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16/31: Burn After Reading
January 16, 2015 – 4:38 PM | 5 Comments
16/31: <em>Burn After Reading</em>

Me, several times while watching Burn After Reading: “Wait, what? …Oh, who cares.”

Gravity: Just breathe
October 5, 2013 – 11:31 AM | 17 Comments
<em>Gravity</em>: Just breathe

Gravity‘s 98-percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes at this writing is appropriate.

1/31: What The Descendants Gets Wrong
December 1, 2011 – 11:55 AM | 26 Comments
1/31: What <I>The Descendants</I> Gets Wrong

Everything. K, great: on to Film #2!
…Fine, it doesn’t get everything wrong. It’s not necessarily objectively terrible. The writing does a handful of things I can’t stand, though, and starts doing them immediately, so I …

Outside The Law
February 18, 2011 – 10:19 AM | 6 Comments
<em>Outside The Law</em>

Sarah 33, Death Race 23; 15 of 24 categories completed
Hey, fight for Algerian independence that tests the love and loyalties of three brothers: be less clichéd and plodding! Don’t have exchanges like
“Money means freedom.”
“I am …

Up in the Air
February 6, 2010 – 1:21 PM | 21 Comments
<I>Up in the Air</I>

Whatever else I have to say about it, Up in the Air successfully distracted me from an offensive movie-going environment — the theater reeked of what I can only describe as bum stench. You board …