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04/19/12 |
Very Good |
 "...it's Pearce's film, and he chews and spits the one-liners like a hardened wise-ass. Han Solo would be proud." |
| 2. |
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04/12/12 |
Good (Not Great) |
 "...a dizzyingly self-referential horror parody... Make that sloppy and silly post-irony." |
| 3. |
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09/15/11 |
Very Good |
 "...defies genre expectations at every turn while still providing apt doses of tension and depravity." |
| 4. |
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08/25/11 |
Weak |
 "It wouldn't matter that the fragrance card smelled so strongly of jelly beans that it rendered the designated dog-fart and blue-cheese scents null. Or that the plot is an afterthought..." |
| 5. |
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06/16/11 |
Very Good |
 "...takes an evenhanded approach in getting both sides of the story, talking to the single-crop farmers who share much of the blame and the batshit beekeepers dead-set on reviving the world's honey bee population one comb at a time." |
| 6. |
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06/02/11 |
Outstanding |
 "Directors Jesse Holland and Andy Mitton appear to be trying to avoid the stereotypical standard horror-movie schlocker and do something more ambitious.... resembles a mid-'90s Marilyn Manson music video. Just bizarre." |
| 7. |
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05/19/11 |
Weak |
 "[Director Andrew] Lau throws in one too many wrinkles, squandering our empathy by forcing us through a long-winded relationship involving betrayal and illness. The story would be better suited to 'A Beautiful Two Months.' " |
| 8. |
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05/06/11 |
Poor |
 "...everything is spelled out, without a trace of nuance. Two lovers stare longingly over the barrels of their guns while bullets whiz by. A window flies open, revealing God's sunbeam. And I feel like throwing up." |
| 9. |
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04/28/11 |
Very Good |
 "...an unrelenting Italian thriller..." |
| 10. |
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04/14/11 |
Very Good |
 "[An anthology of nine films that tie their] eclectic but masterful exercises in the medium to pointed messages." |
| 11. |
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03/31/11 |
Weak |
 "...plodding plot is as clichéd as it gets.... What will they do? And, more important, why should we care about their trivial hipster quandaries?" |
| 12. |
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09/16/10 |
Very Good |
 "...doesn't pander to clichés. There's no suave dork or sensitive jock. Rather, the high-school kids act like high-school kids -- relentlessly immature and all the better for it." |
| 13. |
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09/09/10 |
Weak |
 "The music does range from gospel to filmi to country -- but there isn't a hook anywhere. And if you're going to recruit Rush to do a shoulder shimmy in a cassock, at least make it memorable." |
| 14. |
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08/05/10 |
Poor |
 "Director Burr Steers's overwrought melodramatic mess is beyond resuscitation." |
| 15. |
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07/15/10 |
Very Good |
 "Daryl Wein withholds and warps the emotions of the main characters till there's little sympathy to be had.... [but] it works here because, as we all know, love ain't always pretty." |
| 16. |
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04/01/10 |
Moderate |
 "The plot unfolds like a numbed-down neo-noir, and the actors treat it as such, using overwrought dramatic turns as a springboard for delightfully hammy performances." |
| 17. |
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04/01/10 |
Moderate |
 "...harmless... Raymond De Felitta knows how to depict family dysfunction, but he lards his film with asinine quips and too many headache-inducing dinner-table shouting matches..." |
| 18. |
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03/18/10 |
Poor |
 "Black men are incredible athletes and have large penises. Mexican-Americans drive lowriders and have at least one incarcerated relative.... unfunny..." |
