Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Battleship

Battleship Movie
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 36% (Critics) / 56% (Audience)
Directed By: Peter Berg
Written By: Erich Hoeber and Jon Hoeber
Starring: Taylor Kitsch, Alexander Skarsgård, Brooklyn Decker and Liam Neeson
Studio: Universal

Synopsis: Peter Berg produces and directs Battleship, an epic-scaled action-adventure that unfolds across the seas, in the skies and over land as our planet fights for survival against a superior force in this film inspired by Hasbro’s classic naval combat game. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Dictator

The Dictator Movie Review
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 61% (Critics) / 64% (Audience)
Directed By: Larry Charles
Written By: Sacha Baron Cohen, Alec Berg, David Mandel and Jeff Schaffer
Starring: Sacha Baron Cohen, Anna Faris, Jason Mantzoukas and Ben Kingsley
Studio: Paramount Pictures

Synopsis: The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Raven

The Raven
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 22% (Critics) / 60% (Audience)
Directed By: James McTeigue
Written By: Ben Livingston and Hannah Shakespeare
Starring: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Ben Gleason and Luke Evans
Studio: Relativity Media

Synopsis: When a madman begins committing horrific murders inspired by Edgar Allan Poe’s works, a young Baltimore detective joins forces with Poe to stop him from making his stories a reality. (Source)

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Straw Dogs

Straw Dogs
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 42% (Critics) / 35% (Audience)
Directed By: Rod Lurie
Written By: Rod Lurie
Starring: James Marsden, Kate Bosworth, Alexander Skarsgård, James Woods
Studio: Sony Pictures/Screen Gems

Synopsis: A Los Angeles screenwriter David and his actress wife Amy relocate to her family home in a small town in the deep South after her father’s death. Before long old conflicts and relationships begin to boil leading to an explosive confrontation that the transplanted couple may not survive.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Conan The Barbarian


Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 23% (Critics) 34% (Audience)
Director: Marcus Nispel
Writers: Thomas Dean Donnelly, Joshua Oppenheimer, Sean Hood
Starring: Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman and Rose McGowan
Studio: Lionsgate

Synopsis: CONAN THE BARBARIAN is the slick remake of the far grittier (and better) 1982 version that made Arnold Schwarzenegger a star. In this updated tale the Cimmerian warrior embarks on a quest to protect a virgin priestess and exact revenge for the murder of his father.

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