You know a movie is going to be bad when Rob Schneider shows up dressed as a Chinese wedding chapel minister. No, come to think of it, you know of movie is going to be bad when Rob Schneider shows up at all.

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If you’re a foodie, then this has been your summer. First Waitress served up a delectable confection of sugary delight, then Ratatouille arrived with an explosion of gastronomic enchantment, and now No Reservations appears to whet your appetite yet again. Although No Reservations serves up a menu of Franco-American fusion cuisine, the film actually has […]

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Unlike most Werner Herzog films, (Aguirre, The Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Grizzly Man) Rescue Dawn is not the tale of a madman — unless one considers hope in a prison delusional. Herzog’s career has been built on obsessed men pitting their wills against nature, so it comes as some surprise that the character with whom […]

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Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, 28 Days Later) is something utterly unique in the movie business — a director who makes horror movies without ever intending to; a director who skirts the line of “the Hollywood ending” without ever crossing it; a director who creates fables of relentless despair and then, when all seems completely lost, inevitably […]

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“Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix” is generally regarded as fans’ least favorite book, so it was a foregone conclusion that whomever was appointed to helm the film version was going to have an uphill battle before them, especially given the fact that the high water mark of the series had already […]

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Joshua is a film about a child who coldly, methodically orchestrates the complete and utter collapse of his family in an attempt to reanimate it again in his own image.
Make no mistake about it, Joshua is a horror film of the most chilling kind.

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This is an abridged version of a review I wrote for Christianity Today Movies. To read the rest of this review, click here.
I cannot begin to describe to you how much I loathed Transformers, but as it is my job to do so, I shall attempt to find the words.

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