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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-52 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 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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