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Horrible Bosses 2
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
To the list of concepts that could not support a sequel but got one anyway, we can now add Horrible Bosses.
2/5
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9
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Small, Beautifully Moving Parts
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
The film is true to its title: small, beautiful and moving.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,159
The Bay
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
You don't need to be a germaphobe to feel shivers down your spine.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,159
The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
Give me back my precious (time).
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
2,159
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
Table setting for a meal that won't be served until next November.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
2,159
The Imitation Game
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
Handsomely made, respectably acted, and reveals an interesting and important piece of world history. In other words, it's a standard biopic.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
9
2
2,159
Wild
ScreenCrush
Matt Singer
Wild stands apart from the rest of the fall's biopics as a sort of autobiopic; it feels personal and intimate in a way its contemporaries do not.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,159
Little Monsters
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
When Nyong'o is the focus the whole film steps up a notch - the scenes where she's protecting her students, either physically or by pretending the zombies are all playing a game, are easily the high point of the film
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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5
7
2
2,160
After the Wedding
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
After the Wedding is one of those thoroughly inessential yet subtle and well-crafted films made for grown-ups who like sitting back and watching the inner turmoil of other grown-ups.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
9
2
2,161
Angel Has Fallen
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
During the brief moments when Butler is given something to work with, it's clear he's a charming and entertaining performer. Then it's back to the killing.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
9
2
2,161
Babyteeth
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
What I enjoyed about Babyteeth is how determinedly it works to undercut familiar genre tropes and to make its characters complex rather than likeable.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,161
Ben is Back
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
While Roberts and Hedges give strong performances, the increasingly over-the-top nature of their plight as they travel through a terrifying drug hell takes Ben is Back in a direction more suited to a direct-to-DVD thriller
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,161
Booksmart
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
Olivia Wilde's directorial debut jostles the ghosts of teen movies past to find its own voice ... [yet] Booksmart never quite gets to grips with the way money still matters.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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9
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2,161
Danger Close
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
The end result is about the ebb and flow of a conflict involving hundreds of combatants, not the scenes of solo heroism that typically make up the bulk of war movies
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,161
Go Karts (Go!)
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
If it turned out the original pitch for Go! was "The Karate Kid but with go-carts", then... well, there are plenty of worse kids movies to be inspired by
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,161
Hotel Mumbai
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
Maras has crafted a film full of instances that are hard to forget: it's the shaping them into a story that still needs work.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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5
9
2
2,161
I Am Mother
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
What's impressive about I Am Mother is that it starts out with a rock-solid concept for a thought-provoking film and then keeps on adding to it. This is the rare science fiction film that gives the audience maybe a little too much to think about.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,161
I Am Woman
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
I Am Woman is at its best when it's energised by a profound affection for its subject ... Yet it suffers from a dull, cliché-sodden script which insists on squashing Reddy's career into a predictable biopic narrative arc.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,161
Long Shot
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
Unlike Knocked Up, which also featured Rogen as a schlub paired off with a woman seemingly well out of his league, this works hard to show why both characters would be into each other despite their surface differences.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,161
Mary Queen of Scots
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
A traditional and essentially conservative biopic that your mum might like if The Favourite is too weird.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,161
Midsommar
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
Despite the way Midsommar is being talked about as an 'extreme', disturbing cinemagoing experience, I found it joyful and uplifting.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,161
Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
Everything fans find delightful about this cosy crime romp is here [but] this film's success depends on its capacity for big-screen spectacle and flair. And unfortunately, The Crypt of Tears doesn't quite rise to the occasion.
