffs are about…

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Review of Senna (2010)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Aug 2011

Senna is considered one of motorsporting's greats, but Asif Kapadia's film also makes it clear he was a sort of artist, his talent accompanied…

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Review of Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Aug 2011

There's something admirable to this austerity and the way it insists viewers start by engaging with Kiefer's large-scale constructions, wordless…

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Review of 30 Minutes or Less (2011)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 09 Aug 2011

An egregiously miscast Eisenberg stars as a young man toiling as a pizza boy, even though he displays only slightly less intelligence and savvy…

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Review of Life As We Know It (2010)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Aug 2011

Pity any poor kid stuck in a house like that. Pity, too, anyone who has to stop by for a visit…

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Review of My Bodyguard (1980)

By Gwen Ihnat (16) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 04 Aug 2011

It’s all riveting enough, the kind of youth film that still has parables for adults and moves along at a quick and witty clip for kids—never…

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Review of Magic Trip: Ken Kesey's Search for a Kool Place (2011)

By Alison Willmore (681) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Aug 2011

In spite of this honey-toned self-documentation and some trippy visuals from the Imaginary Forces studio, Magic Trip is about as fun as being…

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Review of Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Aug 2011

Wyatt brings a light touch to the potentially grim material - too light when it drops in some groan-inducing references to the original film…

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Review of The Change-Up (2011)

By Nathan Rabin (1,078) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 02 Aug 2011

David Dobkin's film has the faults of raucous recent scatological comedies like Bad Teacher, Horrible Bosses, and The Hangover Part II with…

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Review of Mad Money (2008)

By Keith Phipps (1,177) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 01 Aug 2011

As a comedy, it relies on Keaton and Latifah playing the same characters they always play, and Holmes overcompensating by switching into bug-eyed…

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Review of Outlander (2008)

By Tasha Robinson (753) for The A.V. Club (5,644) on 31 Jul 2011

Surprise number one: It's smarter than it looks. Surprise number two: That doesn't entirely ruin it as an action film…

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