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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"By trying to convince us that we're having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"The director knows this world and the actor makes us care about it. Redbelt requires little more to make good on its promises."
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"A few lowered expectations and a tolerance for the odd slow patch will serve you quite well in soaking up the dependable fun on display."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"It relies too much on Spurlock's own personality to make simple and fairly obvious points in a manner which never offends, but certainly fails to linger."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Toto and Scarecrow were dropped from the project after demanding excessive residuals on the back end."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Ayers makes the trip worthwhile largely through his excellent eye for asphalt level L.A. and his careful attention to Ludlow's moral dilemma."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Murro works overtime to find the humanity in his characters, and with help from the cast, the search eventually pays off."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"A well-meaning movie fatally dazzled by the very nostalgia it's drowning in."
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"I probably should have given it a lower grade, but I really, really like watching Laurence Fishburne hurt people."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"It ambles along pleasantly, produces a few chuckles, and is forgotten by the time you pass the popcorn counter on the way out of the theater."
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F |
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(2008) |
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"The appalling sadism it eagerly employs in the name of, well, decrying sadism, becomes all the more infuriating when Funny Games repeatedly tells us it's for our own good."
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D |
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(2008) |
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"My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven't seen it since."
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D |
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(2008) |
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"As sorority party filler or a double bill with the likes of Cruel Intentions, this movie can't be beat."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"The most unintentionally hilarious film so far this year."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"A movie of marvelous little moments framing giant dumb contrivances."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"The mood never wavers, allowing The Spiderwick Chronicles to develop into an exciting and largely watertight adventure."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"[Its] joys stand alone and isolated amid a well-intentioned film that never quite connects the dots."
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D |
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(2008) |
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"Director Andy Tennant seems to have found a mythical Zen space of bad comedic timing."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Full of black humor and sharp comedic jabs, but with an undercurrent of genuine soul searching."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Seriously dude, no means no."
[movie review] |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"When freed from unreasonable expectations, it turns out to be a modest little gas."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Any time Sayles clicks with his material this succinctly, the results are thrilling."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Nothing ruins a pretty good movie more than calling it great, and with Atonement, even 'pretty good' feels like a stretch."
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A |
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(2007) |
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"An Old Testament bellow of ferocity and pain that seduces us on so many levels you'd swear you could see the fourth wall tumbling down around our ears."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"It may not be Burton's best film, or his most innovative, but it always stays faithful to his uniquely haunted soul."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Each successive development in the increasingly ludicrous narrative saps a little more of the goodwill engendered by the early scenes."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Like its protagonists, The Golden Compass stands fundamentally isolated from its soul; unlike them, it hasn't the first idea where it left the bloody thing."
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Juno is neither Page nor Cody nor Reitman, but her own fully realized person, speaking to us in the extraordinary rhythm of real life."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Suburban paranoia and primitive savagery conspire to create far deeper terrors than the creatures which emerge from the titular fog."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"The plasticine puppetry of the central figures still lacks that essential spark required to bring them to life."
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"It thunders with the mordant wit, blood-soaked pessimism, and human folly that mark their unique auteurial stamp."
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Beyond its basic concept, Bee Movie hasn't the first idea where to go."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Scott's auteurial stamp lends the film a badly needed sense of distinction."
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A |
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(2007) |
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"It focuses on its own unique voice, and trusts that those who want to hear it will follow."
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F |
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(1980) |
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"I suppose certain college fraternities could make screening it part of their hazing rituals."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"In order to enjoy the best, you have to put up with the worst... and rarely have "best" and "worst" commingled quite so completely."
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Planet Terror was always the superior half of the Grindhouse double bill because it embraced the spirit of the endeavor so completely."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"A failure on most any appreciable level: as compelling drama, as a history lesson, as a showcase for Blanchett's unparalleled talents... even as a sequel."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"While the cons do finally outweigh the pros... oh what marvelous pros they are."
[movie review] |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"The Heartbreak Kid represents less a return to form than a worn regurgitation of past success."
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Convincing technical details gathered for the purpose of a good yarn with only the vaguest connection to the grown-up world."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"The sheer craftsmanship on display ensures a modicum of goodwill, but at two hours and 40 minutes, even the most patient souls may begin to squirm."
[movie review] |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"If you want to do this material justice... hold off on it until the release of Planet Terror and then watch them both together."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"A fascinating entry into a little-understood subculture."
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Across the Universe actually renders the greatest rock and roll music ever written as desperate and irritating as Britney Spears' flop sweat."
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"It looks slick, but without a little more steak beneath that sizzle, the pretense becomes intolerable."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Not quite on par with the 1957 version, perhaps, but certainly acting as a proper update instead of just a lazy rehash."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"The best guilty pleasure of the summer... arriving just a couple of weeks too late."
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"The original is better. You know it. I know it. Rob Zombie knows it. Can we leave it at that and get on with our lives?"
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