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Review of Dark Shadows (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 May 2012

Much like watching the Monday episode of a weekly soap opera with its 4-5 storylines all competing for dominance and then realizing that the…

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Review of The Cabin in the Woods (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 12 Apr 2012

For the first two acts, it works better when it is going for laughs rather than scares, but by the time the climactic battle comes around all…

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Review of The Babymakers (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 27 Mar 2012

Broad humor has served Chandrasekhar and his clan in the past, but this is a project that should have been aborted on the cover page once he…

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Review of The Hunger Games (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 23 Mar 2012

Gary Ross made a real movie. Not dumbed down and not just pandering to a PG-13 teenage audience…

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Review of Beauty Is Embarrassing (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Mar 2012

The film cannot help but be described as colorful just based on the visualizations of White's work alone, but his persona matches his creations…

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Review of God Bless America (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Mar 2012

We may be ready to crown Goldthwait as the modern Frank Capra for the America that we have created…

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Review of John Carter (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Mar 2012

The difference with Indiana Jones or Pirates of the Caribbean is that most of their action is memorable and filtered through a charismatic…

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Review of Scarlet Road (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Mar 2012

The best aspects of the film involve Rachel and the clients; a true human interest story that should reach beyond any moral objections one…

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Review of We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Mar 2012

A fascinating documentary that is scary no matter whom you side with…

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Review of Wanderlust (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Feb 2012

Consistently funny throughout, it's a great ensemble that is enlivened by Paul Rudd having some of the funniest moments of his already stellar career…

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Review of Gone (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 24 Feb 2012

Imagine Tyler Perry directing the lamest remake of Kiss the Girls imaginable and you can get a sense of how flat-out awful the storytelling…

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Review of Save the Date (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Feb 2012

After so much emotional dishonesty inherent in Sundance films like Hello I Must Be Going and Celeste & Jesse Forever, Save the Date had a welcome…

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Review of The Sessions (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Feb 2012

Using a healthy dose of humor and some very winning performances, The Surrogate makes for a perfectly nice, if not challenging, film…

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Review of For a Good Time, Call... (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Feb 2012

It may not be as great as Bridesmaids or even as outrageous and sharp as Zack & Miri Make A Porno, but of all the female-centric comedies at…

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Review of Excision (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Feb 2012

A dark comedy that may not quite be Lucky McKee's masterful May but should earn fans along the lines of Ginger Snaps and Teeth…

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Review of Red Lights (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Feb 2012

This is the second horror subgenre that Cortes has injected fresh life into and no matter what side of the debate you come down on in Red Lights,…

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Review of Compliance (2012)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 16 Feb 2012

Craig Zobel fashions tough, challenging material in the guise of a dark comic thriller and those too willing to dismiss it or drum up unnecessary…

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Review of The Thing (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 13 Oct 2011

The Thing becomes its own beast; a thawed out creature from the past desperately trying to survive by imitating those that melted it down in…

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Review of We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2011

If ever a movie gave you a hankering for jam and a vasectomy in one sitting, it would certainly be Lynne Ramsay's latest…

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Review of My Week with Marilyn (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 10 Oct 2011

Unlike Me and Orson Welles from a few years ago, this is more than just an interesting footnote in history wrapped around a performance…

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