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41%
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Straw Dogs (2011)
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"The simplistic characters were my biggest problem with the film."
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Grae Drake
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17%
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Restless (2009)
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Dave White
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76%
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The Debt (2011)
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"You can line up for it if you like, maybe as a sort of late summer movie protest vote. But you'd be better off just waiting for the real Oscar movies to come along."
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Dave White
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85%
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Contagion (2011)
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"The rest of this Steven Soderbergh movie is a chilled down, anti-hysterical, smartly-schlocky shout-out to '70s disaster/paranoia films."
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Dave White
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85%
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Contagion (2011)
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"Watching this film is as uncomfortable as expected, so if you have even the slightest tendency towards hypochondria, you should stay far away."
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Grae Drake
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0%
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)
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"I go take seven aspirin for my current headache, I do need to let you know that there's a whole other actually funny movie going on inside this one, struggling to come out."
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Dave White
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0%
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Bucky Larson: Born to Be a Star (2011)
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"Don't put yourself through this train wreck of a movie. Unless of course you enjoy feeling like the screenwriter is hovering at your elbow during the film screaming "GET IT?!" after every joke."
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Grae Drake
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93%
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Drive (2011)
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"It's great: a minimalist, '80s-inspired Los-Angeles-loner-by-night dream of stoplights, headlights, moonlight, window glare, satin jackets and extremely cool knives."
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Dave White
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93%
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Drive (2011)
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"Ryan Gosling is everywhere these days, and I couldn't be happier."
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Grae Drake
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25%
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Apollo 18 (2011)
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"[A] zero-intensity space bore."
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Dave White
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25%
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Apollo 18 (2011)
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"[It] really delivers a fun, tense experience."
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Grae Drake
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76%
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The Debt (2011)
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"It's best just to go and see what happens."
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Grae Drake
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16%
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Shark Night 3D (2011)
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"By way of comparison, Soul Surfer devoted at least a dozen minutes of screen time to people reading the Bible and that was a more exciting shark attack movie than this. "
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Dave White
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16%
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Shark Night 3D (2011)
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"Unfortunately, you can't even appreciate the movie for jaw-droppingly bad performances. It's just a whole bunch of people who deserved better."
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Grae Drake
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26%
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Colombiana (2011)
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"The movie is like a lady who can't choose between two suitors: the campy and fun one, or the serious and cliché one."
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Grae Drake
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53%
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Brighton Rock (2011)
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"You'll be fascinated by your visit, but when it's time to leave you'll be more than glad to get out."
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Dave White
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58%
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Don't Be Afraid Of The Dark (2011)
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"The entire picture has a perfect balance, and is a great way to usher in the fall."
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Grae Drake
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68%
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Our Idiot Brother (2011)
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"His actions and everyone else's reactions create a path of insufferably trite destruction/resurrection."
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Dave White
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68%
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Our Idiot Brother (2011)
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"Somehow the script manages to eke out enough new jokes and sweet moments to help me hang in there with Ned, and Elizabeth Banks makes a deliciously despicable Miranda."
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Grae Drake
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24%
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Conan the Barbarian (2011)
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"Usually when a movie includes so many interesting parts, it amounts to a pretty good time. However, the result here never gels."
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Grae Drake
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45%
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30 Minutes or Less (2011)
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"Even with all these talented performers, I was left with no sympathy for Nick's predicament -- the movie was way more painful than whatever he went through"
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Grae Drake
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45%
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You yi tian (One Day) (2010)
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Dave White
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61%
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Final Destination 5 (2011)
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"It delivers on the promise of its 3D with some truly gnarly gross-out deaths."
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Dave White
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61%
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Final Destination 5 (2011)
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"These movies are starting to cross over into pure genius territory with their ever-evolving sense of self awareness and addition of 3D."
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Grae Drake
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73%
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Bellflower (2011)
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"The movie peels back the damage and lays it out in a way that's as fractured and sad as the mess its characters make, like a Judd Apatow dramedy with skull-cracking baseball bat beatdowns."
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Dave White
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73%
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Bellflower (2011)
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"Replete with occasional moments of grunge on the lens and other clear indicators of its ultra-indie origins, Bellflower is not perfect, it's post-perfect... which is exactly the way reality feels right about now."
