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Revolutionary Road
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Vicky Roach
A cold and unappealing drama that is almost cripplingly middle-class.
3.5/4
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Slumdog Millionaire
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Vicky Roach
Boyle confidently mines the feelgood opportunities of Simon Beaufoy's screenplay, adapted from Vikas Swarup's novel, without letting the film collapse into soppiness or sentimentality.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Vicky Roach
For a film that lost one of its key players, Heath Ledger, mid-way through production, The Imaginarium Of Doctor Parnassus is remarkably cohesive. Marks a return to form for Gilliam.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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7
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Valkyrie
Daily Telegraph (Australia)
Vicky Roach
A well-paced thriller that sheds light on a little-known piece of World War II history.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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5
7
2
1,365
Please Give
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
Touching: that's what makes Holofcener's films so lovely. They are beady-eyed satires, sure, but they're also fundamentally kind-hearted.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,366
Bananas!
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
The denouement, far from the David-slaying-Goliath narrative that you might expect to be celebrated, is a messy affair.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
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2
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The Ghost Writer
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
Polanski's most enjoyable film for a very long time.
4/4
4
4
4
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8
9
2
1,366
Get Him to the Greek
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
Given that Judd Apatow is a co-producer, you'd at least expect the film to make you laugh. The humour's all over the place, though.
2/4
4
2
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4
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1,366
Kick-Ass
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Mark Millar's source comic, which I haven't read, is very possibly a smart and subversive treat. But Vaughn's movie is hollow, glazed, and not quite there, like a teenager who has spent too much time in his bedroom.
1/4
4
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24 City (Er shi si cheng ji)
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Chinese arthouse fixture Jia Zhang Ke looks at the closure of a state-owned factory in Chengdu, combining real interviews with awkwardly am-dram mock ones.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
9
2
1,366
Ajami
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
The actors, every one of them new to their craft, make the everydayness of the picture indelible and real.
4/4
4
4
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8
9
2
1,366
Beeswax
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
A relentlessly talky and meandering slough of claustrophobia passing itself off as an intimate life study.
2/4
4
2
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4
9
2
1,366
Breathless
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
Almost every frame looks smoky and luscious enough to be a nation to which lovers and young dreamers might hope one day to emigrate. It's a film that will never wither, always inspire.
4/4
4
4
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8
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2
1,366
Cemetery Junction
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Gervais and Merchant may offer less ambition or novelty than meet the eye, but being cosily shepherded to their feel-good destination never feels like drudgery.
3/4
4
3
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6
9
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City of Life and Death
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Possibly the war film of the year, Lu Chuan's picture about the Rape of Nanking has a lacerating immediacy and a true artist's gravity and tact.
4/4
4
4
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8
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Clash of the Titans
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
Let's hope that the computer-game version of the film has more get-up-and-go than this dull affair.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
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2
1,366
The Disappearance of Alice Creed
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
The film's behind-the-scenes hero is its cinematographer, Philipp Blaubach. His command of space and close-ups sustains all the tension visually that's sometimes dribbling out of the script.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
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Gentlemen Broncos
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
The film-within-a-film starring Sam Rockwell tanks quite badly, but Hess's affection for fantasy kitsch shines through brightly enough to generate real feeling.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,366
Wild Grass (Les Herbes Folles)
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Veteran French director Alain Resnais, now 88, certainly keeps us guessing. Who knew he had this fiercely odd yarn of competing obsessions still in him?
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,366
Imperium
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
With all the political dangers America is genuinely facing at the moment, this plot ought to be a real powder-keg. But while the fuse gets lit, there's barely a pinch of explosive inside.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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5
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2
1,366
Killers
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Killers goes wrong so quickly and obviously it's almost hard to believe -- did collective deafness strike on set?
1/4
4
1
4
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2
9
2
1,366
The Milk of Sorrow (La Teta Asustada)
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
The message is unclear, unless it's to think twice before ordering chips in Lima.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
9
2
1,366
Nanny McPhee Returns
Daily Telegraph (UK)
David Gritten
It's hard to feel ill-disposed towards a family film that treats the children in the audience as intelligent citizens rather than just young consumers, and presents its child characters as complex people with contradictions, nuances and surprising traits.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,366
Our Family Wedding
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Lacks a single legitimate laugh, despite engineering the humping of Forest Whitaker's leg by a priapic goat. Don't ask.
