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Simon Abrams

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	——	The Big Bird Cage (Women's Penitentiary II) (1972)	" Pam Grier can do anything, even make cheesy skin flicks worth seeing. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 24, 2011
1/4	47%	Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)	" In spite of his adorable CG fish-eating accessories, Popper is just another lazy, family-friendly stock patriarch in a long line of clueless but basically well-meaning fathers that Carrey has played over the years. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 15, 2011
	100%	Sasame-yuki (Fine Snow)(Hosone yuki)(The Makioka Sisters) (1983)	" Even if it's sorely lacking in supplementary materials, Criterion's DVD of The Makioka Sisters is still worth a look for the gloriously restored transfer of Ichikawa's wonderful melodrama. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 14, 2011
—	71%	Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978)	— Slant Magazine Posted Jun 10, 2011
	71%	Despair (Despair - Eine Reise ins Licht) (1978)	" Of the authorial trifecta that created Despair, director Rainer Werner Fassbinder's voice is the most pronounced." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2011
	——	Adua e le compagne (Adua and Company) (Adua and Her Friends) (Hungry for Love) (Love a la Carte) (2011)	" Worth a look for Simone Signoret's smile and Raro Video's immaculate restoration, but the film itself is pretty inessential." — Slant Magazine Posted May 31, 2011
	63%	Le Mans (1971)	" Le Mans needs to be rediscovered so that it can be hopefully embraced as one of star Steve McQueen's finest hours." — Slant Magazine Posted May 28, 2011
2/4	77%	Thor (2011)	" Thor continues the trend of weakly jumpstarting a franchise based on a Marvel comic with an instantly forgettable origin story." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2011
—	7%	Halloween - The Curse of Michael Myers (Halloween 6) (1998)	— Slant Magazine Posted May 7, 2011
—	75%	The Way Back (2011)	— Slant Magazine Posted May 6, 2011
3/4	76%	Let the Bullets Fly (2012)	" The world of difference in tone and content between actor-turned-director Jiang Wen's Let the Bullets Fly and his masterful Devils on the Doorstep can be seen in the former film's deceptively happy ending. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 30, 2011
1/4	——	Neon Flesh (2012)	" If Neon Flesh is any indication, writer-director Paco Cabezas is a deeply confused Guy Ritchie rip-off artist. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 28, 2011
	46%	Dirty Mary Crazy Larry (1974)	" Peter Fonda makes a better badass in Dirty Mary than he does a milquetoast in Race with the Devil." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2011
	40%	Race With the Devil (1975)	" Peter Fonda makes a better badass in Dirty Mary than he does a milquetoast in Race with the Devil." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2011
	51%	Tron Legacy (2010)	" Call it a guilty pleasure, if you must, but TRON: Legacy is the sort of spectacle that makes people go to the movies and it looks spectacular on Blu-ray." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 25, 2011
2/4	53%	Puncture (2011)	" If you like your films like you like your airport fiction, then Puncture should be right up your alley. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2011
	81%	Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011)	" So batshit that calling it director Tsui Hark's comeback is an aptly ridiculous claim. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 24, 2011
1.5/4	64%	The Good Doctor (2012)	" The Good Doctor isn't a ponderous bore because Blake isn't a strictly good or bad character: It sucks because he isn't even a compelling character." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2011
3/4	——	A Quiet Life ()	" Claudio Cupellini's A Quiet Life works best if you think of it as a divergent alternative scenario for Toni Servillo's character in The Consequences of Love." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	88%	Margin Call (2011)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	——	Presumed Guilty (1991)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
—	79%	Politist, adj. (Police, Adjective) (2009)	— House Next Door Posted Apr 22, 2011
3.5/4	59%	Yves Saint Laurent - L'amour fou (2011)	" A consummately clear-headed documentary that honors the allure of its subject by being personal but never intimately so." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 15, 2011
2.5/4	26%	Your Highness (2011)	" Pot comedies may not be rocket science but a few more script revisions would have probably gone a long way here." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 13, 2011
