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9/10
     (1999)      "You don't have to be a Trek weenie to have a good time at this spoof cum homage to fandom and the enduring appeal of cheesy TV, but it helps." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
     (1997)      "It's genuinely clever, and builds to a spectacular--if not altogether satisfying--conclusion." [movie review]      Film Journal International   
  
1.5/4
     (2006)      "This tale about a successful playwright and a vitriolic theater critic begins on a strenuously schematic note ... and descends into a tangle of heavily symbolic nonsense." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3.5/5
     (2003)      "Has the paranoid tone and narrative urgency of a conspiracy thriller." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
     (2009)      "A streak of genius runs through this dystopian vision of a world in where VR games are played with real people ... it touches some exposed nerves before retreating into clichés." [movie review]      AMCtv.com   
  
2.5/5
     (2004)      "There's no denying the freak-show appeal and you don't see frontal nudity like this on TV, but otherwise it's all as contrived and artificial as Survivor." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/5
     (2002)      "The movie's captivating details are all in the performances, from Foreman's barking-mad Taylor to Thewlis's smoothly sinister Freddie and Bettany/McDowell's hard-eyed gangster." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1.5/4
     (1936)      "It's familiar stuff if you've sampled the vast body of work devoted to LA-dammerung." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2.5/4
     (2004)      "Chris is the putative author of the film's images, but they're overlaid with Claudine's relentlessly overwhelming voice-over, which alternates between a crisp, knowing lecture about Bosch and more personal musings." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1/4
     (2006)      "A crass, tedious sequel." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/5
     (2003)      "Without an assured character at its center, the movie quickly collapses in a heap of moldy clichés and contrived (and not especially funny) situations." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
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     (1997)      Click here to see the review! [movie review]      Film Journal International   
  
3/4
     (1997)      "This stately, stunningly beautiful picture evokes a future in which present-day prejudices and neuroses have been taken to new, insidious scientifically rationalized heights." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/5
     (2001)      "The offbeat cast and gorgeous Barcelona locations can't quite make up for the thinness of the mystery and forced quirkiness of the characters and their tangled relationships." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
7/10
     (1999)      "Director Simon West seems to confuse visual stylishness with emotional resonance, moody lighting with genuinely malevolent atmosphere, and sanctimonious lip service with genuine concern." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/4
     (2008)      "A polarizing meditation on life and death in the infinitely mediated world of blogs, file sharing and incessant virtual connection." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3.5/5
     (2005)      "Nearly two decades after George Romero's sadly truncated Day of the Dead (1986) apparently concluded his apocalyptic zombie series, this grim, gory fable proved that there was still life in the dead." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/4
     (1997)      "Amiable but toothless..." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/5
     (2004)      "Less an adaptation of Bataille's first novel, The Story of the Eye, than an exploration of its thematic underpinnings, the intersection of eroticism, power and baroque perversity." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
6/10
     (2000)      "This gloomy revenge thriller is a sadistic cartoon ... whose phony moral soft center ... really is the last straw." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/5
     (2001)      "Crammed with clever lines and gorgeous visuals." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2.5/4
     (2008)      "It's a light, silly instantly forgettable comedy peppered with action set-pieces and affectionate nods to its fondly remembered predecessor." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
     (1999)      "in a profoundly unethical world where even the Mafia code of honor and devotion to the family has been degraded by cowboys whose first loyalty is to their own sorry asses" [movie review]      Film Journal International   
  
3.5/5
     (2004)      "Breathtakingly beautiful." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1.5/4
     (2007)      "Good pulp fiction is driven by the truths beneath the conventions. Prefab junk runs on contempt for fans, with a layer of goodies and gimmicks on top." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1.5/5
     (2002)      "A sub-Tales from the Crypt ghost story that never scares up any serious chills." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1.5/4
     (2006)      "The occasional eerie moment can't elevate this routine piece of by-the-numbers J-horror above the pack." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2.5/5
     (2004)      "Even knowing [Move is] nearly a foot taller and considerably more robust than the real Graham, his performance is so completely realized that it radiates its own synthetic truth." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
9/10
     (2001)      "While the film overall is more concerned with mounting menace than edge-of-your-seat shocks, it delivers a couple of stunners." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1/5
     (2003)      "Embalmed in the deadening juices of Affleck and Lopez's throwaway celebrity." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3.5/5
     (2001)      "[The] script is full of inventions so felicitous that you can only wonder why no one ever thought of them before." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/4
     (2004)      "First-time screenwriter Megan Martin avoids the trap of simply rehashing the first film with new characters, instead crafting a very dark fairy tale." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1.5/5
     (2001)      "Oh-so-French in the worst sense of that term -- a layer of chi-chi over a self-referential narrative and superficially profound dialogue." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/4
     (2008)      "Veteran filmmaker Claude Chabrol's icy tale of love, lust and self-delusion is an elegant exercise in corrosive psychological suspense." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2.5/5
     (2006)      "Hartley's score is lovely and he makes excellent use of digital video, but the film's paucity of provocative ideas is its undoing." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/5
     (2002)      "Serrault and Seignier ... have an unforced rapport and first-time feature filmmaker Christian Carion includes some gritty reminders that farm life can be nasty, brutish and short, particularly for the livestock." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/4
     (2007)      "Based on Jack Ketchum's deeply disturbing novel, Gregory Wilson's film explores the dark bond between an embittered housewife and a group of apparently ordinary suburban teenagers that leads to torture and murder." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
8/10
     (1999)      "When Jolie's onscreen, everyone else might as well lie down and play dead." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
9/10
     (2000)      "It's enough to restore your faith in independent filmmaking and Sundance buzz." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/4
     (2006)      "Keating, who learned his craft shooting for respected documentarians like Barbara Kopple and the Maysles brothers, takes his stand early, makes his points bluntly and backs them up solidly with archival footage and expert testimony." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
9/10
     (2000)      "Ridley Scott supplies bloodthirsty spectacle on an extraordinary scale in this muscular historical drama." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/5
     (2001)      "Though handsomely produced and well cast, this thriller tips its hand far too early." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3/5
     (2004)      "By the time the tour is over, it's hard not to admire Harrelson for embracing easily mocked ideals and suggesting by example that it's better to be part of a small, personal solution than do nothing because the problem is so vast and intimidating." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/6
     (2008)      "It’s cute, familiar and forgettable." [movie review]      Time Out New York   
  
2/5
     (2002)      "Michele is a such a brainless flibbertigibbet that it's hard to take her spiritual quest at all seriously." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2.5/5
     (2001)      "Well-written and surprisingly well-acted by a relatively inexperienced cast." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
7/10
     (2000)      "Fans won't want to miss this addition to the canon, if only for the fabulous shot of Godzilla swimming underwater like a prehistoric seal." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
3.5/5
     (2005)      "What's absent from this spiteful, ridiculously melodramatic recitation of grudges and enthusiasms is any sign of either the eloquent orator considered second only to Adolf Hitler himself or the brilliant strategist who wrote the book on perverting public" [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
1.5/4
     (2006)      "Rees' performance, of the variety customarily called 'fearless,' is the only reason to endure this tedious, arid glimpse into the S&M subculture." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
  
2/4
     (2007)      "For all the complicated backstory, weighty themes, action set pieces and fanciful production design, the film is oddly unengaging." [movie review]      TV Guide's Movie Guide   
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