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Green Book
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Green Book deserves to be watched. The film is straightforward, well-executed and often very funny.
3.5/5
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High Life
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
The film is deliberate obtuse to the point of being frustrating. Any good will towards Denis or the actors doing their best with underwritten parts vanishes after a while.
2/5
5
2
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How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
The Hidden World is a perfectly suitable conclusion to a saga that stayed true to itself and is leaving on its own terms.
3/5
5
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In Search of Greatness
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
In Search of Greatness makes a strong case for intangibles as the decisive factor in sports excellence.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,029
Judy
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Judy contains well-crafted scenes and strong performances. But the film never comes together.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
2,029
Juliet, Naked
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Juliet, Naked as a movie works on the strength of the original material and excellent casting.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,029
Mandy
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
As good as Cosmatos is at atmosphere and nightmarish scenarios, he would benefit from working with someone who keeps his self-indulgent tendencies in check.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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Mid90s
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
While the film's mise-en-scene is a joy and succeeds at establishing fully fleshed out characters, it doesn't know what to do with them.
2.5/5
5
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Midsommar
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Aster's heroes start knocked off-balance by grief. This makes them more open to new experiences and ideas, but also susceptible to whatever evil lurks in the vicinity.
4/5
5
4
5
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Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
The reconstruction/glorification of L.A. in 1969 is evocative. Tarantino also succeeds at capturing the toxicity at the Spahn Movie Ranch where the Manson Family was holed up.
3.5/5
5
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Shoplifters (Manbiki kazoku)
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Shoplifters shines attention on two phenomena eroding Japan's social foundation: underemployment and gentrification. Most people have jobs, but they're menial and low-paying.
4/5
5
4
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Skate Kitchen
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Forget those glossy dystopias studios force on younger audiences. American indies are going directly to the source to portray adolescents.
3/5
5
3
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9
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Spider-Man: Far From Home
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
It's all so much fun, I can already hear angry nerds complaining it's not as dark as Endgame. Nuts to that.
4/5
5
4
5
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Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
I haven't seen a movie that more closely approaches the feeling of reading a comic, while at the same time taking full advantage of continuous motion and changing perspective.
4/5
5
4
5
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Suspiria
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Guadagnino's brand of horror isn't shock and awe, it's rooted in suspense. The magic aims to be "realistic". The film lives and dies by this approach.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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The Dead Don't Die
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Jarmusch has bent film conventions throughout his career to suit his whims, and this latest effort is no different.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,029
The Favourite
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Entertaining, garish and impeccably acted, The Favourite is a morality play on the double standard we use to measure men and women's ambitions, without being too pandering.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
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2,029
The Miseducation of Cameron Post
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
While the film has its heart in the right place, and the target is unquestionably perverse, The movie has a big problem at the centre: The lead.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
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2,029
The Public
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
The Public is overstuffed, but it's earnest and it tries to contribute to an important conversation. That nobility of purpose makes it worth watching.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
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2,029
The Souvenir
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Never mind the lead's boneheaded decisions, the film's artsy pretentions and the grossly underused Tilda Swinton - the movie sticks with you.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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2,029
The Tomorrow Man
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
There is nothing explicitly wrong with The Tomorrow Man. It's just flat like a day-old soda. Lithgow and Danner are old pros, but they are unable to develop any chemistry.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
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2,029
The Wife
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
While Close is the show-stopper, Pryce is beat-by-beat as good as the man who buys into his own hype. The expertly calibrated duel remains anchored in reality throughout.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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9
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2,029
Waves
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Waves doesn't stick its landing but its tapestry of emotions is so rich you can forgive it.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,029
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
To make a bad situation worse, Linklater softens the edges of the novel, reducing the film to a laundry list of rich-white-people problems.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
2,029
Wonder Park
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Wonder Park is very traditional and not in a good way: The look is reminiscent of films from a decade ago, the dialogue is blah, and the humour is light and old-fashioned.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
2,029
Wonders of the Sea
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
For every remarkable visual captured by Jean-Michel (son of Jacques) Cousteau, there's a trite line of dialogue that undercuts it.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
2,029
Working Man
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Working Man has the markings of a first-time filmmaker. The film, however, is elevated by Gerety, who gives his all in his first lead role in forty years.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,029
Yesterday
Prairie Dog Magazine
Jorge Ignacio Castillo
Danny Boyle takes an outlandish premise and transforms it into a meditation on the creative process and the ways artists compromise to get their work to the public.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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2,029
Running Scared
Premiere Magazine
Jessica Letkemann
Ultimately, it is a serviceable, well-made thriller that earns its R rating.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
2,030
Jack Frost
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
The only thing melting was my poor mind.
