Nick Sievers

Ouch! I like you're taste in horror, Matt. I'm anticipating this less and less now.

I updated with a few:-

Down with Love - which I simply loved. Charming and just a whole 'lotta fun: 1/2 out of

Cradle 2 the Grave - Just awful its boring, loud and no fun.

American Wedding - I liked it quite a bit, probably the best of a series i'm not overly fond of. Seann William Scott is the best thing about the film again, his timing is spot-on. out of

Nick Sievers

Updated with May - what an excellent little film. The performance from Angela Bettis was terrific. I was just on Rotten Tomatoes reading the little blurbs about the film, there are a few reviews that say things about it being a better than average slasher film. I must admit, there was not one time during the flick that 'slasher film' came across my mind. To me it felt much more than that. A moving and at the same time disturbing film. I loved it.
1/2 out of

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Edwin Pereyra

Updated with Kevin Costner's Open Range.

~Edwin

DVD Unwind: Paradise Now (Coming) • King Kong - - • Keane • The Squid And The Whale • A History Of Violence • Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire • The Best Of Youth (Italy) • Good Night And Good Luck • Howl\'s Moving Castle • Walk The Line - - • Zathura • North Country - -


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= Recommended
- - = Indifferent


Quality matters more than quantity.

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Matt Stone

Thanks for the kind thoughts, Nick. I'm really glad to hear you loved May! It's definitely my favorite "horror" film this year. I agree completely that there is very little slash in this film. It basically flows like a dark character study and is very very far from the other Scream-like slashers.

I hope you like FvJ more than I did. It had some great moments in it, but I just could not get past the poor film-making that went into it.

Arman

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Nick Sievers

I saw Irreversible last night. Excellent filmmaking, this is a powerful and utterly disturbing piece, like most people have said it is so hard to watch. I would never recommend this film to people who only watch films for entertainment and nothing more. 1/2

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Jason Seaver

Let me re-iterate: Loews Copley Place sucks. It is, unfortunately, on the Green Line between where I work and where I live, cheaper than Kendall Square (especially with those Loews Weekday Escape tickets), and occasionally the only place in town where something plays.

The Secret Lives Of Dentists is Alan Rudolph's most watchable movie in a while. To a certain extent, he just gets out of Campbell Scott's and Denis Leary's way and lets them use their respective brands of sarcasm, but he also knows how to use the rest of his cast (including a great Hope Davis), and keeps the movie grounded even during the fanciful parts.

Buffalo Soldiers, as insane as it is, may not quite be nutty enough. It resorts to narration to drive its point about just who joins the army during peacetime home, and never quite comes together as an above-average movie. There are, however, some very funny sequences (especially if you like black comedy). ¾

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Adam_S

updated with Daredevil, Bringing down the House, and Open Range, brings me to 23 2003 movies

Brook K

Freddy vs. Jason was lots o' fun. It embraced the genre elements instead of poking fun at them which was refreshing. It's an old school 80's slasher - lots of blood and boobs, none of the namby pamby cutaways and speeded up ultra dark action scenes that plague the horror movies of the last few years. The Freddy v Jason battle delivers in epic blood-spurting fashion. B+
Special A+++ to the plastic surgeons involved