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3/4
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The Grandmaster
(2013)
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Kam Williams
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Yip Man lives!
Posted Aug 26, 2013
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4/4
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A Proper Violence
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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A raw and riveting, low-budget whodunit!
Posted Sep 03, 2011
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4/4
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Chasing Madoff
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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A fascinating account of an unassuming hero's harrowing ordeal during a decade-long effort to bring the truth about Bernie Madoff to light.
Posted Aug 22, 2011
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4/4
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Super 8
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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J.J.'s Close Encounter with E.T., Gremlins, Jaws and Jurassic Goonies!
Posted Jun 13, 2011
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2/4
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Hall Pass
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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A bawdy, shock comedy laced with coarse dialogue, full-frontal nudity, sophomoric slapstick and bodily-function fare. The tried and true Farrelly Brothers formula, if that's your taste!
Posted Feb 28, 2011
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3.5/4
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The Grace Card
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A modern morality play offering a satisfying reminder about the real meaning of forgiveness.
Posted Feb 25, 2011
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2/4
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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What's funnier than a black dude in drag? How about two black dudes in drag?
Posted Feb 22, 2011
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1/4
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Just Go With It
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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Just run from it!
Posted Feb 15, 2011
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4/4
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Carbon Nation
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A sobering documentary which makes a convincing case that climate change is a national security issue.
Posted Feb 11, 2011
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0/4
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The Roommate
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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A suspense thriller sans the element of suspense is apt to disappoint even an audience arriving with low expectations.
Posted Feb 07, 2011
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1/4
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Blue Valentine
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A depressing deconstruction of a marriage that clearly was never meant to be.
Posted Jan 31, 2011
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3.5/4
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Mooz-lum
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A poignant, cinematic memoir of growing up Muslim in America from the perspective of an anguished soul who just wanted to enjoy a normal childhood.
Posted Jan 30, 2011
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0/4
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No Strings Attached
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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A vulgar exercise in depravity radiating such bad karma that you'll need to take a cleansing shower right after watching it
Posted Jan 24, 2011
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1/4
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The Green Hornet
(2011)
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Kam Williams
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The un-Rush Hour!
Posted Jan 17, 2011
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4/4
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The King's Speech
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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At its best when highlighting the delightful badinage between Colin Firth as the recently-crowned King George VI and Geoffrey Rush as his not so humble servant, a charming rogue if there ever was one.
Posted Jan 03, 2011
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1.5/4
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Little Fockers
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A lackluster effort and a preposterous plot which add up to a flagging franchise that just 'jumped the shark.'
Posted Dec 27, 2010
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4/4
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The Fighter
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A fitting tribute to a real-life Rocky and Adrian featuring a quartet of inspired performances by Mark Wahlberg, Christian Bale, Melissa Leo and Amy Adams.
Posted Dec 19, 2010
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3/4
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Casino Jack
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A revisionist history bio-pic, reminiscent of Charlie Wilson's War, which recasts an arrogant influence-peddler behaving like he's above the law as merely a bad-boy bon vivant with the best of intentions.
Posted Dec 11, 2010
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4/4
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Black Swan
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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An intriguing mindbender certainly deserving of all the attention it is apt to earn over the course of awards season, with Natalie Portman certainly a shoo-in for an Oscar Award nomination.
Posted Dec 06, 2010
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3.5/4
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Night Catches Us
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A Prodigal Panther pays the price to make peace with a turbulent past.
Posted Nov 29, 2010
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3/4
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127 Hours
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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What do you get when you let Danny Boyle put his spin on a fact-based cross of Cast Away and Into the Wild? An exhilarating episode of 'Who Wants to Be a Slumdog Mountaineer?'
Posted Nov 29, 2010
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3/4
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A water-treading sequel with no emotional momentum ostensibly serving as a setup for next summer's grand finale
Posted Nov 22, 2010
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4/4
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The Next Three Days
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A high-octane thriller that plunges you headlong on a thrill-a-minute roller coaster ride where a desperate man's conscience is your only guide.
Posted Nov 16, 2010
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2/4
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Unstoppable
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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How long are you willing to watch an out-of-control locomotive barrel all over Pennsylvania while waiting for the altruistic heroes to enjoy their climactic moment? 90 minutes, I hope
Posted Nov 15, 2010
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0/4
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Due Date
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A relentlessly-offensive bottom-feeder of no redeeming social value which I learned in law school is the Supreme Court's definition of obscene.
