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Pete's Dragon
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
With 'Pete's Dragon' you sense a rare opportunity for a Disney classic slipped through the filmmakers' fingers.
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Suicide Squad
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
David Ayer is of the realist school of action filmmaking and this doesn't jibe well with fantastical fights and outrageous cartoon characters.
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Tallulah
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
"Tallulah" is one of those films on a filmmaker's resume that denotes promise more than accomplishment.
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The BFG
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
"The BFG" gets caught between old-fashioned Dickensian fairy stories and the new, exciting worlds imagined by the Pixar crew.
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The Dark Knight Rises
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
This film really is, arguably of course, the conclusion of the best film trilogy in popular cinema.
9/10
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The Grandmaster
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
The martial arts genre experiences another quantum leap in terms of pure beauty of form and action.
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The Great Wall
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
The vision here is that of producers with eyes on box office and little concern for creativity.
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The Interview
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
It's just stupid enough that some things are funny. Sadly, it isn't smart enough to realize that other things aren't terribly funny and that an opportunity was lost here.
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The Legend of Tarzan
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
Given the challenges, which the filmmakers tiptoe through with surprising agility, the new 'Tarzan' is quite adequate in delivering old-fashioned adventures.
6/10
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The Light Between Oceans
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
Pictorial beauty in a David Lean sort of way and a mesmerizing quality might convince a viewer 'The Light Between Oceans,' a contrived and emotionally manipulative tale, has real credibility.
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The Secret Life of Pets
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
Illumination Entertainment has concocted an easy-to-like and easy-to-laugh animated feature for mostly smaller viewers.
6/10
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The Shallows
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
The key missing ingredient in "The Shallows" is any motivation to make this movie other than a summer-time diversion.
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The World's End
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
The World's End is classic British comedy: It's anarchy versus conformity with conformity never standing a chance.
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Tommy's Honour
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
Jason Connery's 'Tommy's Honour' unpacks early history of golf to satisfying dramatic results.
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Touchy Feely
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
Through the semi-improvised style Lynn Shelton likes, her actors perhaps are truly uncertain what to say or do next.
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In the Heart of the Sea
honeycuttshollywood.com
Kirk Honeycutt
Ron Howard leaves no trace of any artistic personality on the movies he makes.
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Body of Lies
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Where BODY OF LIES does succeed very well is in demonstrating the multitude of ways in which even very well-thought-out plans to make the world safer can become not only corrupted but can also be hopelessly compromised by other likewise world-safety-minde
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The Express
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
THE EXPRESS isn't the sports movie equivalent of what Ernie Davis was to football in his day, but it still plays a pretty good game.
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Mirrors
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Kiefer Sutherland as a man having worse days than Jack Bauer ever has.
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The Taking of Pelham 1 2 3
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
THE TAKING OF PELHAM 123 is solid action thriller filmmaking with some real thrills and strong character work. Viewers will come away mostly fulfilled, though perhaps wishing the train had gone the extra half-mile for its climax.
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I Sell the Dead
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
We're in a land of shadows, claws and wry observation, and for those who adore this sort of thing, I SELL THE DEAD is a rare treat.
8/10
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Alex Rider: Operation Stormbreaker
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
For those unfamiliar with Anthony Horowitz's phenomenally popular (as in New York Times' bestseller list) series of young adult spy books, Alex Rider (played in the film by Alex Pettyfer) is or thinks he is an ordinary 14-year-old English sc
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The Alphabet Killer
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Fans of Dushku will get their money's worth. However, the rest of THE ALPHABET KILLER doesn't spell either good detective work or true spectral horror.
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Blood Diamond
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
At its best, Blood Diamond gives a sense of the sheer nightmare chaos of civil war, with no safety in any direction and irrational, furious death liable to hurtle through the air at any moment.
8/10
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Burn After Reading
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There's a lot of cleverness here, but neither heart nor a spirit of true insanity. BURN AFTER READING is watchable for a number of reasons, but it never really heats up.
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Catch and Release
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Our plucky, likable heroine/narrator Gray (Jennifer Garner) tries to get over the death of her fiancé, days before their wedding date, by moving in with his erstwhile roommates, organized, diligent Dennis (Sam Jaeger) and free-wheeling, emotive Sam (Kevin
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
It would seem Nietzsche's famous saying has been disproved. STAR WARS: THE CLONE WARS won't kill us - or the STAR WARS franchise - but it won't make any of us stronger, either.
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Death Race
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The upshot is that DEATH RACE trips over its own machinations in a number of areas, but if you want to see Jason Statham and/or over-the-top vehicular mayhem, there have been worse showcases for both.