1/5
5
1
5
false
0
9
2
2,030
13 Tzameti
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
13 Tzameti is certainly nightmarish, but it's the kind of nightmare that fades instead of lingering on in the memory.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
2,030
The Black Dahlia
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
De Palma has made a bizarre, baffling and at times flat-out bad movie. But at least it's rarely boring.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
2,030
The Bourne Ultimatum
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
Thrillers this effective are often called "tight," and it's true that this picture doesn't waste a second.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
Bright Young Things
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
A great deal of fun for its first two-thirds.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,030
Children of Men
Premiere Magazine
Stephen Saito
Cuaron's script, co-written with Timothy J. Sexton, is incredibly tight, Owen is palpably comfortable in Theodore's skin, and the issues of immigration and cultural ambivalence that the film centers on are more than compelling.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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Cloverfield
Premiere Magazine
Eric Alt
It's not the life-changing movie experience the intense viral marketing attention would lead you to think it is, but its decision to focus on ground-level humanism rather than epic disaster is what separates it from the pack.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,030
Curse of the Golden Flower
Premiere Magazine
Stephen Saito
Curse of the Golden Flower may be one of Zhang's most erratic, even to major fans, but it still manages to also be a successful marriage of the storytelling that he built his career on and the large scale epics he's making now.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,030
Dead Silence
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
While one might wish to commend Wan and company for making a horror pic that's less reliant on gore and gross sadism than the ones that they're normally associated are, what they're serving up as an alternative really lacks.
1.5/5
5
1.5
5
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1
9
2
2,030
Delta Farce
Premiere Magazine
Peter Debruge
As morale boosters go, Larry the Cable Guy is no Bob Hope, and it's hard to reconcile the contradiction of an overtly tasteless movie that doesn't want to offend the troops.
1/5
5
1
5
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0
9
2
2,030
Diary of a Chambermaid (Le journal d'une femme de chambre)
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
A riveting, if not minor, Bunuelian masterwork.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,030
Dreamgirls
Premiere Magazine
Stephen Saito
A film that in spite of its shiny veneer actually hits all the high notes through its underlying rawness.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,030
Frida
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
With splendid supporting turns from the likes of Ashley Judd, Edward Norton, and Geoffrey Rush, and some terrific set pieces, Taymor brings Kahlo's art to life.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,030
Hell Up in Harlem
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
An implausible and near-uninteresting follow-up to Cohen's superior "Black Caesar."
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
The Golden Compass
Premiere Magazine
Debbie Day
"The Golden Compass ultimately fails as a film in its broad strokes and inadequate scene development."
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
The Hitcher
Premiere Magazine
Stephen Saito
A good horror remake needs to either be smarter than the original in this post-Scream era or about ten times as bloody. Unfortunately, The Hitcher falls into neither one of those categories.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
Hot Fuzz
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
Deeply nuts and exhaustingly hilarious.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
In Bruges
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
For all its very snappy dialogue and daringly crass humor, In Bruges aims to be about, in one character's words, "guilt and sins and hell and all that."
