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Confessions of a Shopaholic (Rating: 3/4)
Tyler Hanley (Palo Alto Online) \"Confessions\" is more cautionary tale than comedy. Although ingenue Isla Fisher (\"Wedding Crashers,\" \"The Lookout\") shines in her leading-lady debut and serves up plenty of laughs, the film\'s resonant message about credit, debt and over-spending proves a dramatic and apropos undertone to an otherwise formulaic chick flick...continue reading
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Rating: 1/4)
Nick Schager (Slant Magazine review ) If you gave Bernie Madoff custody of your life savings mere days before the FBI knocked on his door last December, your timing still wouldn\'t be as wretched as that of Confessions of a Shopaholic...continue reading
Confessions of a Shopaholic (Rating: 2.5/4)
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times ) I like \"Confessions of a Shopaholic\" about as much as I disliked \"Sex and the City.\" Both are about clueless women, but this one knows it. \"SATC\" is about women searching for love in most of the wrong places, and \"Shopaholic\" is about a woman searching for happiness in the places that are absolutely right for her...continue reading
Friday the 13th (Rating: 2.5/4)
Dustin Putman (The Movie Boy) Less a straight remake than a reinvention of the long-running slasher franchise, \"Friday the 13th\" incorporates elements from the first four films of the original series while never deluding itself about just what kind of movie it is...continue reading
Friday the 13th (Rating: 2/4)
Nick Schager (Slant Magazine review) What in theory seems sound, however, in practice turns out to be depressingly average. Bay and Nispel\'s new Friday proves both uninterested in its predecessors\' outlandish...continue reading
Friday the 13th (Rating: 1/5)
Erik Childress (eFilmCritic.com) After a brief prologue set in 1980 that revisits Mrs. Voorhees rampage and the survivor who chopped off her head, we see a young Jason receive a telepathetic message from the decapitated to kill for mother...continue reading
Friday the 13th (Rating: 2/4)
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) It has a lot of scary and gruesome killings. Not a whole lot of acting is required. If that\'s what you want to find out, you can stop reading...continue reading
Must Read After My Death (Rating: 3/6)
Mark Holcomb (Time Out New York) Using a staggeringly thorough collection of audio recordings, home movies and photographs left behind by his maternal grandmother (most of which were inaccessible until after her death in 2001), the filmmaker pieces together a fascinating chronicle of a 1960s nuclear family...continue reading
Must Read After My Death (Rating: 2/4)
Andrew Schenker (Slant Magazine review) Must Read After My Death, director Morgan Dews\'s assemblage of his grandmother\'s recently discovered home movies and audiotapes, has an ideal audience of no more than a dozen: the family\'s surviving members and their offspring...continue reading
Must Read After My Death (Rating: 4/4)
Dustin Putman (The Movie Boy) Listening to them revealed a piece of his grandmother\'s life that he had never been made privy to...continue reading
Must Read After My Death (Rating: 3.5/4)
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) Here is a cry from the grave. A woman who died some 10 years ago at the age of 89 left behind about 50 hours of audiotapes, 200 home movies and 300 pages of documents, a record that all ended, 30 years before that, on the death of her husband...continue reading
Eleven Minutes (Rating: 1.5/4)
Elizabeth Wellington (Philadelphia Inquirer ) Project Runway\'s season one winner (and Philadelphia University instructor) Jay McCarroll stars in the documentary Eleven Minutes, which recounts his experience creating his spring \'07 Transport collection...continue reading
Eleven Minutes (Rating: 3/6)
Allison Williams (Time Out New York) What becomes of oversharing reality-TV egos after the spotlight dims? Most end up on VH1, but Project Runway winner Jay McCarroll managed to regain center stage without stooping to date Flavor Flav...continue reading
Eleven Minutes (Rating: 2/4)
Paul Schrodt (Slant Magazine review) That no-nonsense attitude is about as close to the reality of the fashion industry as you can get...continue reading
Fired Up (Rating: 2/6)
Joshua Rothkopf (Time Out New York) If today’s modern cheerleader—half porn star, half girl next door—distracts viewers from the game, shouldn’t the modern cheerleader movie distract us from a lack of minor incidentals like believable plot points and honest comic zingers...continue reading
Fired Up (Rating: 1.5/4)
Dustin Putman (The Movie Boy) It\'s a really cute moment, but also a telling one; once the sequence is over, the viewer wishes they could switch over and watch the rest of that much-better pompom-centric film...continue reading
Fired Up (Rating: 1/4)
Nick Schager (Slant Magazine review) Fired Up plays like a direct-to-video American Pie sequel, replete with John Michael Higgins taking Eugene Levy\'s place as the de facto Christopher Guest player relied upon to provide genuine comedic inspiration amid the gaggle of boob and beer jokes...continue reading
Fired Up (Rating: 1/4)
Roger Ebert (Chicago Sun-Times) Oh, is this movie bad. The characters relentlessly attack each other with the forced jollity of minimum-wage workers pressing you with free cheese samples at the supermarket...continue reading
Ten, The (Rating: 2.5/4)
Robert Sims (Hollywood.com) Holy Moses! More absurd than enlightening, this gleefully rude but unfortunately hit-and-miss religious satire on the Ten Commandments stands no chance of becoming a Sunday school staple...continue reading
Ten, The (Rating: 2.5/4)
Scott Hoffman (Movie Picture Film) Somewhat of a random cult auteur, Wain, behind the enormously successful underground hit "Wet Hot American Summer" and the aforementioned canceled MTV sketch show...continue reading
