![August: Osage County Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/movies/thumbs/august_osage_county.jpg)
August: Osage County is all about the acting. That makes sense because the storyline doesn't offer much that could be considered new or remarkable. It's as big a downer as the pills popped by matriarch Violet Weston (Meryl Streep) but the quality ...
![Catch and Release Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/default_poster.jpg)
Catch and Release is a confused, disjointed motion picture that tries to be many things and succeeds in being none. In less than two hours (although it feels considerably longer), writer/director Susannah Grant cobbles together nearly every imagina...
![Conviction Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/movies/thumbs/conviction.jpg)
Take a real-life feel-good story about personal heroism and use it as the basis for a generic screenplay. Lather on some prestige. Hire an Oscar-winning actress and a bunch of supporting performers with nominations on their resumes. Promote the ...
![Enough Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/default_poster.jpg)
Michael Apted is one of those rare, versatile filmmakers who can make mindless Hollywood blockbusters and thoughtful independent productions with equal aplomb. Apted's resume is as impressive as it is diverse, and has included a handful of critica...
![From Dusk Till Dawn Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/default_poster.jpg)
It's great fun, but certainly not great art. From Dusk Till Dawn, a special effects blood-and-gore extravaganza from director Robert Rodriguez, follows in the footsteps of such cult classics as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead series, thumbing its nose at con...
![Hick Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/movies/thumbs/hick.jpg)
One of the most positive comments that can be made about Hick is that it advances Chloe Grace Moretz's claim to be one of the best young actresses emerging into today's spotlight. Her roles have been numerous and diverse - a vampire in Let Me In, a...
![Ma Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/posters/thumbs/ma_poster.jpg)
On the surface, Ma is seemingly just another entry into the generic horror/thriller category about a seemingly good-hearted stranger who worms her way into the bosom of a group before showing her true (psychopathic) tendencies. Although these ...
![Mixed Nuts Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/default_poster.jpg)
Gag. There must be something about the combination of Steve Martin and Nora Ephron that doesn't work. Anyone remember My Blue Heaven? (For that matter, does anyone want to remember My Blue Heaven?) Regardless of how dreadfully unfunny that Ma...
![National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/default_poster.jpg)
Guilty pleasure (n): a film that a critic shamefacedly admits to liking even though the prevailing opinion, as put forth by serious members of the profession, is that the movie is a piece of crap. Christmas Vacation is considered by many film ...
![Natural Born Killers Poster](https://cdn.statically.io/img/www.reelviews.net/resources/img/default_poster.jpg)
Despite his reputation as one of America's foremost "serious" filmmakers, Oliver Stone's name under the "director" caption does not guarantee a good movie. I learned that lesson while enduring the seemingly-endless tedium of The Doors, and was rem...
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