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Maitland McDonagh

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Biography:: Maitland McDonagh is TV Guide Online's Senior Movie Editor, and has been writing about movies for more than 15 years. She is the author of three books on film: Broken Mirrors/Broken Minds: The Dark Dreams of Dario Argento, Filmmaking on the Fringe: The Good, the Bad and the Deviant Directors and The 50 Most Erotic Films of All Time, and has written for publications ranging from The New York Times to Paper and Time Out New York.
Publications:: AMCtv.com , Boxoffice Magazine , Film Journal International , Hollywood Reporter , Horror Hacker , Miss FlickChick , Time Out , Time Out New York , TV Guide's Movie Guide
Critics' Group:: New York Film Critics Online, Online Film Critics Society

Total Reviews:: 2481

Location:: New York, USA

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Rating	T-Meter	Title \| Year	Add Date
	100%	Flying Monsters 3D with David Attenborough (2011)	" Behind the hard-sell title and trailers lies an informative, child-friendly documentary about the evolutionary development and legacy of pterodactyls and other winged reptiles that should enjoy a long run at museums and science centers." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 7, 2011
3/4	71%	The Game (1997)	" Sure, it strains credulity, but it's clever, well-paced and builds to a spectacular -- if not altogether satisfying -- conclusion." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 4, 2011
	——	Bonnie and Clyde vs. Dracula ()	" It's one of the small gems that keep longtime horror buffs like me sifting through the slag." — Miss FlickChick Posted Sep 20, 2011
	——	Mere Brother Ki Dulhan (2011)	" A young man falls in love with the woman who's about to marry his older brother in this light, entertaining Bollywood comedy of manners and mores." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 15, 2011
	41%	Straw Dogs (2011)	" Writer-director Rod Lurie's remake of the notorious Straw Dogs isn't a terrible movie. It's just not an exceptional one, a liability that increases exponentially with the quality of the original film. " — Film Journal International Posted Sep 15, 2011
3/5	76%	Our City Dreams (2008)	— Time Out Chicago Posted Sep 15, 2011
	93%	Drive (2011)	" Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn's coolly beautiful action thriller looks like a slick, Hollywood thrill ride, but it's actually a bleakly funny deconstruction of genre movie clichés that will delight some viewers and infuriate others." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 14, 2011
	40%	Bodyguard (2011)	" This spin on the 1992 Kevin Costner/Whitney Houston movie about a bodyguard who falls for his difficult charge is silly and derivative, but sneakily entertaining nonetheless." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 7, 2011
	83%	Warrior (2011)	" Perry's fight choreography is exceptional -- you don't have to be a fan to follow the action or get thoroughly caught up in each match. " — Film Journal International Posted Sep 6, 2011
	72%	Fright Night (2011)	" Comedy is hard and comedy-horror is harder, but this remake of Tom Holland's 1985 movie about a suburban teen who thinks his new neighbor is a vampire gets the mix right." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 19, 2011
	24%	Conan the Barbarian (2011)	" Jason Momoa improves upon the dubious acting skills of Arnold Schwarzenegger (the original Conan) in this otherwise undistinguished remake." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 18, 2011
	61%	Final Destination 5 (2011)	" Generally technically slick, briskly paced and painless to watch, assuming you're not the sort to squirm miserably at the sight of anatomical mayhem." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 12, 2011
	80%	Aarakshan (2011)	" ...focuses more on issues than the spectacular musical sequences for which Bollywood movies are famous." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 11, 2011
	90%	Attack the Block (2011)	" Entertaining tale of London housing-project youth battling vicious aliens should emerge as a cult hit." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 28, 2011
3/4	47%	Renaissance (2006)	" The script's fusion of B-movie crime cliches and dystopian futurism, if not exactly original, is nonetheless vigorously engaging, and the English-language voice cast is good enough to make the existential noodling seem like real dialogue." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 27, 2011
