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 Battleship
Nationwide - Without any feelings of wonder and certainly not enough outward horror to be scary, "Battleship" readily loses its way, the cornball dialogue calling all the more negative attention to itself. As is, all we have is standard Big Hollywood fare, as creatively lazy as it is technically competent.Read Full Review »
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 Beyond the Black Rainbow
Select Cities - "Beyond the Black Rainbow" is imperfect, but gloriously so, creating, in its own way, a new, exciting, disorienting, unsettling, and long-overdue filmic language. When 2012 is over, it will stand apart as a motion picture not quite like any other.Read Full Review »
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 The Dictator
Nationwide - Sacha Baron Cohen is a fearless actor, never ceasing to impress with how far he'll go to sell his characters and their personas. When "The Dictator" wants to make a point, it does. When it doesn't, it moves steadily between strikingly clever and disappointingly immature.Read Full Review »
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 What to Expect When You're Expecting
Nationwide - Exactly what most audiences will be expecting. It's safe, obvious, and kind of vanilla. The best that can be said about "What to Expect When You're Expecting" is that it's an agreeable way to spend 110 minutes—preferably at home on a rainy day, with expectations appropriately tempered to "eh."Read Full Review »
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 God Bless America
Select Cities and VOD - An unblinking rally cry for humanity in a pop-culture-laden media landscape that makes its fortune out of exploitation and humiliation. Writer-director Bobcat Goldthwait casts a cynical eye at the place we all live and makes good enough points for his cinematic diatribe to remain timely and worthwhile.Read Full Review »
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 The Road
Select Cities - Heavy on atmosphere but light on substance. While some of writer-director Yam Laranas' bag of genre tricks are effective for such a clearly low-budget effort, his tendency to cut to black before the payoff becomes more frustrating than fun. "The Road" leaves one wishing for more than it offers.Read Full Review »
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