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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It appears that Ron Howard knew that he had to change the way everything was done in the previous film, and sending Tom Hanks to the barber was a very good start."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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" While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi."
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Kinetofilm |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film is only marginally about sex; it's real subject is business. One can argue cynically that all human relationships are a form of transaction."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile."
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Kinetofilm |
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a FILM with blood in its veins, a heart in its body and a red hot engine in its chassis. It is alive with ideas and a geniune belief in the power of FILM to express them."
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Kinetofilm |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Expect less and you will appreciate it more. The film isn't unique or even very well made. Peli only seems able to come up with HALF of a good idea throughout the film."
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Kinetofilm |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are powerful images that sear into your brain upon contact with your eyes but PUBLIC ENEMIES clearly wants to alienate the audience as much as it engages them."
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Kinetofilm |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The entire project seems to sweat from the exertion of its writer Nathan Atkins and director Chris Fisher to do something-anything-to make the film worthwhile."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Somehow pulling off the trick of appealing to the wider mass audience with one foot in Star WARS, the most startling thing about this new TREK is how it avoids being AWFUL."
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Kinetofilm |
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(2009) |
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"This is not a movie about moral dilemmas-it's about a father who will rip out your eyeballs if you don't give him his daughter back."
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Kinetofilm |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Lazy filmmaking that fails to engage anyone who doesn't have a personal connection to the story. It's so well-meaning that it ultimately means nothing much at all."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There is a senseless scare every 5-7 minutes. Now, after one or two you start to get the giggles but after the third or fourth false scare you begin to Laugh Out Loud."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2008) |
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"Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying"
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Beyond Hollywood |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This film would make a perfect commercial thriller for James Spader and Rob Lowe were it still 1994."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"While not as laughable as the narcissistic Lady in the Water ,it fails just as miserably as narrative and even more miserably with its flat characters and tone deaf dialogue."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"I don't know how many times I've asked myself, "How come they're aren't more films about the Incubus?" Well, here's one for you."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2008) |
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"In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise"
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Kinetofilm |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2008) |
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"No one wants to watch Bond chase after Osama Bin Laden and switch off his dialysis machine with a bad one liner. On second thought, maybe that would be great?"
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Kinetofilm |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Real no frills filmmaking. Anything that gets in the way of the main idea is stripped to the bone. This includes certain niceties like character, humor, and even story."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not the characteristically sharp Mamet dialogue that makes Ejiofor effective so much as what he does between the lines: Moments of powerful contemplation and silence."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?"
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"While a marked improvement over the utter lameness of Troopers 2, Marauder tries too hard to telegraph its satirical tone..."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2008) |
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"Movies like "Street Kings" are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Tropic Thunder focuses its satire on this Hollywoodization of war, as it depicts the production of a Vietnam genre film that's less "Platoon" than "Platoon Leader" with Michael Dudikoff."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The western has been buried and revived so many times in recent years that it's beginning to resemble one of George Romero's stale zombies..."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience."
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PopMatters |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"It's not too hard to imagine that the inspiration for this show came during a late night, cannabis fueled attack of the munchies. It's no masterpiece but that's the idea."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Constructed from spare parts in a bionic writing room, the show has the arms and legs of "Alias" and "Heroes" but without a heart and brain of its own."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"A slick, thrilling, trashy, melodramatic and serialesque soap opera adventure which conceals the complex tale of moral ambiguity beneath."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Imagine a sort of CSI:18th Century London spliced with a History Channel documentary and you might end up with something like BBC4's unique program "City of Vice"."
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PopMatters |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Staying out of the courtroom, it's about what goes on before the trial, a period of brinksmanship that plays like an intense secret war waged between truly ruthless enemies."
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PopMatters |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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(2007) |
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""Dead Silence" is not going to reinvent the genre. It's actually a big pile of nonsense, but that doesn't stop it from being fun nonetheless."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A very detailed portrait of a time and place that is about to change forever. This is a Long Island of 1976 in someone's memory, like a faded Polaroid in an old shoebox."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Hartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2007) |
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"A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2007) |
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"Some may think it isn't fair to compare Zombie's film to the original. Too bad. It's called "Halloween" and I'm pretty sure it's a remake of a movie called "Halloween"."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2007) |
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"The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2007) |
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"Lindsay Lohan wears more clothes in this movie then she does clubbing in real life."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2007) |
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"This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2007) |
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"Most noirs are coming of age stories where an innocent learns how vicious and cruel the world can be. Only he usually learns it while a hunk of hot lead burns in his gut."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Effectively tells the story of "The Black Cat" through the troubled life of the author himself, mixing fact and fiction like a horror movie version of "Shakespeare in Love"."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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