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Title
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Rating
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Comment
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The Bank Job
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***1/2
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Best heist movie in years and it’s a true story.
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City of Men
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***1/2
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Chilling follow up to City of God.
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Changeling
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***1/2
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Chilling true account of boy murders in LA>
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Encounters End World
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***1/2
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Herzog makes another unnerving docu
(Grizzly Man) about Antarctica.
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The Express
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***1/2
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Ernie Davis, American hero and inspiration.
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Let
the Right One In
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***1/2
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Lil
vampire, grim teen drama.
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Man on a Wire
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***1/2
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How did he do that? Riveting.
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Milk
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***1/2
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Penn puts a face on gay rights.
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The Pool
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***1/2
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Subtle, haunting coming of age in India.
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Slumdog
Millionaire
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***1/2
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Rags to riches in India’s
caste system.
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Standard Op. Procedure
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***1/2
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Errol Morris shines the light on Abu Ghraib.
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The Visitor
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***1/2
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Another quirky yarn of disparate lives from The Station
Agent director.
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Waltz with Bashr
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***1/2
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An offbeat/animated docu
about a siege in Beirut.
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Wall-E
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***1/2
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A futuristic winner from creator of Finding
Nemo.
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Appaloosa
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***
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Ed Harris cooks up a revisionist western from Robert Parker’s
novel.
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Australia
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***
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The epic borders on camp, but also has a heart.
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Blindness
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***
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Can’t see in the apocalypse and it’s
hell.
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Body of Lies
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***
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Taut espionage with DiCaprio
as the man in the middle.
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Burn After Reading
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***
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Coen
Brothers go gonzo on the CIA.
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Benjamin Button
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***
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Pitt does F. Scott Fitzgerald.
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Che
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***
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Four hours long, but with purpose.
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Dark Knight
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***
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Muddled but moody. Christian, lose that growl!
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Defiance
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***
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Guerrilla Jews during WWII.
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Diary of the Dead
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***
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Contrived and clunky, but Romero delivers the gory
goods.
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Doubt
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***
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Great performances, manipulative plot.
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The Duchess
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***
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Knightly and Fines, love in the time of misogyny.
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Elegy
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***
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Kingsley is Roth’s swinging dick prof,
but Cruz steals the pic.
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Frost/Nixon
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***
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Lots of Oscar timber in this tight play to screen
adaptation.
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Gran Torino
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***
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Clint makes intolerance’s day.
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Happy Go Lucky
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***
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Another biting slice of life from Mike Leigh.
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HellBoy 2
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***
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Super hero movie of the summer…so far.
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In Bruges
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***
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The Hit gets remade for the new century.
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I Served the King England
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***
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WWII as told from a Czech waiter’s POV.
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The Last Mistress
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***
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Catherine Breillat delivers a
sexy Dangerous Liaisons period piece.
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The Lucky Ones
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***
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Three unlikely Iraq
soldiers on leave bond and find humanity.
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Miracle at St. Anna
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***
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Spike Lee does the WWII mystery thing
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Mongol
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***
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Genghis Khan, the early years.
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Mother
of Tears
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***
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Suspira
comes full circle.
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Nothing But the Truth
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***
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Lurie’s take
on Libby and Plame.
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Perfect Game
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***
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Little League schmaltz with heart.
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Paranoid Park
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***
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Van Sant hangs out with
troubled skate kids.
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The Reader
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***
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Hard questions asked in haunting post holocaust drama.
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Revolutionary Road
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***
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The American Dream goes to hell.
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Secret Lives of Bees
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***
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Maudlin, but well acted racial barrier yarn set in the
south.
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Sex and the City
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***
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The movie closes out the series with heart.
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Son of Rambow
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***
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Touching, if uneven, 80’s nostalgia.
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Space Chimps
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***
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Not WALL-E, but good monkey fun.
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Stop Loss
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***
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Iraq war
take by Boys Dony Cry dir. is poignant, yet
clichéd.
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Street Kings
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***
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Keanu does Training Dday
righteously.
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Traitor
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***
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Wacky Steve Martin conjures up an episode of 24.
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Tropic Thunder
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***
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Stiller finally hits the funny bone.
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Vicky Cristina Barcelona
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***
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Scarlett Jo
and Ms Cruz make out in Woody’s latest.
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Vallyrie
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***
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Cruise delivers Hitler assassination plot.
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W
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***
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Not what you’d expect from Ollie on Bush, provocative,
but pointless.
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Wendy and Lucy
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***
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Simple, harrowing, heartfelt drama about a lost dog.
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What Doesn’t Kill You
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***
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Gritty true tale of take down in South Boston.
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The Wrestler
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***
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Mickey Rourke wins as another
down and outer.
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Baghead
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**1/2
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Think of Blair Witch as a comedy.
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Blindness
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**1/2
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In post-apocalyptic world, no one can see.
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Charlie Bartlett
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**1/2
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Salinger-eque yarn could use
a tad more teeth.
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Choke
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**1/2
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Anal beads and sex addicts.
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Cloverfield
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**1/2
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Intriguing but pointless meld of Blair Witch and
Godzilla.
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Doomsday
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**1/2
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Cheesy but fun post apoc
follow up by the director of The Descent.
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Flawless
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**1/2
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Demi
Moore in a British heist caper, say what?
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Forgetting Sarah
Marshall
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**1/2
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More super penis jokes form the Apatow
camp.
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Four Christmases
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**1/2
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Holiday hell
when divorced parents up the ante.
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Ghost Town
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**1/2
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Ghost, with 100 ghosts and slapstick humor.