2/4	20%	The Boondock Saints (1999)	" Duffy's models are clearly snarky, ultraviolent Tarantino-esque crime pictures, but this movie's cleverness is never quite on a par with its bloodlust." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 26, 2011
	90%	Daylight (2011)	" A slow burn of a thriller that ultimately packs a far greater wallop than many flashier examples of the genre" — Film Journal International Posted Jul 18, 2011
	43%	Ironclad (2011)	" Like Takashii Miike's 13 Assassins, Ironclad takes a familiar genre-the historical action picture-and colors it blood-red. " — Film Journal International Posted Jul 8, 2011
	32%	The Ward (2011)	" Genre veteran John Carpenter's sleekly professional ghost story is well-acted and directed but sadly derivative. Horror fans have seen it all before. " — Film Journal International Posted Jul 8, 2011
	36%	Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)	" There's plenty of manly weeping onscreen when the decepticons start executing captured autobots, but as far as I could tell, there wasn't a damp eye in the theatre. " — Film Journal International Posted Jun 29, 2011
	20%	Double Dhamaal (2011)	" It's pretty damn dumb, but if you're looking to convince someone that "subtitled foreign-language movie" does not equal "art film," Double Dhamaal is Exhibit A." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 24, 2011
	47%	Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)	" Be prepared to spend long, nerve-wracking months telling your progeny that there is no way they are ever, ever going to have a pet penguin. " — Film Journal International Posted Jun 16, 2011
3/4	86%	The Parent Trap (1998)	" The technology for twinning a single young actress is considerably more seamless than it was in 1961, and Lohan is a perky charmer." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 27, 2011
3/4	74%	Tortilla Soup (2001)	" While this cheerful film has nothing particularly new to say about the ties that hold family members together even when they're driving each other crazy, it's a pleasure to watch such a talented ensemble at work." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted May 27, 2011
	62%	We Are The Night (2011)	" ...No genre-changer...but it's bloody, occasionally clever and wears its underlying message about the perils of power lightly..." — Film Journal International Posted May 27, 2011
	3%	Passion Play (2011)	" Screenwriter Mitch Glazer's directing debut is a romantic fable about love, redemption and exquisitely art-directed squalor whose evident sincerity is overwhelmed by its utter ridiculousness." — Film Journal International Posted May 6, 2011
	67%	Hobo With a Shotgun (2011)	" Canadian filmmaker Jason Eisener's homage to grindhouse movies past is a pitch-perfect recreation of the brutal, low-budget crime films of the '70s, which is simultaneously the best and the worst thing about it." — Film Journal International Posted May 6, 2011
	96%	13 Assassins (2011)	" Japanese provocateur Takashi Miike plays it relatively straight in this samurai film, which pits 13 hired warriors against a sadistic aristocrat and his 200-man army." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 29, 2011
	75%	Stake Land (2011)	" Add vicious, voracious bloodsuckers to Cormac McCarthy's The Road and you have Stake Land, a clever horror-action hybrid tailor-made for viewers who like their vampire movies bloody and mean, rather than awash in teen angst." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 19, 2011
	41%	Footprints (2011)	" A Hollywood mystery tale that's in no hurry to reach its destination." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 15, 2011
	82%	The Elephant In The Living Room (2011)	" Sympathetic but clear-eyed documentary...about the rewards and liabilities of America's growing fascination with exotic pets..." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 1, 2011
	66%	Insidious (2011)	" Saw creators James Wan and Leigh Whannell take a crack at an old-fashioned ghost story, and the results are pretty creepy: ominous shadows, strange noises and glimpses of freaky things flitting through the dark. " — Film Journal International Posted Apr 1, 2011
	91%	Source Code (2011)	" The movie loses steam before it wraps everything up, but until then it's a pretty puzzle." — Film Journal International Posted Apr 1, 2011
2.5/4	54%	For Love of the Game (1999)	" Memo to all involved: It's a game." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 25, 2011
	36%	The Butcher, The Chef And The Swordsman (2011)	" This coarse, complicated period comedy is unlikely to catch on with mainstream U.S. audiences, while fans of contemporary Chinese movies will compare it-mostly unfavorably-to Stephen Chow's equally broad but more graceful action comedies." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 18, 2011
