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48%
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The Tree of Life (2008)
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"...absorbing, mysterious, lyrical and distinctively titillating...a moody masterpiece that is thrillingly alarming...[a] tale of wandering hedonism and anguish"
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Frank Ochieng
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100%
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Taxi to the Dark Side (2007)
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"Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem"
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Frank Ochieng
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22%
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008)
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"Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins feels like a rudimentary retread of previously outrageous "black attack" farces... needlessly cluttered, unfocused and pointless..."
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Frank Ochieng
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22%
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Mad Money (2008)
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"[A] pointless payday for director Khourie's banal blank check comedy...a straining pseudo-hysterical heist flick that has all the giddy appeal of an empty bank draft."
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Frank Ochieng
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86%
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Starting Out in the Evening (2007)
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"Wagner's penetrating narrative is poetically stimulating in its smart approach to its dialogue-driven excellence and standout performances."
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Frank Ochieng
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52%
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
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"Synthetically dull, manipulative and emotionally clunky, Baumbach's mawkish melodrama is a pretentious and garrulous character study that sits idly in its moping gibberish."
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Frank Ochieng
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94%
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Juno (2007)
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"Cunningly perceptive and hip in its irresistible skepticism about the comforts and uncertainties of love, Juno is enchantingly bright and breezy in its effecting resonance."
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Frank Ochieng
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79%
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A Mighty Heart (2007)
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"Absorbingly touching and terrifying, A Mighty Heart is an intimate film but has the gutsy and reflective ingredients of sorrow, introspection and outrage."
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Frank Ochieng
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51%
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Bee Movie (2007)
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"A spelling bee. A busy bee. A killer bee. But a Seinfeld bee? Sorry Jerry, your hapless honey-seeking hero doesn't create much of an animated buzz."
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Frank Ochieng
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80%
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American Gangster (2007)
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"American Gangster dares to look in the menacing mirror and reflect the scabrous priorities that define some handsomely yet disillusion others hauntingly."
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Frank Ochieng
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16%
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Saw IV (2007)
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"Stultifying in its pseudo-sensationalistic schlock, this numbingly and nightmarish narrative has no legitimate creepy conviction beyond flexing its meaningless, morose muscles"
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Frank Ochieng
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64%
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
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"Heartwarming, quirky and quietly affecting...the overall package is peppered with an easy-going dosage of reflective schmaltz...warm, inviting and actively spirited..."
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Frank Ochieng
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47%
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Rendition (2007)
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"...housing top-notch actors and their hefty paychecks but nothing else beyond the obviousness of the melodramatic malarkey it spouts with empty conviction."
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Frank Ochieng
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94%
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Gone Baby Gone (2007)
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"[A] tortured morality play that takes place on the salacious sidewalks where bluebloods and bombastic blue-collared souls equally pound the pavement in cynical unity."
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Frank Ochieng
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51%
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30 Days of Night (2007)
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"Bleak, bombastic and belligerent, Slade's blood-busting bohemians will indeed take a caustic chunk out of your imaginative horrifying souls."
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Frank Ochieng
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64%
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Things We Lost in the Fire (2007)
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"Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances."
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Frank Ochieng
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9%
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The Comebacks (2007)
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"Let's face it, folks...we need another repetitive spoof movie like a piglet needs dirty fingernails...never registers beyond aping its lazy connect-the-dots jocularity."
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Frank Ochieng
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26%
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The Final Season (2007)
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"Inspirational but overly cliched with its pseudo-earnestness...In short, this heartland-based hokum about a high school baseball team is definitely corn off the cob."
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Frank Ochieng
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44%
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Why Did I Get Married? (2007)
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"Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability."
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Frank Ochieng
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57%
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We Own the Night (2007)
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"A sluggishly regurgitation of the noteworthy 70's-style cop dramas. The nocturnal naughtiness behind Gray's mean streets saga begs for a compelling ounce of creative daylight"
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Frank Ochieng
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53%
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Across the Universe (2007)
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"Somehow, the Beatles' precious diamonds are glaringly missing from Lucy's sky if not in Julie's unevenly charismatic but cluttered and customary Universe."
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Frank Ochieng
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22%
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Resident Evil: Extinction (2007)
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"Extinction is basically a robotic and wretched screen-sized visual video game that never challenges or stimulates the audience's rush for genuine outrageous freakiness."
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Frank Ochieng
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87%
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Control (2007)
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"[An] intimate look at a tragic footnote in entertainment. A moody yet strangely melodic concoction about creativity and confusion in an overwhelming abyss of artistic isolation"
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Frank Ochieng
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14%
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The Seeker: The Dark Is Rising (2007)
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"Cunningham's scope is myopic and minimal in a mystical yet meandering piece of malarkey that masquerades as a long-winded Tolkien treasure hunt for teenage thrill-seekers."
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Frank Ochieng
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29%
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The Heartbreak Kid (2007)
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"The Farrellys' The Heartbreak Kid is a seemingly sketchy and erratic farce that begs for some of the wayward cinematic siblings' trademark outlandish quirkiness."
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Frank Ochieng
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39%
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Feast of Love (2007)
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"Feast does nothing concrete to make us embrace this uneven romancer that has all the giddy spirit of a melted box of chocolates."
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Frank Ochieng
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28%
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The Game Plan (2007)
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"Sappy and simplistic, The Game Plan belongs on the sidelines of stale cotton candy creativity."
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Frank Ochieng
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76%
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
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"Aside from the movie's mouthful title, this [is a] contemplative and carousing exposition. [The] prairie-induced pathos is plenty to digest with absolute reverence."
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Frank Ochieng
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5%
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Good Luck Chuck (2007)
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"[A] fetid romantic comedy...In short, if it weren't for bad Luck then the chump Chuck wouldn't have any cinematic luck at all."
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Frank Ochieng
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43%
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The Brave One (2007)
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"Jordan's Brave delves into a showy yet sluggish crime drama that incorporates all the cliched parts of a fatalistic fantasy audiences have seen over and over."
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Frank Ochieng
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87%
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