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Review of Real Steel (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 05 Oct 2011

Most viewers over the age of 12 will feel they have stepped into a confused, unambitious piece of futurama weighed down by Shawn Levy's uninspired…

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Review of Moneyball (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Sep 2011

Baseball is more than just America's pasttime or America's game. It IS America…

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Review of Drive (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 15 Sep 2011

Drive is quite simply the best film that Michael Mann never made in the period where Thief, Manhunter and the scores of Giorgio Moroder and…

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Review of Contagion (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Sep 2011

Steven Soderbergh is given the opportunity to scare us and it is the calm with which he does it that should frighten us all the more…

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Review of The Family Tree (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Aug 2011

Think Overboard with masturbating, asphyxiated teens, gun-toting/weed-smoking priests, lesbian high school teachers preying on her students,…

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Review of Swinging with the Finkels (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Aug 2011

If you make it to the so-called happy ending, think aloud if Swinging with the Finkels would have lived up to its name better if the titular…

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Review of Vamsha Vriksha (1971)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Aug 2011

Think Overboard with masturbating, asphyxiated teens, gun-toting/weed-smoking priests, lesbian high school teachers preying on her students,…

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Review of Fright Night (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 17 Aug 2011

It really comes into its own thanks to a great ensemble, an underlying theme about growing pains that should embolden the hypnotized Twilight…

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Review of Final Destination 5 (2011)

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

Maybe the filmmakers just got a little lazy, but it was disappointing to watch it wrap itself by becoming just another killer-in-human-form thriller…

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Review of The Help (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 09 Aug 2011

Almost succeeds solely on the strength of its acting, but The Help cannot escape the central hypocrisy that should have been easy-as-pie to fix…

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Review of Captain America: The First Avenger (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Jul 2011

Those who want to accentuate Captain America as a blueprint for how comic book movies should be made, must footnote such hyperbolic statements…

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Review of Romantics Anonymous (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Jul 2011

Carré and Poelvoorde are nice and cute in their scenes together, but just as it seems it is going to make some concessions in its second act,…

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Review of Friends with Benefits (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Jul 2011

There are many connections we can make to No Strings Attached, but easily the most favorable is that like the former, it also turns out to…

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Review of Friends (With Benefits) (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Jul 2011

There are many connections we can make to No Strings Attached, but easily the most favorable is that like the former, it also turns out to…

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Review of The Hedgehog (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Jul 2011

Develops into a deeply charming and smile-worthy little film with Balasko drawing us in bit-by-bit as she opens up to Kakuro's more-than-casual…

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Review of Vampires (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Jul 2011

There is the occasional dark, droll observation, but when they try to wring an actual plot out of the material we are thrust into a long, final…

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Review of Vampires (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Jul 2011

There is the occasional dark, droll observation, but when they try to wring an actual plot out of the material we are thrust into a long, final…

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Review of Horrible Bosses (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Jul 2011

Spotty in its commitment to the darker elements of the material, but damn if this is not an example of actors taking control of nearly every…

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Review of Zookeeper (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Jul 2011

Audiences may be shocked when they discover that only about 40% of the running time involves scenes of talking animals…

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Review of Ironclad (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 06 Jul 2011

A certain bloody matinee charm to it, if your idea of charm is brutally graphic combat scenes and well-known faces hamming it up in the downtime…

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