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The September Issue (2009)
"Wintour, apparently, is queen of the universe %u2013 or the fashion universe. Which has as much to do with the real universe as Spongebob does to the plight of the dolphin."
Marshall Fine
Tomato
A Serious Man (2009)
"A Serious Man is the Coens at their best: wonderfully odd, darkly comic and just plain weird,"
Serious Moonlight (2009)
"The problem is clearly the screenplay. Unfortunately for the cast and director Hines, the script was obviously sacrosanct. And that sinks the movie."
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
"Belongs on a shelf next to the Will Smith Wild Wild West: a remake that seems more excreted than created... too long, too generic and not nearly as clever as it seems to think."
Sherman's Way (2009)
"A surprising little low-budget comedy that has heart, smarts and charm."
Shorts (2009)
"As imaginative as Shorts is, it's never very funny. Rodriguez apparently was too busy to be bothered with honing the script so the jokes actually generate laughs."
Sin Nombre (2009)
"More than just an immigration drama...real and dramatically intense."
A Single Man (2009)
"One of the year's most moving performances %u2013 by Colin Firth %u2013 set against what appears to be one long perfume commercial from the early 1990s."
Skin (2009)
"A powerful and compelling drama based on a true story that still resonates."
The Soloist (2009)
"Together Foxx and Downey are affecting and, ultimately, so is The Soloist. It is an imperfect film, to be sure. But it kept me engaged, when it wasn't frustrating me."
Soul Power (2009)
"The performances that Soul Power captures are so captivating, so exciting, that it holds its own...I defy anyone to sit still through this infectiously funky doc."
Spinning into Butter (2009)
"May force the audience to confront its own reactions to the dilemmas ... of a society in which people talk at each other, rather than with each other."
Spread (2009)
"Spread may not amount to much but Kutcher will change perceptions of who he is as an actor for anyone who sees it."
Star Trek (2009)
"It's not perfect but it is great fun ... It's hard to imagine anyone resisting this new cast."
State of Play (2009)
"State of Play has tricks up its sleeve to go with the weighty ideas that will stick with you. It's the year's best thriller so far."
The Stoning of Soraya M. (2009)
"It's so relentless that it's hard to imagine anyone willingly seeing it on purpose."
Sugar (2009)
"Sugar stands the baseball movie on its head by approaching the genre with off-speed material, instead of the plot equivalent of sizzling fastballs and home runs."
Sunshine Cleaning (2009)
"None of the cast members can breathe life into this pale little enterprise. The whole thing has the weight and substance of one of Adams' pained little sighs."
Surveillance (2009)
"One of those love it/hate it movies that leaves you feeling shaken because it presents such a dark vision of the world. Enter at your own risk."
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