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Hancock
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**1/2
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Cool superhero premise, silly wrap up though.
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Hannah Montana
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**1/2
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Pop fluff.
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Harold and Kumar 2
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**1/2
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The boys get outa Gitmo and get baked with Pres. Bush.
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Hell Ride
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**1/2
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Easy Pulp Rider or Grindhouse
2?
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The House
Bunny
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**1/2
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Anna Faris finally steps into
the front.
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Indy Jones 4
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**1/2
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Still fun, though plot way over the top.
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Iron Man
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**1/2
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He lives again and Downey Jr
resurrects him
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Leatherheads
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**1/2
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Clooney tackles the star of pro-football, screwball
style.
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The Love Guru
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**1/2
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Mike Myers does the swami thing.
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Nights
in Rodanthe
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**1/2
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Lane and Gere shine in a
hokey Sparks
melodrama.
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Madagascar 2
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**1/2
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It’s all about the Penguins.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
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**1/2
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Period piece proves Henry VIII is a real ass and then
some.
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Pineapple Express
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**1/2
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Judd Apatow tackles stoners
on the run.
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The Pirates Who Don’t…
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**1/2
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Another Veggie Tale, yo-ho-ho.
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Punisher:
War Zone
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**1/2
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Better than the last
one.
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Quantum of Solace
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**1/2
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Muddled 007, too shaken, not enough stirred.
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RocknRolla
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**1/2
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Ritchie rehashes Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.
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Role Models
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**1/2
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Big Bro comedy could use a bit more edge.
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Semi Pro
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**1/2
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Engaging send up of the ABA.
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Seven Pounds
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**1/2
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Almost a feeling but too contrived
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Step
Brothers
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**1/2
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More male frontal exposure from Judd Apatow.
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Step Up 2
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**1/2
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Better moves than the original.
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The Strangers
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**1/2
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Creepy home invasion hangs on an unsatisfying gimmick.
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Sex Drive
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**1/2
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American Pie, the next generation.
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Soul Men
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**1/2
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Samuel J and Bernie Mac are the Blues Brothers all over
again.
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21
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**1/2
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Contrived take on real MIT blackjackers.
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Twilight
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**1/2
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All the hype, Let the Right
One In, is the better teen vamp flick.
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Vantage Point
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**1/2
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Thrilling until the silly final POV.
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Where’s Osama?
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**1/2
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Super Size Me director has big ego searching for FBI’s
#1 Most Wanted.
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Zombie Strippers
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**1/2
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Grindhouse with
more T&A.
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Bangkok
Dangerous
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**
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Cage’s career is the one in peril.
|
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Beverly
Hills Chihuahua
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**
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A silly lil woofie.
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College Road Trip
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**
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Thank god for Donny Osmond and the piglet.
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Delgo
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**
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Videogame animation on the big screen.
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Fool’s Gold
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**
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Silly National
Treasure wannabe.
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Fly Me
to the Moon
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**
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First Space Chimps, now bugs.
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Forbidden Kingdom
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**
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Li and Chan wind up in Narnia
land.
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Get Smart
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**
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Missed, by that much!
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The Happening
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**
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Another enigmatic sham from Shyamalan.
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Igor
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**
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Dark movie might not find a cord with kids.
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Journey Center
Earth
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**
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Likeable performances in cheap remake.
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Jumper
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**
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Cool concept, silly plot jumps.
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Lakeview Terrace
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**
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Jackson’s
nut job of a cop is also a racist.
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Mad Money
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**
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Desperate housewives pilfer from the Fed.
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Max Payne
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**
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Misguided cop drama with cheap FX.
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Meet Dave
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**
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Murphy is no Brother from Another Planet.
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
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**
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Flat plot, great performances.
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Morning
Light
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**
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Strange docu about kids who
get to sail a hi-tech yacht.
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Mummy 3
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**
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Muddled spin out in the 3rd.
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Nothing
Like the Holidays
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**
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Dysfunctional Christmas, Latin style.
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Over Her Dead Body
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**
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Longoria is an angel from hell.
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Rambo
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**
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Series closes out a tad tame, but the goods are there.
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Sisterhood Pants 2
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**
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2 too many.
|
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Spiderwick
Chronicles
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**
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Narnia lite.
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The
Tale of Despereaux
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**
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Mouse tale, more nibble than bite.
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Transporter
3
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**
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Statham’s still got the movies, but the plot needs a
jumpstart.
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Wanted
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**
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Assassins’ war yarn will leave you wanting.
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The Women
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**
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Of botox and rumors, the previous
ones were better.
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Untraceable
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**
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Cheap Silence of the Lambs gone INet.
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Yes Man
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**
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Jim Carey keeps flailing, but has its moments.
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88 Minutes
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*1/2
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Pacino runs
out of steam early.
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Haunting
of Molly Hartley
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*1/2
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The lack of plot is scary.
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Quarantine
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*1/2
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This zombie schlock should have been walled off.
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Saw V
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*1/2
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The edge has long faded from the horror series.
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The Spirit
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*1/2
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It’s lacing.
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What Happens in Vegas
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*1/2
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Should have stayed there, not funny.
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In the Name of the
King
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*
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Swords and sorcerers and really bad dialogue too.
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One Missed Call
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*
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Ring-lite.
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The Ruins
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*
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The horror is some killer ivy.
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Meet the Spartans
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1/2
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The brains behind Scary Movie finally run out of gas.
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Prom Night
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1/2
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PG-13 slasher flick has no blood
or gore.
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