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BRIAN HOLCOMB
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1.5/5
 
" While not as laughable as the narcissistic Lady in the Water ,it fails just as miserably as narrative and even more miserably with its flat characters and tone deaf dialogue. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted Oct 12, 2008
 
The Happening (2008)18%
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2.5/5
 
" This film would make a perfect commercial thriller for James Spader and Rob Lowe were it still 1994." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 28, 2008
 
Deception (2008)12%
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7/10
 
" Everything that has come to be known as "Melville" exists in some form throughout the film's 98 minutes. The flaws present are those of the greatest auteurs' autumnal works." -- PopMatters
Posted Sep 23, 2008
 
Un Flic (1971)64%
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4.5/5
 
" It's not the characteristically sharp Mamet dialogue that makes Ejiofor effective so much as what he does between the lines: Moments of powerful contemplation and silence." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted Sep 3, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)70%
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5/10
 
" Nominated for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award, "Noel" is the kind of sentimental tripe the Academy loves to honor in order to justify their own sentimental tripe. " -- PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2008
 
Joyeux Noël (2006)77%
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6/10
 
" Feast is too knowing and in its own way, too high profile to be born as cult cinema. But it's a reasonable facsimile and as such deserves a look from the genre connoisseur. " -- PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2008
 
Feast (2006)57%
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5/10
 
" A gothic tale with roots deep in Shelly's Frankenstein. Bai takes the part that most adaptations toss out, the moral education of the monster, and puts it front and center. " -- PopMatters
Posted Aug 7, 2008
 
Puzzlehead (2006)100%
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3.5/5
 
" It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jul 6, 2008
 
My Blueberry Nights (2008)47%
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3/5
 
" The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 15, 2008
 
The Signal (2007)54%
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3.5/5
 
" There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted Jun 2, 2008
 
Cassandra's Dream (2008)51%
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4/10
 
" In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 29, 2008
 
Dead Man's Bounty (2007)38%
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4/4
 
" The cleverest conceit of the show is that celebrity doesn't really change a person so much as fan the flames that were burning from the start. " -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 22, 2008
 
Extras - The Complete Second Season ()n/a
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3.5/5
 
" Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 21, 2008
 
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom (1984)84%
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8/10
 
" Erupts with the freshness and energy only first time filmmakers can generate-yet has the control and mastery over its subject that novice directors take years to command. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Perth (2006)n/a
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2.5/5
 
" This could be the story of Paris Hilton if she were to be married off to an impotent French Prince instead of dating meatheads armed with camcorders. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Marie Antoinette (2006)54%
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7/10
 
" This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Fast Food Nation (2006)51%
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7/10
 
" Maybe it's no surprise that the decade in which AIDS reared its ugly head produced an astonishing number of films concerning dangerously repressed homosexual protagonists." -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Apartment Zero (1988)88%
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2.5/5
 
" Outside of surface details involving flesh eating and body rot, these zombie stooges look more hung over than dead. This is really a sex comedy with a zombie theme. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Night of the Living Dorks (2006)20%
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3/5
 
" A crazy little film, modest in its scope but grand in its ambition. It paints it's story in loud primary colors, with intense pressure cooker characterizations. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Harsh Times (2006)48%
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5/5
 
" This is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. It's outrageous, erotic, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting ,shocking, and altogether exhilarating filmmaking. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Re-Animator (1985)92%
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2.5/5
 
" With a plot Frankensteined from the remains of "Hostel", "The Descent" and "Wolf Creek", "Turistas" was clearly never going to be on anyone's 10 best list. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Turistas (2006)15%
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4/5
 
" Teleporting Zombies! Hanging priests! Bleeding eyes! Organ regurgitation! The plot is meaningless and the characters senseless. But these are pluses for films in this cycle. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The City of the Living Dead (1980)29%
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8/10
 
" With "Rocky Balboa", Stallone's created the first real "sequel" to his original, a deserving bookend that recaptures that film's sense of character and realistic detail. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Rocky Balboa (2006)76%
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4/10
 
