Matt Damon is funny in this dark comedy about a food scientist who helps the FBI prosecute his own employer for price-fixing – and then expects his colleagues to applaud him. What’s unsettling (and maybe not in a good way) is that as the story unfolds you can’t tell if the joke is supposed to be on the company, the FBI, the betrayer or the audience.
Grade: B
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The premise of Surrogates — humans manipulating perfect mechanical puppets of themselves to live out their lives — is fascinating all by itself. Unfortunately, the Hollywood hacks who made this film felt it necessary to graft on a dull, leaden murder-mystery subplot that suffocates the original idea.
Grade: C-
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Omahan Patrick Coyle wrote and directed this compelling story of a Roman Catholic priest in an inner-city church trying to track down a prostitute who has told him in the confessional that she intends to commit suicide in the next few days. The priest role is written as a genuine hero (a refreshing approach), and Jeremy Sisto, of NBC’s Law & Order, gives a convincing performance.
Grade: B
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Writer/director Mike Judge, creator of Office Space and Beavis and Butt-Head, gives us a sly, dry comedy about a middle-class man facing a mid-life crisis at home and at the flavor-extract plant he owns and (supposedly) manages. High points include Jason Bateman as the man in the middle, Dustin Milligan as a dumb gigolo, and Gene Simmons as a sleazy lawyer.
Grade: B+
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This movie has plenty of flaws (too long, too little music) but it does a nice job of retelling the myth of Woodstock as a story of transformation. The characters – the young Elliot Tiber, the hip concert organizers, the square townspeople, the cross-dressing security guard – are all swept up and changed by the tsunami that the concert becomes.
Grade: B
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This wretched romantic comedy is so aggressively stupid, I can’t believe it attracted talent like Sandra Bullock, Thomas Haden Church and Bradley Cooper. Each of them should fire their agent for letting them appear in what will inevitably be declared the worst movie of 2009.
Grade: F
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