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		<title>Ben Lyons Shares Secret, Xbox-y Trick For Critical Dumbing-Down</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/02/ben_lyons_shares_secret_xboxy_trick_for_critical_dumbingdown-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Feb 2009 19:50:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Looking for that elusive, one-of-a-kind resource to help you attain Ben Lyons&#8217;s dizzying heights of film literacy? Oh. Well, he&#8217;s revealed his secret anyway.


The best part: You don&#8217;t even need to go to the movies. Just have a sponsorship from the video-game industry, apparently:
I recommend Scene It? Box Office Smash for Xbox. It helps me [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sorry, &#8216;The International&#8217; Will Not Rescue You From The &#8216;09 Movie Doldrums</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/02/sorry_the_international_will_not_rescue_you_from_the_09_movie_doldrums-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Feb 2009 21:01:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Berlin Film Festival launched today with the world premiere of Clive Owen&#8217;s financial-intrigue thriller The International, and we regret to inform that it was critically wounded almost instantly. But recovery is expected!


The first we heard after the screening got out, one critic didn&#8217;t do much to counteract a colleague&#8217;s avowed conventional wisdom that &#8220;Opening [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Critics Are Crazy About &#8216;Bride Wars&#8217;!</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/01/the_critics_are_crazy_about_bride_wars-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:05:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Remember when Eddie Murphy&#8217;s post-Dreamgirls Oscar fantasy died in the blast of the bomb that followed it? Anne Hathaway, we have found your Norbit.


With a small but symbolic cross-section of critics having reported at Rotten Tomatoes, Bride Wars has inspired the first &#8212; and what may prove the most vicious, depending on how that Towelhead [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Indian Baseball Prodigies Offer Keenly Acute Film Criticism</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/01/indian_baseball_prodigies_offer_keenly_acute_film_criticism-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 16:04:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Million Dollar Arm was a contest launched in India a couple years ago that attempted to find the country&#8217;s fastest pitcher and get him into the Major Leagues&#8212;sort of Bull Durham meets Slumdog Millionaire.


They found two: Rinku Singh, and runner-up Dinesh Kumar Patel. Both are currently training right here in L.A. at USC&#8217;s RDRBI [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrate Our Winners! The 2008 Top 10 of Top 10 Lists, Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/01/celebrate_our_winners_the_2008_top_10_of_top_10_lists_part_ii-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 15:30:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Believe it or not, there are five critics whose year-end Top 10 lists are even more mystifying, patience-testing and all-around terrible than those five awarded here yesterday. And the Listys go to&#8230;

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		<title>Critics Gone Wild: The Top 10 of Top 10 Lists of 2008, Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/01/critics_gone_wild_the_top_10_of_top_10_lists_of_2008_part_i-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/01/critics_gone_wild_the_top_10_of_top_10_lists_of_2008_part_i-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 18:07:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Top 10 mania that grips year-end film culture provides some of the most vulgar oversimplifications, abstractions, nonsense, critical self-regard and hype known to man. We&#8217;ve read the worst so you don&#8217;t have to.


The annual survey of Top 10-list transgressions aims to improve both critical rigour and reader experience, all while helping save cinema from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Milk&#8217; Spoiled With NY Critics&#8217; Award For Best Picture</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/12/milk_spoiled_with_ny_critics_award_for_best_picture-2/</link>
		<comments>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/12/milk_spoiled_with_ny_critics_award_for_best_picture-2/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Dec 2008 16:17:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For members of the New York Film Critics Circle, an average morning before its annual awards vote usually goes like this: 1. Order breakfast. 2. Refresh memory on the last month&#8217;s worth of releases. 3. Review the LA Film Critics Association awards from the day before. 4. Go 180 degrees in the opposite direction. That [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MGM Swats Rogue Critic in Latest Round of &#8216;Valkyrie&#8217; Backlash</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/12/mgm_swats_rogue_critic_in_latest_round_of_valkyrie_backlash-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:45:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been far too long since MGM was on the defensive over Valkyrie, the campaign for which uncomfortably started in its own office lobby but has since found decent enough traction in theatres and on TV. So! Right on cue, and apparently just for old time&#8217;s sake, a high-ranking New York film critic has found [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8216;Australia&#8217; is Reeeeally Long, and 6 Other Notable Lessons From the First U.S. Reviews</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/11/australia_is_reeeeally_long_and_6_other_notable_lessons_from_the_first_us_reviews-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Nov 2008 14:59:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Stateside critics have finally seen Australia, and the reviews are in! Kind of, anyway; we&#8217;ve mostly been sorting through first impressions, rough blog sketches and less-then-soaring anti-summaries (&#8221;Some kind of lethargy virus had taken over my system,&#8221; wrote Jeffrey Wells), but we think we have enough to go on to figure out where Baz Luhrmann&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>First &#8216;Twilight&#8217; Reviews Confirm Appeal Among Girls, Cheesy FX Fans</title>
		<link>http://www.defamer.com.au/2008/11/first_twilight_reviews_confirm_appeal_among_girls_cheesy_fx_fans-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:55:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twilight is likely critic-proof, but that&#8217;s not stopping Summit Entertainment from enforcing a punishable-by-death review embargo until 12:01 a.m. on Friday. Which would explain why today &#8212; two days after its chaotic premiere, the morning after the first press screenings, and in a period of seemingly open rebellion against those oppressive studio strictures &#8212; not [...]]]></description>
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