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52%
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Jack the Giant Slayer (2013)
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"While it's no classic, casual fans of well-staged action, decently-rendered CGI, and stature-indiscriminate sausage parties might want to check it out."
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Brian Juergens
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38%
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
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"While doting mothers may go for its gentle, corny brand of apron string S&M, there's not much there for the rest of us to enjoy. "
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Brian Juergens
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66%
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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (2012)
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"While the 48fps reads very much as "American soap opera" in the early scenes, it's quite effective in the rousing, vertigo-laced action sequences. Messy, but worth a look."
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Brian Juergens
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68%
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Cloud Atlas (2012)
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"This is not a movie, it is a manifesto. A gonzo, breathtaking, and deeply humane celebration of the underserved, the undervalued, and the oppressed."
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Brian Juergens
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90%
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Gayby (2012)
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"A fresh, breezy take on modern gay life and platonic love delivered with disarming enthusiasm and genuine wit. "
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Brian Juergens
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100%
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How to Survive a Plague (2012)
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"This astonishing assemblage of archive material from the ground zero of the AIDS crisis is more than a history lesson - it is a rousing, essential study of human survival. "
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Brian Juergens
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80%
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Magic Mike (2012)
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"A breezy, slyly noncholant romp through the world of male strip revue. The bold men of Mike leave it on the floor ... and by "it" I mean "your panties"."
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Brian Juergens
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96%
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In the Family (2012)
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"More than just a carefully-crafted exercise in naturalism and restraint - Family is a beautiful, bold, and staggeringly moving film."
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Brian Juergens
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24%
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Struck by Lightning (2013)
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"An unexpectedly serious-minded comedy that sets itself apart from other teen fare by tackling adolescent ambition without the safety net of irony or sarcasm."
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Brian Juergens
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38%
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Dark Shadows (2012)
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"By refusing to go either full-on melodrama or pure sendup, they've sentenced the original show's characters to an eternity of being upstaged by ugly lampshades. "
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Brian Juergens
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34%
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Battleship (2012)
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"A deafening, seizure-inducing, patently ridiculous full-length military ad co-directed by Michael Bay and a trash compactor. Worst of all, it's also a hell of a lot of fun."
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Brian Juergens
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63%
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Going Down In La-la Land (2012)
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"Going Down doesn't stray far from the Hollywood Cautionary Tale formula - but credit for making a downward spiral feel as gritty as a mid-afternoon trip to Pinkberry."
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Brian Juergens
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52%
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The Iron Lady (2012)
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"As a biography, it's a ridiculous mess - but as entertainment, this bizarre jukebox biopic built around the expectedly brilliant Streep is a qualified guilty pleasure."
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Brian Juergens
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72%
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Carnage (2011)
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"Thanks to a few nice comic turns and a crisp final 10 minutes, this comedy of bad manners just barely manages to rise above its own calculated chaos."
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Brian Juergens
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7%
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New Year's Eve (2011)
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"NYE, the #1 reason I hate you is because I'm going to look like a total a**hole when I have to admit to my mother that yes, I saw you, and I thought you were terrible. "
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Brian Juergens
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80%
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Shame (2011)
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"A handsome movie about a handsome guy with serious issues and a Platinum card. It's kind of like American Psycho without the body count. (Or the sense of humor.)"
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Brian Juergens
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95%
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Making the Boys (2010)
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"An entertaining and compelling reason to either reconsider the polarizing work or to experience it for the first time with due regard for its original context."
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Brian Juergens
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44%
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J. Edgar (2011)
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"Two hours spent with the man are such a chore that it's hard to imagine why lifelong confidants Tolson and Gandy suffered his toxic, rapid-fire company for entire decades."
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Brian Juergens
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69%
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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
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"Would it be too much to ask for an all-NPH spinoff? I think he's more than earned it. Otherwise, definitely an improvement over the abysmal Guantanamo installment."
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Brian Juergens
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34%
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The Hangover Part II (2011)
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"The Hangover Part II is, for the most part, an exceedingly hacky comedy."
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Alonso Duralde
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64%
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Dare (2009)
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"Unlike so many films that paint a rosy picture of adolescence for adults with fuzzy memories, Dare has the courage of its convictions."
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Alonso Duralde
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61%
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
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"Despite a final half hour that's full of laughs, Death takes so long getting its farce gears moving that the audience becomes comatose with anticipation of mirth that is too late in coming."
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Alonso Duralde
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14%
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I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry (2007)
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"While it's very easy to eviscerate Chuck and Larry from an activist point of view, all one really has to do to slam the flick is look at the lazy, contrived writing and the traffic-cop direction by frequent Sandler accomplice Dennis Dugan."
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Alonso Duralde
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100%
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Small Town Gay Bar (2007)
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"While we're used to seeing movies about young men and women leaving their hometowns behind to live their lives openly in a big city, Gay Bar shows us the people who have decided to stay in their hometowns but still stake out the life that they choo"
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Alonso Duralde
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85%
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A Single Man (2009)
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"Whether viewers embrace its aesthetic as part of Ford's worldview or get annoyed by the fashion-spread-ishness of A Single Man's look, there's no denying the emotional impact of this superb adaptation."
