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| . PLOT SUMMARY: A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of medical students, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies. |
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YEAR: 2009. STARRING: Michael Pollan, Eric Schlosser CATEGORY RATINGS: Storyline: . OVERALL RATING: |
| . PLOT SUMMARY: An unflattering look inside America’s corporate controlled food industry. |
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YEAR: 2009. STARRING: Larry David, Adam Brooks CATEGORY RATINGS: Storyline: . OVERALL RATING: |
| . PLOT SUMMARY: “Whatever Works” Does Not. Though marking a return to his home turf after making half a dozen pictures abroad, “Whatever Works,” Woody Allen’s new Manhattan-based comedy, recycles old ideas, jokes, and characters of the helmer’s oeuvre circa the 1980s and 1990s. “Whatever Works” is not a bad picture, but considering that it’s only 92 minutes long, the comedy is not offbeat enough, as it pretends to be, to qualify as really funny or witty, and casting TV’s Larry David “(Curb Your Enthusiasm”) as the misanthropic protagonist might not have been such a good idea after all, because he plays a variation of his small-screen persona in a role that Woody Allen could (and would) have played 10 or 15 years ago in his sleep. Moreover, coming right after Allen’s return to form, the buoyant romantic comedy, “Vicki Cristina Barcelona,” which was more commercially popular than the five former Allen pictures together, is particularly disappointing, recalling the smaller, unsuccessful U.S. (”Melinda and Melinda”) and U.K. productions (”Scoop”). The movie, which received its world premiere as opening night of the ninth Tribeca Film Festival, will be released by Sony Classics in late June as counter-programming to the summer’s top gun, but it’s doubtful whether it would be embraced and liked much by critics or audiences. |
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YEAR: 2009. STARRING: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds CATEGORY RATINGS: Storyline: . OVERALL RATING: |
| . PLOT SUMMARY: When high-powered book editor Margaret (SANDRA BULLOCK) faces deportation to her native Canada, the quick-thinking exec declares that she’s actually engaged to her unsuspecting put-upon assistant Andrew (RYAN REYNOLDS), who she’s tormented for years. He agrees to participate in the charade, but with a few conditions of his own. The unlikely couple heads to Alaska to meet his quirky family (MARY STEENBURGEN, CRAIG T. NELSON, BETTY WHITE) and the always-in-control city girl finds herself in one comedic fish-out-of-water situation after another. With an impromptu wedding in the works and an immigration official on their tails, Margaret and Andrew reluctantly vow to stick to the plan despite the precarious consequences. |
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YEAR: 2009. STARRING: Jack Black, Michael Cera CATEGORY RATINGS: Storyline: . OVERALL RATING: |
| . PLOT SUMMARY: When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world in Columbia Pictures’ comedy Year One. Harold Ramis directs. The screenplay is by Harold Ramis & Gene Stupnitsky & Lee Eisenberg (The Office) from a story by Harold Ramis. The film is produced by Harold Ramis, Judd Apatow, and Clayton Townsend. |
