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0/5
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0%
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Strange Wilderness (2008) |
"
The use of found footage intended to match-edit their locales, along with the use of wildlife animal scenes, is so crude that I want to call this an exploitation film. (Of nature, that is.)"
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Film Threat
Posted Feb 4, 2008
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.5/5
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48%
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Antichrist (2009) |
"
This wretched thing should have been snuffed out at the drawing board."
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Film Threat
Posted Aug 29, 2009
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.5/5
|
61%
|
The Reader (2008) |
"
The Reader is a cloaked male fantasy, in which a milf hides under spinster garb -- all for a 16-year-old's delight."
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Film Threat
Posted Dec 15, 2008
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.5/5
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42%
|
Blindness (2008) |
"
A relentless eyesore -- like looking into the sky and having sand poured into your eyes."
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Film Threat
Posted Oct 5, 2008
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.5/5
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——
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Dead Fury (2008) |
"
Never has fury been deader."
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Film Threat
Posted Aug 25, 2008
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.5/5
|
42%
|
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) |
"
The falling blade is the only element not missing the mark in this film. I wanted to call for the beheading after Act One, and spare the audience instead."
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Film Threat
Posted Jun 21, 2008
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2/10
|
86%
|
Inception (2010) |
"
(S)tories should show, not tell, and Nolan keeps telling us that he can't tell this story."
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Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Jul 15, 2010
|
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2/10
|
13%
|
Jonah Hex (2010) |
"
The filmmakers try to squeeze action from their trampling of a genre."
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Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Jun 17, 2010
|
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1/5
|
32%
|
The Lovely Bones (2009) |
"
Jackson's newest is his worst."
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IdentityTheory
Posted Dec 24, 2009
|
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1/5
|
93%
|
Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) |
"
Critics galore are fawning over Anderson's move to animation. Why all the fuss? - the man's been staging puppet shows for years."
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Film Threat
Posted Nov 24, 2009
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1/5
|
77%
|
Role Models (2008) |
"
I've been in the Kiss Army since first hearing 'Destroyer' at age 13, and I can safely say that, Mr. Wain, you've gone too far."
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Film Threat
Posted Nov 9, 2008
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1/5
|
6%
|
Body of Evidence (1992) |
"
The sour taste that Body left for [director] Edel is evident in his next, very different big screen feature: the children's fantasy The Little Vampire."
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Film Threat
Posted Jul 24, 2008
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1/5
|
23%
|
P.S. I Love You (2007) |
"
Lisa Kudrow, the designated comic relief, has never been so consistently unfunny, and Gina Gershon looks uncomfortable in every (pseudo-)inspirational moment."
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Film Threat
Posted Jun 21, 2008
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1/5
|
26%
|
Madea's Family Reunion (2006) |
"
All the while Madea's wit, which is refreshing on the stage, feels spurious and often misfires."
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Film Threat
Posted Jun 21, 2008
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1/5
|
13%
|
September Dawn (2007) |
"
Drama may benefit from attention to history, but history doesn't always make for good drama."
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Film Threat
Posted Oct 16, 2007
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|
1.5/5
|
32%
|
I Am Number Four (2011) |
"
Perhaps it's best that Caruso kept his hero locked down in high school. This film has the imaginative power of concrete walls and rows of lockers."
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Film Threat
Posted Feb 18, 2011
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1.5/5
|
——
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Film Noir (2007) |
"
We're far from the classic world of the title, but in an animated neo-noir, gray as steel and just as cold."
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Film Threat
Posted Aug 25, 2008
|
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1.5/5
|
——
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Terror in the Tropics (2006) |
"
While the enthusiasm is enough to forgive the film's technical shortcomings ... [the film] struggles too hard to spoof its fairly easy target."
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Film Threat
Posted Jun 21, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
11%
|
Pathfinder (2007) |
"
The fault here lies in the film's dead rhythm, which never lights the sparks necessary for an action film. The plot and action progress like an eroding lakeshore, but the energy and excitement are washed away in every scene."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jun 21, 2008
|
|
1.5/5
|
50%
|
Then She Found Me (2007) |
"
In her first shot as director, Hunt seems direction-less."
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Film Threat
Posted Apr 22, 2008
|
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2/5
|
55%
|
In the Land of Blood and Honey (2011) |
"
In spite of its purported intent -- to vividly portray criminal warfare -- [Jolie's] new film bleeds with the delight of capturing violence for its own sake. "
—
Film Threat
Posted Jan 10, 2012
|
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4/10
|
68%
|
Black Death (2011) |
"
A film without the ideas or guts to bring hell to life onscreen. "
—
IdentityTheory
Posted Dec 18, 2011
|
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4/10
|
50%
|
Black Moon (2011) |
"
Fans for such a film need insight more than sundry freakout moments. "
—
IdentityTheory
Posted Sep 27, 2011
|
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2/5
|
——
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Finisterrae (2010) |
"
With absurdism relying on comical irony, the film has its share of legit jokes, though we soon expect far more than the film can deliver."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jul 26, 2011
|
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4/10
|
59%
|
Yves Saint Laurent - L'amour fou (2011) |
"
[F]ans of fashion will delight over the subject, especially those who love the gay-outsider-who-makes-it theme. In The Devil Wears Prada, it took Stanley Tucci one scene to nail it, while this film's still searching at 103 minutes."
