Brian Holcomb
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Quatermass and the Pit (Five Million Years to Earth)(The Mind Benders) (1967)
88%
7/10
“Kier grounds the film with his sober and serious presence.” –
PopMatters
Aug 19, 2019
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Cockneys vs Zombies (2012)
76%
2.5/5
“Cockneys Vs. Zombies delivers exactly what is expected of a film called Cockneys Vs. Zombies. This is a farce first, horror film last.” –
Kinetofilm
Dec 25, 2012
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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
98%
4.5/5
“Ai Weiwei is such a laid back, calm and yet mischievous spirit that the film takes on a whole different, almost joyous tone.” –
Kinetofilm
Dec 18, 2012
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Sunset Boulevard (1950)
98%
5/5
“One of the great joys of the film is watching the way in which William Holden's naturalistic performance clashes with an actress and performance style from an earlier age.” –
CinemaBlend
Nov 8, 2012
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The Ambassador (2011)
71%
4.5/5
“Supposedly nothing is staged. Truthfully, so much of this film is stranger than fiction, it would require pure writing genius to come up with even a third of what transpires.” –
Kinetofilm
Nov 7, 2012
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V/H/S (2012)
56%
2.5/5
“The Filmmakers should've consulted one another re: their content-one more segment with a group of A-HOLES carrying on like the cast of JACKASS and my head may have exploded.” –
Kinetofilm
Oct 14, 2012
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Prometheus (2012)
73%
3/5
“There's a lot of college dorm philosophical mumbo jumbo on top but it all really boils down to, "Man seeks his creator/makes contact/discovers he is a total jerk."” –
CinemaBlend
Oct 11, 2012
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Dark Shadows (2012)
35%
2.5/5
“Made for an audience of no one, Dark Shadows is a mess of campy horror, "fish out of coffin" comedy, and gothic melodrama.” –
CinemaBlend
Sep 28, 2012
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Battleship (2012)
34%
2.5/5
“Believe it or not, no one ever says the game's signature line. So, lets say it here, all together and with enthusiasm, "You sunk my Battleship!"” –
CinemaBlend
Sep 13, 2012
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Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows (2011)
60%
2.5/5
“The truth about this Game of Shadows and its predecessor is that neither has a story worthy of its hero. The story is not only often improbable, it is often simply impossible to follow.” –
Kinetofilm
Jun 26, 2012
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The Innkeepers (2011)
81%
4.5
“Like his work or not, Ti West's follow up to "The House of the Devil" is another fine piece of craftsmanship.” –
CinemaBlend
May 1, 2012
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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
84%
3.5/5
“This is the kind of movie where the lead character gets involved in a narrative so labyrinthine that he should eventually suspect himself at some point. That said, Alfredson manages to create a nightmarish atmosphere” –
Kinetofilm
Dec 3, 2011
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The Conversation (1974)
94%
5/5
“A film OF the 1970s, The Conversation is rooted in the new American anxiety of the time, the idea that behind every ideal was a rotten, festering truth.” –
CinemaBlend
Nov 21, 2011
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Passion Play (2010)
3%
1.5/5
“A vanity project from successful Hollywood screenwriter Mitch Glazer, this film should really be much funnier than it is. Oh, it's not a comedy, by the way. Not at all.” –
CinemaBlend
Jun 27, 2011
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Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
19%
5/5
“Birdemic appears to be completely sincere, an attempt by Nguyen to make a serious and moving work of art. So what if it moves us to tears with laughter?” –
CinemaBlend
Mar 17, 2011
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The Traveler (2010)
2/5
“The film seems to be straining at times for an existentialism way outside of its grasp. This isn't Camus; it's Rod Serling by way of Clint Eastwood's High Plains Drifter.” –
CinemaBlend
Feb 14, 2011
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
53%
2.5/5
“The third and final entry in Stieg Larsson's enormously successful series is perhaps the least thrilling, but it's easily the most satisfying.” –
CinemaBlend
Jan 27, 2011
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The Last Exorcism (2010)
71%
3.5/5
“If you make a film about exorcism, you better be ready to be compared to one of the best films ever made. Surprisingly, the film holds its own in that regard.” –
CinemaBlend
Jan 11, 2011
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Black Swan (2010)
85%
3/5
“Initially BLACK SWAN appears to be a psychological horror film about a ballerina who goes insane. But it's really about a filmmaker who goes insane-in good ways and bad.” –
Kinetofilm
Dec 3, 2010
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The Disappearance of Alice Creed (2009)
81%
3.5/5
“What first-time director Blakeson does with this very familiar situation is cut it to the bone. Not only is there very little fat on this body, there's barely a skeleton.” –
CinemaBlend
Nov 30, 2010
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The Girl Who Played With Fire (2009)
69%
2/5
“Records onto film all the important moments found in the novel. These moments aren't made into compelling drama so much as crossed off some narrative checklist.” –
CinemaBlend
Oct 27, 2010
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Antichrist (2009)
53%
4/5
“Von Trier is a prankster so any attempt to guess at WTF he had in mind could just end up with the Danish auteur pulling your leg. The Fox may have said it best:"Chaos Reigns"” –
Kinetofilm
Oct 21, 2010
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The Killer Inside Me (2010)
56%
3/5
“The violence is not shown in an ironic fashion. It's put front and center and is visceral in a way nothing else is in the film.” –
CinemaBlend
Oct 4, 2010
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Chloe (2009)
52%
2.5/5
“This isn't a particularly deep story but it does a good job at making what would be obvious in a Skinemax movie much more ambiguous.” –
Kinetofilm
Sep 25, 2010
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Red Riding Trilogy (2010)
86%
4.5/5
“Taken as a whole, the trilogy depicts a universe polluted by the evil that men do and the pain and suffering their evil leaves behind.” –
CinemaBlend
Sep 7, 2010
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