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Seattle Times (Free subscription) | 11/24/2009
... bloody stylized violence throughout, and language. 99 minutes. One and a half stars out of four.- Glenn Whipp, For The Associated Press---"The Road" - Director John Hillcoat's adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel strives to stay close to the book, but it fails to translate its essence and somehow feels more dreary than it should - which is saying something...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/17/2009
ReviewBy Glenn Whipp10:57 p.m. ET Nov. 16, 2009The redemption-minded sports flick "The Blind Side" serves its inspiration straight-up with no twist.Writer-director John Lee Hancock wisely lets the true story of Michael Oher — the African-American teen who found a home and, eventually, football stardom, after being adopted by a wealthy Memphis family — speak for itself. That direct focus...
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MSNBC.com (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
By Glenn Whipp4:43 p.m. ET The flat-lining, alien-abduction thriller “The Fourth Kind” offers a close encounter that buries an interesting idea under a barrage of gimmicky, carnivallike hokum. The movie’s unwieldy mix of degraded pseudo-documentary footage and “Unsolved Mystery”-style re-enactments is as unconvincing as it its distancing, making the small charms of all the more apparent...
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Hollywood Elsewhere (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
"When Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences president Sid Ganis announced the expansion of the best picture category to 10 nominations back in June, everyone was talking about J.J. Abrams' "Star Trek" being the kind of movie that might benefit from a wider field," writes Variety's Glenn Whipp. "Critics liked it; audiences loved it: It was the type of sturdy...
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Gold Derby (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
... role fathoms." AWARDS DAILY • In the first of a two-part look at the expanded best picture race, Glenn Whipp sees the glass as half full. However, he cautions that "while one, maybe two, commercial movies might make their way to a nomination, boosters of Oscar's expanded field believe that the main beneficiaries of the new math will be foreign-language films, documentaries and small-scale...
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Spanish Teaching (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
New York Times 'Astro Boy'Los Angeles TimesBy Zip Code: By Glenn Whipp "Astro Boy" plays like "Transformers" for tots, a "Pinocchio" story that stays true to its source material's storied past without adding much in the way of interest, outside of some clankingly obvious political subtext that …There You Go, Rocket High Through the Sky, Trying [...]...
