Category: Film Reviews
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Review: Crazy Heart (2009)
Crazy Heart Rating Director Scott Cooper Screenplay Scott Cooper (Novel: Thomas Cobb) Length 111 min. Starring Jeff Bridges, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Robert Duvall, Brian Gleason, Colin Farrell MPAA Rating R for language and brief sexuality. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review A drunken singer who has hit rock bottom discovers that the love of a…
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Review: Avatar (2009)
Avatar Rating Director James Cameron Screenplay James Cameron Length 162 min. Starring Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana, Sigourney Weaver, Stephen Lang, Michelle Rodriguez, Giovanni Ribisi, Joel David Moore, CCH Pounder, Wes Studi, Laz Alonso MPAA Rating PG-13 for intense epic battle sequences and warfare, sensuality, language and some smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Big and…
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Reviews: Oscar Round-Up, Part II
It’s been over a month since I posted Part I of my year-end Oscar reviews round-up (plus a few other films that aren’t really contenders, but which get updated at the same time). Below are seven film reviews that I have finished and posted. The Blind Side It’s hard to imagine a film critic celebrating…
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Review: The Messenger (2009)
The Messenger Rating Director Oren Moverman Screenplay Alessandro Camon, Oren Moverman Length 105 min. Starring Ben Foster, Jena Malone, Eamonn Walker, Woody Harrelson, Steve Buscemi, Samantha Morton MPAA Rating R for language and some sexual content/nudity. Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review Too often, the concerns of families at home when their loved ones are at war,…
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Review: The Lovely Bones (2009)
The Lovely Bones Rating Director Peter Jackson Screenplay Fran Walsh, Philippa Boyens, Peter Jackson (Novel: Alice Sebold) Length 135 min. Starring Susan Sarandon, Mark Wahlberg, Rachel Weisz, Saoirse Ronan, Stanley Tucci, Nikki SooHoo, Amanda Michalka, Jake Abel, Rose McIver, Michael Imperioli MPAA Rating PG-13 for mature thematic material involving disturbing violent content and images, and…
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Review: Invictus (2009)
Invictus Rating Director Clint Eastwood Screenplay Anthony Peckham (Book: John Carlin) Length 134 min. Starring Morgan Freeman, Matt Damon, Tony Kgoroge, Patrick Mofokeng, Matt Stern, Julian Lewis Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Marguerite Wheatley, Leleti Khumalo, Patrick Lyster, Penny Downie, Sibongile Nojila, Bonnie Henna MPAA Rating PG-13 for brief strong language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material…
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Review: Up in the Air (2009)
Up in the Air Rating Director Jason Reitman Screenplay Jason Reitman, Sheldon Turner (Novel: Walter Kim) Length 109 min. Starring George Clooney, Vera Farmiga, Anna Kendrick, Jason Bateman, Amy Morton, Melanie Lynskey, J.K. Simmons, Sam Eliott, Danny McBride, Zach Galifianakis MPAA Rating R for language and some sexual content. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material…
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Review: Julie & Julia (2009)
Julie & Julia Rating Director Nora Ephron Screenplay Nora Ephron (Book: Julie Powell & Book: Julia Child, Alex Prud’homme) Length 123 min. Starring Meryl Streep, Amy Adams, Stanley Tucci, Chris Messina, Linda Emond, Helen Carey, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Jane Lynch, Joan Juliet Buck, Crystal Noelle MPAA Rating PG-13 for brief strong language and some sensuality.…
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Review: 9 (2009)
9 Rating Director Shane Acker Screenplay Pamela Pettler, Shane Acker Length 79 min. Starring Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, John C. Reilly, Crispin Glover, Jennifer Connelly, Fred Tatasciore, Elijah Wood, Alan Oppenheimer MPAA Rating PG-13 for violence and scary images. Buy/Rent Movie Poster Review There was a time in world history when workers were afraid that…
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Review: The Blind Side (2009)
The Blind Side Rating Director John Lee Hancock Screenplay John Lee Hancock (Book: Michael Lewis) Length 128 min. Starring Sandra Bullock, Tim McGraw, Quinton Aaron, Jae Head, Lily Collins, Ray McKinnon, Kim Dickens, Adriane Lenox, Kathy Bates, Catherine Dyer MPAA Rating PG-13 for one scene involving brief violence, drug and sexual references. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack…
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Reviews: Oscar Round-Up, Part I
At the end of the year, I get tons of screeners and find myself knee-deep in reviews. That’s not necessarily a bad thing. But it does make for a large influx of new content. So, here are all of my reviews posted in this update. While not all of them are exactly Oscar-calibre pictures, most…
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Review: The Informant! (2009)
The Informant! Rating Director Steven Soderbergh Screenplay Scott Z. Burns (Book: Kurt Eichenwald) Length 108 min. Starring Matt Damon, Lucas Carroll, Eddie Jemison, Rusty Schwimmer, Tom Papa, Rick Overton, Melanie Lynskey, Tom Wilson, Scott Bakula, Scott Adsit, Ann Dowd, Allan Havey, Howie Johnson, Joel McHale MPAA Rating R for language. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source…
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Review: Bright Star (2009)
Bright Star Rating Director Jane Campion Screenplay Jane Campion Length 119 min. Starring Ben Whishaw, Abbie Cornish, Kerry Fox, Paul Schneider, Edie Martin, Thomas Sangster MPAA Rating PG for thematic elements, some sensuality, brief language and incidental smoking. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Review Not a traditional history lesson on one of the world’s greatest poets,…
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Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
Fantastic Mr. Fox Rating Director Wes Anderson Screenplay Wes Anderson, Noah Baumbach (Novel: Roald Dahl) Length 87 min. Starring George Clooney, Meryl Streep, Jason Schwartzman, Bill Murray, Wally Wolodarsky, Eric Anderson, Michael Gambon, Willem Dafoe MPAA Rating PG for action, smoking and slang humor. Buy/Rent Movie Soundtrack Poster Source Material Review Adapting one of Roald…
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Review: Where the Wild Things Are (2009)
Where the Wild Things Are Rating Director Spike Jonze Screenplay Spike Jonze, David Eggars (Book: Maurice Sendak) Length 101 min. Starring Max Records, Pepita Emmerichs, Catherine Keener, Mark Ruffalo, James Gandolfini, Paul Dano, Catherine O’Hara, Forest Whitaker, Michael Berry Jr., Chris Cooper, Lauren Ambrose MPAA Rating PG for mild thematic elements, some adventure action and…
