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THE BOOK OF ELI
 Comes a time when you're just sick of the descriptor "post-apocalyptic." What happened to simply, "The Near Future" and letting our imaginations extrapolate on what blasted the hell out of Middle America? (Could it have been those religious fanatics with the Weapons of Mass Destruction - you know, the American government?)
So in THE BOOK OF ELI, striding down the heat-blasted, Middle American - ahem - "post-apocalyptic" highway
comes Eli (strapping, sexy-55 Denzel Washington), looking like A BOY AND HIS DOG - without the dog; looking like THE POSTMAN - without the mail; looking like BEYOND THUNDERDOME - without the mullet. He's
handy with a gun, and a knife, and his fists, and a bow and arrow, and quoting from the Bible - probably the most dangerous weapon of all.
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THE BOOK OF ELI
 Release: Jan 10 - Review: 9 Feb 10 
When Gunslingers Get Religion.
In a surprising display of controlled storytelling by Gary Whitta, THE BOOK OF ELI is about religion - but it ain't religious.
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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 BOX
 Release: Nov 09 - Review: 15 Mar 10 
Filmmaking Outside The Box.
DONNIE DARKO meets INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
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LAW ABIDING CITIZEN
 Release: Oct 09 - Review: 14 Mar 10
... and Justice for none.
... starts as a very satisfactory, righteous vigilante story and an indictment against the criminal "justice" system, and turns into a one-dimensional vendetta that involves Clyde blowing stuff up, Hollywood style.
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AMELIA
Release: Oct 09 - Review: 12 Feb 10
Fly girl.
...she flies, she flies, she dies. The end.
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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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THE INFORMANT
Release: Sep 09 - Review: 11 Mar 10
A little less corn, a little more syrup.
From its ugly orange posters to its silly, misleading theatrical trailers, everything about THE INFORMANT is an exercise in bad marketing.
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SURROGATES
Release: Sep 09 - Review: 7 Mar 10
Rage Against The Machines.
Into this world where we poke, surf, tweet, blog, smile, frown, pillow fight - all without actually DOING any of it - comes a movie showing us exactly what would happen if our computers really could poke, surf, blog, smile, frown and pillow fight for us.
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