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
The Italian
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
The depiction of everyday life at the orphanage is far more compelling than Vanya's personal quest. It's unfortunate that once the Italian hits the road, The Italian loses its way.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
2,030
Rambo (Rambo IV)
Premiere Magazine
Eric Alt
Torture porn probably makes this movie seem quaint.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
Matchstick Men
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
It's a 21st-century version of The Sting for these so far rather unkind and ungentle times.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,030
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
A biting, absurdist satire of biblical proportions.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,030
Music and Lyrics
Premiere Magazine
Scott Warren
It's all pleasant enough to watch but ultimately it's about as substantial as a pop song. Though it's unlikely to stay with you quite so long.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
My Super Ex-Girlfriend
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
This is the kind of material that can only soar under the hand of a fully engaged filmmaker, not someone who is just punching the clock.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
The film's spectacle, along with its wicked sense of humor, turns out to be the main source of its appeal.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
The Pink Panther
Premiere Magazine
null
This one will make you laugh early and often, and send you out of the theater in a cheerful mood. And, really, what more could you ask?
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,030
Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
It's not so much that the story is hard to follow -- it's that there's no real story being told at all. At World's End is packed with incident, but on a scene-to-scene level this leaky vessel just barely stays afloat.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
Riding Alone for Thousands of Miles
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
You may not be crying when Takata finally reaches the end of his journey, but you do come away with a satisfying sense of closure.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
School of Rock
Premiere Magazine
Kelly Borgeson
Jack Black rocks in this funny, snarky celebration of music.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,030
Stardust
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
As Vaughan demonstrated with Layer Cake, he can shift so smoothly between goofy and gruesome that you don't feel a thing that he doesn't want you to.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
Stomp the Yard
Premiere Magazine
Stephen Saito
Director Sylvain White, whose last film was the equally unnecessary I'll Always Know What You Did Last Summer, manages to take the joy out of a dance movie by jerking the camera around and speeding up the dance moves so much.
1.5/5
5
1.5
5
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1
9
2
2,030
The Stuff
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
Playful comic-horror is a fine diversion. Consumers, beware!
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,030
The Night Listener
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
It's surprising that a story with such a great hook could be turned into a flat, uninvolving film.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
2
2,030
Transformers
Premiere Magazine
Eric Alt
Grab some popcorn and make a pit stop, then sit back and enjoy it. You signed up for a movie about giant robots.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,030
Turistas (Paradise Lost)
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
Before it descends into dull sadism and general incoherence in its third act, Turistas is a mostly effective exploitation picture.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
2,030
V for Vendetta
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
V for Vendetta's strength beyond its substantial movie-movie value is not in how it pitches its ideas, but to whom.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,030
Vacancy
Premiere Magazine
Glenn Kenny
An economical (less than 90 minutes) and often brutally effective scare machine that sometimes, somehow, manages to feel less derivative than it is.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
2,030
We Are Marshall
Premiere Magazine
Ethan Alter
It would be easier to tolerate the movie's mile-wide sentimental streak if [director] McG seemed genuinely interested in exploring the confusing mix of emotions that follows a horrible tragedy.
2/5
5
2
5
false
2
9
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2,030
Nattvardsgästerna (Winter Light)
Premiere Magazine
Aaron Hillis
Bergman's by-far bleakest, but most challenging film ever.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,030
Asher
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
[director Michael] Caton-Jones's ASHER is as much a contemplative look at being aged out of life as it is recognizing that sometimes we must break out of our ruts to get more.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
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Game Night
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
Like a good game night, some cinematic adventures require a solid group to truly bring out the magic inherent in the experience.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
2,031
Incredibles 2
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
Incredibles 2 feels like visiting old friends.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,031
Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
Where so many films strive to garner laughs through humiliation, Jungle acknowledges the silliness inherent in ourselves in all our awkward glory.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,031
Saturday Church
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
We're all in search of something, and with a story like Saturday Church, [Damon] Cardasis may just empower someone else can find their way to live courageously, too.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
2,031
Terminal
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
It's a candy-coated, neon nightmare.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,031
The Party
Pretty Vacant One
Douglas Davidson
[Director Sally] Potter lays the truth bare for us and challenges us to wonder why these characters can't escape their fate.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,031
Just Mercy
Pride.com
Valerie Complex
Just Mercy is a no-frills film that's not meant to entertain, but act as a wake-up call, and a call to action.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
false
3
9
2
2,032
Another Earth
Processed Media
Randy Dankievitch
There are small particles you might see and recognize (even one or two that might stick to you), but as a whole, Another Earth is nothing memorable, special, or interesting.
