Starring:
Omar Benson Miller, Michael Ealy, Derek Luke, Laz Alonso
Review:
Critics are raining down hard on Spike Lee’s first war epic. And
it’s not like I don’t have objections. Miracle at St. Anna
is too long, lazily constructed, and crammed with too many
characters and subplots for any director to develop fully outside
of an HBO miniseries. But Lee […]

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Starring:
Shia LaBeouf, Michelle Monaghan
Review:
Questions: Did everyone involved in this botched thriller OD on
speed? Does jimmy-legs director D.J. Caruso think if he slowed down
the action we’d figure out how stupid the plot is? Did Shia LaBeouf
and Michelle Monaghan think there was any acting involved in
playing characters on the run from a computer intent on […]

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Starring:
Dakota Fanning, Piper Laurie, David Morse, Robin Wright-Penn,
Jil…
Review:
This ain’t the old Dakota Fanning rape movie they showed at
Sundance nearly two years ago to a rain of critical revulsion. This
is the re-edited Dakota Fanning rape movie that re-emerges as an
even riper piece of cheese. Fanning, then 12, plays Lewellen,
toughing it out in 1950s Alabama […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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Starring:
Samuel L. Jackson, Patrick Wilson
Review:
The main problem with this treatise on racial politics
undercover as an exercise in suspense is that the director, Neil
LaBute, didn’t write the script. LaBute is an incendiary playwright
(Bash, The Mercy Seat, Fat Pig) who puts us in the company
of misogynist men who slowly reveal their base instincts.
Lakeview Terrace, written […]

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