	25%	Hellraiser - Bloodline (1996)	" The Hellraiser Triple Feature box set is guaranteed to give you buyer's remorse." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 12, 2011
	18%	Hellraiser 3: Hell on Earth (1992)	" The Hellraiser Triple Feature box set is guaranteed to give you buyer's remorse." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 12, 2011
	——	Hellraiser - Inferno (2000)	" The Hellraiser Triple Feature box set is guaranteed to give you buyer's remorse." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 12, 2011
	——	I Vinti, (Youth and Perversion) (The Vanquished) (1953)	" In spite of some promising and fun nourish tropes, I Vinti is for Antonioni completists only." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 5, 2011
	27%	Surviving the Game (1994)	" Submitting Surviving the Game for the White Elephant blogathon is like giving an unwieldy lump of coal to a child on Christmas day: As malicious gestures go, it's a doozy. " — House Next Door Posted Apr 1, 2011
	27%	The Keep (1983)	" As dated as it is, The Keep (1983), Michael Mann's second theatrical release after Thief (1981), remains an intriguing mess of historical provocation. " — House Next Door Posted Mar 29, 2011
	59%	The Hitcher (1986)	" That kind of nonstop self-seriousness should wear thin after a while but director Robert Harmon makes the screenplay's unabashed cruelty more potent than churlish." — House Next Door Posted Mar 29, 2011
	89%	Red Cliff (Chi Bi) (2009)	" Cleaner and probably more rewatchable than Red Cliff 2." — House Next Door Posted Mar 29, 2011
	——	Red Cliff Part II (Chi Bi 2) (2009)	" Red Cliff 2 is a bit more uniform in its languid presentation of the various sub-plots that branch out from the film's central conflict." — House Next Door Posted Mar 29, 2011
	——	Il Profumo della Signora in Nero (The Perfume of the Lady in Black) (1974)	" It's a tradeoff, but if you can accept that The Perfume of the Lady in Black is a little too good at being alienating, then you'll find a lot to like about it." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 29, 2011
1.5/4	38%	Mia et le Migou (Mia and the Migoo) (2011)	" A cliché-riddled kid's film whose sole inventive hook is its hand-painted, Cray-Pas-by-way-of-water-colors animation style." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2011
2/4	83%	Tyrannosaur (2011)	" The brutality of Tyrannosaur, actor Paddy Considine's kitchen-sink directorial debut, isn't so over-the-top as to make Considine's sympathy for his flawed characters look like a sham." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2011
1/4	45%	Some Days Are Better Than Others (2011)	" The kind of American independent quirkfest that needs to be quarantined and examined, not valorized." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 25, 2011
	——	Mr. Scarface (I padroni della città) (1976)	" The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection features one essential B movie and three perfectly adequate ones." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2011
	——	Il boss (Wipeout!) (1973)	" The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection features one essential B movie and three perfectly adequate ones." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2011
	——	La Mala ordina (Manhunt)(Black Kingpin)(The Italian Connection)(Hitmen) (1972)	" The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection features one essential B movie and three perfectly adequate ones." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2011
	——	Milano Calibro 9 (Caliber 9) (1972)	" The Fernando Di Leo Crime Collection features one essential B movie and three perfectly adequate ones." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 23, 2011
	79%	Attenberg (2012)	" Can't we allow ourselves to blamelessly dehumanize one group of real-life boogeymen without the fear of some would-be humanist insisting that these monsters, like us, have souls? " — House Next Door Posted Mar 22, 2011
0/4	25%	Lord Of The Dance 3D (2011)	" Lord of the Dance 3D is the Showgirls of concert documentaries." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 20, 2011
	43%	Eden Log (2007)	" Though it looks like a highly polished, quasi-avant-garde bit of speculative fiction, contemporary French sci-fi flick Eden Log is really a far-flung descendant of the Heavy Metal comics of the '70s and '80s." — House Next Door Posted Mar 16, 2011
	67%	BMX Bandits (1983)	" If you like your movies with the same passion as an impressionable child of the '80s loves BMX bikes, BMX Bandits is the movies for you!" — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 15, 2011
	——	Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore ()	" There are myriad reasons why the term "torture porn" never made sense and one of the most important is the irrevocable impact Herschell Gordon Lewis's schlocky gore cinema had on American movies. " — House Next Door Posted Mar 11, 2011
