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Accepting the Blame: The Top Guilty Pleasures of 2007
PopMatters proffers its collection of 2007's most notable defective faves. And it's okay to laugh. After all, we'd probably do the same to you and your uncomfortable fixations as well.
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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.
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Southland Tales
The very incoherence of Southland Tales is something like an argument, its many pieces and pronouncements a deconstructive challenge to world order.
13 Nov 2007
Mandy Moore: Wild Hope
Mandy Moore, survivor of the late '90s teenpop boom, tries her hand at the singer-songwriter gig.
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Dedication
It's Henry's movie, and for all his eccentricities and fixations and rages, he's a very conventional man.
29 Aug 2007
License to Wed (2007)
Everything about License to Wed so completely contaminates its talent that I may never be able to enjoy The Office again.
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Monkey Business (Part 3: July)
Finally, a month with only one remaining series contender. All wizard based Potter-y aside, this will be the most tenuous time for the business called show. After a strong start, the eccentric collection of entertainments here could make or break this potentially record shattering motion picture season.
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Because I Said So (2007)
Tacky and terminally bland, Because I Said So sets up one basic joke -- the interfering mother -- and runs it into the ground.
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American Dreamz (2006)
Here's the rub: does it matter that consumers know all about the badness and the cynical ambition, but watch anyway?
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Saved! (2004)
'I think we've all had those moments in our lives where we question,' says Brian Dannelly.
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The Princess Diaries: Special Edition (2001)
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