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B- |
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(2008) |
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"This old-school throwback to '80s era horror movies takes pride in the teen screams extracted by its goo-spurting, tentacled monster and his newly minted henchmen as they attack an unfortunate group of young college students."
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B |
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(2006) |
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"The schoolboy skits are shorter and greater in number than the first Jackass movie, but the laughs and howls they provoke are just as loud and many."
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"Jarhead is the most unconventional anti-war film ever made..."
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A |
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(1975) |
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"In the end, the shark is a MacGuffin necessary for the men to bond and test themselves against what they fear most--their own mortality."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Van Damme gives a touching direct-to-camera monologue about his career and outlook on life that is the film's virtuosic centerpiece. Never underestimate JCVD."
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Punctuated by gory episodes, but lacking in suspense and surprise, "Jennifer's Body" works more as a teen sex endorsement ad for hormone-raging audiences to copy their on-screen peers."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"German auteur Christian Petzold's original take on a "Postman Always Rings Twice"-styled love triangle cultivates rich suspense from the degrees of his ethically variable characters."
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A |
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(2007) |
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"The great thing about the cumulative effect of the documentary is its ability to give the audience a strong sense of Strummer's uncompromising humanitarian ideals. You'll laugh, you'll cheer, and you'll shed a tear."
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Designed as an ultimate revenge fantasy "John Tucker Must Die" is a moderately funny teen comedy with a few flashes of bawdy humor."
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B- |
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(1991) |
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"The look of the footage is fuzzy, the concert lighting strictly amateur and the camerawork questionable, but the sound quality good on this momentous document of a gifted songwriter and guitarist ravished by heroin."
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Mechanical performances by Vanessa Williams and Bow Wow, as Nate's musically inclined son, impair Cedric's earnest comedic efforts in this spasmodic comedy."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"There's a definite "Bad Seed" vibe going on in this sophisticated psychological thriller that unfolds with such precision you'll want to see it a second time just to catch its many degrees of nuanced escalation."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"A breathtaking adaptation of Jules Verne's classic sci-fi novel, filled with eye-pleasing gags and sudden shocks of surprise that fall under the spell of strong performances from its terrific three-person cast."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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""Julia" is more than an homage to John Cassavetes' 1980 maternal crime thriller "Gloria;" it is a spectacularly flawed genre experiment that goes so wrong, and with such an intense fury, that you can't pull yourself away from it."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"If Norah Ephron had better producers around to save her from herself, "Julie & Julia" could have been the movie it wants to be--that is a Julia Child biopic with Meryl Streep doing a fantastic job as the television chef that taught America how to cook."
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D |
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(2008) |
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"The eye-popping visuals soon devolve into a visual white noise, and you're left to ponder why you didn't make a better movie selection."
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Just Like Heaven" perpetuates the Frisco curse that not one great movie has been made in the hilly city since Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo in 1958."
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