	——	Dernier Etage Gauche Gauche ()	" There's nothing inherently wrong with the fact that Top Floor, Left Wing makes light of a hostage situation involving Muslim terrorists. " — House Next Door Posted Mar 10, 2011
2.5/4	37%	Mars Needs Moms (2011)	" The film's production values are almost enough to make the film's monumental shortcomings worth overlooking. But only almost." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2011
	——	Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde, (Dr. Black and Mr. Hyde) (1976)	" Blacula director William Crain somehow managed to screw up even a film with a title as nifty as Dr. Black, Mr. Hyde. For the morbidly curious only." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 9, 2011
	100%	I Clowns (The Clowns) (2001)	" The Clowns isn't a vital part of Fellini's filmography but thanks to Raro Video's superb DVD set, the film is well worth a purchase." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 9, 2011
	——	Série noire (1979)	" That line between self-appointed Atlas and desperate man that can't see his own shadow is one that Dewaere's Franck walks and frequently trips over in Série Noire. " — House Next Door Posted Mar 6, 2011
2.5/4	45%	Drive Angry (2011)	" While serious-minded critics are still trying to figure out what 3D can do to enhance the cinematic experience, director Patrick Lussier is having a blast with the as-of-now gratuitously revived technology." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 2, 2011
	83%	Avatar (2009)	" Cameron knows the viewer will recognize Avatar's story from elsewhere, whether as the love affair between John Smith and Pocahontas or almost all of Ferngully and so tries to dazzle the viewer with "shock and awe."" — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	48%	The Book of Eli (2010)	" While the whole film looks like its aesthetic was cobbled together from some as-yet-unreleased Resident Evil game, the action scenes look like they're all filmed with the know-nothing grace of the nerds who create the movie interludes in video games." — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	94%	Les beaux gosses (The French Kissers) (2009)	" As demeaning as it may be to present French Kissers as a Gallic version of Gregg Mottola's Superbad, the comparison is necessary to show how Riad Sattouf's film differs from Mottola's in its hormone-crazed nostalgia. " — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	97%	Rapt (2011)	" Sprinting ahead with an urgency that belies its remarkable attention to detail, writer-director Lucas Belvaux's taut political thriller Rapt is a top-heavy but exceptional action film. " — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	78%	OSS 117: Rio ne répond plus (Lost in Rio) (2010)	" What makes Lost in Rio more entertaining than it should be is the few elements of misappropriated nostalgia that rise above the rest of the film's lunk-headed posturing thanks to good comic timing. " — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	90%	Army of Crime (L'Armée du Crime) (2010)	" The Army of Shadows may be a revisionist and overly romantic depiction of the French Resistance during WWII, but at least it's a compelling fairy tale, something that cannot be said about The Army of Crime." — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	90%	The Return of the Living Dead (1985)	" The Return of the Living Dead is in fact the real deal." — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	60%	Lifeforce (1985)	" Lifeforce is a dog." — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	9%	The Pest (1997)	" It pains me to admit just how obnoxious The Pest is because it has all the ingredients of the kind of guilty pleasure I love." — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	——	Presumed Guilty (Presunto culpable) (2011)	" While trial documentary Presumed Guilty's narrative arc is genuinely compelling and heartrending in its depiction of an innocent man's struggle to prove his innocence, the film at large only serves to reinforce the hopelessness of his case. " — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	100%	Ich will doch nur, daß ihr mich liebt (I Only Want You to Love Me) (1976)	" Without Rainer Werner Fassbinder's characteristic sense of detachment, the director's Sirkian melodrama I Only Want You to Love Me wouldn't be nearly as engrossing as it is. " — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	48%	Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen (2011)	" Leave it to Andrew Lau, the director most famous for co-helming Infernal Affairs, to drown a staid, fool-proof setup for success in grandiose tragedy and pseudo-significance." — House Next Door Posted Feb 25, 2011