" It's really not much fun watching the non drama of our hero Randy (Michael Pitt) staring at the walls and keeping the hands of the more brutish Jake from clawing up his skirt." -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Jailbait (2006)17%
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3/5
 
" The best Tarantino riff of 1994. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Smokin' Aces (2007)27%
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4.5/5
 
" A very detailed portrait of a time and place that is about to change forever. This is a Long Island of 1976 in someone's memory, like a faded Polaroid in an old shoebox." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Diggers (2007)69%
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2/5
 
" Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
The Messengers (2007)11%
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4/5
 
" Hartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Fay Grim (2007)43%
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3/5
 
" "How can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks a bewildered and ultra-ironic John McClane. Well, make a film as successful as Die Hard and you'll soon find out. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Die Hard 2: Die Harder (1990)62%
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7/10
 
" Like the films of Polanski and Nicolas Roeg, "Head Trauma" is a slow burn movie, the kind which gradually pulls you deeper and deeper into its own twisted reality. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 5, 2008
 
Head Trauma (2005)n/a
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2.5/5
 
" Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Factory Girl (2007)19%
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4.5/5
 
" Effectively tells the story of "The Black Cat" through the troubled life of the author himself, mixing fact and fiction like a horror movie version of "Shakespeare in Love"." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Masters of Horror - Stuart Gordon: The Black Cat (2007)n/a
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5/10
 
" The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
The Abandoned (2007)35%
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5/10
 
" No matter that it's based on a book, the movie is more about how the reality of the time was seen through the lens of a Michael Curtiz while he was filming "Casablanca"." -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
The Good German (2006)32%
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5/5
 
" Strips the artistry of the Henry James original and leaves us with a hairy, overweight, naked and sweating Brando brutally kneading Stephanie Beacham's breasts into new shapes" -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
The Nightcomers (1972)80%
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4/5
 
" It's not too hard to imagine that the inspiration for this show came during a late night, cannabis fueled attack of the munchies. It's no masterpiece but that's the idea. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007)47%
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8/10
 
" Diana Rigg plays the title role without remorse. Her Hedda suffers no fools and appears ready to strike like a coiled snake. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Hedda Gabler (1980)n/a
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5/5
 
" It has a plot that moves as though it were carefully thought out, and yet it also appears to be desperately improvised on the spot." -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Honor Among Thieves (1982)n/a
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3.5/5
 
" Imagine a campfire story told by Jack London after downing a bottle of Jack Daniels. The chilly atmosphere would be in full force but the plotting might be a bit punch drunk." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Wind Chill (2007)48%
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4/5
 
" While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Bug (2007)59%
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5/5
 
" Fighting against pop culture expectations and a century of vampire cliché, Coppola's approach is unique. Like it or not, no one had ever seen a "Dracula" quite like this." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992)81%
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2/5
 
" It's different, but is it any good? As another former President might say, "Depends on how you define 'good'." " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
The Tripper (2007)25%
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5/5
 
" Beyond all the "masterpiece" rhetoric, this is actually a great movie. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Chinatown (1974)100%
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7/10
 
" This is not the kind of horror that comes from cobwebs and creaky doors. Its horrors are all too human and impossible to cast off with a simple fade out. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Witchfinder General (1968)82%
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" Lindsay Lohan wears more clothes in this movie then she does clubbing in real life." -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
I Know Who Killed Me (2007)8%
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" For Malick, Man is just a small part of a world which just keeps going round with or without his petty squabbles, crimes, loves, or melodramatic plots. " -- PopMatters
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Days of Heaven (1978)91%
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3/5
 
" Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible. " -- CinemaBlend.com
Posted May 2, 2008
 
Awake (2007)24%
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" DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch." -- Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 26, 2008
 
The Black Dahlia (2006)34%
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1/4
 
" Constructed from spare parts in a bionic writing room, the show has the arms and legs of "Alias" and "Heroes" but without a heart and brain of its own." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 22, 2008
 
Bionic Woman - Volume 1 (2007)n/a
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" Movies like "Street Kings" are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining. " -- Beyond Hollywood
Posted Apr 20, 2008
 
Street Kings (2008)36%

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