August 2010
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140 Chrctr Review: Dinner for Schmucks
The Dinner scene’s great, then yr castigated for laughing @ the schmucks! Also the 90 minute appetizer is inedible. [C-]
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140 Chrctr Review: Countdown to Zero
The set-up is uneven and the fear-mongering is borderline offensive but it pulls off a rare political tightrope act. [C+]
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140 Chrctr Review: Get Low
Promising start falls into a supremely mediocre summer escape 4 the shuffleboard set, fine turns from Murray & Duval though. [C+]
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SCOTT PILGRIM vs. THE WORLD! (A Review)
Screened @ The Ritz Five, Thursday, July 29th.
Ya know – it’s ok if you don’t get this one. It really wasn’t made for you. That seems like the best response to anyone who files out of Edgar Wright’s latest film with a look of perplexed annoyance on their face.
Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World has a very specific audience. It limits audience understanding though an overwhelming assault of...
July 2010
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“In a rare convergence of fresh ideas, the top three movies all were original...”
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‘Inception’ trumps ‘Salt’ with $43.5M weekend. (via nerdcast)
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June 2010
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Knight and Day (A Review)
Screened @ United Artists Riverview Plaza Stadium 17, Tuesday, June 22nd.
So Tom Cruise has fully entered the self-parody phase of his career. First we had the Les Grossman, then came… uh Les Grossman and of course the news came out earlier this month that he will star in a Les Grossman film! But between squeezing every last drop from those fat-suit enhanced utters he managed to fit in this...
May 2010
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Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time (A Review)
Screened @ Rave Motion Pictures U Penn 6, Monday, May 3rd
Seventeen years ago, on May 28th, the phrase “Based on the video game” got its start with Super Mario Bros., a now typical model of what has become one of the worst genres in Hollywood. Seventeen years later to the day, Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time celebrates this inauspicious anniversary by taking the same missteps of its many...
April 2010
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Kick-Ass - Review
Matthew Vaughn has helmed 3 quite disparate films in his short career to date. British mobsters, a fantasy land with celestial princesses and now a superhero yarn. What ties these together is the sublime combination of violence, comedy and genre knowledge that make his films some of the most watchable pieces of deconstructionist pop to come along in the last 10 years. Teaming up for the second...
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