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Grae Drake
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76%
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The Help (2011)
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"There's not a human response that isn't framed as either an "awwww" moment of lady-bonding, a you-go-girl punchline or a begin-weeping-right-NOW command. So that's pretty exhausting."
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Dave White
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82%
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
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"Here it is, the coolest end-of-the-world-as-we-know-it movie I've seen in a long time, with not an alien in sight."
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Dave White
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82%
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes (2011)
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"Although the CG started out a little shaky, Andy Serkis and his motion capture work quickly won me over as Caesar aged. I completely forgot I wasn't watching a real ape take everything over. In fact, he became my favorite character."
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Grae Drake
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60%
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Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011)
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"This isn't really a Glee movie as much as it is a movie about how everybody loves Glee. And because of that important distinction, the real theme of the party is "Let's gloat over our own success" and it'll leave non-fans no way in."
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Dave White
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60%
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Glee: The 3D Concert Movie (2011)
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"The splendidly mixed and visually overstimulating movie might make your head explode on the spot, Scanners style."
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Grae Drake
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25%
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The Change-Up (2011)
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"Put in the hands of less competent actors, this movie would have been completely skippable. However, since they both hold their own and the jokes are surprisingly biting, it ends up being tolerable."
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Grae Drake
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45%
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30 Minutes or Less (2011)
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"In the right empty-tank mindset, you'll laugh during the entire 83-minute running time, walk out when it's over, tell your friends that it mostly sucked, but still halfway recommend it."
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Dave White
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76%
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The Help (2011)
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"The performances in this movie are so spectacular that it made my analytical eye fill with tears for the triumphs and sorrows of the people on the screen."
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Grae Drake
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90%
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Attack the Block (2011)
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"Points for thinking outside the slimy-gooey-monster box."
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Dave White
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25%
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The Change-Up (2011)
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"It flirts with raunchy behavior and bold, wrongheaded R-rated comedy but never commits."
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Dave White
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52%
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The Devil's Double (2011)
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"This almost completely true story is so juicy and unbelievable, it really caught me by surprise."
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Grae Drake
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44%
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Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
|
"Everything in this movie is borrowed from other movies."
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Dave White
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71%
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Friends With Benefits (2011)
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"All of these quirky details felt like independent pieces crammed together for the sake of edginess."
|
Grae Drake
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80%
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The Myth Of The American Sleepover (2011)
|
"It never lies about teenage castes and doesn't spread itself too thinly in any sort of egalitarian attempt to cover all the bases."
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Dave White
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75%
|
Mei loi ging chaat (Future X-Cops) (2010)
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Dave White
|
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78%
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
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"For a movie this full of warmth and potential, there's a vibe-killing sameness and sitcom-like safety that it wraps itself in like a cozy, smothery blanket."
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Dave White
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78%
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Crazy, Stupid, Love. (2011)
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"Remember what it was like to fall in love for the first time? If you don't, this winsome movie will remind you."
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Grae Drake
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44%
|
Cowboys & Aliens (2011)
|
"If you were curious about this movie because you thought there might be more to it than the obvious, don't overthink it -- the title truly is all you're going to get."
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Grae Drake
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64%
|
Another Earth (2011)
|
"More drab "fi" than dreamy "sci.""
|
Dave White
|
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64%
|
Another Earth (2011)
|
"This is the coolest science fiction movie I have seen in a long time, because it's just masquerading as a story about a new planet with bizarro versions of us."
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Grae Drake
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23%
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The Smurfs (2011)
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"Neil has to please Sofia with an ad campaign and come to terms with his inner ambivalence and anxiety over the prospect of impending fatherhood. This story will captivate children everywhere."
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Dave White
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23%
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The Smurfs (2011)
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"When pointless movies like this come out, I can't help but wonder what these talented artists could have been doing besides earning this paycheck."
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Grae Drake
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21%
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Snow Flower And The Secret Fan (2011)
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"There aren't enough movies about women's friendships. And there really aren't enough movies about women's friendships with all-Asian casts. So it's a bummer to report that this one's as terrible as it is."
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Dave White
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Half Moon (2011)
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Dave White
|
78%
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