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IdentityTheory
Posted May 27, 2011
|
|
2/5
|
10%
|
Season of the Witch (2011) |
"
We need a serious suspension of disbelief to accept these two aging actors as faultless warriors in tip-top shape."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jan 8, 2011
|
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2/5
|
93%
|
Bigger Than Life (1956) (1956) |
"
[D]rop the 'Reefer' and call this film 'Cortisone Madness.'"
—
Film Threat
Posted Apr 21, 2010
|
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2/5
|
18%
|
The Fourth Kind (2009) |
"
Musters all its strength to set up a purportedly true-life scenario about alien sightings, only to give itself away at every turn."
—
Film Threat
Posted Nov 5, 2009
|
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2/5
|
58%
|
Make Out With Violence (2011) |
"
Make-Out with Violence is proud of its dual identity, yet suffers from an identity crisis."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jul 22, 2009
|
|
2/5
|
100%
|
Un Chant D'Amour (A Song of Love) (2004) |
"
So playful that it plays like a series of whims with little sensibility to unify them. Artistic inspiration is undoubtedly at work, but the ideas cannot solidify into art."
—
Film Threat
Posted May 27, 2009
|
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2/5
|
——
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Alice in Wasteland () |
"
In this Kill Billish revenger pastiche, the humorous tone of the script appears alien to the filmmakers."
—
Film Threat
Posted Feb 9, 2009
|
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4/10
|
91%
|
Hairspray (2007) |
"
Even if the new Hairspray seems a welcome return to camp for Travolta, his mock seriousness is as frozen as ever."
—
Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Jul 10, 2008
|
|
2/5
|
37%
|
The Killing of John Lennon (2006) |
"
As the narrative lugubriously sticks to the documented events, we are served nothing more than a filmed transcript."
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Film Threat
Posted Jun 21, 2008
|
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2/5
|
——
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Bloodline (2005) |
"
Granted, any reconsideration of the slasher film deserves acknowledgment, but Bloodline remains too contrived and addled to transcend its genre."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jun 7, 2008
|
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2/5
|
48%
|
Exterminating Angels (Les Anges Exterminateurs) (2007) |
"
It lacks any introspection to illuminate the erotic subject matter."
—
Film Threat
Posted May 22, 2007
|
|
2.5/5
|
50%
|
Good for Nothing (2012) |
"
In a film working off tradition, Good for Nothing moves to uncertain genre territory."
—
Film Threat
Posted Apr 10, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
76%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
[F]eels like sleeptime indigestion finally cooling off."
—
Film International
Posted Mar 3, 2012
|
|
5/10
|
40%
|
The Great Outdoors (1988) |
"
At the onset it seems that Candy, as in Uncle, plays the lower class half. Yet, by [Outdoors'] end we learn that the in-law is actually broke, essentially Cousin Eddie in disguise."
—
IdentityTheory
Posted Nov 7, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
Bellflower (2011) |
"
The film wanders through the purgatory of romance and action. "
—
Film Threat
Posted Sep 14, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
43%
|
Cracks (2011) |
"
Along with Fiamma's shift, we can't buy a miscast Eva Green, whose teacher begins the film faultless and finishes looking like The Turn of the Screw's governess."
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Film Threat
Posted May 17, 2011
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
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Truth or Dare?: A Critical Madness (1986) |
"
[T]he cornball synthesizer score and hammy amateur performances will have thirtysomethings recalling fond, bygone viewings."
—
Film Threat
Posted Aug 17, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
68%
|
The Runaways (2010) |
"
After all this, we can't help but ask, why Cherie, anyway? ... Shine on, Joan."
—
Bright Lights Film Journal
Posted Mar 19, 2010
|
|
5/10
|
69%
|
Shutter Island (2010) |
"
[I]t's hardly a spoiler to know that this pseudo-reality is really an overblown fantasy, Scotch-taped together into a storyline."
—
IdentityTheory
Posted Feb 20, 2010
|
|
2.5/5
|
60%
|
Pirate Radio (The Boat That Rocked) (2009) |
"
Things start sinking by the opening minutes."
—
Film Threat
Posted Nov 12, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
72%
|
La Mujer sin Cabeza (The Headless Woman) (2008) |
"
The Headless Woman settles into the episodic without the necessary character development - it's a slice of life too slight for its own good."
—
Film Threat
Posted Aug 21, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
75%
|
Julie & Julia (2009) |
"
Julie's setbacks are dealt out like the hand in a game we don't want to play anymore. We want to drop the cards and stay over at Julia's winning table."
—
Film Threat
Posted Aug 7, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
98%
|
Up (2009) |
"
After a strong takeoff, Up lands on dead grounds."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jun 3, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
78%
|
Outrage (2009) |
"
The average viewer will be satisfied with the product, even if the film offers hardly any new information. The doc buff will witness a film that can't surface above the steady nonfiction output at the art house."
—
Film Threat
Posted May 26, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
43%
|
Race to Witch Mountain (2009) |
"
Kids will want to root for their alien counterparts on screen. But they are second fiddle to the Rock wracking it up."
—
Film Threat
Posted Mar 13, 2009
|
|
2.5/5
|
57%
|
Defiance (2009) |
"
A little sentimentality can fuel a lot of action, yet Zwick buries his film in cloying guilt, in the end sinking "Defiance" with the holocaust film's bait."
—
Film Threat
Posted Jan 14, 2009
|
60%
——
97%
