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    (Untitled)

    Satirizing New York's trendiest contemporary art and music scene, "(Untitled)" is an original film on several fronts, not least its ambiguous viewpoint.

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    Bright Star

    "Bright Star" centers on the passionate, albeit brief, love affair between poet John Keats and Fanny Brawne before his death at age 25.

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    'Fifty Dead Men Walking'

    Bottom Line: Docu-like film based on exploits of an actual Belfast hood turned informer against IRA terrorists is an explosive cinematic experience.

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    9

    Bottom Line: Brilliantly innovative animation gets lavished on a less-than-brilliant story.

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    Big Fan

    To use the football parlance this film excels in, Patton Oswalt runs it all the way into the end zone with a brutally honest and brilliant performance that stands as one of the year's best.

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    Taking Woodstock

    Taking Woodstock" may not exactly be what the title and the marketing campaign indicate. Those who go expecting to relive the nostalgia and musical glories of a landmark 1960s happening will be sorely disappointed.

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    World's Greatest Dad

    "World's Greatest Dad" is a mildly amusing comedy that, regrettably, doesn't have the courage of its convictions.

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    Inglourious Basterds

    Time to take a ride on the Q.T. train again. This Quentin Tarantino long-in-gestation World War II epic is easily his best.

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    Casi Divas

    Writer-director Issa López's film (based on an idea by Ignacio Darnaude) tells the story of four feisty Mexican women who enter a national competition to win a starring role in a major motion picture based on a popular Mexican soap opera.

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    District 9

    Thanks to smart marketing that includes a killer trailer, most people know by now that "District 9" is the feature debut of South African director Neill Blomkamp.