Happy holidays! Follow the link to Groucho's Top Ten List for 2009 films.
Happy holidays! Follow the link to Groucho's Top Ten List for 2009 films.

Winds up feeling strangely perfunctory. This is subject matter that should fascinate, rather than deliver an occasional droll observation. 

If only Morel and Besson would have committed to satirizing, instead of merely exploiting, this superficially cool, destructively cold archetype of American firepower, they could’ve had more than multiplex filler. 

A smart little genre outing, an endangered species in modern Hollywood. 

Can I interest you in a nice nap? 

A very impressive formal exercise in style and restraint... 

Davies, and especially Tennant, made Doctor Who more catchy than campy... 

Predictable and, in the end, embarrassingly sappy...[but] does touch on some interesting points about the ethics of drug trials and approvals, the entrepreneurial spirit, and the challenges of doing important work that isn’t a sure thing... 

A hall-of-mirrors investigation of extraordinary talent, emotionally stunted personality, a performer’s process, and the cruel mistress of celebrity...but it also serves as a powerful performance version of a last will and testament. 

No one can accuse the show of shrinking from dark psychological themes: the leading character of Nancy Botwin (Emmy winner Mary-Louise Parker) has spun more wildly out of control with each season... 

Okay, everybody, back to your shopping--there's nothing to see here. 

It’s a mark of Jackson’s lack of restraint as a filmmaker that the mystery-thriller elements and fantastic visualizations overtake the domestic drama that is the novel’s true raison d’être. 

As preposterous as this "Die Hard on a mountain" flick is, Cliffhanger remains one of the zestier big-budget action pictures of the nineties. 

Considered a dunderheaded big-budget flop in its day, Last Action Hero looks considerably better now in its creative self-parody. 

Sets thoughts swirling about three bitch-goddesses: the teenage variety (namely Megan Fox’s Jennifer), “success” in the commercial cinema, and that fickle mistress called hype. 

Endearingly packed to the rafters with ornate anachronistic artistry, Gilliam’s Imaginarium is a great place to window shop—and get lost for a spell. 

Call this one the thinking boy’s sex romp. 

Bridges ably does his own guitar playing and singing, another reason Crazy Heart is a gift to those who have long appreciated his talents. 

The stupid fun of The Hangover is worth experiencing at least once. 

When they're not risking their lives with exciting spy maneuvers, Blaster works out to Lady Gaga and Juarez updates her Facebook page. Okay, so maybe G-Force is just a tad self-consciously 'hip.' 

Jones has a very interesting existential idea here, and though he frustratingly doesn’t exploit its every possibility, he does give a great actor an opportunity for a tour-de-force performance. 
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I was fascinated by Sky King, until I went to the studio one day with my Dad and met a pudgy little man, who didn’t fit my image of Sky King. But I think that tweaked my interest in the whole business of show business. 

[Linklater:] You can feel...him pushing the boundaries or finding maybe there aren’t any boundaries to his own genius and to his behavior and his appetites. You can almost feel them expanding as you watch him. 

There’s so many heroes that I admire, like the one general called Zhao Yun, who is saving a little baby in the middle of all the battles...I used him for Chow Yun-Fat in Hard Boiled. 

Spike Jonze: 'That was sort of the goal of the movie, really, just to try and capture the feeling, to make a movie from the point of view of a nine-year-old. So the viewer is for that period of time experiencing the world from that vantage point.' 

I’d like to believe that he’s wondering the same questions we are: 'Why is this happening to me? And how do I get myself out of this situation?' He’s tryin’, y’know? 

I had made a[n] X-ray machine for science fair in high school...And then read somewhere that it could actually make you sterile. And then I built this big lead box. And so that was kind of in my mind, about protecting the testes, for a while. 

I know when I die, my obituary photo is going to be me in a police uniform standing next to a talking horse. I mean, I know that. I know that that’s the clip they’re going to play on Entertainment Tonight. 

That’s my mantra. You’ve got to find a way to make things personal. 

It's really a foray for him, into a world that he doesn't know, on many levels. I don't know that he's ever necessarily kissed a girl, so there's that...I kind of credit Adam with the bravery to pull it off. 

People with Asperger's are as varied as the rest of us...There's a saying in the Asperger's community, which is 'If you know one person with Asperger, you know one person with Asperger's.' 