Movie / Film Reviews
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Let Me In
Chris Rebholz | Oct 06, 2010
There are a lot of movies right now about vampires. So much so that it is difficult not to feel overwhelmed by all of it. So it is refreshing to find a movie that steps a little bit out of the standar...
Full Review | Grade: B
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The Social Network
Stephen Compall | Oct 01, 2010
What most surprised me regarding The Social Network was the degree to which I sympathized with its subject, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg, Zombieland, Solitar...
Full Review | Grade: B
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Chris Rebholz | Sep 28, 2010
Back in the 1980's Oliver Stone made a movie called Wall Street which was a social commentary of the way American business operated during that generation. The character of Richard Gekko (Michael Doug...
Full Review | Grade: B
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You Again
Marco Chacon | Sep 24, 2010
It's good to see Kristen Bell getting work. I've liked her ever since Veronica Mars and her natural charisma lights up the screen when she's on it. When you throw in Sigourney Weaver and J...
Full Review | Grade: C
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Devil
Chris Rebholz | Sep 21, 2010
A few years ago we saw the first of many M. Night Shyamalan movies, The Sixth Sense. That movie came out of left field and astounded audiences with the deep well of emotion from all th...
Full Review | Grade: C
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Easy A
Nathan M Rose | Sep 16, 2010
In the spirit of such films as Sixteen Candles, Can't Buy Me Love, 10 Things I Hate About You, and 13 Going on 30, Screen Gems releases Easy A, sta...
Full Review | Grade: B
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The American
Chris Rebholz | Sep 15, 2010
It's fairly typical of Hollywood that once a certain genre of movie catches on we will begin to see similar types being pumped out over the next few years. At the moment we have the "assassin tra...
Full Review | Grade: D
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Resident Evil: Afterlife
Chris Rebholz | Sep 12, 2010
There have been a lot of movies based off of video games. It is as common today as the comic book movie. Quite frankly though, most of these movies have never been very good. They almost always come o...
Full Review | Grade: D
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Machete
Roger Longenbach | Sep 03, 2010
Three years ago, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino released Grindhouse, an homage to the B slasher/zombie movies from the 1970s. Part of that homage was including trailers for "fake" mo...
Full Review | Grade: B
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Going The Distance
Nathan M Rose | Sep 02, 2010
If past history is anything that indicates the dog days of summer, it is when the films that did not make the summer blockbuster cut are dumped into theaters.Most of these movies...
Full Review | Grade: B
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