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Review of Red Riding Hood (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Mar 2011

A muddle of woozy romance and horror-movie cliche...Of course, pictures about werewolves involve the full moon, so it's only appropriate this…

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Review of Even the Rain (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 10 Mar 2011

An interesting if flawed blend of historical commentary and contemporary political-economic diatribe...it raises provocative issues in a dramatically…

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Review of Beastly (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 03 Mar 2011

Poorly written, amateurishly acted and cheesily made,...this high school morality tale that recasts the old fairy tale for the 'Twilight' audience...resembles…

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Review of Drive Angry (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 26 Feb 2011

Aspires to be absolute trash, but of the exhilarating sort. Unfortunately, it misses by a mile, winding up oddly dull and ponderous…

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Review of Hall Pass (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 25 Feb 2011

A repulsive mixture of smarmy schmaltz and unremitting vulgarity,directed by co-writers Peter and Bobby Farrelly as though they were wielding…

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Review of I Am Number Four (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 17 Feb 2011

A bastard hybrid of 'Smallville,' 'Twilight' and any number of other angsty teen-themed sci-fi shows and movies...feels like a co-production…

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Review of The Roommate (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Feb 2011

A thrill-free thriller...which dredges up every cliche of the genre and then bungles each and every one of them…

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Review of Just Go with It (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Feb 2011

Astonishingly bad...a would-be comedy that's not just cruelly unfunny but sloppily made…

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Review of The Roommate (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Feb 2011

A thrill-free thriller...which dredges up every cliche of the genre and then bungles each and every one of them…

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Review of The Roommate (2008)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 15 Feb 2011

A thrill-free thriller...which dredges up every cliche of the genre and then bungles each and every one of them…

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Review of Gnomeo & Juliet (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Feb 2011

Offhand you might imagine that doing an animated version of 'Romeo and Juliet' with the characters played by lawn gnomes...would be a terrible…

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Review of The Illusionist (1901)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Feb 2011

Anybody willing to forgo the rapid-fire approach of most of today's animated pictures should find this gentle, warmhearted fable a quiet charmer…

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Review of The Illusionist (2010)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Feb 2011

Anybody willing to forgo the rapid-fire approach of most of today's animated pictures should find this gentle, warmhearted fable a quiet charmer…

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Review of The Illusionist (2009)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 08 Feb 2011

Anybody willing to forgo the rapid-fire approach of most of today's animated pictures should find this gentle, warmhearted fable a quiet charmer…

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Review of The Way Back (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Jan 2011

Elevates what might have been an adolescent adventure story...with good taste, high-mindedness and elegence, even if the result is just a bit…

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Review of The Way Back (2010)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Jan 2011

Elevates what might have been an adolescent adventure story...with good taste, high-mindedness and elegence, even if the result is just a bit…

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Review of Another Year (2010)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Jan 2011

A powerful experience, but a bleak and ultimately dispiriting one…

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Review of The Mechanic (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 27 Jan 2011

Glitzy trash, a violent bauble so ludicrous and over-the-top that it reeks of Luc Besson's influence…

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Review of No Strings Attached (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 20 Jan 2011

A trite romantic plot is rescued by a reliable stream of clever lines, engaging leads and an array of superior supporting players…

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Review of The Dilemma (2011)

By Frank Swietek (3,473) for One Guy's Opinion (3,473) on 13 Jan 2011

A dismal dramedy in which the comic bits aren't funny, the more serious parts heavy-handed and contrived, and the scenes that try to mix the…

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