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2009 MOVIES
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tense and meandering. Perhaps that explains
my reticence, but know this is one great film
you must see, even if you never want to watch
it again.
• OTHERS TO AVOID: Echelon Conspiracy, The
Goods: Live Hard Sell Hard, Hotel for Dogs,
I Love You Beth Cooper, Imagine That, My
Bloody Valentine, My Life in Ruins, Obsessed,
Pandorum, The Pink Panther 2, Saw VI, Street
Fighter: The Legend of Chun Li, The Unborn
• ALSO WORTH SEEING: (500) Days of
Summer, Adventureland, Away We Go, Bright
Star, The Brothers Bloom, Brijno, The Class,
Coraline, The Damned United, Drag Me to Hell,
Funny People, Gomorrah, The Hangover, The
Invention of Lying, Moon, Notorious, Observe
and Report, Paranormal Activity, A Perfect
Getaway, Pirate Radio, The Princess and the
Frog, The Road, State of Play, Watchmen,
Whip It
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1. 2012 (PG-13) Impressively rendered
destruction on a massive scale does not a two-
and-a-half-hour movie make. John Cusack is
not the right guy to go saving his family from
an impending, big-budget apocalypse, and the
blowed-up landmarks do not distract from the
awful melodrama, scripted by director Roland
Emmerich and former composer Harold Kloser,
that surrounds it.
2. HALLOWEEN II (R) Rob Zombie didn't want
to do a sequel. He definitively ended his
remake of John Carpenter's slasher classic with
a bullet to the masked face of killer Michael
Myers so he wouldn't have to make one. But
money is more evil than non-verbal serial
killers. Zombie insults his fans, the fans of
Halbween and his performers, all tasked with
bringing to life his despicable, white trash
characters.
3. BRIDE WARS (PG) Kate Hudson and Anne
Hathaway embarrass themselves in this "send-
4. TINE UGLY TRUTH (R) Gerard Butler needs a
new agent—two straight years, two straight
romantic duds. Too bad The Ugly Truth made so
damn much money. It means Butler's going to
stick with the awful romcom course he is plot
ting. Plus, Katherine Heigl gets more loath
some by the role.
5. GHOSTS OF GIRLFRIENDS PAST (PG-13) AU
'the charm of Matthew McConaughey cannot
save this unfunny bomb. Not even the demo-
graphically perfect crowd uttered more than a
single giggle. Sometimes, a jerk is just a jerk,
and no manner of Dickensian second chances
can save him.
• MOST DISAPPOINTING: 9, Jennifer's Body,
Halloween II, I Love You Man, The Informant!,
Public Enemies, Terminator Salvation
• SO BAD IT’S GOOD: Crank: High Voltage and
Gamer (or anything by Neveldine/Taylor)
• WORST TITLE (tie): Law Abiding Citizen
(especially considering the grammatically
incorrect lack of a hyphen), Transylmania
• BEST FOLEY WORK (or Scariest to Listen to
by Yourself in the Dark): Drag Me to Hell
• MUCH BETTER THAN ITS PREVIEW: Knowing
• BEST ACTORS: George Clooney, Up in the
Air, Cristoph Waltz, Inglourious Basterds;
Timothy Olyphant, A Perfect Getaway; Joseph
Gordon-Levitt, (500) Days of Summer, Sacha
Baron Cohen, Brijno; Jeremy Renner, The Hurt
Locker, Matt Damon, The Informant!: Sharlto
Copley, District 9; Jamal Woolard, Notorious;
Viggo Mortensen, The Road; Michael Sheen,
The Damned United
• BEST ACTRESSES: Meryl Streep, Julie &
Julia; Alison Lohman, Drag Me to Hell; the
women (all two of them) of Inglourious
Basterds; the roller derby girls of Whip It; Leah
Pipes, Sorority Row; Abbie Cornish, Bright Star;
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious; Mo'nique, Precious;
Vera Farmiga, Up in the Air; Anna Kendrick,
Up in the Air; the singing, dancing beauties
of Nine
• BEST DIRECTORS: James Cameron, Avatar;
Neil Blomkamp, District 9; JJ. Abrams, Star
Trek,; Kathryn Bigelow, The Hurt Locker; Spike
Jonze, Where the Wild Things Are; Quentin
Tarantino, Inglourious Basterds; Marc Webb,
(500) Days of Summer; Lee Daniels, Precious;
Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man; Jason
Reitman, Up in the Air
• BEST SCREENPLAYS: District 9, Neil
Blomkamp; Inglourious Basterds, Quentin
Tarantino; Where the Wild Things Are, Spike
Jonze and Dave Eggers; Away We Go, Dave
Eggers and Vendela Vida; Bright Star, Jane
Campion; Precious, Geoffrey Fletcher; A Serious
Man, Joel and Ethan Coen; Up in the Ait, Jason
Reitman and Sheldon Turner
Drew Wheeler
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worst "chick flick" of the year,
way to start the year.
