ROTTEN TOMATOES: Tirdad Derakhshani

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2.5/4	Click here to read article -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 18, 2008	Confession of Pain (2007)	n/a
1.5/4	" Includes clever references to the straight raunchfests Porky's and American Pie. But his film feels more like a collection of skits than a cohesive story. His characters aren't even half-dimensional and, except for Nico, are boorish bores." -- Philadelphia Daily News Posted Jul 10, 2008	Another Gay Sequel (2008)	21%
3.5/4	" Myth and reality, past and present, tradition and progress go head to head in Yung Chang's remarkable documentary about China's longest river, Up the Yangtze." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 3, 2008	Up The Yangtze (2007)	96%
3/4	" A startlingly original, smart indie film that so effortlessly mixes high-caliber gore, suspense and shocking violence with vaudevillian hilarity, it's clearly animated by the spirit of the classic Re-Animator films." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 22, 2008	The Signal (2007)	54%
2.5/4	" An effective if redundant fright flick." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 4, 2008	The Eye (2008)	22%
3/4	" A flawed, sometimes goofy, but exciting and surprisingly clever adaptation of Stephen King's horror yarn." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Nov 20, 2007	Stephen King's The Mist (2007)	72%
3/4	" A truly terrifying hell-ride through darkness for grownups." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 19, 2007	30 Days of Night (2007)	50%
3/4	" *[Director] Hawke's sincerity - especially in his terrific new film, The Hottest State* -- is also his saving grace.*" -- Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Sep 6, 2007	The Hottest State (2006)	33%
3/4	" *The film's Harold Lloyd-inspired slapstick may be infantile, but it has an innocent sensibility that is a nice counterbalance to the equally childish but prurient American Pie* flicks.*" -- Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Aug 24, 2007	Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)	50%
3/4	" [Director] Andreas rescues A Four Letter Word from being merely a raunchy lil' romance by showing how his characters are steeped in a culture of therapy that has filled Americans with endless, compulsive self-analysis and self-doubt." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jul 12, 2007	A Four Letter Word (2008)	53%
2/4	" The violence we see does not disturb or even excite, but, like porn, it anesthetizes us to our own humanity." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Jun 7, 2007	Hostel: Part II (2007)	45%
3/4	" After nearly three decades of misfires, major and minor, William Friedkin, the creator of The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer, is back in true form with Bug." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted May 25, 2007	Bug (2007)	59%
3/4	" The Boss of It All is a wonderfully perceptive study of the use and abuse of power set in a concrete, everyday context ..." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Apr 9, 2007	The Boss of it All (2007)	73%
	" [The film is] hampered by hauntingly lame performances by McDermott and Miller, who phone in their parts, and a screenplay that has the sophistication and complexity of a college dorm message board." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Feb 5, 2007	The Messengers (2007)	11%
2.5/4	" The question for moviegoers: Would you rather get your dose of existenz-philosophie from Dostoyevsky or a slasher flick?" -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 30, 2006	Saw III (2006)	27%
2.5/4	" The Grudge 2, Takashi Shimizu's wildly uneven but ambitious new film -- his second American remake -- is one of the best entries in the Japanese director's Ju-On/Grudge series." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Oct 16, 2006	The Grudge 2 (2006)	10%
3/4	" Dillon and director Hamer manage to give us a real Bukowski by avoiding the overly dramatic histrionics that sometimes marred Barbet Schroeder's similarly themed 1987 booze-drama, Barfly with Mickey Rourke." -- Philadelphia Inquirer Posted Sep 1, 2006	Factotum (2006)	75%
3/4	" *One Aliens* reference in this film had me welling up: A blood-soaked Sarah raises her torch, Sigourney Weaver-like, and lets out a banshee war cry.*" -- Philadelphia Inquirer* Posted Aug 3, 2006	The Descent (2006)	85%

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