	——	Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore ()	" Crammed with clips, behind-the-scenes footage and other archival material, this documentary love letter to pioneering exploitation filmmaker Herschell Gordon Lewis is aimed squarely at fans of his boundary-testing gore and nudie movies." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 11, 2011
	11%	Red Riding Hood (2011)	" Though it's directed by Twilight's Catherine Hardwicke, its target teen audience is likely to find the period trappings and timid bloodletting silly and irrelevant." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 11, 2011
	79%	I Saw the Devil (2011)	" I Saw the Devil is by its nature a polarizing film, but one that makes no bones (if you will) about what it is, fully embracing its horrifying nature. " — Film Journal International Posted Mar 4, 2011
	44%	Bereavement (2011)	" In this deliberately paced horror movie, a big-city teen homes in on the darkness at the edge of a small Pennsylvania town, with grim results." — Film Journal International Posted Mar 4, 2011
	73%	The Adjustment Bureau (2011)	" Call it the kinder, gentler Matrix" — Film Journal International Posted Mar 4, 2011
	32%	I Am Number Four (2011)	" Tattooed space monsters hunt down and kill alien teens in hiding on Earth in this bland sci-fi action movie adapted from a young-adult novel." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 24, 2011
	56%	Unknown (2011)	" This glossy thriller takes off from a tantalizing premise...but squanders it on action scenes that detract from the nightmarish heart of the matter" — Film Journal International Posted Feb 16, 2011
	38%	The Eagle (2011)	" Gritty day-to-day details distinguish this story of youthful warriors in second-century Britain, based on a young-adult novel whose popularity in the U.K. has remained strong since it was published in 1947." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 11, 2011
	86%	American Grindhouse (2010)	" Entertaining and knowledgeable history of American exploitation movies." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 4, 2011
	30%	Sanctum (2011)	" One-dimensional characters try to stay ahead of the water rapidly filling a vast, unmapped cave in this survival drama produced by James Cameron." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 3, 2011
	20%	The Rite (2011)	" ...Hopkins is by far the movie's greatest asset..." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 27, 2011
	53%	The Mechanic (2011)	" A sleek, brutally succinct thriller that showcases Jason Statham's sly talent for being just that little bit better than he has to be in roles that favor brawn over brains." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 27, 2011
	55%	Zenith (2011)	" Not everyone likes having to think while watching a movie, but viewers who do will find plenty to ponder in this twisty maze of facts that sound like fiction just a hair stranger than the truth" — Film Journal International Posted Jan 19, 2011
2.5/4	34%	Hackers (1995)	" Even if you bought DOS for Dummies, there's nothing in HACKERS that will stretch your brain." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jan 14, 2011
	10%	Season of the Witch (2011)	" Good production values almost rescue this overwrought medieval tale." — Film Journal International Posted Jan 7, 2011
	0%	Nutcracker in 3D (2010)	" The best part of this variation on the classic ETA Hoffmann story "The Nutcracker and the Mouse King" is Elle Fanning, but it's unreasonable to expect a child to support the weight of a resolutely un-magical fantasy film." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 1, 2010
	58%	The Legend of Pale Male (2011)	" Belgian filmmaker Frederic Lilien's documentary about a red-tailed hawk that set up housekeeping on tony Fifth Avenue is equal parts nature documentary and group portrait of jaded urbanites enthralled by a glimpse of the wild" — Film Journal International Posted Dec 1, 2010
	——	Break Ke Baad (2010)	" A modern Indian couple takes a "little break" when she goes to study in Australia, only to break up for real." — Film Journal International Posted Dec 1, 2010
	75%	Heartless (2010)	" A shy, scarred photographer suspects that demons are behind the apparently senseless violence wracking his rundown London neighborhood in this ambitious horror-art movie hybrid." — Film Journal International Posted Nov 18, 2010
	0%	Kalamity (2010)	" A talented cast can't save this low-budget psychodrama about male malaise from its meandering screenplay. " — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 5, 2010