8/10
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Déjà Vu
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
What feels like a great deal of the movie finds Carlin et al clustered around what amounts to a giant video screen (yes, it's a device for seeing into the past, but it looks like a huge TV monitor). While this isn't quite as bad as all those computer thri
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The Departed
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Generalizations about filmmakers tend not to stick, but here's one that's proven true when director Martin Scorsese tackles subject matter involving organized crime, the results worth watching, to say the least.
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Donkey Punch
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
British thriller about seven college-age Britons in Spain who come together for an afternoon of flirting and wind up having a night of sex, paranoia and murder
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Extraordinary Measures
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Brendan Fraser and Harrison Ford star in a pretty good fact-based drama in the same medical subgenre as LORENZO'S OIL
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Flushed Away
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There are some genuinely amusing bits – the slugs that keep bursting into song in blasts of pop/rock classics are continually enjoyable. Fans of the X-Men franchise will probably get a chuckle out of seeing characters played by Jackman and Mc
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Friday the 13th
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
It's not that the new FRIDAY THE 13TH is bad. It just doesn't feel new, and yet doesn't deliver the old shocks with the zest of horrific discovery that made the original and its better follow-ups so iconic.
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The Good German
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
All of this makes for a movie that's sort of fun, but so intent on showing off its period flourishes that it lacks soul.
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The Good Shepherd
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
What Damon gives us, very convincingly, is a man whose moral compass has already been severely blunted in self-protection he's able to persuade himself (mostly) that any number of terrible things are necessary for the greater good.
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Hellboy II: The Golden Army (Hellboy 2)
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Mixing lore from Mike Mignola's comics (Del Toro and Mignola collaborated on the new film's story) with old European fairy folklore and what seems like a touch of homage to Hayao Miyazaki (not to forget J.R.R. Tolkien), HELLBOY II is something to both beh
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The History Boys
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
What's very impressive is that Bennett and company manage to make something that sounds so abstract seem so concrete, dramatic and often very funny. Seeing the boys leap into old movie scenes to illustrate a point or just a mood has a lifelike energy to i
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The International
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Because banks all over the world are in such turmoil now, THE INTERNATIONAL seems dated by six months to a year. However, if you like watching law enforcement personnel working on a big, non-standard crime, this is pretty good.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH is ultimately pleasant enough, though it's hardly the definitive adaptation of Verne's work. The freshest aspect of it is Fraser's conviction.
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The Last King of Scotland
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Despite what the title suggests, The Last King of Scotland is not about a Caledonian monarch and in fact has only a few brief scenes in the United Kingdom. Most of the film takes place in 1970s Uganda, chronicling what happened in that African coun
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The Last Kiss
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
This Zach Braff dramedy is simultaneously engaging and annoying...
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Legion
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Paul Bettany is a de-winged angel and Dennis Quaid is a rural business owner in this up-and-down riff on subject matter covered in PROPHECY, TERMINATOR and SUPERNATURAL (to name a few precedents), mostly confined to a diner
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Man of the Year
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Before getting into what Man of the Year is actually about though this is a related subject it should be noted that the film allows Robin Williams a return to comedic form. Williams, who has shaped up as a very potent actor in drama...
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Quantum of Solace
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
It would be hard to top the legend-relaunching force of CASINO ROYALE. QUANTUM OF SOLACE wisely doesn't try, contenting itself and us with being a good if unexceptional entry in the Bond franchise.
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Renaissance
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
With Renaissance, director Christian Volckman and Co. have in a visual sense on-upped the black-and-white comic book noir sensibility of Sin City. Renaissance is fully rotoscoped, with stark blacks and whites that give it an amazing l
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RocknRolla
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There's just a lingering sense that, in his eagerness to get to the "good stuff" of character riffs and general coolness, Ritchie neglects plot and pacing. By its own standards, then, ROCKNROLLA as a movie is a proper player, but not quite a true rocknrol
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Seraphim Falls
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Neeson has tremendous power, Brosnan is affectingly tormented and about as far from Bond as he can be under a hermit's beard and an American accent and there is great casting throughout.
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Smokin' Aces
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There's a mob of "name" actors here, all doing fine work, though some around a lot longer than others. Piven excels as the people-and-substance-abusing Buddy, conveying both the showman's flourish that's put him on top and the self-loathing that's liable
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Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Before people (usually boys, though some girls go through this too in exactly the same form, while others have alternate subjects of fixation) realize that perhaps there ought to be more to a metal song or any song, for that matter
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The Dark Knight
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Nolan and Co. do weave an enormous and gratifyingly textured tapestry of plot, giving unexpectedly affecting moments to characters we initially see as mere background figures.
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The Fountain
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Once the premise is laid out for us, we can follow the connection between past and present easily enough the trouble is that the dual timeframes never have the intended emotional resonance, much less any philosophical profundity about immortality vs. acce
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The Guardian
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The Gaurdian is a really good example of its genre, even though it's possible,well easy, to see most of the story developments coming a good way off, like a killer storm on the horizon.
