| Critic |
Review |
Quote |
Analysis |
This Week's Verdict |
Manohla Dargis,
The New York Times |
Fido |
"Mr. Currie and his collaborators don't push their slave-master allegory far; unlike the zombie comedy Shaun of the Dead, where the living are so zombie-like they don't initially notice the undead, the filmmakers remain content to graze and to nibble, skimming the surface rather than sinking in deep. They set up a divide between the light-skinned humans and the dark-skinned zombies that they never fully engage, shying away from anything heavy or dangerously downbeat.
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What a tease Manohla Dargis can be. Much like the movie itself, this review takes due note of the subtext and then promptly drops it.
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Nathan Lee,
The Village Voice |
Hostel: Part II |
"So here I am expecting the motherfucking Sacre du Printemps of slasher flicks, and I end up with a passably-made gorefest considerably less brutalizing than my rush-hour subway ride to the Times Square premiere." |
Wow, sounds like quite the harrowing subway ride. And I thought the L-train was bad.
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Stephanie Zacharek,
Salon.com |
Nancy Drew |
"And when, early in the movie, Nancy's snooty classmates eye the penny loafers she's wearing ('Did your podatrist suggest them, or are you being ironic?'), she responds simply, 'I just like old things.' [...] But his movie captures a greater truth, I think, about the way very old and sometimes seemingly out-of-date stories can move us. [...] Fleming's movie is, at the very least, a tribute to Nancy Drew's longevity — and a valentine to all of us who, even as we strive to live in the present, just like old things." |
Thanks to Nancy Drew, Stephanie Zacharek decides to stand up and be counted as a lover of things vintage and twee.
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Eric Kohn,
Slate.com |
Hostel: Part II |
"Cabin Fever showed a willingness to take the horror genre at face value, generating real chills with methodical storytelling in addition to the expected gross-out money shots. (It's the freakiest exploration of skin disease this side of David Cronenberg — or Paris Hilton.)" |
Help! Paris Hilton is everywhere. Still, the dig at her seems unnecessary to say the least. Mom used to say it's not fair to kick someone who's already down.
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Ann Hornaday,
The Washington Post |
Nancy Drew |
"The story's plot, a mash-up of Sunset Boulevard, The Black Dahlia and Mulholland Drive, will make cynics in the audience half expect to see Naomi Watts jump out of the bushes at some points." |
All this sounds very dark and risqué for a PG rated tween flick, yet Ann Hornaday says the movie remains sunny and plodding — what gives? A true mystery... |
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