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The Descent

Director: Neil Marshall

Cast: Shauna Macdonald, Natalie Mendoza, Alex Reid, Saskia Mulder, Nora-Jane Noone, Myanna Buring, Oliver Milburn, Molly Kayll

(Lionsgate, 2005) Rated: R

US theatrical release date: 4 August 2006 (General release)

[4 August 2006]

by Jesse Hassenger

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Fending for Themselves

The crawly cave-beasts keep popping up in sudden soundtrack blasts, but Neil Marshall's half-baked ideas about betrayal and woman's capacity for savagery are simplistic and pretentious.

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