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Review of Due Date (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 11 Nov 2010

Due Date uses the same template as John Hughes' Planes, Trains and Automobiles, but the template is broken now, and it was a perfectly servicable…

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Review of Megamind (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 09 Nov 2010

Too bad for Hal(Jonah Hill) that the laws of physics prevent him from having an unlimited amount of do-overs, since his courting of Roxanne…

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Review of Waiting for "Superman" (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 05 Nov 2010

The filmmaker got lucky, really, really lucky, when Nupur Lala, one of the eight kids Jeffrey Blitz selected to profile for his documentary…

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Review of Buried (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 04 Nov 2010

Paul Conroy(Ryan Reynolds) isn't dead, but the American is halfway there; he's buried; he's a goner, so for all intents and purposes, he's…

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Review of Saw 3D (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 01 Nov 2010

It should've been Jill(Betsy Russell), not Mark(Costas Mandyor), a serial killer with no showmanship, no panache, who should have carried on…

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Review of Never Let Me Go (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 29 Oct 2010

It's the saddest music in the world…

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Review of You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 28 Oct 2010

You will meet a grown-up Lloyd Dobler in Woody Allen's Bullets Over Broadway…

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Review of Hereafter (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 26 Oct 2010

Good George Lonegan; he has a good will, integrity and compassion, someone who is probably too honest to be a psychic…

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Review of Paranormal Activity 2 (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 24 Oct 2010

It's not a mystery, scale-wise, commensurate to the Star Child's true identity, or the origins of the Monoliths, filmically cosmic mysteries…

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Review of Jack Goes Boating (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 21 Oct 2010

Maybe Jack(Phillip Seymour Hoffman) caught a midnight showing of Perry Henzell's The Harder They Come at some brokedown second-run theater,…

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Review of RED (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 20 Oct 2010

Sarah(Mary-Louise Parker) likes to curl up in bed with a book, and not for nothing does she read trashy pulp fiction(Love's Savage Secret),…

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Review of Jackass 3D (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 18 Oct 2010

Try this analogy on for size: South Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncut is to Stephen Sondheim, as Jackass is to Jackie Chan. The analogy fits…

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Review of Secretariat (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 16 Oct 2010

Horses all over the world, thoroughbreds and non-thoroughbreds alike, humiliated by the sight of an ostrich outrunning their own kind in Sam…

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Review of It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 14 Oct 2010

Stop me if you've heard this one before; it's the story of the great white hope, an inner-city, public middle school teacher, the inspirational…

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Review of My Soul to Take (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 13 Oct 2010

Say you're Bug's guardian; say you're May(Jessica Hecht), and you know that Abel Plenkov(Raul Esparza), the infamous Riverton Ripper, is Bug's…

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Review of Life As We Know It (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 11 Oct 2010

The rich are different, but not this different, not this cheeky…

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Review of Let Me In (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 09 Oct 2010

The chances of remaking a beloved Swedish import such as Tomas Alfredson's Lat den ratte komma in into an equally good, if not, superior film…

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Review of Catfish (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 07 Oct 2010

Passing off Hey You, an important track from the mega-selling album Pink Floyd: The Wall as your own original composition may seem like a foolhardy…

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Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps (2010)

By Shiira (217) on 04 Oct 2010

About Goldman Sachs, journalist Matt Taibbi wrote, The world's most powerful investment bank is a great vampire squid wrapped around the face…

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Review of Case 39 (2009)

By Shiira (217) on 02 Oct 2010

The masturbation scene from William Freidkin's The Exorcist will always be shocking…

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