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Criminally Over/Underrated

In this feature our writers take down films they feel are wildly overpraised or defend films they feel have not received their due.

Criminally Underrated: Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End

By Daniel Bromfield
March 17, 2021
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

In this under-loved third installment of the Pirates franchise, the world is so batshit that Captain Jack could only get in the movie’s way if he blundered through it in great noisy slapstick scenes.

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Criminally Underrated: Spider-Man 3

By Joel Copling
February 17, 2021
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Repeated viewings reveal the film to be, not only a very good superhero movie, but a high watermark for the genre.

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Criminally Underrated: Children of the Corn III: Urban Harvest

By Christian Valentin
February 3, 2021
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

The folk horror franchise’s third installment relishes in the gonzo freedom of direct-to-video horror and the practical-effects mastery that matured throughout the 1980s.

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Criminally Underrated: Message in a Bottle

By Jeffrey Davies
January 13, 2021
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Message in a Bottle almost exists in a different realm entirely—one on the precipice of a new millennium while still continually stuck in the age of ‘90s rom-coms.

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Criminally Underrated: The Counselor

By Dominic Griffin
November 4, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film
Cameron Diaz and Penelope Cruz in The Counselor

The blend of Cormac McCarthy’s cowboy navel-gazing and Ridley Scott’s insistence to play things both perfectly straight and absolutely absurd makes it stand out from the filmmaker’s storied and wildly inconsistent filmography.

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Criminally Underrated: A Perfect World

By Greg Vellante
October 14, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Some of the most delicate work Eastwood has ever done.

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Criminally Underrated: Maleficent

By A.C. Koch
September 23, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Maleficent is the quintessential strong female lead who doesn't need to adopt traditionally masculine qualities to defeat the men arrayed against her.

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Criminally Underrated: Too Late

By Dominic Griffin
September 2, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Remains the greatest entry in the strange milieu of Tarantino knock-off cinema, despite being all but written off at the time of its release.

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Criminally Underrated: Mirror Mirror

By Jeffrey Davies
August 19, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film
Mirror Mirror - Lily Collins and Armie Hammer

Roberts’ layered, campy performance of the Evil Queen, as well as the reflection in her magic mirror, is in itself a work of art.

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Criminally Underrated: The Girl Next Door

By Joel Copling
June 10, 2020
in :  Criminally Over/Underrated, Features, Film

Deserves another look as a forgotten masterpiece of 2000s-era sex comedies.

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