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The Holiday
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Brace yourselves. Writer/director has made a romantic comedy in which the plot complications do not depend on one or both halves of the couple in question behaving like a ditz or a jerk, nor even seriously misunderstanding each other.
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Traitor
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
TRAITOR seems to want to be a little more articulate than it winds up being in discussions of the concept of the greater good and the cost of role-playing. However, the questions it brings up are potent and its structure as a thriller is so strong, with s
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Transsiberian
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
TRANSSIBERIAN is another one of those movies that seems like an advertisement for never going outside one's own neighborhood. Trips to Eastern Europe seem particularly ill-advised from the looks of, for example, the HOSTEL films and FRONTIERE(S).
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Righteous Kill
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There are some flashes of wit here, but the value of narrative surprise, especially when we're expecting one of some kind, only goes so far. RIGHTEOUS KILL relies far too much on what it's got up its sleeve and doesn't pay enough attention to what it's sh
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The Hoax
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The supporting cast is fairly perfect, with Alfred Molina deserving special kudos for his turn as Irving's alternately put-upon and avaricious best pal. Hope Davis will remind you of many mid-level talent handlers
B+
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Descent
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
On the one hand,trying something new and the statement they want to make is laudable. However, the distanced style, hard grainy lighting and extremely lengthy rape sequences make Descent not only often unpalatable but also mostly just plain dull.
C-
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The Hunting Party
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Even though the tone moves into tragedy on occasion, filmmaker Shepard maintains a sense of ironic "can you believe this?" humor that serves the story's events well.
B+
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28 Weeks Later...
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
28 Weeks Later is a worthy successor in every sense, different in tone and specifics, but reaching equivalent levels of tension and fear, with some nifty narrative surprises throughout.
A-
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3:10 to Yuma
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Mangold and the writers find the action potential in the Western format and ride the hell out of it. Fight and chase sequences are striking, even thrilling.
B
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A Perfect Getaway
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Timothy Olyphant, Milla Jovovich, Kiele Sanchez and Steve Zahn topline a playful take on the psycho killer couple thriller
B
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American Gangster
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Steven Zaillian's intelligent, perceptive screenplay, inspired by an article on Lucas entitled "The Return of Superfly" by Mark Jacobson, doesn't go exactly where we expect. There are moments of real surprise here, moments of odd satisfaction.
B+
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Balls of Fury
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Yes, it's racist and homophobic, but those are actually secondary concerns. Mainly, it's just not funny. There's no reason to pick on Balls of Fury unduly, but unless you are a diehard fan of any of the parties involved, there's no reason to see it
D+
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Bee Movie
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Indeed, Bee Moive is full of half-thought-through notions. Much is at first made of Barry's "romance" with a human, voiced by Renee Zellweger, but any potential problems in the friendship are dropped without discussion midway through.
C
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The Bourne Ultimatum
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Thanks to director Greengrass, editor Christopher Rouse and the very astute and adept actors and stunt performers, the hand-to-hand combat is almost shocking in its brutality. Even though blood is kept to a minimum, the sheer sense of violence, physical e
A-
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Breach
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Breach is an uncommonly intelligent, intense thriller, the kind of terse, character-driven entertainment some of us may associate more with low-budget British films than with American studio product.
A-
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Cashback
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
This reviewer wouldn't dream of speaking for all women (or all of anybody else), but I and many of the other women I know do not equate being seen and approved of naked as having one's soul unveiled.
B-
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Dead Silence
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There is some good, original gore here for blood fans, but while the filmmakers understand intellectually that dolls (particularly ventriloquist dummies) can be quite creepy, they don't know how to maximize this onscreen. The carefully desaturated, almost
C+
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Death at a Funeral
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Part of the fun here is when we can guess what's coming, part of the fun is when we're blindsided, and all of the fun is in seeing how Oz, Craig and the perfectly chosen cast sail through it as though it's the most real ongoing situation ever.
A-
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Eagle vs Shark
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
A sly look at love and family relationships from New Zealand. It starts out by sending out danger signs that we're about to be trapped with people we don't like and then wears down our defenses by being consistently funny and eventually strangely winning.
B
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Fido
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Fido is clearly a send-up, but it's a little hard to figure out what its intended targets are. Certainly Currie and Co. have a strong handle on the look of '50s films
B
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Gone Baby Gone
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
You have to admire director Affleck and his co-screenwriter Aaron Stockard for having the guts to tackle material this morally complex, and for keeping most of Lehane's twists while condensing them into something that fits coherently into a two-hour film.
B
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Hostel Part II
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Roth has an actual plot in motion, it's not all just a framework for horrific torture, although there's quite a bit of that, too. The film is gruesome and sadistic, but not misogynistic, male characters go through every bit as much pain.
