Super cute "documentary" (it blurs the line between fiction and documentary as it's supposedly a documentary but some parts are obviously staged, seeing as the director is being played by another actor) starring (now former) real life couple Michael Cera and Charlyne Yi.

(3.5/4)

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Transformers had a simple formula for success: take Earth's hottest girl, add robots and lots of explosions. Content not to mess with that formula, Revenge of the Fallen continues in that vein, and manages, for the most part, to top its predecessor. There's a little less of a sense that you're watching a commercial for the Air Force, GMC, and ( Read more... )

A timely (Congressman at the head of an investigation into a Blackwater-like "private security" firm is suddenly caught in an affair; old-school journalist and a blogger at a struggling big newspaper are tasked with the story) thriller that manages to keep one guessing til the end. Having an all-star cast (Russell Crowe, Rachel McAdams, Heather ( Read more... )

Cast The Dark Knight's Christian Bale as John Connor, put him in the post-apocalyptic world promised now by three movies and a TV series, mix in elements of The Matrix and Battlestar Galactica and you've got the ingredients for a pretty good movie, right?
Unfortunately for Terminator Salvation, that's not the case. Instead, Salvation begins John ( Read more... )

J.J. Abrams' best movie yet (of recent memory, anyway).

4/4

"The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense," one of the characters in The International tells Louis Salinger (Clive Owen), an Interpol investigator on the trail of a sinister international bank that he suspects of killing people (including investigators on the case) and arms dealing.

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Sure, it's Clint Eastwood playing yet another curmudgeonly old man, but it's worth seeing nonetheless. Very touching.

4/4

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1. Batman: The Dark Knight
2. Wall-E
3. Slumdog Millionaire
4. Ironman
5. Kung Fu Panda