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Friday, June 20 2008

The Love Guru

Both frantic and tedious, The Love Guru piles on the slapdash offenses.


Thursday, June 19 2008

Hin-Don’t


Tuesday, April 29 2008

The Return of the Popcorn Circus: June 2008

If May almost tent-poled itself out of existence, June will be even worse. After all, are audiences really ready for 13 major release in less than two months -- with more to come?


Tuesday, February 5 2008

The Eye

Once the line is clearly drawn between subjective and objective worlds, The Eye turns into just another ill-advised, exploitative remake.


Monday, January 14 2008

The Ten

A high-speed collision between Krzysztof Kieślowski's Dekalog and Woody Allen’s Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Sex.


Friday, January 11 2008

Super Duper Bad: The Worst Films of 2007

From Good Luck Chuck to Julie Taymor's ill-advised Beatlesque '60s tribute Across the Universe, PopMatters presents the dreck of 2007.


Monday, December 3 2007

Awake

Though Awake makes a vague case against playing god in the operating room, it also argues for other sorts of manipulations, none convincing.


Wednesday, November 28 2007

Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer

Not every comic book movie is geared toward the nearing middle aged geek - something naysayers of the Fantastic Four franchise fail to comprehend.


Monday, September 24 2007

Jessica Alba tries comedy in ‘Good Luck Chuck’


Friday, September 21 2007

Good Luck Chuck

Who are these people? It's hard to look at the cavorting and cruelty in Good Luck Chuck and not wonder whether you've dropped into an alternate universe.


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