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DA VINCI CODE
Release: May 06 - Review: 6 Jun 06
The Gospel According
To Fluke.
THE DA VINCI CODE - for all its touting of "shaking the foundations of
Christianity"- is just not all that compelling.
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DAN IN REAL LIFE
 Release: Oct 07 - Review: 2 Jan 09
Dan in Reel Life.
We know the movie's premise going in, so it's a waiting game for the Meet Cute. When it happens, men will run outside and vomit. It's that egregious.
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DANCER IN THE DARK
Release: Oct 00 - Review: 21 Apr 09 
A Director Dancing With Himself...
Lars von Trier's
DANCER IN THE DARK has so much to offer as a drama – and keeps putting its foot in the puddle of Dumb Musical.
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DANTE'S PEAK
Release: Feb 97 - Review: 12 Aug 10
Goldeneye meets Thunderball.
If VOLCANO was the fun fun fun volcano movie of 1997, DANTE'S PEAK was its serious big brother. That doesn't stop it being unintentionally funny.
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THE
DARK KNIGHT
 Release: Jul 08 - Review: 13 Sep 08 
Do not go gentle into that good knight...
If Batman is the untamed world, The Joker is the unbalanced world. THE DARK KNIGHT tells us humanity lives somewhere in between.
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DAS BOOT
 Release:
Sep 81 - Review: 13 May 10
The Reich Stuff.
No debate, no discussion, no contenders - DAS BOOT is THE submarine movie for the ages.
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Release: May 1993 - Review: 18 Feb
06
Electile Dysfunction.
In not promoting partisanship, the movie tries to illustrate what
any politician can do if he were to unselfishly actually serve his country instead
of himself. Refrain: "We Can Dream, Can't We?"
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DAWN OF THE DEAD
 Release:
May 79 - Review: 8 Nov 09
Die! And don't come back!
...there is no excuse for DAWN OF THE DEAD to exist. Like its subject matter, it is a stinking corpse - yet it still walks.
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL
Release: Sep 51 - Review: 14 Dec 08
The Film that Moved the Earth.
We never find out "how" Klaatu makes the Earth stand still, but we figure it has something to do with him being wicked at algebra.
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THE DAY THE EARTH STOOD STILL 2008
 Release: Dec 08 - Review: 20 Dec 08
The Day Keanu's Face Muscles Stood Still.
Keanu Reeves elevates his One Facial Expression Method to new levels of expressionlessness in this wooden remake of the 1951 film.
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DEAR GOD
 Release:
Nov 96 - Review: 4 Jul 10 
Dear God! Make it stop!
Dear God,
What foul transgression did humankind perpetrate to deserve this accursed movie? For surely it is your undying wrath that allows such offal from the buttocks of Lucifer.
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DEATH OF A GHOST HUNTER
 Release: Oct 07 - Review: 25 Nov 08
So bad it's scary.
Writer-director-DP-editor, Sean Tretta, tries sincerely to make a scary movie, with ominous music, morbid concepts, old-fashioned scares (rather than CGI) - but mainly by keeping all the lights off.
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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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THE DEATHS OF IAN STONE
Release: Nov 07 - Review: 4 Feb 09
Dying is Easy, Scriptwriting is Hard.
They keep killing him because... well, this is where the illogic starts bleeding through the fabric of the writer's nice blood-red cardigan.
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DECK THE HALLS
Release:
Nov 06 -24 Dec 09
Ferris Bueller's Slay Off.
DECK THE HALLS is about selfishness, envy, assault, infantile bickering and malice aforethought. That's right - it's about Christmas.
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DEEP IMPACT
Release: May 98 - Review: 21 Apr 08 
Deep Hurting..
A meteor discovered by Frodo is speeding towards Earth and not even Bruce Willis can stop it!
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DEFIANCE
Release: Jan 09 - Review: 25 Aug 09
In defiance of stereotypes.
...the image of the war Jew has been Auschwitz victims, sunken faces, long woolen overcoats, crumpled hats, queuing for gas chambers. DEFIANCE gives us sexyboys with machine guns, muscles and mojo.
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DEPARTED
Release: Oct 06 - Review: 5 Nov 06
Martin Scorcese's
Badfellas.
Ferociously funny, doggedly compelling,
a tour de force of gritty production, tightly-wound storyline, sneeringly
salty language and flame-throwing acting chops.
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Release: Nov 05 - Review: 18 Dec 05
Hitchcock Lite
Meets Noir-ish Dark.
... a product of its times and is rife with "twists", though is woven artfully
enough so that even if you see the groaners coming, they hit note-perfect anyway...
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THE DESCENT
 Release: Aug 06 - Review: 9 Oct 09
Six Chicks Go Down.
...distressing, disturbing and uncomfortable in all the wrong ways that make it so right.
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DIE HARD
Release: Jun 88 - Review: 15 Apr 09
An Action Hero is Born Hard.
You know that irritating cliche: "rip-roaring rollercoaster ride"? Invented here: DIE HARD. The original and best.
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DISTRICT 9
Release: Aug 09 - Review: 22 Aug 09
A Closer Encounter.
Like the deformed child of a documentary and a reality show; a psychodrama with a tongue-in-ass-cheek sense of black humor.
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DISTURBIA
Release: Apr 07 - Review: 27 Oct 08
Rear End Window.
Alfred Hitchcock's REAR WINDOW for Teen Models.
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DOCTOR
Release: Jul 91 - Review: 14 May 06
Sufferin' Surgeons!
The disdain that the black hole vortex of the medical profession
affords us non-medical civilians cannot be assuaged by this shallow fantasy...
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A TRUE UNDERDOG STORY
Release: Jun 04 - Review: 15 Nov 05
Dodgeball
Grabs Its Nuts By The Balls.
Any
movie artful enough to tweak audiences into investing their alliance in a misfit
dodgeball team has more going for it than just hot chicks and scrotum jokes.
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DOLAN'S CADILLAC
 Release: Jul 09 - Review: 6 Mar 10
The mind of Stephen King is a terrible thing to waste.
...another great Stephen King story wasted onto the small screen.
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DONNIE DARKO
Release: Oct 01 - Review: 17 Nov 09
Darkness is as Darko does...
DONNIE DARKO will quietly enmesh you in its intrigue, spiraling to a morbid climax where nothing makes sense - until everything makes sense. Or not.
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DOUBT
Release: Dec 08 - Review: 18 Apr 09
Sinfully Good.
DOUBT is a writhing serpent of accusation and denial, strident hypocrisy, sexual frustration and lurid innuendo. Yes, it's about Catholics.
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DRACULA
Release: Feb 1931 - Review: 8 May 08
Evil's Fruity Face.
DRACULA is a mediocre 1931 movie, but the concept of the undead, blood-craving supernatural demon is so mythically instilled in the planet’s – ahem - bloodstream...
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DEAD AND LOVING IT
Release: Dec 1995 - Review: 22 Jul 05
Frightfully Fangless.
...tries to be a comedy, but writer-director Mel Brooks steers it as far from funny as Disneyland is from Transylvania.
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THE BRUCE LEE STORY
Release: 1993 - Review: 24 Jun 05
Jeet Kune Don't.
It seems ironic that these film-makers, who attempted to portray
a pioneer who fought to elevate the martial arts film above that of B-Movie schlock,
unwittingly created B-Movie schlock in the process.
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THE DRIVER
Release: Jul 78 - Review: 16 Jul 08
Emotionless Motion.
Taking McQueen’s BULLITT (1968) car-chase scene to its extremities, here is a movie ALL ABOUT the car chases.
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