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2/4
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38%
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Here Comes the Boom (2012) |
"
Here Comes the Boom will probably connect like a haymaker with most of its intended audience. The leads are likeable, and the plot, though beyond incredible, is at the very least distracting."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 12, 2012
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3/4
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56%
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The Bourne Legacy (2012) |
"
Bourne fans will find much to enjoy about The Bourne Legacy, even if they are forced to do without the title character."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 10, 2012
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1/4
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——
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El Jefe () |
"
What could these women see in a dreary sack of mutton like Ricardo?"
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 22, 2012
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2/4
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13%
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Piranha 3DD (2012) |
"
Like so much adolescent, made-for-guys comedy-horror, Piranha 3DD is so weirdly uptight about women you figure exhibitors should hand out teen health guides as well as 3-D glasses."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 1, 2012
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3/4
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75%
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The Intouchables (2012) |
"
The Intouchables works as a crowd-pleaser not because it's true, but because it's a plausible enchantment."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jun 1, 2012
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1.5/4
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25%
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Jesus Henry Christ (2012) |
"
Watching Jesus Henry Christ sometimes feels like being trapped in a building with a faulty fire alarm."
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 25, 2012
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2/4
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38%
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Dark Shadows (2012) |
"
Dark Shadows' only meaningful relationship is between Depp and his audience. He's a persona now, no longer an actor."
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Globe and Mail
Posted May 11, 2012
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3/4
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75%
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Sound of My Voice (2012) |
"
A sharp little cult thriller with a do-it-yourself ending."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 27, 2012
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2/4
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21%
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My Way (2012) |
"
Adolescent boys will savour My Way's bombast and solemnity. Cringing adult audiences will more likely beat a retreat before final call."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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2/4
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22%
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My Way (2011) |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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3/4
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83%
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Comic-Con: Episode IV - A Fan's Hope (2012) |
"
A surprisingly tender look at San Diego Comic-Con..."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 20, 2012
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2.5/4
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52%
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The Three Stooges (2012) |
"
The Three Stooges weighs in at about 15 howlers over 90 minutes. Not bad, about the same ratio of hilarity to hokey as the Stooges' old shorts."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 13, 2012
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2/4
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59%
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Fightville (2012) |
"
If only there was more of Dustin and his colleagues' back story in Fightville, the fight film might have been a real knockout."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 6, 2012
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2/4
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44%
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American Reunion (2012) |
"
Confirms the perception that only losers attend high-school reunions."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Apr 6, 2012
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2/4
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——
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Off World () |
"
It would be interesting to see what Guez, a director who clearly knows his way around a camera, might be able to do with a few charismatic actors."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 16, 2012
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3/4
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90%
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Family Portrait In Black And White (2012) |
"
Though only 85 minutes, the film captures an entire, bewilderingly extended family and way of life inside a sturdy frame."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Mar 2, 2012
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2.5/4
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0%
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Donovan's Echo (2013) |
"
Halfway home to being a really good little clairvoyant thriller, Donovan's Echo would have benefited greatly from a Stephen King rewrite."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 24, 2012
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2/4
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82%
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Goon (2012) |
"
What a disappointment."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 24, 2012
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2/4
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31%
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Tyler Perry's Good Deeds (2012) |
"
Good Deeds is more proof that Perry is a crude dramatist."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 24, 2012
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2/4
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40%
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Love (2012) |
"
Vince Vaughn is nowhere in sight, so you know it can't be a Valentine's Day offering from the Western world. It tries though. It tries."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 17, 2012
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3.5/4
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74%
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Rampart (2012) |
"
Hallucinatory, elliptical, with dialogue as rich as chocolate cake, this is the self-proclaimed Demon Dog of American crime fiction at his fevered best."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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2.5/4
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42%
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Journey 2: The Mysterious Island (2012) |
"
The Mysterious Island is everything a 12-year-old boy could want - endless adventure involving a reckless adolescent hero, with a pretty girl in a clinging T-shirt around to watch him struggle."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 10, 2012
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2/4
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——
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Moon Point (2012) |
"
Unfortunately, Moon Point's fresh, interesting ideas are compromised by an often mean and shallow script."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Feb 3, 2012
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2/4
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56%
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The Viral Factor (2012) |
"
Tediously overwrought and drably made, with scenes punctuated by synthesized drums out of eighties American TV drama."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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1/4
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——
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Not Since You (2009) |
"
Some films need script doctors. A slow, unconvincing cable-TV movie, Not Since You requires script hospice workers."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 20, 2012
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2.5/4
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51%
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Contraband (2012) |
"
Though it never quite has us by the lapels, the film is a solid, workmanlike action flick."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Jan 13, 2012
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3/4
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60%
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Adventures of a Teenage Dragonslayer (2011) |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 17, 2011
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3/4
|
89%
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Dragonslayer (2011) |
"
Like many good documentary filmmakers, Tristan Patterson is a talented eavesdropper who lets characters articulate overriding themes."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 16, 2011
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2.5/4
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75%
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Surviving Progress (2012) |
"
Though often fascinating and beautiful to look at, Surviving Progress falls into the adapting-a-book-into-a-movie trap. Trying to do too much too fast."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Dec 2, 2011
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2.5/4
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78%
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The Mill and the Cross (2011) |
"
The Mill and the Cross may thrill you. But be prepared for a fight. Twenty minutes in, your companion may throw up his or her arms and complain, "This is like watching a painting dry.""