	59%	Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)	" The inevitable sequel to Oren Peli's $15,000 sleeper is actually a prequel, and it's a sharp little piece of genre filmmaking." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 5, 2010
	34%	I Spit On Your Grave (2010)	" The most shocking thing about this remake of one of the most notorious exploitation movies of the '70s is how dull it is." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 5, 2010
	78%	Red Hill (2010)	" A stylish cross between the classic "town with a secret" movie Bad Day at Black Rock and aboriginal-rage picture The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith" — Film Journal International Posted Nov 3, 2010
	77%	Amer (2010)	" Were Amer ("bitter") a mass-market movie, it would be polarizing. But it's aimed squarely at fans of the baroque, 1970s-era Euro-thrillers known as gialli, and within that small but loyal niche demographic it's a sure thing." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 28, 2010
	54%	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2010)	" ...something of a dull disappointment, but does ultimately bring the saga of epically abused computer genius Lisbeth Salander to a satisfying close." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 28, 2010
	94%	Yabu no naka no kuroneko (Black Cat from the Grove) (1968)	" Serious movie buffs and die-hard horror fans alike will want to see Kaneto Shindo's elegantly dream-like story of earthbound violence and otherworldly revenge, rooted in Japanese folklore and shot in shimmering, widescreen black-and white." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 21, 2010
	72%	Red (2010)	" Retired CIA agents get dragged back into harness, and the is truth is that they couldn't be happier in this good-natured action movie spiced up with a dash each of comedy and romance..." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 15, 2010
	28%	Life as We Know It (2010)	" Baby love begets grown-up love in this formulaic but intermittently charming rom-com about mismatched careerists whose best-laid plans are abruptly derailed by an orphaned infant." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 6, 2010
	79%	Nowhere Boy (2010)	" Moviegoers who don't care about The Beatles may skip it and miss out on a subtle coming-of-age drama that stands on its own merits, notably Aaron Johnson's evocation of Lennon as an angry young man." — Film Journal International Posted Oct 4, 2010
	89%	Let Me In (2010)	" an unusually smart, subtle and resonant horror movie, one that will linger long after slasher-film shocks are long forgotten. " — Film Journal International Posted Oct 1, 2010
	57%	Douchebag (2010)	" A Sundance favorite that falls somewhere between the mature polish of Sideways and the mumblecore scruffiness of Mark and Jay Duplass' slyly insightful The Puffy Chair." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 30, 2010
	17%	You Again (2010)	" Grown women are reduced to acting like bitchy teens in this painfully unfunny comedy about high school rivalries that just won't quit." — Miss FlickChick Posted Sep 24, 2010
	86%	Buried (2010)	" Claustrophobes and asthmatics be warned: Buried unfolds entirely within the confines of a coffin, where an increasingly desperate man faces certain death by suffocation unless he can escape. " — Film Journal International Posted Sep 24, 2010
	17%	You Again (2010)	" Just one more promising idea ground into bland, tasteless Hollywood sausage. " — Film Journal International Posted Sep 24, 2010
	41%	The Expendables (2010)	" Equal parts self-conscious joke and sly throwback to low-budget action movies of the 1970s, The Expendables works its grindhouse cliches until they work... at least, they work for anyone who fondly remembers the sleaze of yesteryear." — Miss FlickChick Posted Sep 19, 2010
	73%	The Last Exorcism (2010)	" More than a decade after The Blair Witch project turned the mock-doc format into a horror cliche, this low-tech horror show uses it to chilling effect in this story of cynicism vs. things that go bump in the night. " — Miss FlickChick Posted Sep 19, 2010
	73%	Piranha 3-D (2010)	" Coarse, crass and mind-boggling shameless? Hell, yeah! Alexandre Aja's remake of the Joe Dante/John Sayles' killer-fish movie flies its trash flag high." — Miss FlickChick Posted Sep 19, 2010
	72%	Machete (2010)	" Supremely self-aware and steeped in the aesthetics of vintage exploitation movies,Machete is a loving, blood-spattered homage to the gritty grindhouse action pictures of yesteryear. " — Miss FlickChick Posted Sep 19, 2010
