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Abominable (2006) |
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"To say that "Abominable" is the best movie ever to premiere on a basic cable channel is degrading both to the movie and to Bigfoot." | |
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The Backwoods (2006) |
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"Lots of questions are left unanswered, like a movie you fell asleep watching on late night TV and were never able to find again." | |
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Black Book (2007) |
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"A slick, thrilling, trashy, melodramatic and serialesque soap opera adventure which conceals the complex tale of moral ambiguity beneath." | |
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The Black Dahlia (2006) |
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"DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch." | |
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Bubble (2006) |
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""Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos." | |
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Casino Royale (2006) |
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"The last words onscreen read: "James Bond Will Return!" Of course he will. The difference is that for the first time in years, we actually want him back." | |
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Dead Silence (2007) |
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""Dead Silence" is not going to reinvent the genre. It's actually a big pile of nonsense, but that doesn't stop it from being fun nonetheless." | |
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The Departed (2006) |
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"Scorsese has made an incredible cover version of the original, imbued with every ounce of his artistic personality transforming it into something both familiar and new." | |
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Forbidden County (2006) |
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"The budget seems so charmingly low, you actually feel that after Bauer and Hastings share a bottle of wine they might have to pour it back into the bottle to reuse later." | |
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Grindhouse (2007) |
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"A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation." | |
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The Grudge 2 (2006) |
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"Seven films later, with the conventions of throat croaking and neck cracking having moved into camp, it's amazing that Shimizu can still find new ways to turn the old screw." | |
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Halloween (2007) |
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"Some may think it isn't fair to compare Zombie's film to the original. Too bad. It's called "Halloween" and I'm pretty sure it's a remake of a movie called "Halloween"." | |
Brian Holcomb | |
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Hostel: Part II (2007) |
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"The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces." | |
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Inland Empire (2006) |
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" A crazy midnight roller coaster ride to Lynchland. A movie you might half dream through an all night marathon of noir and slasher films, your heart pumping with caffeine." | |
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The Invasion (2007) |
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"This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked." | |
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Lady in the Water (2006) |
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"What is most annoying about "Lady" is that no one ever considers the possibility that nothing magical is actually occurring.The film starts out silly and just gets sillier." | |
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The Lookout (2007) |
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"Most noirs are coming of age stories where an innocent learns how vicious and cruel the world can be. Only he usually learns it while a hunk of hot lead burns in his gut." | |
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Messiah of Evil (1974) |
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"The entire film builds up a dreamlike tension and somnambulant paranoia unlike any film since Carl Dreyer's "Vampyr"." | |
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The Omen (2006) |
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"If you thought Van Sant's "Psycho" reshoot was weird, check this out. It's a community theater version of that old classic "The Omen", filled with all your favorite scenes." | |
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Paranoid (2000) |
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"Throughout most of the movie, keeping my eyes open was a struggle." | |
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The Prestige (2006) |
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""The Prestige" is a cinematic trick, nothing more, and the deadpan seriousness is part of the effect, and not an end in itself." | |
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Rescue Dawn (2007) |
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"At first glance, "Rescue Dawn" might seem like Herzog gone Hollywood, but it's still very much the man's work. Herzog has his cake and eats it too." | |
Brian Holcomb | |
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The Return (2006) |
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"Built from spare parts left over by American remakes of Japanese copies of "Ringu", "The Return" is at least two steps removed from the first generation copy." | |
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Salvage (2006) |
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"A throwback to the salad days of regional horror filmmaking, when a Romero in Pittsburgh, or a Herk Harvey in Utah could create a movie that was not easily forgotten." | |
Brian Holcomb | |
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Spring Break Shark Attack (2005) |
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"Amid the sound and fury of most TV, the filmmakers deserve credit for simply having sly fun with a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing more than what it promises." | |
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Street Kings (2008) |
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"Movies like "Street Kings" are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining." | |
Brian Holcomb | |
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) |
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"Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham-Carter have made so many films together that they're starting to resemble each other." | |
Brian Holcomb | |
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Wanted (2008) |
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"Bekmambetov Says Dusk Watch Is On Hold" | |
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The Woods (2006) |
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""The Woods" plays like a classic Lewton film of the '40's, where the emphasis was on telling a good yarn without much ado and wrapping it up in a tightly wound 70 minutes." | |
Brian Holcomb | |
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