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Warrior

MMA already has its Rocky

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Sep 9,2011 - With mixed martial arts gaining popularity as a more violent alternative to boxing, it was only a matter of time before the sport got the big-screen treatment.

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Attack the Block

An effortlessly cool sci-fi comedy

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Sep 2,2011 - The hairy, luminescent-fanged extraterrestrials that wreak havoc in Attack the Block are exotic and frightening, to be sure.

Film Reviews

Conan O'Brien Can't Stop

Unceasingly funny tour doc

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Jun 24,2011 - In the court of public opinion, Conan O’Brien clearly emerged victorious in NBC’s mishandling of him, Jay Leno and The Tonight Show; I suppose there are people who took Leno’s side ...

Film Reviews

The Saw Series

Catching up with Jigsaw and the nonsense of the Saw franchise.

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Oct 29,2010 - If you’d told us at Sundance in 2004 that Saw, the horror film premiering there, would spawn a new mediocre sequel annually for the next six years ...

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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Greed Expectations: Oliver Stone addresses matters of morality without too much moralizing.

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Sep 24,2010 - Unlike most sequels, Oliver Stone’s Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps has a legitimate reason to exist ...

Film Reviews

The Karate Kid

Kung Fu Bland-a: The overlong new Karate Kid subtracts the karate and adds nothing new.

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Jun 11,2010 - Look, I don’t want to be difficult here, but at no point in the new Karate Kid does anyone learn karate. It’s kung fu ...

Film Reviews

Ajami

Crash Course: Ajami creates a vivid, authentic world that’s bleak but not oppressive.

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Apr 28,2010 - Like most films set in the Middle East, Ajami depicts the region as a powder keg ...

Film Reviews

Kick-Ass

Self-Made Superman: A teen turns himself into a superhero in the raucous, uneven Kick-Ass.

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Apr 14,2010 - Like many American teenage boys, Dave and his friends, Marty (Clark Duke) and Todd (Evan Peters), read comic books and talk about girls ...

Film Reviews

Sherlock Holmes

Doctored Sleuth: If Guy Ritchie can come up with a better story next time, there's potential in Sherlock Holmes.

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Dec 23,2009 - Apparently tired of being a fringe filmmaker, Guy Ritchie has gone mainstream with Sherlock Holmes ...

Film Reviews

Old Dogs

Dog's Breakfast

By Eric D. Snider
POSTED // Nov 25,2009 - I will say this for Old Dogs: It is exactly as funny as you’d expect a movie to be that stars John Travolta and Robin Williams as two bachelors...
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