	23%	Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)	" Zombies and Jovovich in goryous 3D, unencumbered by plot and character development." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 10, 2010
	52%	Going the Distance (2010)	" An aspiring journalist and a music-industry slacker discover the many downsides of long-distance romance in this formulaic comedy, which relies too heavily on the charm of stars Drew Barrymore and Justin Long." — Film Journal International Posted Sep 2, 2010
	73%	The Last Exorcism (2010)	" Hardcore gore-hounds will be disappointed by the lack of flashy special effects, but The Last Exorcism is more concerned with psychological chills and succeeds admirably in evoking them. " — Film Journal International Posted Aug 31, 2010
	28%	Takers (2010)	" The CliffsNotes version of Michael Mann's Heat... slick but forgettable." — Miss FlickChick Posted Aug 27, 2010
3.5/4	92%	Election (1999)	" Surprise! An intelligent, well-written high school story that offers some real ideas to chew on, rather than simply wallowing in nubile flesh." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 24, 2010
3/4	90%	Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)	" Once upon a time there was a feisty young woman who didn't sit around twiddling her pretty thumbs and singing "Someday My Prince Will Come."" — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Aug 16, 2010
	81%	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)	" Like Billy Liar and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, Scott Pilgrim is a pitch-perfect evocation of a youthful underachiever's thrilling inner life." — Miss FlickChick Posted Aug 13, 2010
	41%	The Expendables (2010)	" It's a contender for the manliest movie ever made." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 12, 2010
	97%	Animal Kingdom (2010)	" Gripping Australian crime drama that charts the slow unraveling of a family bound together by violence through the eyes of a teenage nephew unexpectedly thrust into their midst." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 9, 2010
	46%	Step Up 3-D (2010)	" An even mix of innovative dance and clichéd drama." — Film Journal International Posted Aug 6, 2010
	28%	Charlie St. Cloud (2010)	" A sentimental tearjerker about grief, miracles, letting go, moving on, second chances, the healing power of love, and the perpetual allure of pretty young movie stars." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 29, 2010
	14%	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)	" Pets play spy games in this children's movie that both spoofs high-tech espionage pictures and caters to single-digit sensibilities with gags about butt-sniffing canines." — Film Journal International Posted Jul 29, 2010
	——	The Killer Inside Me (1998)	" Anti-ingenue Susan Tyrell's performance as the feckless hooker who inadvertently unleashes a hellhound on a small mining town is so rawly effective it's painful to watch." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 24, 2010
2.5/4	86%	Cookie's Fortune (1999)	" Despite some lovely performances (though, sad to say, Patricia Neal's isn't one of them) and charming moments, this meandering ensemble piece and its Tennessee Williams-ish finale is oddly out of character." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 21, 2010
3.5/4	86%	An Ideal Husband (1999)	" It's lavish, clever entertainment, a welcome opportunity to laugh without shame." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 20, 2010
	86%	Inception (2010)	" A superior summer movie, one with heart and brains and loads of razzle-dazzle. " — Film Journal International Posted Jul 15, 2010
	63%	Predators (2010)	" A cross between The Most Dangerous Game and The Twilight Zone with a touch of Cube... 'Predators vs. Humans,' anyone?" — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 14, 2010
	69%	[Rec] 2 (2010)	" It's more of the same, with an Exorcist spin, which isn't inherently a bad thing." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 14, 2010
2/4	19%	Spawn (1997)	" Most of the rest of the cast suffocates beneath mountains of special-effects makeup." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 12, 2010
4/4	92%	Boogie Nights (1997)	" An epic story of self-delusion with a skill and grace that many more experienced filmmakers would be hard put to match." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Jul 7, 2010
	——	Edogawa ranpo taizen: Kyofu kikei ningen (Horrors of Malformed Men)(Horror of a Deformed Man) (2007)	" Simultaneously utterly grotesque and surreally beautiful, Teruo Ishii's sexadelic freakout is a must-see for adventurous moviegoers with a taste for the macabre." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jul 3, 2010