1/4
4
1
4
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2
9
2
1,366
Perrier's Bounty
Daily Telegraph (UK)
null
It keeps undercutting any suspense with long, turgid stretches of fugitive bickering.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
9
2
1,366
Tetro
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
Though it's unlikely to announce his return to the grand stage of big-budget cinema, the movie is graced with touches of the old Coppola magic.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,366
Trash Humpers
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Sukhdev Sandhu
Trash Humpers, far being an authentic expression of the American Id, is a nostalgic lament for an era in which Korine's films could be held up, rightly or wrongly, as transgressive. No longer.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,366
Vincere
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
The story might fascinate if it weren't plunged into a stylistic deep freeze -- when your best sequences are chunks of greatest-hits newsreel, you're clearly in trouble.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
9
2
1,366
Whatever Works
Daily Telegraph (UK)
Tim Robey
What's Woody Allen's worst film? Look no further.
0/4
4
0
4
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0
9
2
1,366
American Made
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
... it's fun, bold, smart and a return to form for Cruise... [Full review in Spanish]
9/10
10
9
10
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16
19
2
1,367
Baywatch
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
Baywatch could be a disposable and effective pop referent for these times, but was content to be a mediocre adaptation. [Full review in Spanish]
5/10
10
5
10
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8
19
2
1,367
Blade Runner 2049
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
... complements the narrative arcs of its predecessor... [Full review in Spanish]
10/10
10
10
10
false
18
19
2
1,367
Blair Witch
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
The new Blair Witch film lacks a real proposal and personality. Its only another found footage movie that, except for its last 10 minutes, is incapable of arousing any emotion. [Full review in Spanish]
5/10
10
5
10
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8
19
2
1,367
Cars 3
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
Cars 3 is revealed as a logical next step that serves to introduce children to sports drama. [Full review in Spanish]
7/10
10
7
10
false
12
19
2
1,367
Deepwater Horizon
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
The heaviness of its first half permeates the arrival of the medullar part, but it manages to strengthen its criticism to the executives who caused the environmental disaster that it approaches. [Full review in Spanish]
6.5/10
10
6.5
10
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11
19
2
1,367
Despicable Me 3
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
This film reflects that its filmmakers only see in the smaller spectators a product not worth of quality plots. [Full review in Spanish]
5.5/10
10
5.5
10
false
9
19
2
1,367
Don't Breathe
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
Don't breathe is one of the most intelligent films of the year, one that from the angle of horror, invites the audience to perform reflexive exercises around morality and justification of the lowest human action. [Full review in Spanish]
9/10
10
9
10
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16
19
2
1,367
Everything, Everything
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
A young adult formula that will be erased from memory as soon as the movie theater is abandoned. [Full review in Spanish]
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,367
Happy Death Day
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
The temporal loop is the plot's stem, while its slasher angle is that of self-consciousness. [Full review in Spanish]
7.5/10
10
7.5
10
false
13
19
2
1,367
It
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
Even with its flaws, It easily surpasses the 90's television iteration... [Full review in Spanish]
8/10
10
8
10
false
14
19
2
1,367
It Comes At Night
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
The film is far from being a breakthrough work within the horror arthouse, but reminds us that showing less often means getting more. [Full review in Spanish]
7/10
10
7
10
false
12
19
2
1,367
Jigsaw
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
... beyond the gore, it only offers 90 minutes of narrative conveniences that will test even the lowest of expectations. [Full review in Spanish]
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,367
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
The cast works and the comic chemistry that The Rock and Kevin Hart had in Central Intelligence shines again, but they... do little or nothing to get the film out of the stalemate in which it remains for its first 40 minutes. [Full review in Spanish]
6/10
10
6
10
false
10
19
2
1,367
Justice League
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
... now it's just about how bad / not so bad the final product was. [Full review in Spanish]
6/10
10
6
10
false
10
19
2
1,367
Kingsman: The Golden Circle
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
The director and co-writer knows that this is a film based on comics and takes the possibilities to unsuspected limits... [Full review in Spanish]
9/10
10
9
10
false
16
19
2
1,367
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
It could be said that the film is nothing else than X-Men combined with Back to the Future and Groundhog Day seen under the Burtonian magnifying glass. [Full review in Spanish]
8.5/10
10
8.5
10
false
15
19
2
1,367
Star Trek Beyond
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
A film that doesn't take a single risk and is kept in safe zone, but the script of Pegg and Jung and the direction of Lin are able to bring freshness to such comfort. [Full review in Spanish]
8/10
10
8
10
false
14
19
2
1,367
Star Wars: The Last Jedi
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
That's when the film offers moments... that go from euphoria to sadness, from fear to uncertainty, and from incredulity to the unexpected; moments that will surely be established as some of the best in the entire franchise. [Full review in Spanish]
8/10
10
8
10
false
14
19
2
1,367
The Mummy
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
It's a shame that Universal has allowed the production of an insultingly weak product. [Full review in Spanish]
3.5/10
10
3.5
10
false
5
19
2
1,367
Wonder
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
Hence, the angle of Wonder is that of a film designed for the award season, a position that will be shocking for those who can not tolerate the sugary obviousness of this type of work. [Full review in Spanish]
6/10
10
6
10
false
10
19
2
1,367
Wonder Woman
Daily Trend (Mexico)
Uriel Barco
A well-intentioned film that in an age of cynicism dares to recapitulate the importance of the primeval ideal of a superhero: the discovery of inspirational models and escapism. [Full review in Spanish]
8.5/10
10
8.5
10
false
15
19
2
1,367
Promised Land
Daily-Reviews
Dan Jardine
Worth taking seriously, but hamstrung by avoiding larger political issues and coming down to a matter of individual conscience.
