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C |
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(2006) |
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"The movie hits a stream of false notes when Dunne's students deliver oral reports on Civil Rights struggles that could only have been plagiarized. The film's ending isn't only meager, it's utterly listless."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"It's as if the studio (Dimension) let some testosterone-boiling 15-year-old boy with a case of Red Bull in his belly make a slapdash gore fest where a woman in white with a white horse is meant to represent the psychological underpinning of a mute killer"
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"For a robust action story about three people from very different backgrounds attempting to make a positive influence on their world, "Hancock" is a step in the right direction."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"To its credit, "The Hangover" transfers to the audience the smelly, still inebriated state that the title promises."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"There is nothing to be frightened of here."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2008) |
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"One-hit-wonder M. Night Shyamalan further galvanizes the nickname given him by his detractors ("Shyamalama-ding-dong") with yet another pretentious movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Potent social satire mixes with multiple characters incapable of telling the truth, especially to themselves, in writer/director Don Roos' enjoyable comedy of deception and dysfunction."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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""Happy Feet" clinches the current trend of animated message films that speak for the plight of animals and the ecology."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Director Mike Leigh creates an air-headed vision of inner contentment in the guise of 30-year-old British primary school teacher and student driver Poppy (played by Sally Hawkins)."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"British director David Slade announces himself as a master of economy and discrimination by leaving the horror to the audience's imagination. This movie will make you squirm like you've never squirmed before."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1976) |
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"One of the finest documentaries ever made, Barbara Kopple's "Harlan County U.S.A." is a brilliant exposé about the embattled history of coal miners in America as seen through the very personal prism of striking coal miners in Harlan County, Kentucky in 19"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Breslin is the best thing about this myopic comedy that doesn't even get any humorous traction from the stereotypes it presses through its low-fidelity independent film filter."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"In spite of their dubiously short stay at the prison of the film's title this multi-culti screwball buddy comedy, about stoner goofballs Harold and Kumar, properly roasts post 9/11 America with an irreverent vengeance."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"You'll laugh, you'll laugh, and you'll laugh%u2014especially if you see the movie in the cannabis enhanced glaze that the filmmakers intend."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1971) |
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"If there's one comedy to represent the woof and warp of the early '70s, "Harold and Maude" is it."
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Daily Radar |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire is an endurance test for its audience."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" is the most balanced Harry Potter film to come along..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Although marred by some inept editing by Mark Day, The Order of the Phoenix is the first of the series to resound as a multifaceted narrative that understands its own intentions. It is intelligent."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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""Harsh Times" is a modern and raw reflection of the disastrous effects of war on the soldiers that survive them and the potential danger they pose."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"When a Disney ride becomes a movie, there's not much hope that things will turn out as well as they do in this tame horror comedy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"This structurally defective horror movie never pays off on the carefully planted "Boo" scares that it detonates at a regular rate during its underdeveloped story."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Writer/director Frank E. Flowers loses track of his own narrative puzzle that includes a story about a shady but rich Floridian (Bill Paxton) with an 18-year-old daughter (Agnes Bruckner %u2013 "Blue Car") escaping to Grand Cayman from the feds who want t"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Cheating, trying to get laid, and attempting to wrangle the opposite sex into marriage or something quite like it, never seemed so dull."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"A trio of middle-aged white women from different backgrounds relish the tropical pleasures of '70s era Haiti, which includes local teenage gigolos, in writer/director Laurent Cantet's problematic filmic adaptation of three short stories by Dany Laferriere"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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""The Headless Woman" might have gained unworthy praise at film festivals, but it isn't worthy of market approval."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Writer/director Ward Serrill's wonderful documentary, about a Seattle high school girls basketball team the Roughriders coached by the inspiring Bill Resler, is a "Hoop Dreams" of the early 21st century."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"A visually delightful movie packed with plenty of goofy character elements that keep it entertaining."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2008) |
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""Henry Poole is Here" is not a movie, but rather a sketch for a screenplay that was never written. If ever there was a cinematic impetus to give up all hope for humanity and free expression, it is this patronizing, condescending, and vacuous waste of cell"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"The "Lohan" (Lindsay) hits a G-rated double as college grad Maggie Peyton, the daughter of a famous car racing family, opposite a self-possessed Volkswagen bug named Herbie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2000) |
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"Between Cusack's work on co-writing the script for "High Fidelity" and his priceless performance lies the rock 'n' roll heart and soul of a guy for whom audiences deserve to stand in line."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Gory European gothic horror doesn't come any grittier and weirder than it does when a couple of would-be lesbian college girlfriends retreat to a weekend at the secluded farmhouse of one of their parents to study for their final exams."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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""The Hills Have Eyes" is an intense horror movie that should send more than a few viewers with weak stomachs running for the restroom."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2007) |
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"Gratuitous, slow-as-molasses and interminably dull-witted; this is a horror movie for no one. Dialogue runs the gambit from "Shitman the Barbarian" to "smelling like shit" in a crappy stinker where even the cameraman blows."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"In attempting to absolve the perverse actions of a teacher on the basis of his apparent tutoring skills, Alan Bennett has created a dubious work of fiction that is beyond empathy or humor."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"Cronenberg’s caricatured vision of American fascism is hilarious for its spot-on depiction of the anxiety that accompanies it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"In a movie where the film's trailer has spoiled all its best scenes, and the onscreen chemistry between our primary lovebirds is a failed experiment, it's refreshing that "Hitch" still provides that rare buoyant romantic lift that the genre promises."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Hollywood's endless string of no-account remakes gets another knot with this Michael Bay-produced lukewarm update of Robert Harmon's 1986 original."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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""The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy" is an enjoyable sci-fi romp with a strong twist of self-effacing British raillery that children of all ages will get a charge from."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"William Wheeler's screenplay proves an ideal source for Hallstrom ("The Shipping News") to break the mold of recent clinkers, and create a thoroughly enjoyable movie that is equal parts biography, cautionary tale, farce and satire."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Dialogue hits the floor like frozen eggnog in writer/director Nancy Meyers' protracted exercise in cliché-mining."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"The genius of the movie is the way in which it explores possible explanations for Reeve's death before providing the audience with a bit of Reeves' silent home footage that Louis Simo carefully watches for telling subtext."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2006) |
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"The war in Iraq gets a lathery soft soap treatment in producer-cum-director Irwin Winkler's distortion of emotions and realities associated with a group of returning soldiers."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1970) |
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"Made in 1969, "The Honeymoon Killers" presaged elements of David Lynch's filmic approach, and clearly informed John McNaughton's similarly-themed stomach-churner film "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer." Romantic dysfunction never looked so banal, brutal"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1970) |
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"Made in 1969, "The Honeymoon Killers" presaged elements of David Lynch's filmic approach, and clearly informed John McNaughton's similarly-themed stomach-churner film "Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer." Romantic dysfunction never looked so banal, brutal"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"The script (credited to four screenwriters) uses a plethora of already-dated urban inside humor that reeks of pandering."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"With or without the 3-D, "Hoodwinked!" is a clever screwball take on the Little Red Riding Hood fable that speaks to the kid in all of us."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2009) |
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"It's seldom that a film captures something as fragile as a transformation of the human soul, but this documentary of a family's journey to help their autistic child accomplishes just that."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Part social satire, horror, comedy and family drama "The Host" is an exciting example of cinematic bravura that signals a new day for Asian cinema."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"This is one movie that would be incomplete without a soda, some popcorn, and a box of chocolate covered something."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Similarly gory and exploitative as its torture-porn predecessor, writer/director Eli Roth's horror sequel is nothing more than a makeover of "Hostel" substituted with female characters."
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