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Fantastic Mr. Fox
FANTASTIC 'MR. FOX'? INDEED! 
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The news that Wes Anderson, the custom-tailored arch auteur of urban awkwardness and fractured family in films like "Rushmore" and "The Royal Tenenbaums," would be adapting a stop-motion animated adaptation of Roald Dahl's children's saga "Fantastic Mr. Fox" sounded, at first, crazy ... And yet, as any movie fan knows, that phrase is occasionally followed by the modifier "... Crazy enough to work!" And it turns out that "Fantastic Mr. Fox" is crazy enough to work and smart enough to work, and works superbly. ...Full Review
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Old Dogs
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"Nothing ... should get in the way of 'Old Dogs' claiming [worst film of the year]. It is an irredeemable affair." Full Review
Ninja Assassin
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"... no amount of CGI'd gore can save 'Assassin' from being dramatically lame, visually impaired and kinetically flat-footed." Full Review
The Road
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"... an honorable failure, given there was never any real hope of translating [Cormac] McCarthy's style-driven novel into film ..." Full Review
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
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... a less pretentious movie than its predecessor. Writer Melissa Rosenberg... has loosened up a bit. Full Review
The Blind Side
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"... you can feel it earn every yard like an offensive drive in football, darting and weaving through cynicism, sentimentality and laziness ..." Full Review
Planet 51
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"... will appeal only to people who think immersing a hapless infant in multicolored Jell-O for 90 minutes is a good thing." Full Review
2012
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"... a high-octane, big-screen soft-core guilty pleasure orgy of destruction ... [with] something like a plot ..." Full Review
Pirate Radio
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"All that really anchors the slight story line ... are deliciously flamboyant personalities and a smokin' soundtrack ..." Full Review
Disney's A Christmas Carol
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"If Dickens had been capable of time travel, back in his day ... I'm guessing he'd get a kick out of this 'Carol.'" Full Review
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' By Sapphire
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"... a mixed bag ... doesn't so much evolve as flip-flop into sunlight ..." Full Review
The Men Who Stare at Goats
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"... may result in your falling down laughing, courtesy of a devilishly smart script, subversive japery and a flawlessly funny cast. " Full Review
The Box
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"... a lot of both the fun and fear go out of the film as you feel it stumble towards the finish line and realize it's stuffed with recycled goods. " Full Review