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 | | 3. The Kingdom (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Jamie Foxx Jason Bateman Director: Peter Berg | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/12/2009 |  | The Kingdom (2007) - DVD Review By: Chris Cabin - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 12/18/2007 12:41 AM | |
Peter Berg's The Kingdom will either rally those in the theater or piss off every single ticket holder in sight. It's gonna be awesome. Indeed, sardonic catcalls of "kill all the towelheads!" were shouted at the press screening I attended while the rest of the theater applauded with rigorous aplomb as Jennifer Garner jammed a knife into a Saudi terrorist's nether regions. This was all preceded by some daft bollock yammering on his cellphone during the opening credits while another patron quietly threatened castration. Only in New York, ladies and gents. Why will people be so divisive, you ask? Well, in The Kingdom, a compound of Americans in the Saudi Arabia capital of Riyadh are bombed. read the full review | |
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 | | 8. Underworld:rise Of The Lycans | | | Starring: Michael Sheen Rhona Mitra Director: Patrick Tatopoulos | | Format: DVD Release Date: 10/27/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Underworld: Rise of the Lycans - DVD Review By: Jesse Hassenger - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 5/1/2009 5:39 PM | |
Upon first description, Underworld: Rise of the Lycans appears completely unnecessary, even for one of the Underworld movies, which, like the Resident Evil pictures, are well-practiced in the art of spinning inessential straw into inessential off-season box-office gold. Rise of the Lycans is a prequel, seeking to explain in greater detail the mythology-heavy plot turns discussed so endlessly in the very first Underworld movie: How and why vampires and werewolves came to so loathe each other. The reasons, it turns out, are not dissimilar to what I faintly recall as the central conflict from the first film: a vampire named Sonja (Rhona Mitra) is in love with a lycan called Lucian (Michael Sheen). read the full review | |
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 | | 9. Fight Club | | | Starring: Brad Pitt Edward Norton Director: David Fincher | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/30/2008 | | Fight Club - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/6/2009 9:42 PM | |
The first rule of Fight Club is "Do not talk about Fight Club." So I'm breaking the rule. I figured you'd want to hear about it. Invoking memories of The Matrix, 12 Monkeys, Crash, and American Beauty, Fight Club has had a lot of hype behind it for close to a year now. Is it deserved? I'm still trying to figure that one out. I saw the film 6 hours ago. I liked what I saw. I'm just not sure what I saw any more. Fight Club is the story of Jack (Edward Norton), a mild-mannered day-job schlub/insomniac. To combat his lack of sleep, Jack takes comfort in various support groups for ailments he doesn't have, where he finds a sudden freedom from life's pressures, surrounded by people on the verge of recovery or the verge of death. read the full review | |
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 | | 25. Saw 5 (Unrated Widescreen) | | | Starring: Costas Mandylor Tobin Bell Director: David Hackl | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/8/2009 | | Video Reviews Available: 1 | | Saw V - DVD Review By: Bill Gibron - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/9/2009 4:44 PM | |
At this point in the Saw series, reviews really don't matter. Frankly, this is one of the few fright franchises where audiences don't care about character development, directorial flair, or narrative invention. Instead, they want more Tobin Bell as Jigsaw, more illogical puzzle kills, and a reverse referencing that makes unimportant characters major players in later installments. To that extent, Saw V is definitely no different. Unfortunately, whatever made the first four films tolerable has been whisked away by unimaginative writing and even more pedestrian direction. read the full review | |
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 | | 31. History of Violence (Platinum Series) new! | | | Starring: Viggo Mortensen William Hurt Director: David Cronenberg | | Format: DVD Release Date: 11/10/2009 | User Rating: 5 | | A History of Violence - DVD Review By: Chris Barsanti - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 1/30/2009 4:47 PM | |
Those well schooled in the history of cinema (or who’ve just seen a movie or two in their time) cannot help but look at the scenes of idyllic content occupying most of the beginning of A History of Violence without knowing that something bad is coming to bust up this happy family unit. Of course, they’re helped along by the fact that the film opens on a chillingly calm scene – composed almost entirely of one tracking shot – in which a pair of laconic crooks on the lam execute a number of people in a small motel with about as much emotion as they’d use to pick up their dry cleaning. read the full review | |
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 | | 37. Gladiator | | | Starring: Joaquin Phoenix Russell Crowe Director: Ridley Scott | | Format: DVD Release Date: 1/17/2006 | | Gladiator - DVD Review By: Christopher Null - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 8/21/2009 2:42 PM | |
The awe-inspiring trailers for Gladiator may have you dreaming of Spartacus and Ben-Hur, but you may be surprised to find this film in reality a less palatable mlange of Braveheart and Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome. This isn't altogether a bad thing, but those expecting a new Roman epic that will stand the test of time (like Spartacus and Ben-Hur) are in for some surprises. The currently hot Russell Crowe stars as Maximus, "the general who became a slave" who begins the film as a commander so high in the echelons of the Roman army that the aging Caesar Marcus Aurelius (Richard Harris) hand-picks him to become the next Caesar. read the full review | |
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 | | 40. Frailty | | | Starring: Bill Paxton Matthew McConaughey Director: Bill Paxton | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/14/2004 | | Frailty - DVD Review By: Joshua Tyler - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 11/13/2009 6:42 PM | |
What if God spoke to you? No, I’m not talking about last night when you drank that bottle of tequila. What if he came to you sober and gave you a mission? The Maiks family was a happy one. Father and two young sons, they had carved out an all American existence after the boy’s mother died giving birth to the youngest. Until the boy’s father (Bill Paxton) gets a visit from God, bestowing upon him a terrible mission to rid the world of demons, complete with a list of names of real human beings upon which the family is to wreak divine vengeance. And you thought your family was dysfunctional. read the full review | |
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 | | 41. Alpha Dog (Widescreen) | | | Starring: Emile Hirsch Justin Timberlake Director: Nick Cassavetes | | Format: DVD Release Date: 5/5/2009 | | Alpha Dog - DVD By: Margaret Williams - Cinema Blend DVD Reviews Published on: 4/25/2007 10:06 PM | | There's not a single grammatical reason to use the F-bomb more than twice in one sentence, and these guys are spitting them out like watermelon seeds. If there was some more tweaking on the script side of things these young boys could have looked less like posers and more like gangsters. read the full review | |
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 | | 43. Frank Miller's Sin City (Dts) | | | Starring: Mickey Rourke Bruce Willis Director: Frank Miller Robert Rodriguez | | Format: DVD Release Date: 9/1/2006 | | Sin City - DVD Review By: Eric Meyerson - filmcritic.com DVD Reviews Published on: 4/10/2009 5:36 PM | |
You typically have to maintain low expectations for a comic book movie. For every Spider-Man, you get a bunch of Elektras and Daredevils. So really, what can you expect from one with a huge, B-list cast and three directors? Surprise! Sin City is a mega-violent, highly potent vial of noir crack. And judging from the riotous burst of applause at the end of our screening, one that's destined to be a Matrix-style mass-cult classic. Okay, so Sin City isn't really a comic book movie – it's a graphic novel movie. And in spite of the title, the locale isn't the tourist-friendly and brightly-lit Vegas strip but "Basin City," a noir Nowheresville, a mid-century L.A. with snow flurries and dark sewers, enveloped in permanent midnight. read the full review | |
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