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Horror Hospital (Computer Killers) (Doctor Bloodbath) (1973)
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"Uncut, uncensored (and in some cases, uncircumcised), this let-it-all hang out '73 slasher and skeevy love-in is a black comedy [worth owning]."
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Staci Layne Wilson
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43%
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Jennifer's Body (2009)
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"Come on in, the slaughter's fine."
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Staci Layne Wilson
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46%
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Lakeview Terrace (2008)
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"Overall, I liked Lakeview Terrace. I wouldn't buy property there (cue the rim shot), but I'll recommend a rent."
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Staci Layne Wilson
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2%
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Disaster Movie (2008)
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"The filmmakers understand that comedy springs from incongruity. However they seem to lack the timing, craft, and spirit that go into such."
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Mervius
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41%
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The House Bunny (2008)
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"I got more solid laughs out of this movie than from anything I've seen yet this year."
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Mervius
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43%
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Death Race (2008)
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"The movie is exactly what you're probably expecting after having seen the trailer. Nothing more, nothing less."
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Mervius
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71%
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American Teen (2008)
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"American Teen's virtue lies not so much in the cinematic techniques used, but in the honest personalities that shine through."
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Mervius
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83%
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Tropic Thunder (2008)
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"Ends with such a self-congratulatory celebration as to underscore the question of who the joke is really on - crappy movies, or the audiences who eat them right up."
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Mervius
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40%
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Henry Poole Is Here (2008)
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"For a while, the movie wields its existential angst so purposefully and heavily that it can be difficult to handle, depending on how philosophically minded you are."
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Mervius
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41%
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The Rocker (2008)
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"The Rocker has some pretty funny moments, but overall the whole affair never shakes off the nagging feeling that it wants to be School of Rock."
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Mervius
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19%
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Fly Me to the Moon (2008)
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"If the software that Pixar Studios is using these days in version 7.0, then what the makers of Fly Me to the Moon are utilizing is perhaps version 2.5."
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Mervius
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19%
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars (2008)
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"I received chills up my spine more than once, just via a careful line or two of dialogue reflecting Obi-Wan's esteem for his apprentice."
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Mervius
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65%
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The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 (2008)
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"Young women may not typically demand this quality of cinematic entertainment to be aimed at their demographic, but they should."
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Mervius
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68%
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Pineapple Express (2008)
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"Pineapple Express is a madcap farcical crime comedy first and foremost, saturated with the casual conversational silliness of a marijuana disconnect."
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Mervius
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38%
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Swing Vote (2008)
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"The final 10 minutes are good enough that they actually deserve a better movie supporting them."
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Mervius
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62%
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Brideshead Revisited (2008)
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"The kind of movie that shows us a world we might like to visit, no matter how much we might have reservations about the people we'd have to face in such a vacation."
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Mervius
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55%
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Step Brothers (2008)
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"Someone with the short term memory problems of the protagonist in Memento might find Step Brothers to be the height of comedic genius."
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Mervius
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53%
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Mamma Mia! (2008)
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"A Frankenstein's monster of a musical, with ABBA tunes stitched together using the DNA extracted from successful musicals."
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Mervius
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94%
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The Dark Knight (2008)
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"One character says it best. 'Now that's a Batman.'"
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Mervius
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61%
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008)
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"If 3-D cinema technology takes off, I can imagine a day when this version of Journey to the Center of the Earth is regarded as a mere gimmicky throwaway."
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Mervius
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87%
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2) (2008)
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"The movie may be artificial in an interesting way, but when the characters and dialogue arrive with the danger and edge of a Playskool toy, it's hard to get behind it."
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Mervius
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40%
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Hancock (2008)
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"In the end, the movie sneaks up on us and delivers a solid pay-off, one that may even have many members of the audience shedding a tear."
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Mervius
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96%
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WALL-E (2008)
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"There are jokes and gags aplenty, sure, but without any depth to the characters, the effect is a bit one-sided. Too much of the movie winds up feeling skin-deep."
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Mervius
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71%
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Wanted (2008)
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"An over-the-top action movie that builds and builds, and keeps the promises it makes along the way."
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Mervius
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50%
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Get Smart (2008)
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"Steve Carell may have been born to play this part."
