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SWEENEY TODD: THE DEMON BARBER OF FLEET STREET
 Release: Dec 07 - Review: 8 Jan 08 
Slashing Singing Scissorhands.
Violent, gruesome, blackly hilarious, deliriously entertaining, director Tim Burton’s vision of Sweeney Todd: the Demon Barber of Fleet Street is a wild cry of bloodlust put to song.
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NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN
Release: Nov 07 - Review: 27 Apr 08
New Killer, Old Hairstyle.
The plot is almost secondary to the exceptional manner in which the story is told through movie MAKING; through the “art” of making the movie...
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BEOWULF
 Release: Nov 07 - Review: 6 Jan 08 
So Close... Yet So Beowulf.
... to tackle another incarnation one needs to bring something pretty extraordinary to the table. And Robert Zemeckis’ Beowulf is definitely extraordinary – in one sense. And definitely mediocre in all others…
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AMERICAN GANGSTER
 Release: Nov 07 - Review: 6 Jan 08 
Smooth Criminal.
Crime = glamour. Crime = hotness. Crime = smoothness.
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RENDITION
Release: Oct 07 - Review: 5 Jan 08 
Lessons in Amerikan Euphemism.
... brutally brings to light the very real paranoia and pain-mongering of the American government, against anyone who looks sideways at their insanities.
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DEATH SENTENCE
Release: Sep 07 - Review: 29 Dec 07
Sizzling Bacon.
...delivers a thematic punch often subsumed by this politically-gutless American society. By that I mean, in 2007 no one is willing to say out loud that revenge is sweet.
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1408
Release: Jul 07 - Review: 27 Jul 07
Groundhog Day on Smack.
So when he is warned against staying in The Dolphin Hotel’s room 1408, he takes the challenge, only to find actual pants-browning horror awaits.
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LIVE FREE OR DIE HARD
Release: Jul 07 - Review: 23 Jul 07
In Bruce We Trust.
... a ramped, incendiary, chest-beater of a thriller and surely the best Boy’s Movie of the summer...
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SICKO
 Release: Jul 07 - Review: 18 Jul 07 
In Sickness and In Wealth.
Sicko plants the seed of dissent in another area of our lives we’ve regarded with complacency – an aspect we’ve been programmed to believe is doing us right even as it does us morbidly wrong.
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FANTASTIC FOUR: RISE OF THE SILVER SURFER
 Release: Jul 07 - Review: 9 Jul 07
More Four Bore.
...what could have been epic and disturbing is handled with gloved thumbs by director Story and egregious so-called performances by the egregious so-called actors.
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OCEAN'S THIRTEEN
Release: Jun 07 - Review: 29 Jun 07
Lucky Number Thirteen.
... this time ‘round, the direction is wiser, the plot is tighter and some of the jokes are actually funny.
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