Shaula Clark
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Boston Phoenix
Movies reviews only
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Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters (2013) |
[A] craptastic orgy of gore - one that's way better than it has any right to be. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jan 30, 2013
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Devil (2010) |
Don't be fooled by the melodramatic speechifying (or that unfortunate voiceover) -- this film offers sly winks aplenty beneath the good-and-evil bluster. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 22, 2010
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Resident Evil: Afterlife (2010) |
Just hearing the audience gasp from vertigo during the opening zoom-out shot is almost worth the price of admission. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 16, 2010
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Piranha (2010) |
Can we ask anything more of a popcorn horror flick? No, we cannot. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 26, 2010
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Valhalla Rising (2009) |
This is Aguirre, the Wrath of God, with the despondency jacked to 11. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jul 29, 2010
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Rec 2 (2009) |
Using the same frenetic pacing and POV shakycam style, [REC] 2 tries to go bigger -- but this time, the gimmicks can seem forced. Still, there's plenty to like... - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jul 14, 2010
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Letters to Juliet (2010) |
Eye candy abounds, but it'd be easier to enjoy that sun-drenched scenery if director Gary Winick weren't so hell-bent on cramming clichés down our throats that include square-jawed hunks riding in on white horses and scaling balconies. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted May 13, 2010
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Bluebeard (2009) |
Will Breillat flip the tale and have Marie-Catherine take advantage of her paramour? Alas, the plot unfolds as you'd expect. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted May 13, 2010
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And Then Came Lola (2009) |
Was the world clamoring for a comic-erotic lesbian tribute to Run Lola Run? Maybe not, but I have to hand it to directors Ellen Seidler and Megan Siler for Frankensteining this one together. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted May 05, 2010
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The Human Centipede (2009) |
It's a stomach-turning joy to watch Laser put on his demented Mengele act, ripping out incisors, brandishing a riding crop, and ranting about his beloved "3-dog." - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted May 05, 2010
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The Sun Behind the Clouds: Tibet's Struggle for Freedom (2010) |
This quietly intense documentary from husband-and-wife filmmakers Tenzing Sonam and Ritu Sarin shines a light on the inter-Tibetan turbulence. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Apr 28, 2010
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Winter's Bone (2010) |
Noir may be the MSG of genres -- a little pinch makes almost any film tastier -- but does it work for Ozark gothic drama? Yes. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Apr 21, 2010
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Green Zone (2010) |
It's an engrossing (if fictionalized) answer to the question "How did we get here, exactly?" - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Mar 17, 2010
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Blood Into Wine (2010) |
Surely everyone can appreciate the gorgeous Verde Valley vistas and out-of-left-field celebrity cameos, which include Bob Odenkirk as a grape-mauling French wine snob. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Feb 24, 2010
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District 13: Ultimatum (2009) |
If you enjoyed the first installment, Ultimatum will probably be right up your alley...not to mention your fire-escape railing and your rooftop ledge. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Feb 18, 2010
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Until the Light Takes Us (2008) |
Glacially paced yet gripping. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Feb 10, 2010
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Dear John (2010) |
At one point, John announces: "We're sitting here . . . and we're talking, but nobody's actually saying anything." Why, John, I thought you'd never notice. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Feb 04, 2010
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In Search of Beethoven (2009) |
An intriguing portrait of the man as a hopeless romantic, a smack-talking punk, a sickly individual tormented by his deafness and thoughts of suicide, and an "eternal optimist." - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jan 07, 2010
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Brothers (2009) |
Brothers is an elegant and devastating exploration of identity. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Dec 09, 2009
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The Princess and the Frog (2009) |
The soundtrack doesn't offer the sheer earworm power of previous Disney hits, but the musical numbers do bump along engagingly from jazz to gospel to zydeco. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Dec 09, 2009
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The Messenger (2009) |
Director Oren Moverman's feature-length debut is a little like The Hurt Locker in the way it uncomfortably probes a little-known military organelle. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Bronson (2008) |
Done differently, the cat-and-mouse brawling could get tiresome, but Tom Hardy as Bronson -- with his shaved head, handlebar moustache, and glittering eyes -- is mesmerizing. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Nov 19, 2009
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Black Dynamite (2009) |
As Dynamite kung-fu-fights his way through a vast conspiracy involving smack-addled orphans, malt liquor, and the best (read: worst) exploding-car scene of 2009, you'll feel a rush of '70s nostalgia you never knew you had. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Nov 12, 2009
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Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant (2009) |
Harry Potter this ain't. But it's fun all the same. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Oct 29, 2009
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Good Hair (2009) |
Good Hair is a film that will make your head itch to know more. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Oct 22, 2009
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Law Abiding Citizen (2009) |
Cinematic headcheese assembled from umami-laden scraps of Se7en, Saw, The Dark Knight, and The Silence of the Lambs, with fun twists and superb explosions. Just don't dwell on what it's made of. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Oct 14, 2009
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Couples Retreat (2009) |
Couples, retreat: this movie has the power to make any date feel as endless and soul-sucking as the lifetime's worth of defective, hateful marriages that doom the film's protagonists. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Oct 14, 2009
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The Boys Are Back (2009) |
Joe's "just say yes" policy is billed as an antidote to helicopter parenting, but there's little evidence that his laxity benefits anything but his own ego. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 30, 2009
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Jennifer's Body (2009) |
It just kind of works -- there's something delightful about watching a jailbait hottie cooing "You're just Jell-O 'cuz you're not invited" one moment and slurping the entrails out of a pulverized jock's thoracic cavity the next. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 17, 2009
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself (2009) |
Tyler Perry's latest crackles with electricity, thanks to heaps of boffo acting talent, high-octane musical interludes, and the most easy-to-root-for electrocution scene since Ernest Goes to Jail. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 17, 2009
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The September Issue (2009) |
The September Issue is an eye-opening, highly satisfying romp. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Sep 10, 2009
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The Goods: Live Hard. Sell Hard. (2009) |
[It] might be a bottomless barrel of idiotic yuks. But it's not a total lemon. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 21, 2009
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The Time Traveler's Wife (2009) |
You've got one obnoxious romance. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 19, 2009
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District 9 (2009) |
Bounds from one contrivance to the next. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 14, 2009
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Bandslam (2009) |
It seems acutely unaware of how casually sick some of its themes are. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 14, 2009
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Aliens in the Attic (2009) |
Agonizingly lame. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Aug 07, 2009
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(500) Days of Summer (2009) |
Marc Webb's first feature-length film is an odd romantic comedy, but it's a romantic comedy nonetheless -- and a non-excruciating one at that. - Boston Phoenix
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| Posted Jul 16, 2009
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