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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Brüno is like Milk, but with a talking penis."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Public Enemies fizzles at the moment of detonation."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"No giant robots urinate on humans in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Harrowing and horrifying, The Hurt Locker delivers the visceral, heart-in-throat action goods, and in doing so, gets at more truths about Iraq than its preachy ... brethren."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The Stoning of Soraya M. functions as a message-movie slasher film."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Does little except reinforce the notion that Allen's creative well has long since run dry."
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Cinematical |
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(2009) |
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"A nasty little slice of backwater depravity."
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Cinematical |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Year One is a slapdash film in desperate need of more authoritative stewardship."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Even those with a soft spot for The Dancing Outlaw will likely have a hard time warming up to The Wild and Wonderful Whites of West Virginia."
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Unevenly replicates Sam Raimi's whirligig blend of terror and comedy."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Humor and romance are interspersed so predictably it's as if screenwriter Pete Chairelli were working from a rom-com checklist."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The director's triumphant return to form."
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Cinematical |
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C |
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(2000) |
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"Comes across as a prologue teaser for a yet-to-be-established franchise."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Exploitatively reprints the legend of murderous Staten Island 'pied piper' Andre Rand ad nauseam in Cropsey."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Are Tony Scott's films actually directed by Google Earth?"
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Paul Devlin's documentary portrays its central locale as merely an interesting, uniquely situated outpost."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An assured, mesmerizing tale of intergalactic loneliness, self-inquiry, and man's innate, enduring hunger for life."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Ends up feeling like a tossed-off Judd Apatow photocopy."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Land of the Lost is halfway toward amusing, which means it's just as close to awful."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Serving merely formulaic find-yourself melodrama, the film coasts along lackadaisically."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Phillips wrings his scenario for consistent semi-dark humor, letting his odd-couple leads go for broke and wielding mystery as a comedic spur that keeps the proceedings from dragging."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A road-trip comedy in equal measures bittersweet and hopeful, Mendes's latest boasts few of his stuffy aesthetic trademarks."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"A delirious haunted house carnival ride."
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The Screengrab |
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(2009) |
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"Exudes a wit and wisdom that elevates it to the animated adventure apex."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"What Goes Up's point that Americans create icons to fulfill their own screwy needs is made through contrived and nonsensical plotting."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Pontypool at least manages to amuse (a spur-of-the-moment on-air obituary is priceless) as well as consistently intrigue, right up to a bizarro post-credits epilogue that seems beamed in from Sin City."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It falls flat trying to muster up any mirth or suspense as it barrels from one set piece to the next."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Strives for bleak gravity with misguided fervor."
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The Screengrab |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"All the world's a financial transaction just waiting to be negotiated in The Girlfriend Experience, a handsome, frosty, rather one-note time capsule from October 2008."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The weirdness employed by Stephen Belber's amorous fairy tale is of a decidedly limp, half-hearted sort."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If the story isn't nearly as ridiculous as Da Vinci's, director Ron Howard still impeccably maintains the series's turgid mediocrity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"By protracting his set-up, Petzold ... achieves and maintains an effective level of intrigue."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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(2009) |
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"Infinitely pleased with its derivative, fanciful writerly convolutions."
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The Screengrab |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Oh, O'Horten, how wincingly affected you are."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"By letting others do the heavy lifting, the filmmaker comes off as more than a little reticent, a quality in tune with the overall tone of his latest."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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(2009) |
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"A largely thrilling surprise, its blend of humor, romance and action so kinetically orchestrated that calling out its shortcomings feels like excessive carping."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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(2009) |
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"A flagrantly contrived piece of Hollywood-style hokum masquerading as serious drama."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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(2009) |
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"If Egoyan's elliptical narrative flirts with pretentiousness, the director nonetheless encases his action in an affecting mood of regret and longing."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Zonca's story is an unruly beast, lurching this way and that like a biker hopped up on mescaline and paint thinner, its unpredictable rowdiness in sync with its out-of-control protagonist."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film's scenario unavoidably devolves into a treatise that, though timely, feels a tad too on the nose."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The sporadic appearances by Ali hopelessly unbalance the proceedings, his fiercely outspoken interviews providing the only morsels of substance."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Through narration, interviews, and cinematographic fawning over their chassis, classic American cars are celebrated for their imperfect character, which makes them seem vibrantly alive."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Yet another of this year's homage-facsimiles, The House of the Devil forgoes campy self-awareness in favor of reverential faithfulness--and in doing so, implicitly critiques contemporary horror cinema."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Generally humorless and pointless, devoid as the film is of any commentary on the genre to which it's paying loving tribute."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With the exception of an adequate helicopter attack, the action is perfunctory and forgettable, albeit no more so than the script's range of cliches"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The plot's eventual denigration of the single life and endorsement of soul mates and happily-ever-afters is predictably rote."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"What ultimately prevents Eldorado from generating any serious comedic energy is absurdity ... that feels unduly strained and limp."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A bizarre, preachy pro-peace animated adventure."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Plods along with a self-seriousness that borders on parody."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Shill doesn't get fancy building tension from his nonsensical male-anxiety mayhem, allowing Knowles's beguiling fierceness and Larter's sexualized cunning to carry much of the prurient load."
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