Movie Reviews

Review by Nathan Samdahl (A)

To put it simply, Polisse is by far one of the best films of the year, and of the last several years.  As another critic accurately put it, Polisse is like a season of The Wire packed into one film.  As The Wire is o…

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Stephanie Plum, the starring character in Janet Evanovich’s long-running book series, gets the big screen treatment for the first time in One for the Money, an adaptation of the first book. Based on the critical and financial reception of the film, i…

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Six years after he blew audiences away with Borat and three years after destroying all goodwill he previously earned with the horrendous Bruno, Sacha Baron Cohen is back with The Dictator, a very quotable movie about a racist, sexist, anti-Semitic Mi…

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Tim Burton. Johnny Depp. Together again. Woopty-fucking-doo.
Dark Shadows is a big screen adaptation of a television show that apparently was popular decades before I was born, and is about a rich young man named Barnabas Collins who is cursed b…

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Review by Nathan Samdahl (C+)
Girl in Progress is a film that has a lot of positive elements, but that never hits its stride.  It’s a film I wanted to like more than I did.Read FilmJabber’s full Girl in Progress movie review.

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The Avengers, the careful culmination of years of planning, multiple blockbusters, hundreds of millions of dollars and loads of patience is finally here, and it does not disappoint. The best comic book adaptation since 2008′s The Dark Knight and arg…

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A man and a woman meet, fall in love, get engaged. The next step is obvious. Obvious, but not easy. Between career opportunities and unexpected family situations, the initiation process to their next stage in life – the wedding – keeps getting pushe…

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Review by Nathan Samdahl (A-)
Headhunters is a pulse-pounding nonstop action thrill ride with plenty of intrigue thrown in.  The middle 45 minutes of this film is by far the most fun I’ve had at the movies all year.Read FilmJabber’s full Headhu…

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Chimpanzees are adorable. Baby chimpanzees…. Likeohmygodtheyresocuteiwantoneiwantoneiwantone. So, the overlords over at Disney decided to make a movie about a baby chimpanzee. And just to ensure they don’t confuse anyone, they named the documentar…

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Five horny college students go to a cabin in the woods. You know what happens next. Or not. A perfect example of don’t judge a book by its cover, or a movie by its trailer, The Cabin in the Woods is one of the most entertaining, strange, absurdly aw…

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