B
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Lucky You
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
As for movie fans, if a poker tournament strikes you as a really uncinematic setting for a drama and you can't imagine what the filmmakers can do to make it a little more watchable...well, alas, they don't have too many ideas on that score, either.
C
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A Mighty Heart
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Jolie, looking unlike herself in dark contacts and frizzy black hair, with a reasonable French accent, gives a strong, smart performance, never overplaying and always conveying the sense of an alert, inquisitive mind.
B+
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Mr. Brooks
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The script by Bruce A. Evans, who also directed, and writing partner Raynold Gideon is unusually complex and dense with narrative and character nuances, with such surprises around every corner that we can't wait to see where the next clue is going to lead
B+
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Next
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
If you can take the first couple of bounds of suspension of disbelief Next is actually nicely structured. There's actually a lot of fun to be had here. However, there are some very big deductive leaps required.
B
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Ocean's Thirteen
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The scheme is impressive-looking with some really big elements, including a manmade earthquake. Director Soderbergh and his design team make it all look great.
B
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Right at Your Door
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
By not hammering at the points that surface organically here, Gorak gets us to ask ourselves a lot of questions, for which there may not be any clear answers, even as we are engrossed with what's happening to the characters. The combination of these facto
B+
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Rush Hour 3
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The trouble is, without at least character consistency, the set pieces are usually only good for a chuckle, if that, and when Ratner and Nathanson try for some John Woo-style dramatics, the results are flat.
C-
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Saw IV
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Director Darren Lynn Bousman sees to it that Saw IV fulfills the franchise's ethos of inventive, gory sadism and grungy, creepy surroundings faithfully and creatively.
B-
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September Dawn
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
September Dawn has emotional weight, but rather than having an air of conviction, it makes one want to reach for the history books, which may not be a bad thing at that.
B
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Severance
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Bloody, hilarious and very smart, Severance plays very much like what would happen if the characters from a realistically grumbling workplace comedy stumbled into a slasher story.
A-
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Shoot 'Em Up
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Shoot 'em Up is so fast and fanny and perfectly attuned to what it's doing that it's as if director/writer Michael Davis has put all the elements of entertaining violent action flicks in a centrifuge and distilled them down to their essence.
A-
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Shrek the Third
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The characters are all very well-defined by now, adroitly inhabited by the voice actors, with Myers, Everett and the hilariously feline Banderas really going above and beyond the call to add sly little flourishes to their deliveries.
B
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Sicko
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Moore makes his point in a number of ways. He starts out by showing us some Americans who have no health insurance and the horrific ways they've had to prioritize treatment, like the poor man who severed two fingertips at work and had to decide which one
B
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Sleuth
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Topping off the new SLEUTH's problems is Law's performance.We need to believe Milo at least could be in earnest some of the time, not feel that he's obviously full of baloney the whole time (especially in those instances where it turns out that he's being
C-
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Snakes on a Plane
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
It's AIRPORT-CONDA! Despite the hype, the film is pretty good.
B
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Spider-Man 3
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Viewers are apt to come out of the theatre feeling as though they've watched a full-season marathon of their favorite genre show. It will strike you as either an abundance of riches or a bit of overload, depending on your current level of enthusiasm.
B+
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Stardust
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
There are times when Stardust feels a little confined, either due to Vaughn's liking of close shots or due to budget constraints. However, it is mostly a very pleasing fantasy, with conviction in its storytelling and a sense of magic in its heart.
B+
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Sunshine
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
The adrenaline surge is unquestionable, but it connects to the earlier part of the film at an odd angle, taking both the story and the tone in a somewhat new direction.
B-
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Surf's Up
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
Directors Brannon & Buck have a lot of fun with applying animation to the documentary format, creating lots of "accidental" moments in shots and having the characters amusingly play to the unseen-but-heard interview crew.
B
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The Wicker Man
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
...yet another [one] of Hollywood's clueless remakes.
C-
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Transformers
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
What stands out most about Transformers is that it is pure, transporting fun. It becomes one of the movie's ongoing thrills to be surprised as racing cars and trucks, with one or two breaking away to suddenly turn into a giant robot.
B+
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Wild Hogs
iF Magazine
Abbie Bernstein
For the most part, although they're going through the right motions, the actors almost might as well be performing in bell jars. This is no way to do a movie that gives lip service to friendship above all, and it's no way for an audience to spend a night.
D+
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Tron Legacy
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JimmyO
Tron: Legacy is an exciting and beautiful film that I can guarantee will be considered a classic, just like the first.
4.5/5
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Going the Distance
iamROGUE
JimmyO
The beauty of this crude, rude and filled with attitude romantic comedy is that guys and girls will appreciate the vulgar and sometimes very funny humor.
3.5/5
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Barry Munday
iamROGUE
JimmyO
Barry Munday is strange and offbeat, and even a little honest and heartfelt.
4/5
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