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Alonso Duralde
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18%
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Valentine's Day (2010)
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"I had always thought of Love Actually, this movie's obvious antecedent, as a pleasant diversion, but next to Valentine's Day, it's a cerebral epic on par with Robert Altman's Nashville."
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Alonso Duralde
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26%
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Land of the Lost (2009)
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"An aggressively weird, suitably uneven and decidedly un-kid-friendly keg-stand of nostalgia for those unable to scrub the fever-dream of a series from their memories."
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Brian Juergens
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24%
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Little Ashes (2009)
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"Likely has an audience out there, but I'm not it, nor are most of the people who will be checking it out for its much-hyped casting of Pattinson as a gay-experimenting Dalí."
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Brian Juergens
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78%
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Outrage (2009)
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"A well-documented cautionary tale that should spark broader discussion of the integrity of those making our laws, and the larger implications of living a closeted life."
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Brian Juergens
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Pedro ()
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"Lacks the polish, star power or distinct voice of brother-in-arms Milk, but pays earnest tribute to a man who shattered preconceptions about gays and people with AIDS."
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Brian Juergens
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83%
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I Love You, Man (2009)
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"Butch and Sundance ended their hetero romance in a shower of bullets, but here it's something to celebrate - a straight love story that doesn't leave anyone out in the cold."
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Brian Juergens
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94%
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Milk (2008)
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"Equal parts sweetness, melancholy and rage, Milk is a wonderfully immersive, warts-and-all journey into the gay community at a vital moment in civil rights history."
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Brian Juergens
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100%
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The Boys in the Band (1970)
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"Unapologetic, ambitious, wonderfully vibrant, and more than deserving of a second chance from those who found it to be an unfair look at the lives of gay men in the 1960s."
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Brian Juergens
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62%
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Cthulhu (2008)
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"An assured, creepy effort that skillfully integrates gay themes and characters into a straight-up horror story."
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Brian Juergens
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73%
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Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist (2008)
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"A charming tour through a wonderfully authentic New York City landscape that takes full advantage of the magic that the city offers to everyone, regardless of sexuality."
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Brian Juergens
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62%
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Hamlet 2 (2008)
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"If you're not offended easily and like good camp you'll love Hamlet 2, a joke-a minute lampoon of tortured artists with a finale that shouldn't be missed."
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Brian Juergens
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83%
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Tropic Thunder (2008)
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"A very funny Hollywood story with a gay character who doesn't mince or terrify the straight characters and comes out without being punished. If only this weren't a satire."
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Brian Juergens
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63%
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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"Themes of religious oppression, particularly of gay people, are especially pointed and unfortunately still relevant enough today to sting."
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Brian Juergens
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94%
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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"From its grim palette to its wonderfully eerie score, a departure from what Hollywood has always told us a superhero film should be ... Complex, unsettling, and rewarding."
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Brian Juergens
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54%
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
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"Even were it not the title of one of ABBA's most beloved songs, this might just be the most aptly-titled movie of the year.Because my Mom is gonna loooooooove it."
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Brian Juergens
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29%
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Kiss the Bride (2008)
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"Plot contrivances and erratic character choices reduce would could have been a frothy comedy into a confused, unsatisfying jumble that no amount of beefcake can rescue."
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Brian Juergens
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59%
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Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) (2008)
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"I don't know that achieving this kind of sexual freedom would be worth having to live around all these exhaustingly precocious people."
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Brian Juergens
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58%
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Shelter (2007)
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"Shelter gives hope that gay romances have come of age."
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Brian Juergens
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50%
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Dirty Laundry (2006)
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"Is it sidesplitting? No, but it's cute. Is it wonderfully wicked? No, but it's got a few twists and turns. Is it a classic? Probably not, but it's an encouraging move into a new kind of gay film and a story not often told."
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Brian Juergens
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64%
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The Nines (2007)
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"When I read that Ryan Reynolds was playing not one, but three characters in this movie -- one of whom is gay -- my ticket pretty much bought itself. They had me at 'himbo'."
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Brian Juergens
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79%
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Teeth (2007)
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"Much like Dawn's ill-fated gyno visit, a peek beneath the folds of this clever and surprisingly amusing little horror comedy holds a few surprises for curious gay viewers."
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Brian Juergens
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59%
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Cruising (1980)
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"Is it offensive? Yes and no. It's insensitive, certainly. And I wouldn't want my mother watching it, lest she think I've been in a sling in the meatpacking district for most of my adult life."
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Brian Juergens
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89%
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Eastern Promises (2007)
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"Brutal, but not cruel."
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Brian Juergens
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91%
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Knocked Up (2007)
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"A film that manages to be uncommonly thoughtful and sensitive to the complexity of its very faulted characters while still being relentlessly, brilliantly funny."
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Brian Juergens
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69%
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Blades of Glory (2007)
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"One of the most keenly perceptive comedies ever made about straight male bonding, fear of intimacy, and masculinity. Not to mention figure skating."
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Brian Juergens
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47%
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