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 Dark Shadows
Nationwide - Based on the 1966-1971 soap opera by Dan Curtis, this long-in-the-works big-screen adaptation is fittingly lavish and tongue-in-cheek without, as the misleading trailers would have a viewer believe, turning the material into a joke. Hodgepodge or not, the nostalgia-laced "Dark Shadows" is as imaginatively eccentric as it is blithely ghoulish.Read Full Review »
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 The Dictator
Nationwide Wednesday 5/16 - 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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 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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 Mother's Day
Now on Blu-ray/DVD - "Mother's Day" is nothing if not affecting and effective. Reactions will be split down the middle, depending on the viewer's endurance for tough material, but no one can say the filmmaker didn't achieve what he set out to.Read Full Review »
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 Bernie
Select Cities - An off-beat dark comedy with an assured indie spirit, the film is played largely for giggles despite a violent true-crime premise. For a motion picture about one person losing her life and another losing his freedom, "Bernie" doesn't deserve to be as flippant as it ultimately is.Read Full Review »
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 Sound of My Voice
Select Cities - A contemplative look at the power of indoctrination and belief with fantastical underlying insinuations. Though perhaps too claustrophobic for its own good, "Sound of My Voice" is the work of visionaries, excitingly about much more than just a fishy cult and smart enough to allow each viewer to take away from it what they personally choose to.Read Full Review »
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