7/10
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The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest
(2009)
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Dragan Antulov
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Posted Oct 28, 2010
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Where the Wild Things Are
(2009)
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Victoria Alexander
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Posted Oct 15, 2009
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The Great Debaters
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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I had no idea that college debating was so boring. You will agree with me.
Posted Dec 11, 2007
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The Mist
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Bowing to King's edict, no spoiler here. Like King, I understand the historical significance of human sacrifice, now called genocide.
Posted Nov 21, 2007
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Love in the Time of Cholera
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Beloved book, lousy movie. He ages to 72, she stops at 35. He stays virile, she crumbles. He cries while having sex with 600 women. He's the only stud in the country.
Posted Nov 14, 2007
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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He's 83 years old and still has the vitality and lust to make a terrific heist-gone-bad movie!
Posted Nov 11, 2007
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The Darjeeling Limited
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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It's a movie about luggage.
Posted Oct 31, 2007
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Gone Baby Gone
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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A terrific morally-challenged crime tale aptly directed by Ben Affleck.
Posted Sep 27, 2007
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Across the Universe
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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A Taymor triumph. A mlange of creativity using the Beatles music to express a generation in full. The fresh interpretation of the music is perfection.
Posted Sep 20, 2007
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In the Valley of Elah
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Tommy Lee Jones astonishes with a silent, agonizing pain you will feel and not easily forget.
Posted Sep 18, 2007
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3:10 to Yuma
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Crowe and director Mangold resurrect the Western! But Ben Foster almost walks off with the movie. You will see it twice.
Posted Aug 30, 2007
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Superbad
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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A loving ode to the penis.
Posted Aug 14, 2007
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Rescue Dawn
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Christian Bale deserves Academy Award consideration.
Posted Aug 04, 2007
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Rush Hour 3
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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A dated, stale, anti-American comedy. I hope they all make enough money never to make another Rush Hour movie again.
Posted Aug 03, 2007
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Stardust
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Simply divine fantasy. Pfeiffer casts a spell on it outshining the fallen star.
Posted Jul 31, 2007
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Sunshine
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Fascinating thought-provoking religious-psychological sci-fi thriller.
Posted Jul 25, 2007
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Transformers
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Posted Jun 29, 2007
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Sicko
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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If you get sick, move to Canada, France, or Cuba.
Posted Jun 26, 2007
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A Mighty Heart
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Mariane Pearl is a Spartan wife with a steel base throughout the horrific ordeal skillfully directed by Michael Winterbottom.
Posted Jun 14, 2007
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Ocean's Thirteen
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Ugly. Filmed through dirt. Danny's Dead End Kids infiltrate bin Laden's camp and hold him ransom for some old dude who rescued them from an orphanage.
Posted Jun 10, 2007
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Bug
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Judd gives her everything to this perfectly crawly psycho-conspiracy movie.
Posted May 26, 2007
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Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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PC1's Jack Sparrow has left the franchise. A stiff pod has replaced him. No story I could follow, but that was my fault. I don't understand Aramaic.
Posted May 24, 2007
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Away From Her
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Powerful. Writer-director Sarah Polley rightly deserves the kind of praise heaped upon Sofia Coppola for the lousy "Lost in Translation."
Posted May 15, 2007
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Black Book
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Verhoeven's status as an evocative filmmaker has been redeemed.
Posted May 11, 2007
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28 Weeks Later
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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The Zombie Anti-Christ arrives. How come not one non-zombie ever pretends and runs with, not away, from the bloodthirsty zombie mob? I would fake being infected.
Posted May 09, 2007
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Next
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Cage continues his quest to be the next Superman.
Posted Apr 28, 2007
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The Condemned
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Tough, mean, nasty, and vicious. Rambo 4 had better come up with something to top this.
Posted Apr 26, 2007
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Spider-Man 3
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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A disappointment. Spidey keeps his mask off and weeps. Everyone cries. I hated the silly monolith sad sack Sandman. Did Dunst's contract stipulate she sing two songs?
Posted Apr 26, 2007
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Fracture
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Clever and keeps you thinking - during and after.
Posted Apr 18, 2007
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Grindhouse
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Death Proof was sensational. If only Rose McGowan could act.
Posted Apr 05, 2007
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The Reaping
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Swank takes some time off to vacation in a silly paranormal thriller.
Posted Apr 05, 2007
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Reign Over Me
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Sandler does a good job but the story is awful.
Posted Mar 24, 2007
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Shooter
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Some old dude steals the movie by saying, "I still have the shovel."
Posted Mar 15, 2007
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Zodiac
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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A long movie with lots of suspects and details but no pay-off.
Posted Mar 01, 2007
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Black Snake Moan
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Vulgar and salacious. If this is what you like, this is the movie for you.
Posted Feb 27, 2007
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The Number 23
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Glaring flaws in the story makes it silly and too contrived to be a good thriller.
Posted Feb 21, 2007
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Ghost Rider
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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I'm not a comic book aficionada but I liked GR. Who was that bewigged 30 year old pretending to be Nic Cage?
Posted Feb 18, 2007
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Hannibal Rising
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Much better than the lousy book. Perfect casting of French actor Gaspard Ulliel as Hannibal.
Posted Feb 10, 2007
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Blood and Chocolate
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Worthy of a franchise, but Bruckner has to go.
Posted Jan 27, 2007
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Freedom Writers
(2007)
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Victoria Alexander
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Too preachy, too many tears.
Posted Jan 04, 2007
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Apocalypto
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Brilliant. A masterpiece. The best film of the year and I should know. I've seen them all.
Posted Dec 15, 2006
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Breaking and Entering
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Weepy. Rich people morals.
Posted Dec 13, 2006
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Blood Diamond
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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DiCaprio gives a masterful performance. He's become a man's man with a powerful on-screen presence.
Posted Dec 01, 2006
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Notes on a Scandal
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Brilliant and riveting. Judi Dench gets my Best Actress vote! And I tell you why female teachers have sex with teen boys.
Posted Nov 30, 2006
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Saw III
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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My bloodlust has been sated and the sun will rise tomorrow.
Posted Oct 29, 2006
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The Prestige
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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The "reveal" was a surprise and quite deliciously executed.
Posted Oct 20, 2006
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Fast Food Nation
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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I've never eaten fast food in my life. After seeing this movie, you will join my egg-whites-only lifestyle. For you, it will take the on-screen gutting of a cow to do it.
Posted Oct 18, 2006
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Catch a Fire
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Attempts to explain anti-Apartheid terrorism by a reluctant true-life hero and conflicted torturer.
Posted Oct 18, 2006
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Marie Antoinette
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Extravagant, lavish, and shallow. Coppola knows about dresses and shoes but not about subtext and complex characters. 12-year old Dakota Fanning couldn't play "older"?
Posted Oct 16, 2006
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Infamous
(2006)
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Victoria Alexander
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Authentic. Not the snotty, consumer version of Hoffman's "Capote."
Posted Oct 11, 2006
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