Articles written by Jeremy Kibler
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'Bride Wars' Lacks Bite and Laughs
January is the worst time for movie releases; case in point with the mediocre 'Bride Wars,' which at least isn't the embarrassing disaster it easily might have been.
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'Repo! The Genetic Opera' Movie Review
If you like 'Saw,' you'll love the gory, dreary, just plain strange 'Repo! The Genetic Opera,' a filming of Darren Smith and Terrance Zdunich's stage rock opera.
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'Amusement' Hardly Amuses But It Earns Scares
This mostly standard horror film starts off pretty effective, as far as direct-to-video features go, until it succumbs to pure formula.
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'My Bloody Valentine 3-D' Movie Review
The 1981 slasher pic 'My Bloody Valentine' was probably the least necessary movie that to be remade, but this do-over is a shamelessly bloody, cheesy hoot for gore fans.
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'Sex and the City' Movie Not Entirely Guy-Proof
The bloated film version of 'Sex and the City' will mostly appeal to women, but this male critic admittedly liked it.
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Rob Zombie Remakes Halloween. But Why?
This gratuitous, unrelentingly ugly movie out to "reinvent" the seminal 1978 horror classic, but instead tarnishes the memory and craft of the spare original.
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'Ruins' Delivers Gory Goods
Based on Scott Smith's chilling best-seller, 'The Ruins' brings a new lease of life to the horror genre.
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Stand Up Dull 'Prom Night'
A looser-than-loose "reimagining" of the 1980 Jamie Lee Curtis slasher is remade into this bloodless, by-the-numbers PG-13 fare.
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Not Much Happens in Ridiculous 'Happening'
'The Happening' is another misfire added to writer-producer-director M. Night Shymalan's increasingly spotty track record. What happened after 'The Sixth Sense'?
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Alyssa Milano Best Thing in Dreary 'Pathology'
'Pathology,' a darkly atmospheric but increasingly repellent 'Flatliners' type, has the backbone of a diabolically intriguing premise, crossing hedonism with morality.
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Review of Dario Argento's Three Mothers Trilogy
The final film and final chapter, "Mother of Tears: The Third Mother," ranks less than "Suspiria" and "Inferno."
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Grody Horror Film 'Otis' Warrants a Shower
"Otis" is the new film under Warner Bros.' horror label "Raw Feed." The titular Otis (played by Bostin Christopher) is a burly, sweaty, piggish 40-year-old pizza guy.
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Mena Suvari in Indie Horror Film 'Stuck'
Cult director Stuart Gordon bases his film on a real-life tabloid incident in this gross, shocking, unpredictable horror story.
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'Guru' Comedy Proves To Be Unenlightening
This lazy comedy is a silly, forced, frequently unfunny collection of midget jokes, fart jokes, kick-to-the-groin jokes, and penis jokes.
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'Mamma Mia!' Makes For A Fun Mess As A Movie
'Mamma Mia' is a breezy, joyous but technically uneven adaptation of the Broadway musical, with songs written by the '70s Swedish pop group ABBA.
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