D
long_letter
null
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7
18
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Captain America: The First Avenger
Processed Media
Randy Dankievitch
However, it's just another mindless and soulless action movie, with all the visual and emotional appeal of a wet cardboard box.
F
long_letter
null
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1
18
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2,033
Kung Fu Panda 2
Processed Media
Randy Dankievitch
Do the world a favor and skip this movie; maybe it'll force the creative team to put in actual effort into something besides the fight scenes (which, I might add, were short on martial arts) on number 3.
D
long_letter
null
null
false
7
18
1
2,033
Super 8
Processed Media
Randy Dankievitch
Super 8 is a bit of a frustrating movie. It's well-paced, emotional, and captures a certain innocence of pre-pubescent youth, without becoming too cheesy.
B-
long_letter
null
null
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12
18
1
2,033
Takers
Processed Media
Randy Dankievitch
Takers fails on just about every level possible.
F
long_letter
null
null
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1
18
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2,033
The Tree of Life
Processed Media
Randy Dankievitch
The Tree of Life is a singular cinematic experience.
A-
long_letter
null
null
false
15
18
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2,033
Assault on Precinct 13
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
a film with as much tension as the original, but far more character-based drama and psychological depth
8/10
10
8
10
false
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10
1
2,034
Heathers
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
For all its over-the-top hilarity as a dissection of teen problems, Heathers now seems dangerously prescient - which only adds to its explosive bite.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
2,034
House of 1000 Corpses
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
like all the best horror films from the 1970s (when this one is explicitly set), House of 1000 Corpses plays like one hell of a bad trip, and will leave your psyche feeling traumatised, fragile and exposed, while still tickling your funny bone.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
2,034
Hulk
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
a beautifully split-screened, smart-dumb comic superhero adaptation, merging the original's DNA with some post-9/11 psychology to create a monumental monster of a movie.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,034
Black Christmas
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
this reimagining showcases with encyclopaedic relish just about every slasher convention and variation that has evolved over the last thirty or so years since the original Black Christmas screened.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,035
Compliance
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
Zobel's morality thriller offers uncomfortable commentary on the sport that can so easily be had at the expense of those on the lower rungs of the social ladder.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,035
Diary of the Dead
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
sees the writer/director well and truly back from the dead and returning to his independent roots, with a small, character-based production that is intelligent, bleak, and at times jarringly funny.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
2,035
Harold's Going Stiff
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
Mockumentary on the monstrousness of modern man.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,035
Mr. Brooks
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
Mr. Brooks is a new spin on murder-by-numbers: one fascinating character, two outstanding performances, and subplots too numerous for the film's coherence or the viewer's sanity.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,035
Pan's Labyrinth
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
in Pan's Labyrinth, the world of Ofelia's imagination and the realities of Falangist Spain are two different, ideologically opposed ways of telling the same story - a story of tyranny, resistance and the timeless struggle between good and evil.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,035
Pontypool
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
This unsettlingly quirky account of semiological breakdown and small-town apocalypse plays like My Winnipeg for fans of intellectual horror. Pontypool is as astonishing as it is original, and amply repays multiple viewings.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
2,035
Santa Sangre
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
Jodorowsky's bold, brassy tale of psychos and circuses, Freud and fanaticism, still stirs the blood.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,035
The Human Centipede II (Full Sequence)
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
A heady blend of the stupid and the sophisticated, the sordid and the surreal. (Uneasily) funny, too.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,035
The Hurt Locker
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
Bigelow's gripping yet subtle study in the psychology of war is set to the urgent rhythms of a ticking bomb, exploding the myth of the maverick hero.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,035
The Tribe
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
This uncompromising rites-of-passage allegory is a sign of the times.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,035
Zombieland
Projected Figures
Anton Bitel
A funride through zombified American society, full of genuinely hilarious lines and situations.
4/5
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2012
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
Berlin Alexanderplatz feels like a Saturday afternoon matinee compared to this.
0/4
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2,036
4:44 Last Day on Earth
Projection Booth
Rob Humanick
Intermittently captures the sense of human desperation it strives for, as if to say the best we can hope for is to crawl past the finish line.
2.5/4
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