	49%	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)	" There's no middle ground with the Twilight saga: You either surrender to Stephenie Meyer's swoony tale of forbidden love, squeaky-clean teen style, or you just don't get it." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jun 30, 2010
	63%	8: The Mormon Proposition (2010)	" Impassioned documentary chronicles the successful 2008 Mormon campaign to make gay marriage illegal in California." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 22, 2010
	55%	The Killer Inside Me (2010)	" Gripping and disturbing new screen adaptation of the Texas-set Jim Thompson crime novel." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 14, 2010
	74%	Splice (2010)	" More than a decade in the making, Vincenzo Natali's provocative sci-fi/horror tale never quite lives up to the spectacular creepiness of its premise." — Film Journal International Posted Jun 3, 2010
	30%	Survival of the Dead (2010)	" A slight, self-aware fable in which a pair of feuding families, a quartet of AWOL National Guardsmen and a mess o' ravenous zombies mix it up on an isolated Atlantic-coast island." — Film Journal International Posted May 25, 2010
	100%	Racing Dreams (2010)	" Marshall Curry's documentary about three bright, personable youngsters who dream of becoming professional NASCAR drivers is simultaneously a feel-good celebration of youthful optimism and a sobering reminder that not all dreams come true." — Film Journal International Posted May 24, 2010
	43%	Robin Hood (2010)	" Like the 2004 King Arthur, Ridley Scott's mud-spattered epic focuses on the man behind the legend. But it's the legend people have loved and kept alive for hundreds of years." — Miss FlickChick Posted May 14, 2010
	84%	Looking for Eric (2010)	" Looking for Eric foregrounds the sharp humor found in even his grimmest tales. It may be the most accessible movie of his career." — Film Journal International Posted May 11, 2010
	15%	A Nightmare on Elm Street (2010)	" The remake is a better movie than most of the later entries in the powerhouse franchise, but it's not a patch on Wes Craven's 1984 original." — Film Journal International Posted May 4, 2010
	50%	The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)	" Dutch writer-director Tom Six's surgical horror flick is can-you-top-this filmmaking at its grossest, and no one needs to tell you whether or not it's your cup of tea." — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 30, 2010
2.5/4	85%	Rosewood (1997)	" The intentions are unassailable: to dramatize a forgotten injustice and sear it into contemporary memory so it's never allowed to happen again. But the movie is long and didactic, undermined by the faintly pious air of an educational slide show." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Apr 28, 2010
	86%	Red Riding Trilogy ()	" This dark set of brilliantly-acted, interlocking thrillers fails to live up to David Peace's novels, but still runs blood-red rings around the average American crime film. " — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 23, 2010
	36%	Boogie Woogie (2010)	" The art-world satire Boogie Woogie is a monumental piece of squandered potential, arch but not witty, mean without being perceptive, its most outrageous shocks little more than static sparks. " — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 23, 2010
	29%	Pornography: A Thriller (2010)	" Writer-director David Kittredge's spooky, ambitious thriller about the mysterious fate of a gay porn star is equal parts David Lynch, The Fluffer and 8mm." — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 23, 2010
	78%	Behind The Burly Q (2010)	" Once-over-lightly history, but a fabulous showcase for the colorful recollections of dozens of burlesque dancers, comedians, chorus girls, musicians and novelty performers. " — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 23, 2010
	86%	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (2009)	" Even shorn of many of its darkly evocative subplots and characters, this adaptation of Swedish novelist Steig Larrson's lacerating thriller is true to the story's bitter heart." — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 10, 2010
	69%	The Runaways (2010)	" Floria Sigismondi's flawed account of the rise and fall of short-lived, all-girl rock band The Runaways captures a genuine sense of the 1970s... the real '70s, not the wacky sitcom version." — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 10, 2010