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,161
Once Upon a Time In Hollywood
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
This is often surprisingly funny in a playful way, reveling in the textures of its setting and as much about celebrating the simple pleasures of sturdily made entertainment as meditating on age and the passing of an era.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,161
Ophelia
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
With time, Ophelia will reveal itself as this generation's Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: lovingly crafted medieval pulp that speaks most eloquently to teenagers, and is enjoyed as high camp by everyone else.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,161
Parasite (Gisaengchung)
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
Impeccable, sustaining shocking plot twists and tonal shifts between suspense, poignant family drama and slapstick farce without ever sacrificing its visual flair and impudent sense of humour.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,161
Relic
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
An assured cinematic exercise in dread [that] will resonate with anyone who's witnessed human frailty at confrontingly close quarters.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,161
Rocketman
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
This is a very sentimental film - but then isn't that the pleasure of musicals? I'm here for Rocketman's exuberant mythologising.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,161
Sorry to Bother You
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
There's at least three different films smashed together here, and if taking things a little slower might have given some of the ideas room to breathe, it's this film's breathless energy that helps get the others over the line
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,161
The Hustle
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
At a time when bigger is automatically assumed to mean better at the cinema, these con artists hope that going small is the path to a big payoff
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
2,161
The King
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
None of The King's flaws are serious enough to sink it, and often it hits the sweet spot between glossing over the mud and blood of times past and over-the-top revelling in it
3/5
5
3
5
false
4
9
2
2,161
The Kitchen
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
In a different film the tension between the demands of the gangster genre and the female empowerment genre would be electric. Here it just means a lot of stock standard gangster movie scenes delivered with a modicum of competence
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,161
The White Crow
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
The White Crow powerfully suggests that an appetite for appreciating art as well as performing it shaped Nureyev's fluid self.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,161
Top End Wedding
ScreenHub
Mel Campbell
In an Australian culture filled with cynical and combative politics, Top End Wedding feels radical - not because it seeks to break new ground, but because it finds joy in a shared homecoming.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,161
Us
ScreenHub
Anthony Morris
This is a sprawling, messy film that finds real darkness in the spaces between what it says and what it shows
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
false
5
9
2
2,161
Iron Fists and Kung Fu Kicks
ScreenHub
Glenn Dunks
Early passages lean heavily on a more standard timeline of point A to point B storytelling, but the film really comes alive when Ou focuses on societal and cultural intricacies ... of the political unrest of the time.
B
long_letter
null
null
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13
18
1
2,162
Suzi Q
ScreenHub
Glenn Dunks
This style can come off as a little bit daggy, but nonetheless pairs well with the American rock star who doesn't seem to take herself all that seriously.
B-
long_letter
null
null
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12
18
1
2,162
Cats
ScreenJabber
Matthew Turner
Where do you even start with Cats? Tom Hooper's big screen version of the Andrew Lloyd Webber musical is unlike anything you've ever seen before, but not in a good way.
1/10
10
1
10
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0
10
1
2,163
Jumanji: The Next Level
ScreenJabber
Tom Beasley
Delivers enough subtle changes to the formula that it feels like these characters are more than justified in returning for another adventure.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
2,163
Dreamland
Scriptophobic
C.H. Newell
Funny, strange, and violent. Less like a linear screenplay than it is a mood board full of sociopolitical resistance and grim, hilarious satire.
4/5
5
4
5
false
3
5
1
2,164
The Quarry
Scriptophobic
C.H. Newell
A lot of wasted potential, despite being well acted, but underneath is buried an important, timely interrogation of American whiteness and morality.
3/5
5
3
5
false
2
5
1
2,164
Encounters at the End of the World
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
... an engaging and generous profile of the fascinating folks who have chosen to live at the end of the world.
B+
long_letter
null
null
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14
18
1
2,165
Brick Lane
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
Sarah Gavron's adaptation of Monica Ali's novel is a thoughtful and often evocative drama of identity and assimilation...
B-
long_letter
null
null
false
12
18
1
2,165
Burn After Reading
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
After the darkness of No Country for Old Men, the Coen Bros. eased up with a deadpan espionage farce played out by small fish convinced that they are in deep waters...
B
long_letter
null
null
false
13
18
1
2,165
Let the Right One In
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film is a young love horror piece full of chilly moods and twisted allegiances...
