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2.5/4 |
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30 Days of Night (2007) |
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"Bleak, bombastic and belligerent, Slade's blood-busting bohemians will indeed take a caustic chunk out of your imaginative horrifying souls." | |
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2/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"Somehow, the Beatles' precious diamonds are glaringly missing from Lucy's sky if not in Julie's unevenly charismatic but cluttered and customary Universe." | |
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3/4 |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly." | |
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3/4 |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
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"Aside from the movie's mouthful title, this [is a] contemplative and carousing exposition. [The] prairie-induced pathos is plenty to digest with absolute reverence." | |
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2/4 |
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Bee Movie (2007) |
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"A spelling bee. A busy bee. A killer bee. But a Seinfeld bee? Sorry Jerry, your hapless honey-seeking hero doesn't create much of an animated buzz." | |
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2/4 |
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The Brave One (2007) |
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"Jordan's Brave delves into a showy yet sluggish crime drama that incorporates all the cliched parts of a fatalistic fantasy audiences have seen over and over." | |
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1.5/4 |
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The Comebacks (2007) |
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"Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity." | |
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3.5/4 |
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Control (2007) |
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"[An] intimate look at a tragic footnote in entertainment. A moody yet strangely melodic concoction about creativity and confusion in an overwhelming abyss of artistic isolation" | |
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2.5/4 |
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Dan in Real Life (2007) |
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"Heartwarming, quirky and quietly affecting...the overall package is peppered with an easy-going dosage of reflective schmaltz...warm, inviting and actively spirited..." | |
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2/4 |
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Feast of Love (2007) |
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"Feast does nothing concrete to make us embrace this uneven romancer that has all the giddy spirit of a melted box of chocolates." | |
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2/4 |
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The Final Season (2007) |
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"Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob." | |
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2/4 |
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The Game Plan (2007) |
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"Sappy and simplistic, The Game Plan belongs on the sidelines of stale cotton candy creativity." | |
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3/4 |
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Gone Baby Gone (2007) |
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"[A] tortured morality play that takes place on the salacious sidewalks where bluebloods and bombastic blue-collared souls equally pound the pavement in cynical unity." | |
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1.5/4 |
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Good Luck Chuck (2007) |
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"[A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all." | |
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1.5/4 |
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The Heartbreak Kid (2007) |
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"The Farrellys' The Heartbreak Kid is a seemingly sketchy and erratic farce that begs for some of the wayward cinematic siblings' trademark outlandish quirkiness." | |
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3/4 |
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Juno (2007) |
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"Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance." | |
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2/4 |
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Mad Money (2008) |
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"[A] pointless payday for director Khourie's banal blank check comedy...a straining pseudo-hysterical heist flick that has all the giddy appeal of an empty bank draft." | |
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2/4 |
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Margot at the Wedding (2007) |
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"Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish." | |
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3/4 |
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A Mighty Heart (2007) |
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"Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage." | |
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2/4 |
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Rendition (2007) |
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"...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction." | |
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1.5/4 |
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007) |
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"Extinction is basically a robotic and wretched screen-sized visual video game that never challenges or stimulates the audience's rush for genuine outrageous freakiness." | |
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1.5/4 |
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Saw IV (2007) |
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"Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles" | |
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2/4 |
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The Seeker (2007) |
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"Cunningham's scope is myopic and minimal in a mystical yet meandering piece of malarkey that masquerades as a long-winded Tolkien treasure hunt for teenage thrill-seekers." | |
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3.5/4 |
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Starting Out in the Evening (2007) |
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"Wagner's penetrating narrative is poetically stimulating in its smart approach to its dialogue-driven excellence and standout performances." | |
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4/4 |
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2008) |
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"Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem" | |
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3/4 |
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007) |
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"Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances." | |
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3/4 |
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Tre (2008) |
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"...absorbing, mysterious, lyrical and distinctively titillating...a moody masterpiece that is thrillingly alarming...[a] tale of wandering hedonism and anguish" | |
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3/4 |
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Tyler Perry's Why Did I Get Married? (2007) |
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"Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability." | |
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2/4 |
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We Own The Night (2007) |
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"A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight" | |
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2/4 |
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008) |
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"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless..." | |
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