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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4/4
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88%
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Margin Call (2011) |
"
Spacey is mesmerizing as Sam, a weary, aging lion losing his appetite for antelope. And Irons plays the villain with magisterial ease."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 11, 2011
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3/4
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——
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Billy Bishop Goes To War () |
"
Peterson's frantic, charismatic performance captures the giddy, hallucinatory velocity of war."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Nov 4, 2011
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2/4
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81%
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The Skin I Live In (2011) |
"
Though beautiful to look at and graced with moments of ticklish camp, The Skin I Live In is also sluggish, arbitrarily conceived and, especially in its sagging middle, unaccountably dull."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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—
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——
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Down The Road Again () |
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 28, 2011
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2/4
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9%
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1911 (2011) |
"
The Revolution will not be televised, Gil Scott-Heron once sang. Nor should it be filmed, we might add -- at least not as a costume drama with stirring speeches, an inspirational love story and gloriously heroic military charges."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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2.5/4
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10%
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Trespass (2011) |
"
Though hardly indispensable, Trespass is an agreeable time-waster distinguished by one good performance and enough clever twists to keep you, if not on the edge of your seat, at least happily alert, guessing along with the plot."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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3/4
|
40%
|
French Immersion () |
"
Funny in both official languages, French Immersion is the story of career-conscious English Canadians who flock to a small Quebec town to meet a Tremblay and learn French."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Oct 7, 2011
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3/4
|
——
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A Matter of Taste () |
"
A Matter of Taste does an admirable job demonstrating how much body and soul go into a good restaurant."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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4/4
|
100%
|
We Were Here (2011) |
"
The most gripping war movie you'll see this year, We Were Here tells first-hand the story of how AIDS attacked San Francisco, killing more than 15,000. Whole peer groups were happy, healthy, and then dead in months."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 30, 2011
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2/4
|
67%
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Limelight (2011) |
"
Gatien's story is worth telling. Which makes it all the more unfortunate that director Billy Corben presents it in such a methodical fashion."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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1.5/4
|
41%
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Straw Dogs (2011) |
"
A routine, if rather gruesome thriller with attractive leads ducking in and out of danger."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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3/4
|
65%
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Starbuck (2013) |
"
An ingratiating comedy based on the premise that it takes a village to raise an adult."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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4/4
|
81%
|
Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame (2011) |
"
Detective Dee is the action flick of the year, a two-hour epic that blows the Pirates of the Caribbean to the Bermuda Triangle."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 23, 2011
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2.5/4
|
73%
|
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life (2011) |
"
Gainsbourg: A Heroic Life accepts its subject on his own terms. And the compromise feels like capitulation before its hero's last record spins to a close."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 16, 2011
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3/4
|
84%
|
Contagion (2011) |
"
It's the dark comic moments and the film's sci-fi, B-movie, race-to-develop-a-vaccine subplot that prevent Contagion from being a gloomy two hours in the dark. That and Soderbergh's delight in characters."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 9, 2011
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3/4
|
83%
|
Warrior (2011) |
"
Warrior is a weirdly affecting hybrid, a 100-proof melodrama that's two-thirds Sylvester Stallone and one-third Eugene O'Neill. Think Rocky's Long Day's Journey into Night."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 9, 2011
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2.5/4
|
——
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Wound (2012) |
"
Continuously shocking and often painful to watch, the New Zealand horror film Wound should challenge its audience, many of whom believe the genre is best enjoyed as camp entertainment."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 2, 2011
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|
—
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——
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Herschell Gordon Lewis: The Godfather of Gore () |
"
nly cult enthusiasts will appreciate The Godfather of Gore as cinema history. The rest of us are left with a bunch of great stories about cheerfully unsavoury characters."
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Globe and Mail
Posted Sep 2, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
62%
|
Griff the Invisible (2011) |
"
A cheerfully offbeat Aussie take on superhero movies."
—
Globe and Mail
Posted Aug 19, 2011
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