62/100
100
62
100
false
61
100
1
1,368
Contempt
Daily-Reviews
Dan Jardine
Who is the Godard guy and how could he make something as humdrum yet full-of-itself as Contempt?
62/100
100
62
100
false
61
100
1
1,368
Lust, Caution
Daily-Reviews
Dan Jardine
Lee is hot, engaged, emotional, sincere and fundamentally looking at any slice of life through a sexual lens.
79/100
100
79
100
false
78
100
1
1,368
Mary Poppins
Daily-Reviews
Dan Jardine
The entire set was constructed indoors and it shows: the "outdoor" scenes are bathed in a dull gray light
71/100
100
71
100
false
70
100
1
1,368
Rabbit Hole
Daily-Reviews
Dan Jardine
Contrived and manipulative
58/100
100
58
100
false
57
100
1
1,368
Anvil! The Story of Anvil
Dallas Morning News
Cary Darling
A winning and surprisingly moving documentary about -- wait for it -- a struggling Canadian heavy metal band that apparently influenced a generation of hard-rockers including Metallica, Anthrax and Guns N' Roses.
3/4
4
3
4
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4
7
2
1,369
Black Snake Moan
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
Black Snake Moan is thick with Tennessee sweat and grit and the sound of insects. And it takes an overwrought, steamy path to what at least feels like a moral cautionary tale.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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3
7
2
1,369
Cloverfield
Dallas Morning News
Chris Vognar
A remarkably economical, street-level view of widespread panic caused by an abomination that gets, and ultimately needs, no explanation.
3/4
4
3
4
false
4
7
2
1,369
Black Sheep
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Though not always in good taste, this tongue-in-cheek parody of the horror genre is sophisticated and clever enough to earn the appreciation of the egghead cult crowd.
2/4
4
2
4
true
4
9
2
1,370
Glory Road
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Why must Hollywood lace every African-American drama with elements of comedy, as if black people find everything comical?
0/4
4
0
4
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0
9
2
1,370
95 Miles to Go
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Hey, everybody loves the real Ray Romano, too!
4/4
4
4
4
true
8
9
2
1,370
Alone with Her
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
A relentlessly-disturbing, cautionary tale about how easy it might be for a deranged maniac to worm his way into your good graces.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
true
5
9
2
1,370
Apocalypto
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
About the best that can be said for Mel Gibson's overblown indulgence in sadism is that at least it isn't anti-Semitic.
1/4
4
1
4
true
2
9
2
1,370
Art School Confidential
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
An ingenious satire of the pretentious mindset of the elitist art world from the perspective of a rapidly-disillusioned kid who had no idea what he was getting into.
4/4
4
4
4
true
8
9
2
1,370
Daai si gin (Breaking News)
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
A brainless but harmless display of senseless slaughter!
3/4
4
3
4
true
6
9
2
1,370
Cashback
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Guaranteed to be a hit with onanistic adolescent boys blinded by raging hormones.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
true
7
9
2
1,370
Children of Men
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
More amusing than compelling, like a campy episode of Lost in Space where anything goes and nothing makes sense. Oh dear! Oh dear!
2/4
4
2
4
true
4
9
2
1,370
Click
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Back to the Future? Back to the drawing board!
1/4
4
1
4
true
2
9
2
1,370
The Da Vinci Code
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Who knows whether Dan Brown was motivated by a distaste for Catholicism or merely by money? Regardless, it seems dishonest for him to foist his debunked heresies on the gullible, unsuspecting public as if they're the God's honest truth.
0/4
4
0
4
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0
9
2
1,370
Déjà Vu
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
This slight variation on the time travel theme will engage you to the extent that you are able to forgive a script which repeatedly relies on cartoon physics to explain away every improbable plot development
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,370
Freshman Orientation
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
A genderbending teensploit turning on a clever twist of the genre's trademark theme. For while most makeover movies feature a female making herself more attractive, this flick has a male deliberately doing the opposite.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
9
2
1,370
Gone Baby Gone
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
After a string of groan-inducing outings from Daredevil to Gigli to Jersey Girl, it looks like Ben Affleck has stepped to the other side of the camera and finally found his true calling.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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7
9
2
1,370
Manderlay
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Relying on a daring script as executed by A-list actors, offers a potentially transformational experience for any inclined to contemplate an introspective, gut-wrenching meditation on the intractability of the legacy of slavery.
