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                <title>High Plains Drifter</title>
                <description><![CDATA[This is an early example of the &ldquo;Weird West&rdquo; subgenre, a fusing of the Western with, in this case, the occult or supernatural. Eastwood plays the Stranger, a rugged gunfighter appearing out of the haze of the desert and stumbling into the town of Lago, where he may or may not have unfinished business &mdash; left over from another lifetime. If that premise doesn&rsquo;t do it for you, I don&rsquo;t know what will.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Freaked</title>
                <description><![CDATA[When you reflect back on what you&rsquo;ve seen, it&rsquo;s like stringing together the random, bizarre segments of a half-remembered dream from the night before. Nothing makes sense; what seemed to work in dreamland is now utterly absurd in hindsight.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:01 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Navy SEALS</title>
                <description><![CDATA[The premise is simple. We see both &ldquo;sides&rdquo; of the lives of the men on a rough-and-tumble Navy SEALs team: one side when they&rsquo;re on mission, the other when they&rsquo;re off, with a few highlighted dramatic subplots interspersed between. The various attempts at endearing us to the characters are painfully obvious, first-date awkward. It really is <i>Top Gun</i> all over again, without the planes, and with Charlie Sheen standing in for Tom Cruise.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>The Woman in Red</title>
                <description><![CDATA[I would say it runs out of steam at that point &mdash; but for a movie to run out of steam, it has to at least have some in the first place. The way the narrative is set up only distanced me from the comedy. Characters are hard to read and events that are critical to the central plotline are sometimes totally ambiguous.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Less Than Zero</title>
                <description><![CDATA[Director Marek Kanievska seems to take the scared-straight approach, and of course a lot of that has to do with the studio&rsquo;s efforts to clean up much of the X-rated, meandering existentialism of Ellis&rsquo;s novel, in an attempt to put together a marketable package with three-act structure, an identifiable protagonist and a clear moral doggie bag to leave the theater with.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:02 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>The Chase</title>
                <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s &ldquo;light-bulb&rdquo; entertainment, flies buzzing around one, that is &mdash; the kind of movie that comes on as you&rsquo;re flipping channels and you can&rsquo;t help but watch, until it cuts to commercial and you move on to something else. The kind of movie that holds your attention only while it&rsquo;s right in front of you.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:01 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Mobsters</title>
                <description><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s also many different movies, all rolled into one &mdash; a collage of mob clich&eacute;s, as if the filmmakers slid a tray down a cafeteria lunch line and picked scenes out, a la carte, from other films.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>The Legend of Hell House</title>
                <description><![CDATA[My problem with the film isn&rsquo;t that it has a crappy premise. My problem is that it has a decent premise that just isn&rsquo;t handled well enough &mdash; wasted by a combination of missing exposition, spotty characterization, and a lack of dramatic material.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>The Best Films of 2010</title>
                <description><![CDATA[The Social NetworkWhether you see it as a glorification of internet entrepreneurship, or a scathing criticism of social media and its greater implications on our rapidly changing society, you can&rsquo;t deny that at its most basic level, The Social Network&hellip;]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Demolition Man</title>
                <description><![CDATA[I&rsquo;m not going to delve too deep into <i>Demolition Man</i>. You know all about this movie already, and even if you haven&rsquo;t seen it, you know exactly what it is.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Hoffa</title>
                <description><![CDATA[<i>Hoffa</i> is less the story of a man, and more the story of an entire American working class that became swept up in his influence, enchanted by his power.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Broadcast News</title>
                <description><![CDATA[At its most basic level, it&rsquo;s an in-depth exploration into how a fast-paced network newsroom operates. Writer, director, and producer James L. Brooks perfectly captures the rush of developing and delivering a great news story.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:04 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Teachers</title>
                <description><![CDATA[It may be marketed as a comedy, but there&rsquo;s also a lot of truth here. It&rsquo;s not a &ldquo;sensitive but noble teacher has to shape up an unruly but talented class&rdquo; movie (although that stock character is featured, with a twist) &mdash; it&rsquo;s more political commentary. It&rsquo;s not even really about any one teacher; it&rsquo;s about the system.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:02 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Black Christmas</title>
                <description><![CDATA[In <i>Black Christmas</i>, dimwitted victims impale themselves on sharpened candy canes, ornaments, and icicles, thankfully purging themselves from the human gene pool, all to a traditional holiday playlist. I have a sneaking suspicion that the movie was designed with the idea that its viewers would take bets on which characters bit it, and in which order.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:01 -0600</pubDate>
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                <title>Surviving Christmas</title>
                <description><![CDATA[<i>Surviving Christmas</i> belongs in the same category of Yuletide traditions as standing in line with screaming kids to see Santa, cooking for three dozen people, donning an ugly sweater, and pretending to laugh at your lousy relatives&rsquo; same puns over and over again. It&rsquo;s a truly headache-inducing experience that does a thorough job of sucking the Christmas spirit right out of you.]]></description>

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                <pubDate>Fri, 24 Dec 2010 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
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