	76%	Summer Wars (Sama Wozu) (2010)	" With a little luck, people will take a chance on Summer Wars now and realize that they were robbed of the chance to see Mamoru Hosoda give his child audience the respect they deserve and the thrills they want on a big screen." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2011
0/4	5%	Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)	" It's a true rubber-necker's delight, a comedy so inconceivably tacky that it will make you question whether or not you're laughing at the film or with it." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 23, 2011
	——	Zhong kui niang zi (The Lady Hermit) ()	" The Lady Hermit is an exemplary wuxia and one that deserves to find an audience for the way its quirks affirm its genre's unique preoccupations." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 17, 2011
	——	America, America (2011)	" America America is a revealing work about the American dream because it doesn't envision it as a noble enterprise, but rather a painful and seemingly never-ending process. " — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 16, 2011
2/4	86%	Carancho (2011)	" In spite of a commendably nasty noir mentality a la The Postman Always Rings Twice, Carancho is flat-out underwhelming." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 16, 2011
1/4	20%	The Rite (2011)	" The Rite trots out the tired old belief that catering to cynical viewers' assumptions is half the battle in convincing them that they're seeing something new, different, or possibly just worthwhile." — Slant Magazine Posted Feb 2, 2011
	92%	Dogtooth (Kynodontas) (2010)	" The possibilities for meaning in Dogtooth aren't inexhaustible, but they are more than enough to confirm the film's well-earned status as the best theatrical release of last year." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 23, 2011
2.5/4	71%	Evangelion: 2.0 You Can (Not) Advance (2011)	" Sets the stage for new, apocalyptic changes in the next "Rebuild" feature, and they appear to be the kind of changes fans have been waiting on for years." — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2011
3/4	43%	Ong Bak 3 (2011)	" I doubt that Ong Bak 3 is going to find a welcoming audience, no matter how much I wish it would. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2011
2.5/4	36%	Repo Chick (2011)	" Like Waldo's Hawaiian Holiday, Alex Cox's unproduced first sequel to Repo Man, which was later turned into a comic book, Repo Chick is a typically flat caricature of the zeitgeist. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 22, 2011
	70%	Mumbai Diaries (2011)	" Had Rao chosen to foreground his tantalizing ideas instead of his instantly forgettable characters, Mumbai Diaries could have been more than the sum of its parts." — Village Voice Posted Jan 18, 2011
1/4	13%	Yogi Bear (2010)	" Yogi Bear is pretty bad, but it's not apocalyptically horrid--and that's its biggest problem. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jan 2, 2011
1.5/4	49%	The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader (2010)	" The faux-Odyssean trials the characters face are also paradoxically so strained that they often look more arbitrary than thoughtful." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 18, 2010
	38%	Straight to Hell (1987)	" A very well put-together repackaging of Alex Cox's ode to disposable entertainments, Straight to Hell Returns is a screwy and unsound blast." — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 16, 2010
	8%	Alien Girl (2010)	" The narrative is as complex as a piece of dry white toast." — New York Press Posted Dec 15, 2010
	33%	Satan Hates You (2011)	" The film's one-note premise is only as fitfully affecting as watching caricatures hit rock bottom over and over again." — Village Voice Posted Dec 14, 2010
	90%	Winnebago Man (2010)	" A surprisingly poignant and enduring film." — The L Magazine Posted Dec 8, 2010
1/4	43%	Faster (2010)	" By and large, Faster is what would happen if Michael Bay channeled one of Donald Westlake's Parker novels, recently back in vogue. " — Slant Magazine Posted Dec 1, 2010
	81%	Scott Pilgrim vs. the World (2010)	" Scott Pilgrim vs. the World was the summer's main event and while it quietly slipped in and out of theaters, its new DVD release will hopefully prove how long its legs are." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 9, 2010
0/4	10%	Saw 3D (2010)	" Saw 3D may just be the Saw-iest Saw film of them all." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 7, 2010
	79%	Dark Star (1973)	" While VCI's new release of Dark Star somehow actually looks worse than its last release, this new "Hyperdrive" edition is a great update thanks to its abundant special features. Let there be light, indeed." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 3, 2010
