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AVATAR
 Release: Dec 09 - Review: 1 Jan 10 
Electra Glide in Jungle Cat Blue.
Frank Zappa once said, "Writing about music is like tap dancing about architecture." And there's no way to describe James Cameron's AVATAR without a lot of tap dancing.
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THE INVENTION OF LYING
 Release: Oct 09 - Review: 28 Jan 10 
More Invention Required.
...starts as a fantastic original idea, fleshed into hilarious absurdity by Gervais, then slips in the puddle of Romantic Comedy - and you know what happens when you hit your brain on that pavement.
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THIS IS IT
 Release: Oct 09 - Review: 22 Nov 09
Blood on the Dance Floor.
Better than a concert, better than a front row ticket, better than a faux-leather red jacket with lots of zippers.
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THE MAIDEN HEIST
 Release: Oct 09 - Review: 20 Nov 09 
Beauty is in the hands of the Beholders.
A quaint little heist comedy, with a nifty romantic resolution...
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Release: Sep 09 - Review: 4 Feb 10
Sock It To Me.
... jaw-dropping, wonder-making, magnificent animation sight-spectacular, and an ambitious stab at conceptual darkness. Gone awry.
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FAME 2009
Release: Sep 09 - Review: 28 Jan 10
Lame.
...rushed production that flits through so many storylines and characters at the New York School of Performing Arts, it implodes with two-dimensionality.
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PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
Release: Sep 09 - Review: 14 Oct 09
Pants Not Normal Activity.
...works on the premise elucidated by Stephen King: don't show the monsters.
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A PERFECT GETAWAY
Release: Aug 09 - Review: 2 Feb 10 
Hunted Honeymoon.
...a tension-soaked thriller that ratchets suspense not unlike a junior Hitchcock or Tarantino.
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DISTRICT 9
 Release: Aug 09 - Review: 22 Aug 09
A Closer Encounter.
Like the deformed child of a documentary and a reality show; a psychodrama with a tongue-in-ass-cheek sense of black humor.
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ICE AGE: DAWN OF THE DINOSAURS
Release: Jul 09 - Review: 6 Nov 09
On its merry way to extinction...
...the third and most spectacular in the ICE AGE series - and probably the least interesting.
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