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  • Are We Done Yet? (2007)
    Review preview for Are We Done Yet?

    Laugh? You’ll beg for mercy. As for sentimentality, it’s like poison ivy spreading across every scene.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 1 out of 5
    Townies buy country mansion, with disastrous results.
  • Bobby (2006)
    Review preview for Bobby

    Estevez uses Bobby’s words too much, but you can’t blame him, because Kennedy’s compassion and sympathy for the underprivileged shines.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3.5 out of 5
    Who was in the hotel on the night that Robert Kennedy was shot?
  • Death Race (2008)
    Review preview for Death Race

    So long as you don't care about how cars go or how reality works or how people can continue to get away with making movies without a single credible acting performance, or anything, you'll almost certainly enjoy yourself.

    Max Crawford · 3 out of 5
    A prisoner is offered his freedom if he can win a motor race - but just staying alive is hard enough!
  • The Hi-Lo Country (1998)
    Review preview for The Hi-Lo Country

    Harrelson proves once again that he is a fine physical performer and Arquette hints at the sexuality of Rita Hayworth.

    Angus Wolfe Murray · 3 out of 5
    Will a woman come between two men's friendship?
  • The Hills Have Eyes 2 (2007)
    Review preview for The Hills Have Eyes 2

    A bog-standard pick-'em-off-one-by-one splatterfest.

    Anton Bitel · 2.5 out of 5
    A group of young National Guard trainees run afoul of rural cannibals.
  • Jarhead (2005)
    Review preview for Jarhead

    It is to the film's great credit that its politics remain subtle.

    Anton Bitel · 4 out of 5
    Waiting for war, with Albert Camus, in Operation Desert Shield.
  • Sleep Dealer (2008)
    Review preview for Sleep Dealer

    Made on a minuscule budget the feature took eight years to get from script to screen, one wonders how much more innovative it might have seemed back those eight years.

    Tony Sullivan · 3 out of 5
    Node Runner - if they catch you you're through!

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