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BABEL
Release: Oct 06 - Review: 18 May 07

Babel-icious.

Four stories intertwine, spanning continents, cultures, cityscapes and chicks without panties.
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THE BACKWOODS
Release: Feb 07 - Review: 1 May 09

Even in Spain, there's a Deep South.
Shades of STRAW DOGS and dabbles in DELIVERANCE, THE BACKWOODS is an exploration of deep south justice - in Spain.
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BAD SANTA
Release: Nov 03 - Review: 6 Mar 09

I Didn't Shit Right For a Week.

So filthy. So disgusting. So irreverent. So funny.

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BALLS OF FURY
Release: Aug 07 - Review: 11 Sep 08

Kung Fu Ping Pong Panda
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Walking that fine comedy line just above Adam Sandler and Will Ferrell, BALLS OF FURY is so wilfully asinine it succeeds...
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BANGKOK DANGEROUS
Release: Nov 99 - Review: 18 Feb 10

I was a Teenage Hitman.

...his only education was the snarling underbelly of Thailand: brutal mobs, dirty dance clubs, seedy streets, bashings, blood and bullets. And he is deaf and mute. And you thought YOUR teen years were screwed up.
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BANGKOK DANGEROUS 2008
Release: Sep 08 - Review: 14 Feb 10

Bangkok Mildly Threatening.

...not as compelling due to Cage's powerful hitman not having as much of a crutch to overcome as 1999's deaf teenager, but otherwise it is a well-constructed piece of second hand trashiness.
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BARB WIRE
Release: May 96 - Review: 21 Apr 06

Livin' Large on Marketable Melons.
If you've seen CASABLANCA, you don't want to watch this movie. It will bring the pain - knowing that resting on that classic movie's shoulders, are this movie's breasts.
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BATMAN
Release: Jun 89 - Review: 12 May 07

Part Noir, Part Comicbook, All Knight.

...Michael Keaton squeezed his distinctive lip structure into that sacred cowl and surprised everyone to become the Sean Connery of Batmen.
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BATMAN FOREVER
Release: Jun 95 - Review: 25 Mar 10

From Dark Knight to Boogie Knight.

In this third installment of the Modern Batman Legacy, BATMAN FOREVER, Val Kilmer is the fruit bat whom we cannot be sure is hero - or victim (of Schumacher).
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BATMAN AND ROBIN
Release: Jun 1997 - Review: 10 Sep 05

The Battiest of them all.

And in camping it up, Schumacher seemed oblivious on where to draw the line: primary colors shriek in anguish and gobos coruscate like an LSD afternoon delight...
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BATMAN BEGINS
Release: Jun 05 - Review: 2 Aug 05

Dark Knight Reconstructionist Theory
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...if there was one modern legend that needed fixin', it was the laughable vamp and clamorous camp of Gotham's fruity caped crusader, the Bat Man. As Michael Caine might opine, "About bloody time!"
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BE KIND REWIND
Release: Feb 08 - Review: 27 Aug 08

Be Kind - Put this movie out of its misery.

This is one of those films where you prime yourself to laugh because you love the comedians involved, and then that fake smile kinda freezes on your face after the first few false no-jokes.
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THE BEAST FROM 20,000 FATHOMS
Release: 1953 - Review: 28 Jul 05


There Were Giants In Those Days - and Harryhausen was the largest.
...a level of pseudo-realism attained that magnificently satisfied those Pre-CGI audiences and allows even a post-EPISODE-III audience to appreciate at least the towering aspirations...
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BEDTIME STORIES
Release: Dec 08 - Review: 26 Jun 09

Wish it into the Cornfield.
Idiotic and contradictory messages fly at us like fart jokes in a movie bankrupt of ideas, which BEDTIME STORIES is. Without the fart jokes.
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BEERFEST
Release: Aug 06 - Review: 25 Mar 09

Roaring, Rogering, Gorging and Puking... sign me up.

...a drunken, disorderly, swelling knob of a film, as quirkingly funny as it is quakingly stupid, chock full of pissing, puking, belching, swilling, swearing, skulling, vomiting and giant jugs. Of beer.
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BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD
Release: Sep 07 - Review: 27 Jan 09

Doing the business on the family business.

Walking a fine line between pulp noir and terrifying reality, BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOU'RE DEAD succeeds on its tortured performances...
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BEING JOHN MALKOVICH
Release: Sep 99 - Review: 17 Jun 06

The Importance Of Being Malkovich.

For originality alone, it deserves the highest accolades. Like its eponymous subject matter, it is inexplicable and indefinable.
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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’s BEOWULF is definitely extraordinary – in one sense. And definitely mediocre in all others…
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THE BIG CHILL
Release: Sep 1983 - Review: 6 Nov 05

Nostalgia Comes Cold-Calling.

A chick-flick clothed in tracksuit pants, lord help us all if we didn't relate to these 1980-something characters, with their yuppie elitism and consumerist élan...
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BIG DADDY
Release: Jun 99 - Review: 5 Aug 06

Daddy Stupidest.

At its worst, it stoops to asinine scripting and punchlining gays - and there's that Rob Schneider thing.
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BIG FAN
Release: Jan 09 - Review: 7 Aug 10

Drama is Easy, Comedy is Hard.
I'm no fan of Patton Oswalt as a comedian. But what a remarkable dramatic actor!
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BILLY MADISON
Release: Feb 95 - Review: 21 Jul 07

For Moron Eyes Only.