4/4
4
4
4
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8
9
2
1,370
Mrs. Henderson Presents
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
There's chemistry and tension aplenty in this bittersweet character study.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,370
Nacho Libre
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Any production featuring Jack Black in spandex and showing off his belly full of stretch marks should never have made it off the drawing board in the first place.
0/4
4
0
4
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0
9
2
1,370
No End in Sight
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
While this incriminating documentary makes a convincing case against the White House, it arrives a bit belatedly, at a juncture when John McCain is just about the only loyalist left still sipping the Bush Kool Aid.
4/4
4
4
4
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8
9
2
1,370
Reign Over Me
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
A meanspirited mood piece which begs to be appreciated as a meditation on the psyche of post-9/11 America but resorts far too frequently to stock Sandler humor to be of any more consequence than The Waterboy, Happy Gilmore or even Billy Madison.
1/4
4
1
4
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2
9
2
1,370
Self Medicated
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
Suffers from one serious flaw, the otherwise talented director's choice of himself to star in the picture. Now 24, he's simply a little long in the tooth to try to pass for a teenager.
2/4
4
2
4
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4
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1,370
The Tenants
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
The stripped-down production looks more like a play than a movie, but all the actors do a decent job with a script which turns increasingly preposterous at every turn.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
9
2
1,370
X-Men: The Last Stand
DallasBlack.com
Kam Williams
A surefire kiddie crowd-pleaser, given the teeny-bop penchant for over-stimulating computer game warfare.
3/4
4
3
4
true
6
9
2
1,370
Antebellum
Dan Murrell Reviews
Dan Murrell
It is not subtle about what it is saying and what it is doing, but there are a lot of positives.
6.3/10
10
6.3
10
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53
91
10
1,371
Bill & Ted Face the Music
Dan Murrell Reviews
Dan Murrell
Feels like a group of friends getting together to make the movie they wanted to make, even if there are some compromises along the way.
6/10
10
6
10
false
50
91
10
1,371
Scoob!
Dan Murrell Reviews
Dan Murrell
By trying to include everything, they accomplish nothing.
5/10
10
5
10
false
40
91
10
1,371
The King of Staten Island
Dan Murrell Reviews
Dan Murrell
Judd Apatow's doing a character study merged to the bones of a studio comedy, and I don't know if that synthesis always works.
6.3/10
10
6.3
10
false
53
91
10
1,371
Eye of the Beholder
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
A disappointing flick.
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,372
Pearl Harbor
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
Weak on script but BIG on action.
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,372
Along Came a Spider
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
The movie is only so-so.
4/10
10
4
10
false
6
19
2
1,372
America's Sweethearts
Dark Horizons
Light House Shines
Creative and extremely fun to watch.
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,372
Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
While it may be a very good movie, it's not one you'll watch over and over again.
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,372
Battlefield Earth
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
The story is quite weak, with the pace all over the place.
5/10
10
5
10
false
8
19
2
1,372
The Forsaken
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
Reeks like the day old apple you left lying in you back seat after a long hot miserable driving day.
4/10
10
4
10
false
6
19
2
1,372
Gladiator
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
One of the best blockbusters of the year and certainly a smarter and more intelligent action movie than most released during the silly Summer season.
8/10
10
8
10
false
14
19
2
1,372
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
It's a great movie for kids and pre-teens, as well as being an enjoyable diversion for adults.
8/10
10
8
10
false
14
19
2
1,372
Josie and the Pussycats
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
A nice one for the kids, but that's about all.
4/10
10
4
10
false
6
19
2
1,372
Magnolia
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
"Days of Our Lives" with better production values.
4/10
10
4
10
false
6
19
2
1,372
The Man Who Wasn't There
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
Arguably their weakest film in years.
4/10
10
4
10
false
6
19
2
1,372
Memento
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
A very clever, complex and extremely well constructed movie which demands intelligence and constant attention from its viewers, yet is put together using only a handful of simple elements.
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Mission: Impossible 2
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
Those hoping for a solid flick using the full talents of people like Woo, Cruise, Rhames, etc. will sadly be disappointed.
5/10
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Osmosis Jones
Dark Horizons
Garth Franklin
If there wasn't any live action and the animation bit had been fleshed out more then this could've been a highlight of the season...
5/10
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