	22%	The Black Waters of Echo's Pond (2010)	" Feckless young people play a cursed board game that unleashes repressed desires, rips the scabs off festering wounds and brings seething resentments to a boil: Predictable slasher mayhem ensues." — Miss FlickChick Posted Apr 10, 2010
	28%	Remember Me (2010)	" The New Yorkers who inhabit this overwrought melodrama with a mega twist are so self-centered that the message -- life should be savored, not squandered -- gets lost." — Miss FlickChick Posted Mar 16, 2010
	53%	Green Zone (2010)	" A thriller designed to provoke discussion of America's involvement in Iraq, Green Zone will more likely fuel rants about Hollywood's liberal bias." — Miss FlickChick Posted Mar 16, 2010
2.5/4	50%	Dream for an Insomniac (1996)	" A slight, sleekly polished debut feature propelled by a kinder, gentler Swingers vibe." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Mar 15, 2010
	71%	The Crazies (2010)	" This slick remake of George Romero's 1973 horror film, in which a bioweapon is accidentally unleashed on a small American town, is scary and as timely as it was during the Vietnam era that spawned the original." — Film Journal International Posted Feb 26, 2010
	——	Monster Beach Party ()	" Genre fans of a certain age and/or temperament will appreciate this painstaking recreation of low-budget, regional rock 'n' roll horror movies of the 1960s." — Miss FlickChick Posted Feb 16, 2010
	35%	The Wolfman (2010)	" ...pleasant surprise simply by virtue of not being as thoroughly awful as you expected. And yes, that's qualified praise. It means, nostalgic horror buffs give it a whirl and all others beware." — Miss FlickChick Posted Feb 16, 2010
	——	Veer (2010)	" Bollywood superstar Salman Khan's dream project, this highly fictionalized account of the Pindari war against the British is bad history but pretty good entertainment." — Miss FlickChick Posted Jan 29, 2010
	67%	Daybreakers (2010)	" While the setting is sleek and filled with clever details, the story, in which one good vampire teams with a scrappy band of free-range humans to fight the power, is timeworn and predictable." — Hollywood Reporter Posted Jan 7, 2010
	97%	The Hurt Locker (2009)	" Criticism that Bigelow and Boal's relentless focus on the feverish intensity of living with constant danger and the rush that comes from beating the odds is as misguided as reading the movie's "war is a drug" tagline as an endorsement: The Hurt Locker is" — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 28, 2009
	91%	Crazy Heart (2009)	" I used to be somebody," sings washed up legend Bad Blake, "but now I'm somebody else." Like a C&W song, Crazy Heart makes cliches sound like eternal verites, and Jeff Bridges deserves all the credit." — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 28, 2009
	——	Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year (2009)	" A surprisingly sharp workplace comedy whose concerns should resonate with oppressed worker-bees everywhere. After all, who hasn't at one time or another been forced to weigh ideals against paying the electric bill?" — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 15, 2009
	76%	Invictus (2009)	" A modest, self-effacing movie about extraordinary events that chronicles one battle in Nelson Mandela's war against the past that threaten to destroy post-apartheid South Africa before it can find its feet." — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 14, 2009
	32%	The Lovely Bones (2009)	" The story shuttles back and forth between a placid 1970s suburbia and an afterlife that looks disconcerting like the cover of a Yes album; both are bloodless, all look and no vitality." — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 14, 2009
	91%	Up in the Air (2009)	" Hugely entertaining .... Reitman can turn bitter, unpalatable material into mainstream movies without stripping away all the bite" — Miss FlickChick Posted Dec 5, 2009
	0%	Transylmania (2009)	" Spoofs horror cliches rather than stringing together random, witless pop-culture gags like the Scary Movie franchise .... [but is] vulgar, juvenile, gross and not particularly funny." — Horror Hacker Posted Dec 5, 2009
	75%	The Road (2009)	" The high-minded antithesis of 2012... The Road is mired in morning-after misery, set in a world where fear of a living hell is more reasonable than hope of heaven." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 25, 2009
2.5/4	60%	A Civil Action (1998)	" This is a case in which the material really is better served in book form." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 22, 2009