...Adam Sandler, playing the eponymous Billy Madison with every ounce of talent the christian god forgot to give him. A fine businessman he is; a writer and comedian he's not.
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THE BIRTH OF A NATION
Release: Mar 1915 - Review: 16 Feb 10

The Bitch Of A Nation.

Nearly a century after its release (1915) it stands today on the horns of a grand dichotomy: that of being a pioneering film - and a racist piece of shit.
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BLACK SNAKE MOAN
Release: Mar 07 - Review: 31 Mar 07

Soft-Porn Groan.

If you really want a porno, watch a porno. Yet pornography (albeit heavily diluted) is this film's only selling point, for when Ricci is offscreen, not showing off her rounded ta-tas and tight-pantied pubis, we're not really interested in much else.
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BLADES OF GLORY
Release: Mar 07 - Review: 15 Jul 10

On thin ice.
How much gayer can BLADES OF GLORY possibly be? Answer: None more gay.
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BLOOD DIAMOND
Release: Dec 06 - Review: 24 Jan 07

A Rough in the Diamond.

Though it is against the horrors perpetrated by the rebels and their leveraging of "blood diamonds," the movie recreates their atrocities so well that it will rake in millions on the depiction of those atrocities.
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BLOOD WORK
Release: Aug 02 - Review: 11 Mar 10

Anemic Harry.

If Dirty Harry was a heart transplant patient.
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BODY OF LIES
Release: Oct 08 - Review: 12 Sep 09

Pants on Fire!

Both Leo's ruthless inside man and Crowe's stolid bureaucrat would not be sellable had not the Ku Bush Klan already "sold" the necessity of their fake war. And in the acceptance of the war, the acceptance of the despicable things these characters do...

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BOEING BOEING
Release: Dec 65 - Review: 13 Sep 08

Laughing all the way to the skank.

A sex-comedy with no sex and very little comedy.
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BOLT
Release: Nov 08 - Review: 27 Jun 09

O.D. on QT.
If cuteness ever becomes a sin, this movie is going straight to hell.
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THE BOOK OF ELI
Release: Jan 10 - Review: 9 Feb 10

When Gunslingers Get Religion.

In a surprising display of controlled storytelling by Gary Whitta, THE BOOK OF ELI is about religion - but it ain't religious.
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BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN
Release: Nov 06 - Review: 11 Dec 06

For Make Laugh on Jew and Retard.

Never has been a movie exposing more people so red of neck or so mong of loid.
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THE BOURNE IDENTITY
Release: Jun 02 - Review: 23 Feb 09

Bourne To Do It.

Batman and Steven Segal had a baby, and his name is Jason Bourne. At least, he thinks that's his name.
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THE BOURNE SUPREMACY
Release: Jul 04 - Review: 16 Mar 09

Bourne Again.
...like tripping down a flight of stairs, getting up and tripping again.
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THE BOURNE ULTIMATUM
Release: Aug 07 - Review: 16 Mar 09

Badass Bourne becomes Mild Matty.
Another karate chop to the Spock Nerve, another car chase through crowded streets with no liability insurance, another amoral superspy whining over his lost humanity...
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THE BOX
Release: Nov 09 - Review: 15 Mar 10

Filmmaking Outside The Box.

DONNIE DARKO meets INVASION OF THE BODY SNATCHERS.
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THE BRAVE ONE
Release: Sep 07 - Review: 13 Sep 08

Sexy Bronson.

THE BRAVE ONE is made well, though not compelling enough to stand as tall as DEATH WISH.
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BREACH
Release: Feb 07 - Review: 29 Apr 08

Scapegoat for a far more evil government.

George W. Bush’s and Dick Cheney’s Amerika offers absolutely zero moral high ground to crow about OTHER people selling secrets to enemies.
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THE BREAKFAST CLUB
Release: Feb 85 - Review: 4 Jan 09

The Neo Maxi Zoom Dweeby of Teen Agnst.

THE BREAKFAST CLUB is rare in the pantheon of "teen comedies" because it is dialog driven. It's TWELVE ANGRY MEN in detention with hormones.
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BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN
Release: Dec 05 - Review: 19 Jan 2006

Brokeback Mountin'
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THE DAYS OF OUR LIVES meets The Gays of Our Lives, director Ang Lee's BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is an ambitious yet maudlin, slightly above-average American love story. Slightly.
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BRÜNO [BRUNO]
Release: Jul 09 - Review: 15 Aug 09

Social Commentary with a Depilated Sphincter.

Exactly like BORAT, only gayer.
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BUCKET LIST
Release: Jan 08 - Review: 19 Sep 08

Kicking it Old School.

Morgan Freeman and Jack Nicholson go on a green screen tour of the world.
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BURN AFTER READING
Release: Sep 08 - Review: 24 Feb 09

Guy Ritchie without the Two Smoking Barrels.
At times funny, at times frenetic, at times foolish, BURN AFTER READING is mostly a lost opportunity with a great ensemble cast.
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BURY MY HEART AT WOUNDED KNEE
Release: May 07 - Review: 23 May 08

Bury the Truth at Wounded Knee.

Though it is supposedly a tribute to the indomitable spirit of the Native Americans, it is yet another White-Perspective slur-fest that dishonors that wild race with every bigoted frame.
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THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT
Release: Jan 04 - Review: 13 Apr 06

The Teen Model Effect.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT movie is based on chaos theory in the same way that Achy Breaky Heart is based on Bohemian Rhapsody.
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