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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       1.5/4      Twister (1996)      "Surely the only movie to ever suggest a dumbed-down His Girl Friday, Road Runner cartoon, and The Abyss simultaneously" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)      "Walk Hard brings the funny and a keen observational sense" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      The Song Remains the Same (1976)      "Clearly, film is not their forte." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Johnny Suede (1992)      "Pitt's tendency to turn into a space cadet without a well-defined archetype to play slows the movie's pacing to a crawl" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      The Game Plan (2007)      "The Game Plan makes The Pacifier look like No Country for Old Men." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0/4      Underdog (2007)      "Disney's charmless live-action resurrection of the beloved super-mutt [is] just a bunch of mercenary actors and technicians who can barely disguise their contempt for the film's screenplay" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)      "You look at a movie like this and wonder how some screenwriters can have the temerity to go on strike" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      The Monster Squad (1987)      "For a movie so aesthetically on the ball, it's a shame the screenplay is not the least bit industrious." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Lust, Caution (2007)      "[Lust, Caution] gets around to honouring its pretensions towards truthfulness in a climax that exposes the sham of Blackbook." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      George A. Romero's Diary of the Dead (2008)      "HD seems to have reawakened in Romero a sense of mischief." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Mother of Tears (2008)      "[Marries] CGI to Guignol whimsy in ways so tasteless that you can hear the crackle of Argento's mojo working." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Les Chansons d'Amour (2007)      "I kept waiting for mimes to show up, on screen or off..." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Emotional Arithmetic (2007)      "A "Never Forget" PSA done up as a Bergmanesque psychodrama..." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Angel (2007)      "[Ozon is] too tony now for the vaguely subversive pastiches with which he made his mark." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Just Buried (2007)      "Blame the Brits for making this kind of morbid farce look easy..." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       --      Chicken Rice War (2000)      Click here to see the review! [short review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Looker (1981)      "Looker's surface pleasures are undeniable" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      The Little Mermaid (1989)      "The Little Mermaid was a mirage, not an oasis." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      The Fox and the Hound (1981)      "A southern gothic--and a damn good one at that" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Superman II: The Richard Donner Cut (2006)      "A would-be victim of its own London After Midnight-esque mystique" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Accepted (2006)      "[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Hard Candy (2005)      "You can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      The King (2006)      "The filmmakers' stoicism finally proves insurmountable and indefatigable" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Black Book (2007)      "The screenplay could in fact have just as easily served as the template for a Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin turkey" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Fay Grim (2007)      "Everybody's trying too hard--or not hard enough" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      The Last Winter (2007)      "An elegiac piece of filmmaking that transcends cheap thrills" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      Wedding Daze (2006)      "More of the same hollow irony Black practises as VH1's resident Mike Nelson" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Citizen Duane (2006)      "An underdog comedy that's neither funny nor poignant nor ingratiating" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      The Host (2007)      "Unlike Spielberg of late, [it doesn't] cop out" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      The Page Turner (2007)      "More than earns its presumptuous double entendre of a title." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0/4      Just My Luck (2006)      "OMG! It's The Passion of the Lohan!" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0/4      Road House 2: Last Call (2006)      "It sits there like a dead frog waiting for the electrodes" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Art School Confidential (2006)      "A movie that only a Rupert Pupkin could enjoy guilt-free" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Quintet (1979)      "A baffling film whose ultimately hollow idiosyncrasies speak to Altman's self-destructive streak more than they constitute an applicable allegory" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      High Anxiety (1977)      "The cinematic equivalent of an Elvis impersonator" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Dawson's Creek - The Complete Fifth Season (2001-2002)      "Dawson's Creek's fifth season sends its ensemble hurtling over the proverbial great white with reckless abandon." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Dune (1984)      "If you think David Lynch is the Kwisatz Haderach, baby, have I got a movie for you." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Ryan's Daughter (1970)      "Some hippie-dippiness dates the picture, but the vérité posturing of Lean's peers looks a lot kitschier in retrospect" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      The Chumscrubber (2005)      "Wittier than Not Another Teen Movie, stealthier than Storytelling" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Cinderella (1950)      "The Disney film that comes closest to pure cinema" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Dear Wendy (2005)      "The gay burlesque version of the NRA" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Heading South (2006)      "Cantet's pictures are screwball comedies played straight" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       --      Mary (2005)      Click here to see the review! [short review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Wassup Rockers (2006)      "Clark remains a compelling, primal anthropologist--but there are only so many times you can applaud a one-trick pony" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      All the Invisible Children (2006)      "If All the Invisible Children proper has any lessons to impart, they revolve around the auteur theory" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      The Myth (2005)      "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Turdbath" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Romance & Cigarettes (2007)      "Bargain-basement Dennis Potter" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Where The Truth Lies (2005)      "Canadian filmmakers tend to expose their limitations when they mimic American pop, and Atom Egoyan is no exception" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Capote (2005)      "Philip Seymour Hoffman disappears into the title role, yet the movie is fundamentally superfluous" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Shopgirl (2005)      "Lost in Translation on steroids" [movie review]      Film Freak Central

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