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Mervius
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15%
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The Love Guru (2008)
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"Mike Myers once again channels his inner giggling 12-year-old, but does so with a full embrace rather than with an air of irony or self-mockery."
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Mervius
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28%
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What Happens in Vegas (2008)
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"In the end, only the one-dimensional characters on screen seem capable of believing that love has been found in this dreadful mire."
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Mervius
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18%
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The Happening (2008)
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"In the end, one has to wonder why Shyamalan is so intent on riding his one-trick pony so hard. The animal is tired and needs desperately to rest."
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Mervius
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66%
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The Incredible Hulk (2008)
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"In the end, fans of the original comic book series should be much more satisfied this time around."
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Mervius
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88%
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Kung Fu Panda (2008)
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"Action scenes, humor, Jack Black's brand of goofy personality, and a moral or two all combine pretty seamlessly and entertainingly for the quick 90-minute run time."
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Mervius
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36%
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You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008)
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"You Don't Mess with the Zohan is not as awful as the despicable Little Nicky, but it aspires to the same sloppy adolescent-stream-of-consciousness depths."
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Mervius
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50%
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Sex and the City (2008)
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"The story - such as it is, without direction or much discernable craft - often wanders around like a concussion victim."
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Mervius
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45%
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The Strangers (2008)
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"It would indeed be nice to be able to tell you that the movie has an engaging story, but alas, this product is as faceless as its inscrutable antagonists."
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Mervius
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73%
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Son of Rambow (2007)
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"Son of Rambow is a little entertaining and a lot silly."
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Mervius
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66%
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The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian (2008)
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"The action, especially in the area of the fighting, is the best reason to watch this movie, and the grand battles are comparable to those in the first entry of this franchise."
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Mervius
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77%
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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (2008)
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"If Lucas and crew make a fifth Indiana Jones movie, I suspect we'll learn that our aging hero can fly too."
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Mervius
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10%
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Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed (2008)
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"Expelled is an embarrassing, uninformed, misinformed, river dance of manipulation and logical fallacies."
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Mervius
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5%
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88 Minutes (2008)
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"The unbelievable 88 Minutes, nearly incoherent in its unnecessarily complicated story, is a carnival of red herrings. Al Pacino should have known better."
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Mervius
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84%
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
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"The story ends with such a bang of charm that many of the movie's sins can be forgiven, even though one of them is revisited right there in the final shot."
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Mervius
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37%
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Street Kings (2008)
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"The heavy-handed dialogue and aggressive score do their best to make up for Keanu's understated performance, but instead suggest a pay-off that isn't there."
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Mervius
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8%
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Prom Night (2008)
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"The movie is so relentlessly uncreative that I can't imagine anybody who has ever seen a couple slasher flicks enjoying it."
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Mervius
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48%
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The Ruins (2008)
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"Mere competence doesn't generate the needed bonus points for when the filmmakers bail out in the third act and reveal the entire affair for cheap Hollywood fluff."
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Mervius
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65%
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Stop Loss (2008)
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"The movie, heavy-handed and manipulative, asks some honest and important questions at the expense of honest storytelling."
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Mervius
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7%
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Shutter (2008)
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"This movie elicits perhaps more laughs than any of the entries that have preceded it in the Asian horror remake franchise."
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Mervius
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26%
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Drillbit Taylor (2008)
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"The kind of uninspired comedy where the producers have wrongly assumed that inserting the right people into the right gimmicky situation will write its own hilarity."
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Mervius
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79%
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Dr. Seuss' Horton Hears a Who! (2008)
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"The filmmakers and actors have honored the source material while embellishing for a modern movie audience, and the result is very entertaining."
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Mervius
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22%
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Never Back Down (2008)
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"A particularly cheesy flashback montage at the "moment of truth" (and of course I use the word "truth" lightly) may elicit laughs from older and more experienced viewers."
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Mervius
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79%
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The Bank Job (2008)
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"The surprising thing for this reviewer is how much emotional weight the story manages to concoct."
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Mervius
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77%
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
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"An intelligent script, bouncy soundtrack, and (above all) terrific lead performances combine to make this short outing a robust and rewarding one."
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Mervius
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9%
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10,000 B.C. (2008)
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"The movie works, if only at times, because it wields a savage exoticism that accentuates the outright strangeness of pre-history."
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Mervius
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