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09/17/09 |
Fair |
 "The serious-TV blandness of the filmmaking mutes the outrage its subjects provoke, and the 'casino' metaphor does little to bolster the arguments visually or thematically." |
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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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Village 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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07/30/09 |
Very Good |
"...plays as malicious mischief, diverting but curiously weightless." |
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07/29/09 |
Very Good |
"Carnal appetite, not a parched palate, is the accelerant that fuels this perverse, prankish, and merrily anti-clerical exercise in bloodletting..." |
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Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
06/11/09 |
Fair |
 "In this subway series, the original 'Pelham' wins." |
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06/11/09 |
Fair |
"...redo comes up short in almost every regard against the '74 model..." |
| 8. |
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06/10/09 |
Fair |
"...if self-conscious stabs at significance don't sound like as much fun as the original's unpretentious caper thrills, that's because they're not." |
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06/04/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...this messy, raunchy farce about three groomsmen on a lost-weekend bender in Sin City continues the director's fascination with the alpha male's default setting..." |
| 10. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
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." |
| 11. |
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06/03/09 |
Good (Not Great) |
"...considering what passes for a man's, man's, man's world in Todd Phillips's movies, women may feel grateful for their relative absence." |
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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 |
 "...chat-show parodies, meta-manic video-game interludes and Tex Avery-style bloodshed.... Call it the most expensive Troma movie ever made..." |
| 14. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
04/23/09 |
Weak |
"...it would be a lot funnier without the directors' unforgivably bratty postsexist/postracist/posthuman showboating." |
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03/19/09 |
Fair |
 "...a glum hybrid of the 'Final Destination' movies, an Irwin Allen disaster bash, and the kitschiest parts of Darren Aronofsky's 'The Fountain.' " |
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Village 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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03/18/09 |
Fair |
"...a lugubrious thriller... By the time winged messengers arrive from on high, one longs for the hard-headed heresy of Michael Tolkin's 'The Rapture.' " |
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03/05/09 |
Poor |
 "Idiot plotting and dialogue are what you'd expect from a genre that typically rewards narrative development with a skip function." |
| 19. |
Village Voice Alternative Weeklies |
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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03/04/09 |
Poor |
"It's been 15 years since the first (and one presumed incorrectly, last) adaptation of the 'Street Fighter' video game, and the fumes are only now leaving theaters." |
