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TOP 5
MOVIES IN RELEASE
TITLE RATING
Make-Out with Violence 5
Louis 5
Smash His Camera 5
Parking Lot Movie, The 4.63
Peepli Live 4.43

BOTTOM 5
MOVIES IN RELEASE
TITLE RATING
Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore 1
Twelve (2010) 1
Vampires Suck 1.19
Eat Pray Love 1.5
Sorcerer's Apprentice, The 1.9

2009 CineVegas Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Saint John of Las Vegas 3.67
Etienne! 4
Youth Knows No Pain 5
Thor at the Bus Stop 3
It Came From Kuchar 4
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2009 Sundance Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Spring Breakdown 2.88
Grace 4
Bronson 4.14
La Mission 4.71
Humpday 4
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2009 South By Southwest Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Two Bobs, The 4
Women in Trouble 4.5
Make-Out with Violence 5
Over the Hills and Far Away 5
Way We Get By, The 4.5
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2009 Tribeca Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Original 5
Paintball 3.1
My Life in Ruins 1.44
Wonderful World 3.14
House of the Devil, The 3.64
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2009 Festival de Cannes MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Inglourious Basterds 4.07
Taking Woodstock 3
Ne te retourne pas 4
Mother (2010) 4.56
Vengeance (2010) 5
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2009 Philadelphia Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
I'm Gonna Explode (Voy a explotar) 2
(500) Days of Summer 4.17
Surveillance (2009) 3.64
Number One with A Bullet (2009) 3.29
Playing Columbine 4
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2009 Florida Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Answer Man, The 4
Treeless Mountain 5
Merry Gentleman, The 3.88
American Swing 3
Prodigal Sons 4
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2009 Santa Cruz Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Saint Misbehavin: The Life and Time of Wavy Gravy 3.22
Satellites & Meteorites 5
Pig Hunt 3.73
Youssou N'dour: I Bring What I Love 4
Salute 5
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2009 Seattle International Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Cold Souls 2
Dead Snow 2.5
My Dear Enemy 4.14
Flame & Citron 5
Kanchivaram 4.67
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2010 Sundance Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Bran Nue Dae 2
Women Without Men 5
I Am Love 2.43
Freebie, The 3
Cyrus 3.7
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2010 Slamdance Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Cummings Farm 4.5
URFrenz 5
YellowBrickRoad 5
General Orders No. 9 4
Drones 1.57
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2010 South By Southwest Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Kick-Ass 3.45
Harry Brown 4
Greenlit 5
Parking Lot Movie, The 4.63
Centurion 4
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2010 Tribeca Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Disappearance of Alice Creed, The 3.88
Micmacs 5
Please Give 4
Moloch Tropical 3
Into Eternity 5
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2010 Festival de Cannes MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Robin Hood (2010) 2.85
Cleveland vs. Wall Street 5
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2010 Toronto International Film Festival MOVIES
TITLE RATING
Amazon Falls 2
White Irish Drinkers 5
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"Losing His Edge"
3 stars
William Goss says... "George Clooney is going down, down stone steps and steep hills, down the map from Sweden to Italy. He’s a man known by many names – Jack, Edward, Mr. Butterfly – who always looks over his shoulder as he walks and often picks a corner when he sits. He knows how to make guns, he knows how to use them, and he knows that he’s being followed by men and women who are similarly skilled. And if he isn’t careful, then he’ll go down for good." (more)
LOUIS
"A great silent comedy with great music, if that's not a contradiction."