B+
long_letter
null
null
false
14
18
1
2,165
Max Payne
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
... the resonance of the mythic imagery and potential of the premise creates a fascinating film in the margins of the pulp story in the foreground.
B-
long_letter
null
null
false
12
18
1
2,165
Scary Movie 3
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
Where the Wayans had a mean-spirited edge to their rude and raunchy humor, Zucker plays it in a cartoonish, anything goes spirit.
B
long_letter
null
null
false
13
18
1
2,165
Los Cronocrímenes (Timecrimes)
Seanax.com
Sean Axmaker
There's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances.
B-
long_letter
null
null
false
12
18
1
2,165
The Happening
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
In many ways, this ecological horror epic is one of the single nastiest and downright terrifying pieces of popular entertainment I've seen in ages.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
The Visitor
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
While elements of this are sad, at times even downright devastating, the film is ultimately a beating drum signaling the arrival of hope and inspiration.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
2,166
Smart People
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
So I enjoyed the film. Maybe not as much as I would have liked to (or to the heights the filmmakers obviously hoped for), but that tends to happen from time to time and there really isn't any more to say about it.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
27 Dresses
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
If 27 Dresses didn't have Heigl or Marsden I do not think I could come up with a single good reason for people to take the time to watch it.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
88 Minutes
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
The simple fact is that this could possibly be the single most hackneyed, disjointed, illogically plotted and just plain stupid film Pacino, a cinematic living legend and easily one of our greatest living actors, has ever been a part of.
1/4
4
1
4
false
0
7
2
2,166
Burlesque
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
Writer and director Steve Antin's first theatrical effort is hardly a total misfire, filled with too much fun stuff that goes down relatively easily for that to be the case.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
If returning to Narnia is going to keep feeling and looking like this, maybe Disney would be better off just keeping this series of books solidly closed.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
The Dry Land
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
O'Nan's star making performance manages to hold things together even when the script threatens to tear them apart, while the emotional center of the picture rings with a moving truthfulness that can't help but hit close to home.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
In other words, as the advertisements once said if adventure has a name, then it still - happily, thankfully, rapturously - must be Indiana Jones.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
2,166
Rambo (Rambo IV)
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
If there has ever been a film that showcases the hypocrisy of the Motion Picture Association of America more than Sylvester Stallone's Rambo I'm pretty positive I've never seen it.
2/4
4
2
4
false
2
7
2
2,166
Leatherheads
Seattle Gay News
Sara Michelle Fetters
It moves in fits and starts and never finds the rhythmic pitter-patter of rapid-fire dialogue and energy it so desperately wants.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
2,166
102 Dalmatians
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Harmless and thoroughly unmemorable.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Road Trip
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Road Trip is sure to elicit giggles and hoots from crowds of teenagers with its succession of gross-out gags and sexual humor, but this is one teenage tour that never gets up to speed.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Loser
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The film never comes alive.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
The Crew
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Slick and handsome.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
Bait
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
With his patter kept in low gear and his dramatic scenes played with flat sincerity, [Foxx is] simply not compelling enough to center the film.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
Traffic
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
There's not a smarter, more demanding American film from the past year.
10/10
10
10
10
false
9
10
1
2,167
Antitrust
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's phony and forced, but mostly it's just silly.
4/10
10
4
10
false
3
10
1
2,167
Battlefield Earth
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
2,167
Before Night Falls
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Paints Arenas as little more than an abstract, idealized vision.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
Black and White
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
[Toback's] camera bobs and weaves like an episode of NYPD Blue, his actors riff in improvisations and busy ensemble scenes, and he swirls it together in impressionistic chunks la Robert Altman. Problem is, he's no Altman.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Boys and Girls
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
There are no sparks behind the wan verbal fireworks, no character behind the caricatures.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
2,167
Charlie's Angels
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The most expensive cheesecake movie ever made.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
2,167
Crime & Punishment in Suburbia
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Not faithful enough to be an adaptation, too misguided to be considered an interpretation, and not funny enough to be a parody, this film would do well not to advertise its inspiration. It only makes it look sillier.
