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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Spring Breakers

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 70% (Critics) / 67% (Audience)
Directed By: Harmony Korine
Written By: Harmony Korine
Starring: Vanessa Hudgens, Selena Gomez, Ashley Benson, Rachel Korine and James Franco
Studio: A24 Films

Synopsis: Brit (Ashley Benson), Candy (Vanessa Hudgens), Cotty (Rachel Korine) and Faith (Selena Gomez) have been best friends since grade school. They live together in a boring college dorm and are hungry for adventure. All they have to do is save enough money for spring break to get their shot at having some real fun. A serendipitous encounter with rapper “Alien” (James Franco) promises to provide the girls with all the thrill and excitement they could hope for. With the encouragement of their new friend, it soon becomes unclear how far the girls are willing to go to experience a spring break they will never forget. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Hansel & Gretel Get Baked

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: NA (Critics) / 42% (Audience)
Directed By: Duane Journey
Written By: David Tillman
Starring: Molly C. Quinn, Yancy Butler, Lara Flynn Boyle
Studio: Tribeca Films

Synopsis: When an evil drug-dealing witch (Lara Flynn Boyle) holds Gretel’s stoner boyfriend hostage, she and her brother Hansel must save him from a gruesome death — or face the last high of their lives. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Olympus Has Fallen

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 52% (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: Antoine Fuqua
Written By: Creighton Rothenberger and Katrin Benedikt
Starring: Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Rick Yune
Studio: FilmDistrict

Synopsis: When the White House (Secret Service Code: “Olympus”) is captured by a terrorist mastermind and the President is kidnapped, disgraced former Presidential guard Mike Banning finds himself trapped within the building. As our national security team scrambles to respond, they are forced to rely on Banning’s inside knowledge to help retake the White House, save the President and avert an even bigger crisis. Antoine Fuqua (Training Day) directs an all-star cast featuring Gerard Butler, Aaron Eckhart, Morgan Freeman, Angela Bassett, Melissa Leo, Ashley Judd and Rick Yune. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Mother’s Day

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Darren Lynn Bousman
Written By: Scott Milam
Starring: Rebecca De Mornay, Jaime King, Shawn Ashmore, Patrick John Flueger and Briana Evigan
Studio: Anchor Bay Entertainment

Synopsis: From the maker of Saw II, III and IV, Mother’s Day is a graphic remake of the Troma horror classic, Mother’s Day. After a bank robbery gone wrong, three brothers go home to hideout…only to discover that their Mother (Rebecca De Mornay) lost their house in a foreclosure. The new owners and their party guests become the depraved brothers’ unwitting hostages. Their sadistic Mother soon arrives and brilliantly takes control of the situation, ratcheting up the terror. As the hostages struggle desperately to survive the harrowing torture, they realize that there is nothing a Mother won’t do to protect her children. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Would You Rather

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 53% (Audience)
Directed By: David Guy Levy
Written By: Steffen Schlachtenhaufen
Starring: Brittany Snow, Enver Gjokaj, Sasha Grey and Jeffrey Combs
Studio: IFC Films

Synopsis: Desperate to help her ailing brother, a young woman unknowingly agrees to compete in a deadly game of “Would You Rather,” hosted by a sadistic aristocrat. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: For A Good Time Call

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56% (Critics) / 59% (Audience)
Directed By: Jamie Travis
Written By: Lauren Miller and Katie Anne Naylon
Starring: Ari Graynor, Lauren Miller, Justin Long
Studio: Focus Features

Synopsis: Former college frenemies Lauren and Katie move into a fabulous Gramercy Park apartment, and in order to make ends meet, the unlikely pair start a phone sex line together. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Incredible Burt Wonderstone

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 39% (Critics) / 65% (Audience)
Directed By: Don Scardino
Written By: John Francis Daley, Jonathan M. Goldstein, Chad Kultgen and Tyler Mitchell
Starring: Steve Carell, Olivia Wilde, Steve Buscemi, James Gandolfini, Alan Arkin and Jim Carrey
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures

Synopsis: Superstar magicians Burt Wonderstone (Steve Carell) and Anton Marvelton (Steve Buscemi) have ruled the Las Vegas strip for years, raking in millions with illusions as big as Burt’s growing ego. But lately the duo’s greatest deception is their public friendship, while secretly they’ve grown to loathe each other. Facing cutthroat competition from guerilla street magician Steve Gray (Jim Carrey), whose cult following surges with each outrageous stunt, even their show looks stale. But there’s still a chance Burt and Anton can save the act-both onstage and off-if Burt can get back in touch with what made him love magic in the first place. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Grabbers

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Grabbers
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 79% (Critics) / 91% (Audience)
Directed By: Jon Wright
Written By: Kevin Lehane
Starring: Richard Coyle, Ruth Bradley, Russell Tovey and Lalor Roddy
Studio: Forward Films

Synopsis:When an island off the coast of Ireland is invaded by bloodsucking aliens, the heroes discover that getting drunk is the only way to survive. (Source)

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Bad Kids Go To Hell – Good, Bad & Ugly Review

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 44% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Matthew Spradlin
Written By: Matthew Spradlin and Barry Wernick
Starring: Judd Nelson, Ben Browder, Amanda Alch
Studio: BKGTH Productions LLC

Synopsis:On a stormy Saturday afternoon, six students from Crestview Academy begin to meet horrible fates as they serve out their detentions. Is a fellow student to blame, or perhaps Crestview’s alleged ghosts are behind the terrible acts? (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Oz the Great and Powerful

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 60% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Sam Raimi
Written By: Mitchell Kapner and David Lindsay-Abaire
Starring: James Franco, Michelle Williams, Rachel Weisz and Mila Kunis
Studio: Walt Disney Pictures

Synopsis:Oscar Diggs (James Franco), a small-time circus magician with dubious ethics, is hurled away from dusty Kansas to the vibrant Land of Oz. At first he thinks he’s hit the jackpot-fame and fortune are his for the taking. That all changes, however, when he meets three witches, Theodora (Mila Kunis), Evanora (Rachel Weisz), and Glinda (Michelle Williams), who are not convinced he is the great wizard everyone’s been expecting. Reluctantly drawn into the epic problems facing the Land of Oz and its inhabitants, Oscar must find out who is good and who is evil before it is too late. Putting his magical arts to use through illusion, ingenuity-and even a bit of wizardry-Oscar transforms himself not only into the great and powerful Wizard of Oz but into a better man as well. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Identity Thief

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 24% (Critics) / 63% (Audience)
Directed By: Seth Gordon
Written By: Craig Mazin and Jerry Eeten
Starring: Jason Bateman, Melissa McCarthy, John Cho and Amanda Peet
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis: Mild-mannered businessman Sandy Patterson travels from Denver to Miami to confront the deceptively harmless-looking woman who has been living it up after stealing Sandy’s identity. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Fun Size

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Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 16% (Critics) / 82% (Audience)
Directed By: Josh Schwartz
Written By: Max Werner
Starring: Victoria Justice, Johnny Knoxville, Chelsea Handler, Jackson Nicoll and Jane Levy
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis:Wren’s Halloween plans go awry when she’s made to babysit her brother, Albert, who disappears into a sea of trick-or-treaters. With her best friend and two nerds at her side, she needs to find her brother before her mom finds out he’s missing. (Source)

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