Movie Reviews4.7/10
Miley Cyrus Trades Fame for a Small Town in This 2009 Musical Comedy
A tale of a girl who hath all the world's riches yet lacks a common life, told in pictures that fail to satisfy.
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Tag: 2009 films
Movie Reviews2.6/10
Seventeen Years On, Pandorum Still Succeeds Where Most Sci-Fi Horror Ships Fail
A review of Pandorum, a slow-burn sci-fi horror thriller that gets lost in its own madness.
Movie Reviews8.3/10
Drag Me to Hell at 17: Sam Raimi’s Cruel, Perfect Return to Horror
Sam Raimi's 2009 return to horror, Drag Me to Hell, is a 99-minute curse thriller built on a button, a séance, and Lorna Raver's terrifying Mrs. Ganush.
Movie Reviews4.2/10
The Adoption Horror Movie That Made a Twist Out of a Woman’s Grief
A review of Orphan (2009), Jaume Collet-Serra's psychological horror film starring Vera Farmiga, scoring 4.2/10 for wasted talent and a weak twist.
Movie Reviews5.6/10
Zack Snyder Turned Watchmen Into a Shot-for-Shot Copy, and It Still Doesn’t Work
A review of Zack Snyder's 2009 Watchmen: faithful to the comic but 163 minutes of flat pacing, scoring 5.6 of 10 despite strong Rorschach scenes.