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	"This strenuously unfunny follow-up to the uneven but often uproarious Another Gay Movie duly maintains the original's levels of raunch and gross-out gags, but it all feels perfunctory, with comic inspiration distinctly lacking." Posted Aug 12, 2008	Another Gay Sequel (2008)	25%
	"Thesps (even toplining helmer, who's a strapping 60 years old) have nothing to work with, though one hopes they had fun riding about the desert." Posted Aug 6, 2008	Hell Ride (2008)	11%
	"*While fulfilling titular obligations, Six Sex Scenes and a Murder* provides tepid titillation as various suspects produce carnal alibis around the slaying of a handsome ne'er-do-well.*" Posted Jul 31, 2008*	Six Sex Scenes and a Murder (2008)	20%
	"*Trying to plumb beneath the usual emotional shallows of twentysomething L.A. gay life, Holding Trevor* sometimes succeeds, but mostly comes off as a vanity project for writer-star Brent Gorski.*" Posted Jul 8, 2008*	Holding Trevor (2008)	14%
	"Just middling funny, with no truly memorable high points and a sum impact that goes poof! before you've left the parking garage." Posted Jun 23, 2008	Scary Movie 3 (2003)	38%
	"It's not enough to have an English-language-mangling actor bumble improvisationally among real people: You need structure, and situations crafted enough to escalate mild amusement toward hilarity." Posted Jun 3, 2008	The Doorman (2008)	25%
	"The celebratory tenor heralded by the title of Khashyar Darvich's "Dalai Lama Renaissance" belies what's onscreen." Posted May 23, 2008	Dalai Lama Renaissance (2008)	n/a
	"An amiable, if flyweight, diversion." Posted May 18, 2008	A Night at the Roxbury (1998)	10%
	"At times the pic doesn't even seem certain which decade it's set in; the squeaky-clean high school environs often feel more '80s than '90s." Posted May 16, 2008	10 Things I Hate About You (1999)	56%
	"A one-joke pic that duly delivers on its titular promise to rapidly depleting returns." Posted Apr 22, 2008	Zombie Strippers (2008)	41%
	"While top-billed duo do indeed occupy plenty of screen time, this is basically the latest version of that post-Star Wars fantasy concept in which only a middle-class white teenage boy can save the universe from, y'know, Evil." Posted Apr 10, 2008	The Forbidden Kingdom (2008)	64%
	"Squabbling among the skin-deep characters doesn�t induce much sympathy, though thesps do their best." Posted Apr 4, 2008	The Ruins (2008)	46%
	"*70 minutes of good if unmemorable fun sure beats 80 or 90 minutes of excruciating parodies for dummies, a la Date Movie* and Epic Movie.*" Posted Mar 29, 2008*	Superhero Movie! (2008)	13%
	"A blandly cast and crafted remake of the same-titled 2004 Thai pic that itself emulated J-horror norms, which seemed a lot fresher back then. Low on real scares, atmosphere and character." Posted Mar 22, 2008	Shutter (2008)	7%
	"The Pussycat Preacher is one of those documentaries ripe for lurid headline encapsulation: "Ex-Druggie Stripper Now Converts Sex Biz to Christ!" Bill Day's slick pic doesn't dig much deeper than that. " Posted Mar 17, 2008	The Pussycat Preacher (2008)	n/a
	"John Sayles' latest marks his entry into family-pic terrain, a crossing that draws pleasant but unexciting results." Posted Mar 11, 2008	Secret of Roan Inish (1995)	98%
	"A certain disappointment sets in when the consummate awfulness subsides after an hour, becoming slightly less painful. But then, dropping a hammer on your foot improves that way, too." Posted Feb 7, 2008	The Hottie & the Nottie (2008)	5%
	"Ends up feeling more like the season finale of a fairly interesting, somewhat derivative HBO series than stand-alone screen fare." Posted Feb 1, 2008	Birds of America (2008)	n/a
	"It ends up less a dark comedy than a medium-gray one, the impact further muffled by its marinating in a tepid pool of generic soft-rock sounds." Posted Feb 1, 2008	Smart People (2008)	49%
	"*What's really spooky is that even the weakest Desperate Housewives* episode packs more heat than this tepid romantic comedy-fantasy.*" Posted Jan 31, 2008*	Over Her Dead Body (2008)	14%
	"[Director Nino] Kirtadze means to offer a microcosm of rising nationalist zealotry in Russia, but leaves too many informational and analytical gaps to satisfy." Posted Jan 30, 2008	Durakovo: Village of Fools (2008)	n/a
	"*Part deadpan nerd comedy in the Napoleon Dynamite* mode, part miserablist childhood saga a la My Life as a Dog, this isn�t quite funny or poignant enough to pull off either.*" Posted Jan 28, 2008*	King of Ping Pong (2008)	n/a
	"This middling drama has no glaring faults, but simply lacks the intended urgency. There's scant sense of surprise in a narrative trajectory that feels preordained." Posted Jan 28, 2008	August (2008)	35%
