‘Invention of Lying’ has a simple, resonant premise but is made without rigor. Only intermittent ingenuity saves it from offensive laziness.
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Twitter Review: The Invention of Lying
16 Mar 2010
Posted by Culture Snob on Tuesday, March 16, 2010.
Filed in Movies, Tweets and tagged Comedies (21), Matthew Robinson (1), Ricky Gervais (1), The Invention of Lying (1), Twitter Reviews (64).
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Twitter Review: Coraline
11 Mar 2010
Like Selick’s other animations, ‘Coraline’ is merely weird. While imaginative, meticulous, and thematically rich, it’s dull and oddly inert.
Posted by Culture Snob on Thursday, March 11, 2010.
Filed in Movies, Tweets and tagged Animation (9), Coraline (2), Henry Selick (2), Twitter Reviews (64).
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Majority Rules: How Oscar Got It Right
3 Mar 2010
Regardless of which film takes home Best Picture on Sunday night, the Academy Awards finally got it right.
I don’t mean that the best movie of 2009 will have won, even if one only considers the 10 nominees. Rather, the Oscars have chosen a sound voting system — an instant-runoff election — that nearly guarantees that every ballot will help determine whether Avatar or The Hurt Locker nabs the prize.
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Posted by Culture Snob on Wednesday, March 3, 2010.
Filed in Movies and tagged Academy Awards (13), Avatar (1), Oscars (13), The Hurt Locker (2).
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