	72%	Monsters (2010)	" What Monsters sorely wants is a convincing human element and a softer touch when it comes to its incoherent and mostly pretentious depiction of the way the media sensationalizes and in turn creates monsters." — New York Press Posted Nov 3, 2010
	60%	Cherry (2010)	" As ungainly and unkempt as its teen protagonist." — Village Voice Posted Nov 2, 2010
	28%	Teknolust (2002)	" Tweaking the nose of hegemony is sometimes funny; ditto for Teknolust." — Slant Magazine Posted Nov 2, 2010
3/4	73%	Megamind (2010)	" Megamind may initially seem like a superhero spoof in the comedic vein of Shrek, but it reveals itself to be smarter, funnier, and infinitely more sympathetic than that. " — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 31, 2010
3/4	59%	Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)	" Anyone watching Paranormal Activity 2 closely enough will see that the transitions between different cameras in the film isn't motivated by any internal logic but rather a narrative one." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 31, 2010
	72%	Red (2010)	" If anything, Red works better as a comedy than as an action film, which automatically makes it better than most of its peers." — New York Press Posted Oct 27, 2010
	88%	A Small Act (2010)	" Arnold just expects her audience to accept that Mburu's doing the best he can and revere him for it." — Village Voice Posted Oct 26, 2010
	90%	Hausu (House) (1977)	" Criterion's new release is a must-own and a welcome step in the film's canonization as a brainy and blisteringly strange cult classic." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 26, 2010
	80%	Sei donne per l'assassino (Blood and Black Lace) (Six Women for the Murderer) (1960)	" VCI's new release is a lousy transfer of a very sharp giallo; rent it before buying." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 25, 2010
	81%	Oceans (Disneynature's Oceans) (2010)	" Oceans is bound to be a big hit among children, stoners, stoners' children, spinster stoners, and anyone that enjoy movies with immersive photography and intricate sound design." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 24, 2010
	0%	Kalamity (2010)	" A lofty but uneven psycho-noir, Kalamity is a genre film whose ambition unfortunately exceeds writer/director James Hausler's means." — New York Press Posted Oct 22, 2010
	10%	The Oxford Murders (2010)	" Álex de la Iglesia does it again but will anyone other than his established fanbase take notice?" — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 19, 2010
2/4	68%	Conviction (2010)	" Conviction is the kind of more-bland-than-truly-bad Oscar bait that, to its credit, displays genuine affection for its characters. " — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 18, 2010
1/4	64%	Secretariat (2010)	" Watching Secretariat is an experience as antithetical to watching an actual horse race as it gets." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2010
2.5/4	9%	My Soul to Take (2010)	" That Craven is earnestly trying to make an on-the-level, snark-free horror flick signals a welcome sea change in his career." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 13, 2010
	——	Bizarre (2005)	" Anyone even mildly interested in it should pick up this disc just to see director Antony Balch and William Burroughs's astonishing avant-garde short The Cut Ups." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 10, 2010
1/4	14%	The Hungry Ghosts (2010)	" The authenticity of Imperioli's understanding of spiritual revolution makes the screenplay, which unevenly vacillates between displays of schmaltzy sentiment and inept skid row melodrama, almost bearable." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 7, 2010
2/5	——	Going Blind (2010)	" The disparity between the director's earnest intent to educate and his wow-who'da-thunk? result is anything but inspiring." — Time Out New York Posted Oct 6, 2010
	84%	Ip Man (2010)	" It remains an inexplicable, contextless bit of kung fu historicosploitation -- albeit a very satisfying one." — New York Press Posted Oct 6, 2010
	40%	Dark Night of the Scarecrow (1981)	" It's not the second coming of John Carpenter, but Dark Night of the Scarecrow is very close to the cult find many diehards have always stubbornly claimed it is." — Slant Magazine Posted Oct 3, 2010
2/4	52%	Devil (2010)	" Any fan of detective fiction will tell you that for a locked-room drama to work, you can't let anyone, including the reader, exit the locked room. " — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2010
2.5/4	86%	Buried (2010)	" A bratty but canny thriller that takes a very simple premise and runs much farther with it than any right-minded director should have been able to." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 26, 2010
