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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE            Speed Racer (2008)      "Imagine if the pod race in Star Wars Episode I was as bad as everyone said it was, and took itself twice as seriously, and went on for more than two hours." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Before the Rains (2008)      "[A] fierce, uncompromising critique of... nonchalant imperialism, and maybe even of just men on the whole... Which makes this one of the most sneakily feminist movies I've seen in a while." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Constantine's Sword (2008)      "[I]t was probably inevitable that such an audacious attempt would fail to succeed entirely. Which isn't to say that this bold and fearless film isn't worth a look." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Sabrina, the Teenage Witch: The Complete Animated Series (1971-1974)      "This horrendous early 70s throwback... is being marketed as some sort of hip retro cool thing, when it's really just an artifact from the era that was best left dead and buried." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Sense And Sensibility (2007)      "[T]here is no shying from what Austen was always really talking about: sex as a weapon and (female) virginity as a commodity, and so that grim practicality hangs over everything..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Bionic Woman - Volume 1 (2007)      "[R]eally quite unbelievably dull... mysteriously unfeminist... too..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            The First of May (1999)      "As undemanding family fare goes, the best you can hope for is that you don't want to shoot yourself when it's over, and by that measure, this gentle if unprepossessing flick succeeds." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Pearl Diver (2006)      "[S]o many movies that are designed to appeal to the 'faith and values' crowd... end up being smugly exclusionary... But this bridges that divide..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Caramel (2008)      "[A]s smart and heartfelt as it is observant about the universalities of the lives of women..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Redbelt (2008)      "The longer you trust... Mamet... the more you'll be crushed when the film, which is always teetering on the edge of preposterousness, finally tumbles over that edge." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Four Minutes (2007)      "Bleibtreu and Herzsprung embody their characters with such vicious monstrousity that it's hard to forget that they're merely actors." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Made of Honor (2008)      "What had been a charming if undaring story about two friends who might be able to fall in love stops trusting itself -- and stops trusting the audience to stick with it without being dragged along by the nostrils." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Iron Man (2008)      "[M]ight well be the perfect comic book movie... It's just pertinent enough to feel like it's set in something like the real world and just tongue-in-cheek enough not to get too heavy about it, but it's got enough self-respect to be sincere." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Baby Mama (2008)      "Even on its own sorry terms, Baby Mama is ludicrous, falling back on toilet humor because it has nothing else to offer." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)      "It's really hard to like a character when his own movie makes fun of him..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)      "Hilarious... And cheeky and cheery and so popcorn-a-licious a fantasy historical action comedy that you want to stand up and cheer." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)      "[I]n a saner universe... you could scoff at Stein and dismiss him and not give this propagandistic nonsense another thought. But... [y]ou need to see this movie because these people are not going away..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Alien Nation Ultimate Movie Collection (1995-1997)      "I haven't seen these movies since they first aired, and it was a delight to catch up with the Franciscos -- the alien Tenctonese immigrants to Los Angeles -- and human Detective Matt Sikes..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Street Kings (2008)      "[R]elentlessly grim, relentlessly brutal, relentlessly cynical... [W]orks if you buy Reeves... as an unvarnishing mirror of exhausted but still thrashing 40ish Generation Xers..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Tick Tock Lullaby (2008)      "A] film that sharper and savvier about love and romance and sex, in all its many diverse expressions, than most..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            21 (2008)      "[A]lmost entirely preposterous -- never mind that it's apparently based on a true story -- and yet somehow wonderfully entertaining at the same time..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Stop-Loss (2008)      "[I]t's pro-the-troops -- as if anyone could honestly be against the health and well-being of our troops -- but anti-the-bullsh*t that they're being put through..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - The Complete First Season      "Here's yet another incarnation of the classic mystery-comedy cartoon series, and an entirely superfluous one." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            The Smurfs - Season 1, Volume 1 (1981)      "[T]ruly as impossible to watch now as [it was] back when we were all undiscriminating children..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Lil' Bush: Resident of the United States - Season One (2007)      "It's sort of shocking to see how aggressively this manic Comedy Central animated series ridicules the Bush adminstration and its foibles... if you can stomach calling warmongering, the embracing of torture, and the denial of evolution 'foibles.'" [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)      "[Star/writer Pegg] ladles a deeper understanding of why men screw up into Dennis than we usually see in romantic comedies..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Married Life (2008)      "The performances from this extraordinary cast are as sumptuous as you'd expect, but they disappear into a wisp of insignificance." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Flawless (2007)      "[T]erribly earnest and, as a result, terribly dull..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns (2008)      "This isn't a movie: it's a buffet at which... Perry piles your plate with spoonfuls of absurd melodrama, a taste of gritty urban drama, a heaping of cheap cartoon, and a big side of corn." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            The Band's Visit (2007)      "It's beautiful and gentle and warm and a little silly, but in the best possible way..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Paranoid Park (2008)      "There's not enough story here... and the moodiness is of a type that doesn't speak to me..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Suburban Shootout (2006)      "[W]orks better than it should but not enough to be genuinely interesting..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Romeo & Juliet Get Married (2005)      "It's one joke that goes on way too long..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            He-Man and the Masters of the Universe - Volume 1 (2002)      "By the power of Numbskull!" [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            In Bruges (2008)      "[I]ntellectual slapstick, a ticklish combination of comic torment, a brutal grasping of life's fickleness, and sheer bloody violence that is like a shout in the dark against it..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)      "Modern movies seem to feel that women should pay for their independence by suffering and fretting over it, but there's not a whiff of that depressing and unfair attitude here, which is... delightfully refreshing." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Sleepwalking (2008)      "[V]isually impressive but naratively underpowered..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)      "[W]hat has Hollywood done with this gentle plea for tolerance? It has been turned into something that looks astonishingly like far-right propaganda about how Christians are a persecuted minority -- as if this were 100AD in the Roman Empire..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Taxi to the Dark Side (2008)      "[D]oes what it does so damn well, and... what is does is so sadly so vitally necessary, even if you wish it weren't..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Diary of the Dead (1976)      "[A] tad too self-conscious about the 'importance' of its 'message.'" [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            10,000 B.C. (2008)      "Oh my god: the silly, it burns. It burns!" [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher       --      Canvas (2007)      Click here to see the review! [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher       --      Dedication (2007)      Click here to see the review! [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Stargate: The Ark of Truth (2008)      "There's less humor and less character stuff than I'd like... But, you know: it's SG-1." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            The Bank Job (2008)      "Maybe it's not the 100-percent truth -- maybe it's half, or more, invented. But it's a damn good guess, and a ridiculously entertaining one." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Canvas (2007)      "[A] must-see for its honesty and its fine, graceful performances..." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Dedication (2007)      "There's a reason why we don't often see the black comedy combined with the romantic comedy: it rarely works." [dvd review]      The Flick Filosopher            Semi-Pro (2008)      "[S]wing[s] with thoughtless abandon from one posture to another. Bam! Here's a vomit joke! Bam! Here's a tenderly romantic moment!" [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            City of Men (2008)      "[C]ompared to City of God and the TV series [it's] disappointingly conventional..." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher            Penelope (2008)      "McAvoy is... unaffectedly charming... Ricci is her own kind of quirky-captivating... And the two of them even share a fair bit of romantic chemistry." [movie review]      The Flick Filosopher

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