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Haunters (2010) |
Gang Dong-Won plays both the physical frailty and mental steeliness of the character with skill. - ScreenAnarchy
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| Posted May 08, 2020
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Grave of the Fireflies (1988) |
This film isn't easy to watch but it's essential viewing among the great works of animation--or really of all film, for that matter. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Twins of Evil (1971) |
...an unashamedly sexy, luridly violent, and well-produced horror movie shot with actors who weren't especially embarrassed to be a part of the bloody happenings on screen. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Jack and Diane (2012) |
There's a wise (and frightening) movie about young love in Jack and Diane, but Bradley Rust Gray didn't make it. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Deadly Blessing (1981) |
On paper, a slasher-thriller with supernatural overtones, Deadly Blessing is instead a series of loosely connected parts. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Frankenweenie (2012) |
Why does Frankenweenie 2012 feel so incomplete and cobbled together with loose ideas? - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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House at the End of the Street (2012) |
That's essentially what this movie is: ugly. It's characters are deeply unpleasant. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Spaceballs (1987) |
Spaceballs remains a funny enough movie on its own, even after all these years. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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V/H/S (2012) |
V/H/S could have been really, really good instead of just really, really interesting. As it stands, it's worth watching just to see the seeds of several very clever ideas emerge. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Tai Chi Zero (2012) |
Fun peppers his cast with Hong Kong action film royalty while filling the screen with crazy titles and text overlays, which almost distract from the problems with the way he and writer Chia-lu Chang have unfortunately structured their film. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Killer Klowns From Outer Space (1988) |
A far more interesting horror movie threat than they have any right to be, and that's all thanks to the cleverness of the Chiodo boys. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012) |
This beautiful film, anchored by non-professional actors inside of a wrecked world, is one of the most wrenchingly wonderful fantasies of 2012. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Jeepers Creepers (2001) |
Jeepers Creepers still holds a lot of the power it did over a decade ago thanks in large part to its ability to morph and change styles during its brisk 90-minute running time. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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ParaNorman (2012) |
An original feature about tolerance and understanding that just happens to have ghosts, zombies, a vengeful witch, and some of the most gorgeous stop-motion work I've seen in a while. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Iron Sky (2012) |
Iron Sky's simplicity will either be the reason you seek it out or the reason you turn it off, but it executes on its concept with some accomplished effects for its low budget while living up to the promise of its premise. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure (1989) |
Thankfully, the sense of humor still holds and the lead characters are as sweet and dumb as ever. They mean well, they just don't have follow through--and we've all known that person. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Piranha 3DD (2012) |
Piranha 3DD fails to match the full-blown bloodbath of the first movie, and features too many callbacks to that film to really establish its own identity. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Flying Swords of Dragon Gate (2011) |
Relentlessly, impossibly improbable and fun. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Young Gun in the Time (2012) |
Between Young Gun's dedication and simple decency and Song-hyun's tough-headedness, you want to hang with these characters and see things turn out okay for them. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Terror Train (1980) |
Terror Train is at best workmanlike in its matter-of-fact killings and downright silly and nonsensical in the way the mystery and fake-outs are handled. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre Part 2 (1986) |
Everything is heightened in Chainsaw 2, the gore gorier, the performances, broader, the music synth-ier. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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The Funhouse (1981) |
A terrific twist with its killer makes it one worth seeking out. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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From Beyond (1986) |
A melange of Lovecraftian influences [that] stands side-by-side with Re-Animator as one of the best films of Band's Empire International years. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Total Recall (2012) |
While the remake might not hold a candle to the 1990 interpretation of the material, it can stand on its own as a solid action movie. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Chicken With Plums (2011) |
A beautiful bummer, a deeply-felt and sumptuous movie... - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Wizards (1977) |
Bakshi is direct in his imagery and his messaging: the drumbeat of war and the rush of new technology is killing us...Wizards is far more than a simple animated curiosity, but a surprisingly dark, dangerous, and compelling piece of fantasy. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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They Live (1988) |
We should really celebrate movies like this from Carpenter. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Death Valley (1982) |
Ultimately, Death Valley is a curiosity more interesting for its cast than anything actually on the screen. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Riddick (2013) |
