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Title
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Rating
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Comment
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Adventureland
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***1/2
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Tight coming of age romp.
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Hurt Locker
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***1/2
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Bigelow digs into the Iraq War with
talons.
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Monsters
vs Aliens
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***1/2
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Not quite Wall-E but good family fun
with an edge.
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Of All
the Things
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***1/2
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A 70’s songwriter goes on a comeback
tour in the Philippines.
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Star Trek
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***1/2
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Best one since The Wrath of Khan, we
have a seires!
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Sunshine Cleaning
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***1/2
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Blunt and Adams are gold in this anti
chick-flick, flick.
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Tyson
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***1/2
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Iron Mike atones for it all.
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Alien
Trespass
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***
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Retro B sci-fi, spooky Theremin and
all.
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Coraline
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***
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It’s no Nightmare Before Christmas, but
it does have bite.
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Every
Little Step
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***
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Dancing with the Stars without the
stars.
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Fired Up
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***
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Best HS movie since American Pie.
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Gomorrah
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***
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Italian mob epic.
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Limits of Control
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***
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Whimsical Jarmush,
perhaps too much.
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Lost
Son of Havana
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***
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The Red Sox ace, Tiant
finally goes home to Cuba.
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Not
Easily Broken
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***
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Marriage on the rocks with a touch of
the hood and heart.
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One Little Step
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***
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Making it in A Chorus Line.
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Sugar
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***
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The not so sweet science of not making
it in the MLB.
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Secret of the Grain
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***
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Hardships on the docks in France.
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Shooting
Beauty
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***
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Those with cerebral palsy get a chance
to tell their tales.
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The Soloist
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***
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Bio-drama puts a face on homelessness
and mental illness.
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Treeless Mountain
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***
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A haunting tale of abandonment.
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Up
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***
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Another great animation win for Pixar.
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Watchmen
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***
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Great visuals, intriguing weave, but too
long.
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World’s Greatest Father
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***
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Robin Williams makes a thin plot hum.
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Angels and Demons
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**1/2
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Better than Da
Vinci, but still a trumped up non-thriller.
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Away
We Go
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**1/2
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An almost witty travelogue to discovery.
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Earth
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**1/2
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Tepid recycling of the TV series Planet
Earth.
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Easy Virtue
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**1/2
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Biel looks great as a flapper but setup
is a bit of a bore.
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Fan Boys
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**1/2
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Cool road trip idea that goes on too
long. Killer cameos.
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For the Love of Movies
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**1/2
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Intriguing look at the history of film
criticism.
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Girlfriend Experience
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**1/2
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Porn star struggles to act as a vapid
escort, but situation compels.
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The
Hangover
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**1/2
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Men behaving badly with some wit, but
not enough zeal.
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Hannah
Montana
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**1/2
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Miley
goes big screen again.
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Harry Potter: ½ Blood…
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**1/2
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A part 1 cliffhanger.
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Hotel for
Dogs
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**1/2
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A nice family
wag.
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The International
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**1/2
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Taut, but not so thrilling.
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Madea Goes to Jail
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**1/2
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The big drag is still funny.
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Management
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**1/2
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Aniston’s quirky could have been.
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My Life in Ruins
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**1/2
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My
Big Fat Greek Wedding 2.
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My
Sister’s Keeper
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**1/2
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Manipulative, but well acted weepy.
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Observe and Report
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**1/2
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Megalomaniac looser hero with tons of raunch.
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New in Town
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**1/2
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Zellweger
finds love in the frozen tundra.
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Paper Heat
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**1/2
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Misleading (non)documentary
but sweet nonetheless.
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Pelham 1-2-3
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**1/2
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Solid acting but vapid remake.
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Phoebe
in Wonderland
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**1/2
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Dakota’s sister takes center stage in
this tender jerker.
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The Proposal
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**1/2
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Boston stands in for Alaska? Hey, it’s a
comedy.
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State of Play
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**1/2
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News room thriller has way too many
endings.
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Terminator Salvation
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**1/2
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T1 & T2 had is all and the add ons are diminishing the franchise.
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Tetro
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**1/2
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Coppola still looking to regain his
form.
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Ugly Truth
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**1/2
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Heigl
shines in otherwise formulaic rom-com.
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Wolverine
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**1/2
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Too much CGI but Jackman
brings it home.
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Bride Wars
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**
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A sugary wedding cake OD.
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Fast and
Furious
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**
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Return to F&F1
cast doesn’t make it fly.
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Fighting
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**
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All punch and no plot.
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Knowing
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**
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Next and Signs
with more FX.
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Last House on the Left
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**
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Little new, still grim.
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My
Bloody Valentine 3D
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**
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Remake of so-so slasher
fare is just that despite visual protuberances.
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Night
at the Museum 2
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**
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Reanimated blah part 2.
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Outlander
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**
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Beowulf from outer space.
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Pink
Panther 2
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**
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Two too many.
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Race
to Witch Mountain
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**
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The Rock goes Spaceship.
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17 Again
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**
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Efron
has soul and charm, but the film doesn’t
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The Stoning of Soraya M.
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**
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Grim reality, but made with too much
artifice.
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Transformers 2
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**
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More bombs, boobs and bots from Bay.
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Underworld
3
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**
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Prequel finally makes sense out of all
the vamp vs werewolf nonsense.
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Dance Flick
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*1/2
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Flimsy spoof movie, can’t busta move.
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Haunting in CT
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*1/2
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Lotsa
boos with few frights.
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Land of the Lost
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*1/2
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It’s just that.
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Miss March
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*1/2
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Silly Playboy comedy, pales in
comparison to The House
Bunny.
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Obsessed
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*1/2
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Fatal Attraction with a crazy whit
bitch, wait, that’s been done.
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The Unborn
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*1/2
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A stillborn Omen.
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Year One
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*1/2
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A total zero.
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Friday the 13th
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*
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Bloody hell! No need for a remake.
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