4/10
10
4
10
false
3
10
1
2,167
Final Destination
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Almost sinks into silliness.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
The Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Full of leaden one-liners and dull puns.
4/10
10
4
10
false
3
10
1
2,167
Godzilla 2000
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
[Godzilla] deserves better than this overripe afterthought.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Gossip
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's entertaining in a trashy sort of way.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Groove
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Pleasantly modest, endearingly etched and briskly set to a pounding beat.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Howard and company actually make the collision of Seuss' sing-song poetry and Carrey's smart-aleck asides and sniggering sense of humor work.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
2,167
Little Nicky
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Lacks clever banter and killer one liners and the visual humor is at best a string of cute set pieces.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
Love and Basketball
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
It's the rare sports film that favors the woman's struggle over the man's in a male-dominated sport, and even rarer to reveal such a sharp, savvy contrast.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
Men of Honor
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Swelling syrupy music and lingering shots draw out each and every triumph with numbing overkill.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
2,167
Monkeybone
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Selick proves a clumsy director of live-action scenes and never overcomes the muddled, half-baked script or the scatological gags.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
Nurse Betty
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
[LaBute] pulls the farce and the violence and the fantasies together with a deft touch and a sweetness rare in American films -- especially his.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
2,167
Once in the Life
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The pingpong repetition of dialogue is more precious than poetic and heavy silences and actorly asides draw out a slim story that packs few dramatic surprises.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Psycho Beach Party
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A promising recipe for comedy that goes flat in the execution.
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
2,167
Red Planet
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
The smartly engineered story may be enough to satisfy cerebrally starved science-fiction fans, but sadly Red Planet fails to engage on almost every other level.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
The Replacements
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
An entertaining game, but strictly minor league.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Return to Me
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Bonnie Hunt's directorial debut is a flyweight heartwarmer brimming with winning characters.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
Saving Silverman
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A shapeless mess and about as convincing as a cartoon.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
2,167
Scary Movie
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
If the baddest of the Farrelly brothers' bad-taste gags has you in stitches, then this is the movie for you.
4/10
10
4
10
false
3
10
1
2,167
Shanghai Noon
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
[Chan] still can turn a silly little action comedy like this into a high-spirited, butt-kicking good time.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
The 6th Day
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Spottiswoode and Schwarzenegger deliver a clever and colorful conspiratorial thriller with high-energy action scenes, car crashes a go-go, spectacular technology and big explosions, packaged with ferocious glee and spoofing humor.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
The Skulls
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Laughable plot pushes The Skulls to brink of absurdity.
6/10
10
6
10
false
5
10
1
2,167
Space Cowboys
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Eastwood ... segues nicely from the jogging pace of the training sessions to the ramped-up, adrenaline-pumped thrill of the space adventure.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
The Kid
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A charmless, predictable picture.
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
2,167
Titan A.E.
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Packs spectacular imagery and high-energy action into a tight 90 minutes.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
2,167
Turn It Up
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
There's not a trace of irony as this glib, sense-numbing action fantasy has it both ways: violence without personal consequences and decisions without repercussions.
4/10
10
4
10
false
3
10
1
2,167
Unbreakable
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
A potentially interesting idea deflated by the absurd proclamations of an arch screenplay and smothered under the ponderous gravity of M. Night Shyamalan's dreary direction.
4/10
10
4
10
false
3
10
1
2,167
Urban Legends: Final Cut
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
No style, no irony and no smarts, just a vicious streak that lasts 90 minutes.
2/10
10
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What's Cooking?
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Each story climaxes in inevitable clashes and shrill shouting matches.
7/10
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X-Men
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Sean Axmaker
Singer deftly crafts a sleek, unusually tight film that balances comic-book adventure, pulp opera and the fear of being different.
9/10
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