Violent, strange, and with ever-escalating stakes, this is the definition of a well-crafted B-movie. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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I Declare War (2012) |
A visceral and clever battle of wits, the fracturing of friendships, and a look at the true cost of (make believe) war really is. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Detroit Metal City (2008) |
If you're a fan of the manga, DMC might be worth checking out. Just keep in mind that it exists in its own "realistic" world and therefore is coming from a different place than the truly rude and terrific source material. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Dredd (2012) |
Dredd knows its characters and world in a way that many adaptations do not and it blends them together with a not-overly-complicated narrative to deliver one of the best jolt-to-the-brain action movies of the last year. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Halloween III: Season of the Witch (1982) |
It's a movie about the widespread death and destruction via techno-magic and it's just a huge disappointment that it took years after its initial release for Halloween III to find an audience. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Brave (2012) |
Technically and talent-wise, Brave is a fine film and at any other studio would be an instant Oscar contender. At Pixar, it comes off as a first-pass on a much better, deeper film that has yet to manifest. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Storage 24 (2012) |
From a technical standpoint, it's a mixed bag while the stories and characters you're trapped with for an hour and a half offer nothing compelling. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Mutant Girls Squad (2010) |
Everyone involved knows what kinds of movies they're making here and simply seem to hope that the small audience for them appreciate the skin and violence on display. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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The Pirates! Band of Misfits (2012) |
If nothing else, I can say that Aardman's latest is one of the best-looking movies I've seen in 2012...Oh, and the movie also happens to be very funny, a spoof on Pirate pictures without getting all that much weighed down with pop culture. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Dick Tracy (1990) |
In spite of a stellar cast led by Beatty as the square-jawed cop, Dick Tracy never comes to life--it's the rough idea of a Dick Tracy movie, stiff, formless, and kind of dumb. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Dragon Age: Dawn of the Seeker (2012) |
I's hard to imagine die-hard Dragon Age fans flocking to this pretty generic fantasy action film for any reason and it's likewise tough to envision general fantasy fans gravitating towards this. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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I Come in Peace (1990) |
[It] moves along so quickly, you don't really get a chance to pay attention to the seams. It's just one fun section after the next (with the briefest of love scenes thrown in) before lurching towards another synth rock-scored moment of violence. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Space Battleship Yamato (2010) |
The whole thing is a mess: from conception, to tone, to aesthetics. Worse, Yamato never finds a valid reason to exist. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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White Vengeance (2011) |
It's the kind of over-the-top spirit that kept me engaged and really into the movie, and it's a shame that it makes up such a relatively small part of the movie's two hour-plus running time. The rest of it is kind of generic stuff with a broad message... - MTV
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| Posted Jul 03, 2018
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Rec 3: Genesis (2012) |
A worthy effort in the series and a nice twist on the first two. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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From Up on Poppy Hill (2011) |
This 1960s-set melodrama carries such deep currents of emotion and so much affection for its sweet-natured characters, that by the end I was pretty sure it would rank among my two or three favorites from the studio. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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Tiger & Bunny: The Movie - The Beginning (2013) |
What makes the feature so fresh is a handful of creators seeming to discover and fall in love with the superhero concept for the first time, and that gives T&B a lot of heat which goes a long way. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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Phineas And Ferb (2013) |
The willingness to go completely, shamelessly absurd works in the favor of the creators, who are willing to throw in verbal and visual asides to grab your attention should it flag at any point. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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Tai Chi Hero (2012) |
It's got more of a heart this time and I was able to warm to the characters in a way that I couldn't with the first film. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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The Warped Forest (2011) |
The Warped Forest [might] feel a little less daring than its predecessor, but nonetheless more successful at tugging at the heartstrings. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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John Dies at the End (2012) |
This is a great jumping-off point if you've never been exposed to Don Coscarelli, one of the less-seen indie horror filmmakers out there. If "JDATE" serves as the gateway for new fans, then the movie will be twice the success it already is. - MTV
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| Posted Jul 02, 2018
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Willow Creek (2013) |
While the final "reveal" feels at once expected but out of nowhere, Willow Creek is a solid look inside the mind of someone obsessed with one of our weird national myths. - Nerdist
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| Posted Jan 05, 2015
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