5 stars
Jay Seaver says... "SCREENED WITH LIVE MUSIC: When I mentioned to a friend that I was planning a trip to New York to see a new movie inspired by the early life of Louis Armstrong, I asked him to guess what sort of movie it was. Well, he figured, since we wouldn't be playing guess-the-genre if it were obvious, that left out the musical. It took some time to get to "silent comedy", which in 2010 has be considered an unusual (if attention-getting) choice." (more)
MACHETE
"Blade Runner"
3 stars
Peter Sobczynski says... "If the super-gory Mexploitaton goof “Machete” does nothing else, it reconfirms Robert Rodriguez’s standing as Hollywood’s answer to the Energizer Bunny. Once again, he has given us an unabashedly lurid serving of cinematic pulp that is crammed with so much manna from B-movie heaven--oceans of blood and guts, a bevy of babes running the gamut from half-naked to fully, goofball humor, wild stunts and wilder plot twists--and has done so with enough energy to power several mid-sized suburbs. The trouble is that, unlike more successful ventures such as “Desperado” and “Sin City,” he hasn’t balanced out that reckless energy with equal amounts of inspiration and discipline and as a result, a film that starts off as exhilarating soon becomes exhausting and most viewers will likely emerge from it feeling like they have attended a buffet dinner where they took about four trips too many to the carving station." (more)
GOING THE DISTANCE
"Why Couldn't They Be Scott Pilgrim And Ramona?"
4 stars
Erik Childress says... "There is breaking news in the world of studio-sponsored romantic comedies. Somebody not associated with Judd Apatow actually made a good one. It’s inevitable that his name is going to come up when discussing Going the Distance with its cavalcade of guy friends and reference-based humor, so let’s just get it out of the way. Most definitely it is a compliment, and not a back-handed one in any way to director Nanette Burnstein, screenwriter Geoff LaTulippe and their cast trying to glom on to the latest trend. We need more films like those and like this that don’t play games with its primary couple and actually tries to navigate through real-world human connections with characters who don’t feel like pawns on the board of convention. Classic status be damned if we can just say “Bravo” to those sentiments a couple times a year. As chances are dim that we may see another romantic comedy as funny and as close to honest as this all year, we should celebrate Going the Distance while we have the chance." (more)
AMERICAN, THE
"I Present To You Our Ambassador, Mr. Clooney."
4 stars
Erik Childress says... "You will often hear of films of the thriller variety referred to having a ‘70s sensibility. Many of the thrillers of that era were often influenced in the events surrounding Watergate and the sins inherit in Vietnam; many of which resulted in the aftermath of the JFK assassination. Jim Garrison was helping fuel the national paranoia over a shady element in our government and it resulted in favorites of the time like Three Days of the Condor, The Parallax View and, of course, All the President’s Men. Paranoia being the key word in everything above; the fear of the threat more than the direct involvement in shootouts and chases. Anton Corbjn’s ultra-spare thriller, The American, shares a direct link with that time even though it is set, as far as we can tell, today. Without making any sudden movements to call attention to its own intentions, the film becomes an interesting statement about our more recent government’s involvement in global affairs and an intimately tense tale of a man capable of more than just the violence he causes." (more)
CENTURION
"A 2nd-century 'Expendables' with better action and more expending."
4 stars
Jay Seaver says... "I suspect that Neil Marshall will never break through to doing big Hollywood movies, assuming that holds any interest for him, despite just how good he is at every aspect of the job. The man is just too fond of his blood and guts to go to the world where producers are always looking for a PG-13, and he's not content to stick to horror movies, where that's a niche one can settle into. That's why his new movie, "Centurion", is premiering in boutique theaters in the United States alongside a video on demand run despite being a big, brawny action/adventure." (more)
LAST EXORCISM, THE
"Flim-flam."
3 stars
Rob Gonsalves says... "Exorcism movies shouldn’t be rated PG-13, because demons shouldn’t be rated PG-13. They’re supposed to be vile, ghastly, unholy creatures that revel in obscene sacrilege so grotesquely they can test the faith of the most devout. If you can’t show that, you’re wasting our time." (more)
LAST EXORCISM, THE
"Reality without the reality"
2 stars
brianorndorf says... "The goal for a “found footage” horror film is to achieve realism. There has to be a sense of authenticity to the chicanery, otherwise it’s nothing but community theater leftovers covered by lousy camerawork. Picking up where “Paranormal Activity” left off, “The Last Exorcism” travels even further into absurdity, unable to construct a genuine mood to make the nightmare standout. Instead, it’s a film that spends 80 minutes calling attention to its own artificiality, when the intent is clearly to draw viewers in using the suggestion of reality." (more)
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