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09/02/09 |
Fair |
 "...authoritative, far-reaching documentary by veteran investigative journalists Leslie and Andrew Cockburn comes off as curiously bloodless." |
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ThirstVillage Voice Alternative Weeklies |
07/30/09 |
Very Good |
 "...the vampire genre proves to be a squishy wet dream for a filmmaker who regularly works in a palette of gougings, impalings, and blunt-force traumas..." |
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06/11/09 |
Fair |
 "In this subway series, the original 'Pelham' wins." |
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06/04/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "What proves consistent, as it did in 'Old School,' is the chemistry among 'Hangover's' three species of party mammalia." |
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05/20/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...facile but fascinating... The filmmakers connect the dots of deep-seated conspiracy belief from militia-friendly Idaho to post-Katrina New Orleans... the doc charts a temperate middle course through its subjects' heated rhetoric." |
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04/23/09 |
Weak |
 "The diminishing returns of shock value are the movie's built-in joke, and it would be a lot funnier without the directors' unforgivably bratty postsexist/postracist/posthuman showboating." |
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KnowingVillage Voice Alternative Weeklies |
03/19/09 |
Fair |
 "Carefully coded so as not to scare away secular audiences who just wanna see stuff blow up... a lugubrious thriller..." |
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03/05/09 |
Poor |
 "...the rote fight scenes are a disappointment: Fans will get far bigger kicks (and highs) out of the ka-razy Thai import 'Chocolate'..." |
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02/12/09 |
Poor |
 "Entering its 30th year (see: cinema, decline of), the idiot offspring of 'Halloween' and Mario Bava's 'Twitch of the Death Nerve' 'reboots'..." |
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02/04/09 |
Excellent |
 "The world may not have needed a Thai-language martial-arts hybrid of 'Kill Bill' and 'Rain Man,' but by God, it's got one now." |
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01/29/09 |
Poor |
 "...a 92-minute detainment in Sucksylvania." |
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01/22/09 |
Fair |
 "...the superior 3-D process is the only attraction... the movie's defeated by the plodding predictability of the stalk 'n' slash form." |
