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Review of Shutter Island (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 18 Feb 2010

An incidental nod of surrender and a devastating final line should haunt you on your way out of the film and as painful as it might be, you…

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Review of Valentine's Day (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 12 Feb 2010

To compare Valentine's Day to Richard Curtis' wonderfully funny and moving examination of realized crushes and heartbreak, Love Actually, is…

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Review of Hesher (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for Cinematical (752) on 05 Feb 2010

It manages to succeed with a pastiche of great casting and an unapologetic slant towards being anti-touchy-feely. Until it needs to be…

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Review of Buried (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for Cinematical (752) on 05 Feb 2010

Tighten the screws a few more times around the middle and we could have had a genuine classic on our hands…

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Review of Nowhere Boy (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for Cinematical (752) on 05 Feb 2010

A barren soap opera of a film that puts more emphasis on Lennon's mood swings than what made his music so great…

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Review of The Killer Inside Me (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 01 Feb 2010

Just a couple of unappetizing scenes in an otherwise painfully dull picture with no grasp on the tightening noose against Tom nor the development…

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Review of Sympathy for Delicious (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 01 Feb 2010

Sympathy For Delicious doesn't just go from bad to worse with each passing scene but dives wheelchair first into downright laughable waters…

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Review of Please Give (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 31 Jan 2010

Holofcener always gives us more to chew on than originally meets the eye in her films and she writes female characters with an intelligence,…

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Review of Winter's Bone (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 31 Jan 2010

The temptation to call Debra Granik's latest film, Frozen River Jr., will be great…

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Review of Howl (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 31 Jan 2010

It's a mixture of styles that may have worked well if concentrated on one over another. Instead the subject matter struggles to find a distinct voice…

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Review of The Book of Eli (2010)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 15 Jan 2010

These are two guys who know how to make a movie. They may not be perfect ones, but one can't deny it is not for a lack of effort…

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Review of Nine (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 26 Dec 2009

Rob Marshall has neither the personal touch to connect to his main character nor the foresight to realize that a dreamlike cinematic musical…

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Review of Invictus (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 11 Dec 2009

What we get is a larger metaphor about change that is as adaptable now to our current Commander-In-Chief as it is to many difficult transitions…

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Review of Ninja Assassin (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Nov 2009

If I want to spend 90 minutes with better lighting on the ninja's body than the fighting, give me Lucinda Dickey in Ninja III: The Domination…

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Review of Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 25 Nov 2009

Wishing it was Chicken Run and never achieving the depth of Where The Wild Things Are, Anderson and Baumbach create a half-fun, half-humdrum…

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Review of Taking Chances (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Nov 2009

Hopefully someday we'll look at Taking Chances as just a flash of a very specific time in our nation's history and we'll be able to laugh at…

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Review of Taking Chances (2011)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 20 Nov 2009

Hopefully someday we'll look at Taking Chances as just a flash of a very specific time in our nation's history and we'll be able to laugh at…

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Review of Law Abiding Citizen (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 14 Oct 2009

Anyone who enjoys this film and feels that the 'point' had been made must sit in their own padded cell with nothing but a copy of the documentary…

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Review of Couples Retreat (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 08 Oct 2009

A giant black hole in the center of the comedy universe sucking in the best ideas and situations from other entities into an inescapable ride…

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Review of An Education (2009)

By Erik Childress (902) for eFilmCritic.com (5,125) on 07 Oct 2009

The first two acts are the best with the radiance of Mulligan's performance putting all eyes on her and subsequently seducing us into her discoveries…

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Erik Childress has written reviews for:

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