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2009 Stories by Robert Wilonsky

• Blockbuster finishes the decade with a whimper

  published December 30, 2009

  In a Dallas strip mall, in the neighborhood George W. Bush now calls home, sits a bright and fluorescent Blockbuster that, on this cold... More >>

• George Clooney in Up in the Air

  published December 2, 2009

  There is something oddly familiar about Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, in which George Clooney plays a commitment-phobic business... More >>

• Pirate Radio finally washes ashore in the U.S.

  published November 11, 2009

  Seven months after its theatrical release in the U.K., and two months after its DVD debut there, Pirate Radio washes ashore in U.S.... More >>

• The Informant! gets cute with scandal and blows the story

  published September 16, 2009

  As evidenced by The Informant!, it's a hell of a tricky thing turning real-life pulp into floss sugar. The story of Archer Daniels... More >>

• Mike Judge's Extract takes another look at inanities in the workplace

  published September 2, 2009

  Mike Judge began writing the screenplay for Extract not long after Office Space opened and closed in a matter of weeks in the... More >>

• Julie & Julia is half of a great movie

  published August 5, 2009

  It was the best of movies. It was the worst of movies. Which is to say: There's half of a great movie in Julie & Julia—but since... More >>

• Film Highlight: In the Loop

  published July 29, 2009

  This deliriously foul-mouthed political satire is set sometime between 2002 and the day after tomorrow—hard to say, given that the... More >>

• Film Highlight: (500) Days of Summer

  published July 22, 2009

  Seemingly similar to most factory-made rom-coms, former music-video director Marc Webb's first feature is actually far less interested in the... More >>

• Film Highlight: Up

  published May 27, 2009

  First of all, Up is not a movie about a cranky old coot who, with the help of a roly-poly Boy Scout, finds his inner... More >>

• Film Highlight: The Brothers Bloom

  published May 20, 2009

  Writer-director Rian Johnson's movies—first Brick in 2006, now The Brothers Bloom—are clever and... More >>

• J.J. Abrams's Star Trek will live long and prosper

  published May 6, 2009

  It's difficult for this longtime Trekkie to review J.J. Abrams's relaunching of the U.S.S. Enterprise. It's difficult to dispassionately... More >>

• Monsters vs. Aliens' 3-D effects win big

  published March 25, 2009

  At the end of 2008, DreamWorks Animation boss man Jeffrey Katzenberg embarked on a cross-country tour, toting 20 minutes' worth of Monsters... More >>