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Chocolate
Chocolate Dir: Prachya Pinkaew Rating: 4.0 Magnet Releasing 92 Minutes Thailand seems to be asserting itself as the heir to the action cinema; the US has given way to superhero mythology, Segal and Van
Read More »Memorial Day
Memorial Day Dir: Josh Fox Rating: 2.0 Artists Public Domain 91 Minutes I didn’t expect my Saturday night to turn out this way. I was all set for a great movie-watching evening, complete with
Read More »Medicine for Melancholy
Medicine for Melancholy Dir: Barry Jenkins Rating: 2.0 IFC Films 88 Minutes There’s a disturbing tendency amongst indie filmmakers to erroneously believe that all a movie needs to be “important” and “edgy” is the
Read More »Blessed is the Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah Senesh
Blessed Is The Match: The Life And Death Of Hannah Senesh Dir: Roberta Grossman Rating: 2.5 Katahdin Productions 85 Minutes I’m not trying to be cynical when noting that just as there are a
Read More »Confessions of a Shopaholic
Confessions of a Shopaholic Dir: P.J. Hogan Rating: 1.5 Touchstone Pictures 100 Minutes Before I start my finger-wagging, let me give Disney some credit. This movie was neither intended nor marketed for an adult,
Read More »The International
The International Dir: Tom Tykwer Rating: 2.0 Columbia Pictures 118 Minutes Plots are funny little things. You can have the most gripping plot in the world but bore a viewer to tears with pesky
Read More »Friday the 13th
Friday the 13th Dir: Marcus Nispel Rating: 1.5 New Line Cinema 97 Minutes Have we run out of ideas? Or have all the good characters already been created? There has been a recent rash
Read More »Gomorrah
Gomorrah Dir: Matteo Garrone Rating: 3.0 IFC Films 135 Minutes Everyone loves a good Mafia movie. Films such as The Godfather or Goodfellas mesmerize us with the characters, crimes of retaliation, the power of
Read More »Serbis
Serbis Dir: Brillante Mendoza Rating: 2.5 Regent Releasing 90 Minutes A rundown movie theatre and the fractured family that run it are the stand-ins for a crumbling economy in this Filipino downer from director
Read More »He’s Just Not That Into You
He’s Just Not That Into You Dir: Ken Kwapis Rating: 2.5 New Line Cinema 129 Minutes Remember back in 2004, when Paul Haggis made Crash, his multi-narrative, ensemble-cast film about how everyone is kind
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