	"Decent if derivative." Posted Jan 4, 2008	One Missed Call (2008)	0%
	"Debuting writer-director Joby Harold�s thriller does have an attention-getting plot hook, but piles on too many narrative gimmicks to maintain suspense or credibility." Posted Dec 2, 2007	Awake (2007)	24%
	"Pedestrian handling, a clumsy script and some poor acting from name and local thesps alike squander the story's potential. " Posted Nov 21, 2007	Valley of the Heart's Delight (2007)	n/a
	"Beneath late-night cable standards." Posted Nov 20, 2007	Crazy Eights (2007)	n/a
	"Action is almost nonstop, but rooting interest palls." Posted Nov 20, 2007	The Deaths of Ian Stone (2007)	67%
	"All wet but none too scary." Posted Nov 15, 2007	Lake Dead (2007)	n/a
	"*Only Henry Winkler as Ben's carpet-salesman pa has the joie de vivre* the pic desperately needs.*" Posted Oct 11, 2007*	Berkeley (2007)	33%
	"Cooper presented this rather basic good/evil mythos in more low-key, atmospheric form than the film allows, leaving thesps (particularly McShane) having to poker-face their way through lines like, 'The future of the human race rests on you!'" Posted Oct 5, 2007	The Seeker (2007)	13%
	"Writer-helmer Bruce Sweeney can't decide if the lead figure is a comic caricature or pathetic mental case; his resolution is so desultory it feels like he ceased caring." Posted Sep 21, 2007	American Venus (2007)	n/a
	"Beyond capturing some impressive musicianship (notably from innovative drummer Brian Blade), this deliberately low-grade presentation is a chore to watch, unalleviated by solarized-color bits and gratuitous dance interludes." Posted Sep 21, 2007	Here Is What Is (2007)	n/a
	"Dumb sensationalism that trusts blood-buckets dumped on thesps are enough to raise a fright." Posted Sep 19, 2007	The Devil's Chair (2006)	n/a
	"The undernourished story penned by thesp-turned-scenarist Jackson isn't scary, eventful or enigmatic enough to seem worth the bother." Posted Sep 19, 2007	The Passage (2007)	n/a
	"There are no surprises here -- just broad, frequently slapstick gags that don't avoid but do tamp down a bit on the bodily-function school of yokkery." Posted Sep 11, 2007	Run, Fat Boy, Run (2008)	48%
	"*The best that can be said about Rob Zombie's Halloween* remake is that he makes it his own, though the considerable alterations only flatter John Carpenter's 1978 slasher-pic template.*" Posted Aug 27, 2007*	Halloween (2007)	26%
	"Despite natural perfs, characters aren't very articulate or well-defined." Posted Aug 21, 2007	Kissing on the Mouth (2005)	40%
	"Boll does mean to provoke, but to pull off a satirical critique of the volatile subjects here would require sharper wit than he and co-scenarist Bryan C. Knight generally provide." Posted Aug 15, 2007	Postal (2008)	9%
	"A slick but forgettable, characterless thriller." Posted Aug 15, 2007	The Invasion (2007)	19%
	"A scattershot stab at a fascinating life and times." Posted Jul 31, 2007	Pi�ero (2001)	45%
	"*The semi-earnest A Four Letter Word* comes off like an insular gay sitcom, a la Paul Rudnick's Jeffrey, but without the honed verbal wit.*" Posted Jul 14, 2007*	A Four Letter Word (2008)	70%
	"As adulatory as a testimonial dinner, pic looks at talents well deserving of more complex, balanced treatment." Posted May 3, 2007	Fog City Mavericks (2007)	n/a
	"*An inauspicious feature debut for director Harv Glazer and all three scenarists, the Big-meets-breakdancing comedy will be kickin' it to ancillary by swimsuit season." Posted Apr 28, 2007*	Kickin' It Old Skool (2007)	3%
	"Pic could use more humor, though it does have scattered unintentional laughs, particularly one late, solemnly admonishing speech about how those producing entertainment need to take responsibility for glorifying violence." Posted Apr 24, 2007	The Condemned (2007)	15%
	"Though slick and diverting in some aspects, increasingly silly pic has trouble meshing disparate elements -- horror, superhero fantasy, straight-up action -- into a workable whole." Posted Apr 18, 2007	Blade (1998)	55%
	"*X-Men plays like a so-so middle chapter of an epic series rather than a fitting kickoff." Posted Apr 17, 2007*	X-Men (2000)	80%
	"Uninspired staging and pacing manage the near-impossible feat of rendering such lunatic concepts dull." Posted Apr 10, 2007	The Glamorous Life Of Sachiko Hanai (2007)	30%
	"Thing suffers the familiar curse of Canadian seriocomedy -- just nice enough in content and stylistically like a telepic." Posted Apr 2, 2007	Whole New Thing (2007)	67%
	"If Lee intended primarily to spoof documentary conventions, she should have chosen a theme less commercially overexposed -- and worked harder at making it more than just sorta-kinda humorous." Posted Mar 23, 2007	American Zombie (2007)	69%

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