	——	Raging Phoenix (Deu suay doo) (2009)	" Raging Phoenix isn't pretty, but then again, that's why it's a sign of the times for martial arts cinema." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 19, 2010
2.5/4	16%	Alpha and Omega (2010)	" Alpha and Omega proves that sometimes more is more and less is less for a reason." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 17, 2010
1/5	——	3 Billion and Counting (2010)	" The film favors conspiracy theories and half-truths, in addition to discrediting Planned Parenthood as a racist institution and Silent Spring as the work of a vindictive cancer victim." — Time Out New York Posted Sep 15, 2010
2/4	52%	I'm Still Here (2010)	" The crux of I'm Still Here is the same as the one central to most of Lars von Trier's filmic pranks: How far can one mess with one's audience while feigning sincerity? " — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 13, 2010
1/4	23%	Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010)	" Afterlife lacks tension, dread, angst, humor-you name an emotion, it's not there." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 13, 2010
	15%	The Romantics (2010)	" The Romantics is the kind of bland romantic melodrama that breeds resentment instead of sympathy for its young protagonists." — New York Press Posted Sep 8, 2010
1.5/4	83%	Mesrine: Public Enemy #1 (L'ennemi public n1) (2010)	" According to this lofty mandate, the film shouldn't be judged as a historically meretricious account." — Slant Magazine Posted Sep 6, 2010
2/4	82%	Mesrine: Killer Instinct (L'instinct de mort) (2010)	" Vincent Cassel deserves better scenery to devour." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2010
1.5/4	75%	Nanny McPhee Returns (2010)	" Thompson spends much of Nanny McPhee Returns's interminable 109-minute runtime trying to set her homely titular heroine apart from Mary Poppins." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2010
0/4	4%	Vampires Suck (2010)	" A characteristic work of monumentally lazy spoof comedy by Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer, Vampires Suck confirms Idiocracy's prediction of modern man's devolution from humdrum mediocrity to sub-caveman levels of intelligence." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2010
1/4	55%	Mao's Last Dancer (2010)	" Beresford can't even represent Li's dancing (the reason we're meant to root for this little foreigner that could in the first place) with a modicum of dynamism." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 30, 2010
2/5	56%	Calvin Marshall (2010)	" When you don't care about the character who gives a movie its name, you've got terminal problems." — Time Out New York Posted Aug 18, 2010
0/4	46%	Step Up 3-D (2010)	" It's like Muppets Take Manhattan, but replace a milquetoast young artiste for an amnesiac frog and a group of muppets for a post-racial group of seamlessly integrated metrosexuals." — Slant Magazine Posted Aug 11, 2010
	90%	Lebanon (Levanon) (2010)	" Lebanon supplies a series of horrifying episodes without pausing to interrogate their meaning." — New York Press Posted Aug 5, 2010
2/4	43%	Dinner for Schmucks (2010)	" Dinner for Schmucks is the type of fatuous American comedy that hopes you'll excuse its narrative's logical inadequacies because it's just a comedy, stoopid. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 30, 2010
1/4	60%	Hugh Hefner: Playboy, Activist and Rebel (2010)	" From the title onward, it and its army of Hefner pals are out to show you what a nice, sweet, gentle, open-minded guy the old pornographer is." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 27, 2010
0/4	14%	Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010)	" Like all unimaginative filmmakers that don't know what to do with 3D technology, director Brad Peyton subordinates all action in the movie to the tech he's working with. " — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 26, 2010
	——	Flandersui Gae (Barking Dogs Never Bite) (Flanders' Dog) (2000)	" Bong's debut is not all it could be, but any film that has a line as hilariously warped as "Jesus, that thing's hairy" deserves some recognition." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 21, 2010
2/4	41%	The Sorcerer's Apprentice (2010)	" There's no logic in The Sorcerer's Apprentice that can't be, and mostly isn't, made up on the spot, a concept that will likely appeal to real-life 10 year olds but irk everyone else." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 12, 2010
2/4	52%	Knight & Day (2010)	" One of the biggest mysteries of Knight and Day is figuring out who exactly the film is primarily for" — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2010
.5/4	49%	The Twilight Saga: Eclipse (2010)	" Everything that could and should be elaborated at length to make for a convincing or even just passably trashy love story is glossed over here just as much as in the last two Twilight movies." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2010
