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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       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)      "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 (2008)      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       2/4      Lilo & Stitch 2: Stitch Has A Glitch (2005)      "The first dud in the would-be trilogy" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Because of Winn-Dixie (2005)      "Just the latest quasi-magic-realist, two-birds-with-one-stone shrine to non-traditional families and the power of myth" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Ice Princess (2005)      "It's not a masterpiece by any stretch of the imagination, but neither is it a sustenance-free afternoon at the Ice Capades" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Exils (2004)      "The primordial pleasures are at least a little less ephemeral with Gatlif around" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Ma Mere (2005)      "Ma mère could easily be mistaken for the latest anhedonic embarrassment out of Canada" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      The Pacifier (2005)      "I realize this is The Pacifier and not Vera Drake, but how this film strains credulity smacks of contempt for a paying audience" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      5X2 (2005)      "Sympathies sway back-and-forth between the wife and the husband, but never within the same episode, making Ozon just another god from the machine" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Pooh's Heffalump Movie (2005)      "If I can't say I'm looking forward to the next one, neither can I ignore the medicinal properties of Pooh's latest big-screen outing." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Spaceballs (1987)      "Brooks jumped the shark with Spaceballs" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Normal Life (1996)      "The most confrontational and most inclusive work of McNaughton's career" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Fat Albert (2004)      "I'm happy to report that Fat Albert captures a lot of its source's melancholy appeal" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Toolbox Murders      "Hooper has dodged the lightning bolt of inspiration once again" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      The Green Butchers (2005)      "For a comedy, that most culturally-specific of genres, the Danish production travels remarkably well" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Mean Streets (1973)      "Perfected here are Scorsese's patented slow-motion cutaways, combination pan/tracking shots, musical tangents, and impromptu bloodbaths" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Boxcar Bertha (1972)      "Although a Martin Scorsese retrospective could easily survive its absence, Boxcar Bertha is a cornerstone of the director's filmography" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Purgatory House (2004)      "The names of Cindy Baer and Celeste Davis belong on the V.I.P. list of promising new filmmakers" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      In the Realms of the Unreal (2004)      "In the Realms of the Unreal is Darger's worst nightmare, a work of spectacular invasiveness" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Who's That Knocking at My Door? (1968)      "Son of Shadows" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)      "An incurable film until such time as Peter Jackson is moved to shorten its deadening coda" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Red Lights (2004)      "A film of pat psychology" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      The Rapture (1991)      "Is Tolkin really that much better than an ersatz Larry Cohen?" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Mulan (1998)      "Neither fish nor fowl, though it certainly leans towards foul" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Philadelphia (1993)      "Being under the PC microscope transforms Demme into the bastard offspring of Stanley Kramer and Norman Lear" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Keane (2004)      "A wondrous film." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       --      Blood (2004)      Click here to see the review! [short review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Aladdin (1992)      "The least spurious movie of Disney's renaissance" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Zombie (1979)      "For a renowned entry in the satire-compatible cinema of the undead, Zombie is egregiously synthetic" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Saw (2004)      "Though the film does work marginally well as a satire of modern serial killer thrillers and their Byzantine games of cat-and-mouse, I have a hunch that's the zeitgeist's doing" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Palindromes (2005)      "For all its temerity, Palindromes fatally lets Solondz's reputation precede it" [movie review]      Film Freak Central

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