Posted Nov 08, 2010
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3.5/4
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For Colored Girls
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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All that was missing was a pistol-packing granny in drag, chirrun!
Posted Nov 01, 2010
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4/4
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Jackass 3
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Dozens of eye-popping displays of depravity not for the weak of stomach!
Posted Oct 28, 2010
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3/4
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11/4/08
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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An emotionally-engaging film featuring folks truly moved on what many will undoubtedly mark for posterity as the day they were most proud to be an American.
Posted Oct 28, 2010
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1/4
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Hereafter
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Harry Potter-style hocus pocus only aimed at folks who came of age in the era of the Ouija board.
Posted Oct 25, 2010
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3/4
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Red
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Geezer G-Men gone wild!
Posted Oct 20, 2010
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4/4
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Waiting for Superman
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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An Oscar-quality expose' laying the blame for the escalating dropout rate right at the feet of a greedy and selfish teachers' union which could care less about educating the country's kids.
Posted Oct 18, 2010
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3/4
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Cash Crop
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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After offering medicinal, religious, monetary and recreational rationales, Cash Crop concludes that it's high time that California stop squandering tax dollars by prosecuting folks for mass-producing marijuana. Are you listening, Governator?"
Posted Oct 11, 2010
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0/4
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My Soul to Take
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Might not be Wes Craven's best film, but it's certainly his worst.
Posted Oct 11, 2010
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4/4
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The Social Network
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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The scariest screen villain in a half century, since Psycho's Norman Bates, given that this inscrutable creep actually exists in real life.
Posted Oct 04, 2010
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3/4
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GhettoPhysics: Will the Real Pimps and Hos Please Stand Up?
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Are you a pimp or a ho? You're either one or the other according to E. Raymond Brown.
Posted Oct 04, 2010
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3/4
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Freakonomics
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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An iconoclastic expose' featuring fresh cultural slants apt to leave the average armchair economist reevaluating a lot of conventional wisdom they've taken for granted.
Posted Sep 29, 2010
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2/4
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Speed-Dating
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A titillating tribute to the novel notion of strangers with benefits.
Posted Sep 28, 2010
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4/4
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Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Crime might not pay, but greed is still good!
Posted Sep 27, 2010
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4/4
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The Town
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A riveting, immorality play establishing Ben Affleck as a director to be reckoned with.
Posted Sep 21, 2010
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4/4
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Prince of Broadway
(2008)
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Kam Williams
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New York City as a disturbing dystopia where it's hard out there not just for a pimp, but for an African scam artist, too!
Posted Sep 12, 2010
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1/4
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Going the Distance
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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The only reason you root for a reunion at the end of this unromantic romp is because these two jerks really deserve each other.
Posted Sep 09, 2010
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2.5/4
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Lovely, Still
(2008)
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Kam Williams
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A poignant primer on making the most of a last chance at romance!
Posted Sep 09, 2010
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4/4
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Piranha
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Hell hath no fury like a school of hungry, teen-eating piranhas!
Posted Aug 26, 2010
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4/4
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Lottery Ticket
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A ROFL treasure hunt which unfolds like an inner-city variation of It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. What more can you ask for from a ghetto-fabulous, escapist fantasy?
Posted Aug 18, 2010
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3/4
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Salt
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A bombastic, bells-and-whistles spectacular featuring a fetching, two-fisted femme fatale and offering precisely the sort of riveting roller coaster ride that amounts to a very welcome diversion in the midst of a sizzling, summer heat wave.
Posted Jul 26, 2010
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2/4
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Inception
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A patently-preposterous, endlessly-elliptical mindbender that's worth the investment just to be able to say you sat through it, even if you can't follow all of its meandering machinations. It's that hip!
Posted Jul 19, 2010
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3/4
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The Twilight Saga: Eclipse
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A compelling enough sequel certain to enthrall the target demographic apt to agree that it's a big improvement over Twilight 2, though not nearly as enchanting as the original.
Posted Jul 05, 2010
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4/4
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Despicable Me
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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Co-directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud understand exactly how to employ the latest 3-D technology in a fashion that the frenetic action keeps you ducking from and reaching out to touch objects as if you're right in the midst of a virtual reality.
Posted Jul 01, 2010
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4/4
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Knight and Day
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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The epitome of escapist summer fare!
Posted Jun 21, 2010
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4/4
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Toy Story 3
(2010)
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Kam Williams
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A fitting finale for a Disney trilogy guaranteed to resonate with kids of any age for generations to come.
Posted Jun 19, 2010
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