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(1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   1   "Similar to the real kidnapping fictionalized in 'Alpha Dog,' the movie falls apart quicker than you can say Nick Cassavetes, who wrote and directed it."   ReelTalk Movie Reviews   Betty Jo Tucker F "Essentially, the experience is watching awful actors playing dumb people in a story that carries no weight or emotional investment. This is one pup that needs to be put to sleep."   OhmyNews.com   Brian Orndorf 2/5 "Grade-C SoCal exploitation."   Filmcritic.com   Chris Cabin B "With a dream cast of the youngest and brightest actors of the day, Cassavetes creates a movie that feels like you're watching an apathetic group of kids riding down a progressively steeper incline in an unmanned vehicle."   ColeSmithey.com   Cole Smithey "The film's most resonant insight%u2014not a new one%u2014is that the boys' mutual violence and abuse form a sort of intimacy. No matter what else they miss, they understand their own fearfulness and disloyalty."   PopMatters   Cynthia Fuchs 2/4 "Sporadically intriguing but ultimately a misfire..."   Reel Film Reviews   David Nusair 2/4 "Alpha Dog isn't a total wash, but it is unfocused, overstuffed and routine."   TheMovieBoy.com   Dustin Putman B "A gritty urban crime drama involving teenagers, guns, drugs and sex, all sharply acted, well-directed and astutely put together"   EricDSnider.com   Eric D. Snider B- "The movie is sloppy and not very good, but certain aspects have stubbornly stuck: what it gets right, it gets right, and all credit where it's due."   Film Blather   Eugene Novikov 3/4 "Cassavetes' film is pure Hollywood fiction and sensationalism mixed with some sense of reality, but hell I enjoyed it a great deal..."   Cinema Crazed   Felix Vasquez Jr. C+ "Flashy but skin-deep...all the sound and fury can't disguise the fact that Alpha Dog doesn't signify much."   One Guy's Opinion   Frank Swietek C+ "Though a pointless orgy of sex, drugs, vulgarity and violence, there's admittedly something alluring about Cassavetes' stylized vision of contemporary teenage debauchery"   Cinepinion   Henry Stewart 3/4 "Director Nick Cassavetes should be commended for the unflinching manner in which he tells the story -- it packs a punch, although it lingers too long to be truly unsettling."   ReelViews   James Berardinelli 6/10 "Click here to read review"   Kinoblog.com   Jaroslav Vishtaljuk "Foster is the one truly, disturbingly believable young actor in the cast, all sweaty adrenaline and menacing self-loathing."   Pajiba   Jeremy C. Fox "Timberlake is trying to bring sexy back, and after seeing his performance in "Alpha Dog," I can see why it left."   Light Views   John Larsen 1/5 "A minefield of stupidity and degradation -- and not in a good way."   7M Pictures   Kevin Carr B "[Cassavetes] creates an astonishing amount of tension building towards his 'I-can't-believe-this-is-really-going-to-happen' climax."   Reeling Reviews   Laura Clifford 2.5/4 "Cassavetes' script buries a lot of character and thematic ambitions in the facts of the case."   Mark Reviews Movies   Mark Dujsik D- "Alpha Dog's characters adopt poses that they've seen on television and in the movies, and the same goes for the young cast hamming it up as if they watched their Scarface DVDs too many times in preparation."   Reel Times: Reflections on Cinema   Mark Pfeiffer "[C]hock full of embarrassing baloney that tries to dress up the inherent crude B-movie-ness of itself..."   Flick Filosopher   MaryAnn Johanson C "The characters are all flash and emptiness, but so is the story."   Movie Mom at Yahoo! Movies   Nell Minow 1.5/4 "Pot may impair your decision-making, but only speed will drive a man to drop trou and crap on another's living room floor."   Slant Magazine   Nick Schager 3/5 "I almost hate to say it, but [Timberlake] might be reason enough to watch this."   Film Threat   Pete Vonder Haar 1/5 "Even though we are less than two weeks into the new year, here is a film that is already a strong contender for the title of Worst Film of 2007."   eFilmCritic.com   Peter Sobczynski 3.5/5 "A little long and pushy, but very well-played and at times utterly harrowing"   Shadows on the Wall   Rich Cline C+ "For all of the credibility of the performances (or at least the teens), it all feels like recycled social commentary."   Seattle Post-Intelligencer   Sean Axmaker "Cassavetes -- a sometime actor himself -- doesn't seem to understand actors at all. From the finished product, it looks as if his preferred method of guiding his actors is to egg them on rather than nudge them toward restraint."   Salon.com   Stephanie Zacharek 4/10 "An abusive, shallow, sleazy gangsta film that, at best, is a cautionary morality tale."   www.susangranger.com   Susan Granger  (1 - 29) of 29 OFCS Rating: 34% Rotten Page   1