	27%	The Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009)	" The first sequel to Twilight has the feel of a placeholder ... but Twi-hards, like Bella, have mastered the art of willing themselves to see only what they want to see." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 20, 2009
	93%	Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)	" A sly, witty and utterly enchanting adaptation of Roald Dahl's mordantly whimsical book about a thoroughly domesticated gentleman fox who pines for days when the world respected his wildness." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 12, 2009
3.5/4	79%	Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)	" A slick, mannered and frequently clever comedy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Nov 6, 2009
	45%	The Box (2009)	" Richard Kelly's convoluted moral thriller gets off to a terrifically eerie start but collapses beneath the weight of its Big Ideas." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 5, 2009
	0%	Eulogy for a Vampire (2009)	" The gay-themed Eulogy for a Vampire is dead serious about its mix of eroticism and horror, but the more serious it tries to be, the campier it becomes." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 3, 2009
	83%	Paranormal Activity (2009)	" A campfire story for the cyber generation, a bogey tale wrapped in time codes and misplaced faith in the power of technology to banish ghosties, ghoulies and long-leggedy beasties." — Miss FlickChick Posted Nov 3, 2009
	29%	Gamer (2009)	" A streak of genius runs through this dystopian vision of a world in where VR games are played with real people ... it touches some exposed nerves before retreating into clichés." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 3, 2009
	57%	9 (2009)	" A flat-out gorgeous vision of a devastated world whose script is as thin and formulaic as the imagery is rich and original." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 3, 2009
	21%	Sorority Row (2009)	" Welcome to Skank Ho sorority, where you'll skills like covering up the grotesque death of one of your sisters during a mean-spirited prank." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
	42%	Jennifer's Body (2009)	" It's more clever than funny ha-ha, and has a handful of seriously creepy moments ... the movie a smarty-pants horror buff cooks up while ticking off grade-Z slasher clichés." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
	90%	Zombieland (2009)	" Surprisingly cute for a movie awash in blood, entrails and icky zombie drool, admirably brisk ... and occasionally scary, especially if zombies creep the bejesus out of you." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
	12%	The Stepfather (2009)	" Astonishingly dull and carefully scrubbed of all but the most sanitized violence in the name of securing a PG-13 rating." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
	38%	Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009)	" A colossal bore of a teen fantasy movie ... crammed with trite, prepackaged lessons." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
	38%	Saw VI (2009)	" When torture porn becomes as snooze-inducing as lecture hall, it's time to call it a day." — Horror Hacker Posted Nov 3, 2009
	86%	The House of the Devil (2009)	" If you love a nerve-stretching build up to a seriously creepy payoff, you'll want to see for yourself." — AMCtv.com Posted Nov 2, 2009
3.5/4	93%	Out of Sight (1998)	" Faintly melancholy and alluringly fatalistic, this mercurial romance passing as a crime thriller is slyly entertaining and darkly sexy." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 30, 2009
3/4	72%	Habit (1997)	" Despite its low budget, the assets of Fessenden's film include startlingly rich cinematography and an above-average cast, most of whom have roots in New York's downtown performance scene." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 20, 2009
2.5/4	71%	Return to Paradise (1998)	" Despite solid performances from the leads, it comes shrouded in a heavy cloud of ethics-class complications that makes it feel like a "dilemma of the week" TV movie." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Oct 4, 2009
	28%	Pandorum (2009)	" Cobbled together from chunks of Battlestar Galactica, The Descent, Serenity, Cube, Resident Evil, Event Horizon and Alien ... Pandorum is an efficient scare machine if you ignore the plot contrivances." — Horror Hacker Posted Sep 25, 2009
1/4	6%	Mortal Kombat: Annihilation (1997)	" This tedious hodgepodge of martial-arts mayhem, bogus mysticism and computer-generated special effects doesn't even pretend to have a plot." — TV Guide's Movie Guide Posted Sep 9, 2009

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