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Review of Frontrunners (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Apr 2008

A portrait of insulated America, FrontRunners is a political documentary that for a change doesn't pit left vs…

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Review of Crawford (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Apr 2008

Modigliani is there from the beginning which helps bring potency and unexpected tragedy to the lives of both Bush's local supporters and his…

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Review of Dreams with Sharp Teeth (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Apr 2008

Ellison's lasting contributions to science-fiction and the medium in general are well-documented in-between interludes where Ellison himself…

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Review of A Necessary Death (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Apr 2008

Stamm is able to diminish our misgivings over its authenticity by mastering the documentary of a documentary style and satisfying the gravity…

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Review of Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 02 Apr 2008

Between the climactic musical number that changes a horror classic forever, and at least 90 minutes of sustained laughter, what possible reason…

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Review of Leatherheads (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 02 Apr 2008

It seems as if the MPAA unfairly upped a clear PG movie into a PG-13…

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Review of 21 (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Mar 2008

You have a director so inept that he doesn't even understand what genre he's working within and he's helped destroy potentially one of the…

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Review of Stop-Loss (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Mar 2008

Stop-Loss' inability to find any coherent statement to make about what's happening to our soldiers is only a source of greater frustration…

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Review of Choke (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 30 Jan 2008

Certainly there's a nihilist streak on Palahniuk's sleeve, but as Clark Gregg's adaptation of his 2001 novel shows us, up that sleeve seems…

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Review of Choke (1971)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 30 Jan 2008

Certainly there's a nihilist streak on Palahniuk's sleeve, but as Clark Gregg's adaptation of his 2001 novel shows us, up that sleeve seems…

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Review of The Wackness (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 29 Jan 2008

It's superfluous overkill is less about endearing us to these characters' simplistic plights and all about how in touch the filmmakers are…

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Review of Good Dick (2008)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 26 Jan 2008

Nearly blindsides us with moments of such genuine thoughtfulness and surprises that wouldn't be out-of-place in a script by Cameron Crowe or…

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Review of Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Dec 2007

Should have been a standing triple for Burton to hit off the wall instead of hitting it head-on until the guignol nature became less than grand…

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Review of Charlie Wilson's War (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Dec 2007

You may find better films that deal with the precursors of our present blowback in the Middle East, but you won't find many more entertaining…

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Review of Smiley Face (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 21 Dec 2007

This is a full-force, all-purpose performance by Faris with the kind of grace that would get winks from the likes of silent screen greats…

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Review of The Kite Runner (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 13 Dec 2007

Calls into question why Hosseini's novel was such a chart-climber in the first place other than being one of the first published pieces of…

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Review of Juno (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 05 Dec 2007

Has all the rhythms that made films like Little Miss Sunshine and Garden State so beloved by audiences and critics alike, but invents its own…

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Review of The Mist (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Nov 2007

Frank Darabont's The Mist is easily the best horror film since The Blair Witch Project and the most socially frightening statement about humanity…

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Review of Hitman (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Nov 2007

If there is someone out there willing to support Hitman and who believes that it conforms to the basic attributes of a cinematic experience,…

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Review of Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 15 Nov 2007

A tediously unimaginative short story run amok that will somehow put kids to sleep who are already sleeping and maybe wake up adults who were…

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Erik Childress has written reviews for:

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