2.5/4	63%	Predators (2010)	" Unlike the original Predator, helmed by the intuitive and typically fast-and-loose director John McTiernan, Predators is clearly the product of a self-conscious craftsman." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 8, 2010
3/4	81%	Despicable Me (2010)	" The film is a reminder that no single studio has a monopoly on thoughtful animated features." — Slant Magazine Posted Jul 5, 2010
	92%	Night Train to Munich (Gestapo) (1940)	" Come for Carol Reed's name, stay for Rex Harrison's performance and a few good cheap shots at the Nazis." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 21, 2010
1.5/4	66%	The Karate Kid (2010)	" This new Karate Kid bluffs its way through the motions and never manages to invest a shred of conviction in its banal paint-by-numbers stock plot." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 8, 2010
3/4	100%	Nightfall (1957)	" In spite of that tantalizing potential, Nightfall will always just be a promising B picture." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 7, 2010
1/4	9%	Marmaduke (2010)	" Marmaduke the movie is exactly the kind of mind-numbing kiddie trash that parents dread taking their kids to." — Slant Magazine Posted Jun 3, 2010
1.5/4	53%	Agora (2010)	" A pointless spectacle that champions free-thinking intellectuals over violent zealots while ineffectually appealing to the same uncontrollable emotions it condemns." — Slant Magazine Posted May 24, 2010
3/4	95%	Best Worst Movie (2010)	" Best Worst Movie is the populist doc to beat this year, following in the footsteps of last year's Anvil! The Story of Anvil and summarily outdistancing that self-serving and unchallenging crowd-pleaser." — Slant Magazine Posted May 9, 2010
4/4	99%	Metropolis (1927)	" The recent discovery of 25 minutes of lost footage from Fritz Lang's Metropolis is cause for celebration." — Slant Magazine Posted May 8, 2010
—	81%	Anton Chekhov's The Duel (2010)	" A remarkably accomplished period drama that sets the bar very high for the prestige pictures that are sure to come much later in the year. " — New York Press Posted May 4, 2010
1/4	64%	Harry Brown (2010)	" Harry's world is the apocalypse that far-right-wingers normally need romantics like Cormac McCarthy to dream up." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 29, 2010
3.5/4	50%	The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)	" In its single-minded determination to prolong its viewer's agony, writer-director Tom Six's The Human Centipede (First Sequence) is nothing short of an inspired bit of modern exploitation cinema." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 26, 2010
	60%	The Fugitive Kind (2005)	" The Fugitive Kind is an across-the-board success, but it has enough flickers of brilliance to make it essential viewing for fans of its cast, Sidney Lumet, and/or Tennessee Williams." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 23, 2010
2/4	49%	The Losers (2010)	" The film's vain attempts at being flashy and stylish is more loud than charming and never as clever as it acts." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 20, 2010
	76%	Kick-Ass (2010)	" For all its posturing, Kick-Ass doesn't risk taking the superhero genre seriously and hence is all too happy to be impotent." — New York Press Posted Apr 14, 2010
	93%	Lásky Jedné Plavovlásky (The Loves of a Blonde) (A Blonde in Love) (1966)	" A great gateway for fans of Milos Forman's later films, Loves of a Blonde is subtle, silly, and even poignant in its own way. " — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 13, 2010
2.5/4	84%	The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010)	" To say that the film, a love letter to Sergio Leone's spaghetti westerns and to the Manchurian action movies popular in South Korea in the late '60s, is problematic would be a vast understatement." — Slant Magazine Posted Apr 6, 2010
	——	Yakuza Justice: Erotic Code Of Honor (2010)	" Has nothing to do with what contemporary viewers will expect or want from a film with such a goofy title." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 28, 2010
2.0/4	63%	Hot Tub Time Machine (2010)	" Hot Tub Time Machine winds up begging the central question that it was never ready to answer: Why idolize the '80s yet again?" — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 27, 2010
1.5/4	22%	Repo Men (2010)	" To give resonance to that pedantic, half-baked conceit, director Miguel Sapochnik apes the severe gravitas of Children of Men." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 17, 2010
.5/4	28%	Remember Me (2010)	" Slaps, screams, and airborne fire extinguishers thoroughly destroy the film's air of mopey sincerity to bits." — Slant Magazine Posted Mar 10, 2010

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