Good, Bad & Ugly Review: 28 Weeks Later

28 Weeks Later
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 71% (Critics) / 66% (Audience)
Directed By: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
Written By: Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, Rowan Joffe, E.L. Lavigne, and Jesus Olmo
Starring: Jeremy Renner, Rose Byrne, Idris Elba, Harold Perrineau and Robert Carlyle
Studio: Fox Atomic

Synopsis: The sequel to Danny Boyle’s 28 DAYS LATER, 28 WEEKS LATER takes place six months after the initial rage virus outbreak. The U.S. military is helping set up a safe zone in London for survivors to rebuild and repopulate. But things do not go according to plan.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Chronicle

Chronicle
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 85% (Critics) / 86% (Audience)
Directed By: Josh Trank
Written By: Max Landis and Josh Trank
Starring: Michael B. Jordan, Michael Kelly and Alex Russell
Studio: 20th Century Fox

Synopsis: Three high school students make an incredible discovery that gives them all telekinetic abilities. Their powers bring them closer together in the beginning but before long one of the friends gives in to his darker impulses and events careen out of control.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Artist

The Artist
Rotten Tomatoes Rating:  97% (Critics) / 92% (Audience)
Directed By: Michel Hazanavicius
Written By: Michel Hazanavicius
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Bérénice Bejo and John Goodman
Studio: The Weinstein Company

Synopsis: With the arrival of talking pictures the career of a silent movie star begins to fade into oblivion while the object of his affection sees her own star rise just as fast.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: My Soul To Take

My Soul To Take
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 9% (Critics) / 28% (Audience)
Directed By: Wes Craven
Written By: Wes Craven
Starring: Max Thieriot, John Magaro and Denzel Whitaker
Studio: Universal Pictures

Synopsis: A serial killer returns 16 years later to the town where he met his demise intent on killing the seven teenagers who were all born on the day of his death.

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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: Spiderman 3

Spiderman 3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Sam Raimi
Written By: Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi and Alvin Sargent
Starring: Tobey Maguire, Kirsten Dunst, James Franco, Thomas Haden Church and Topher Grace
Studio: Sony Pictures

Synopsis: In the third installment of the franchise Spiderman faces a three-pronged assault from a new Green Goblin, The Sandman and the alien symbiotic Venom while Peter Parker’s personal life goes through an almost equal upheaval.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Grey

The Grey
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 79% (Critics) / 76% (Audience)
Directed By: Joe Carnahan
Written By: Joe Carnahan and Ian Mackenzie Jeffers
Starring: Liam Neeson, Dermot Mulroney, Dallas Roberts and Frank Grillo
Studio: Open Road Films

Synopsis: A group of oil-rig workers must fight the elements and a pack of bloodthirsty wolves when their plane goes down in the Alaskan wilderness.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Haywire

Haywire
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83% (Critics) / 54% (Audience)
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh
Written By: Lem Dobbs
Starring: Gina Carano, Ewan McGregor, Michael Douglas, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum and Michael Fassbender
Studio: Relativity Media

Synopsis: A highly trained operative who works for a government security contractor is betrayed by her company during a mission and sets out to exact revenge while looking for the reason for the betrayal.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Cedar Rapids

Cedar Rapids
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 86% (Critics) / 60% (Audience)
Directed By: Miguel Arteta
Written By: Phil Johnston
Starring: Ed Helms, John C. Reilly, Isiah Whitlock, Anne Heche and Sigourney Weaver
Studio: Fox Searchlight Pictures

Synopsis: A sheltered insurance agent leaves his small town for the first time to go to an insurance convention in the “big city” of Cedar Rapids. While there he becomes fast friends with three convention veterans who loosen him up and show him that the world is bigger than his hometown and it is time for him to start living.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: Sucker Punch

Sucker Punch
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 23% (Critics) / 48% (Audience)
Directed By: Zack Snyder
Written By: Zack Snyder and Steve Shibuya
Starring: Emily Browning, Vanessa Hudgens, Jena Malone, Jamie Chung and Abbie Cornish

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: We Need To Talk About Kevin

We Need To Talk About Kevin
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83% (Critics) / 80% (Audience)
Directed By: Lynne Ramsay
Written By: Lynne Ramsay and Rory Kinnear
Starring: Tilda Swinton, John C. Reilly and Ezra Miller

Synopsis: Told in flashback form, WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN explores the fractured relationship between a mother and her son who eventually ends up going on a murderous rampage at his high school.

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Good, Bad & Ugly Review: The Devil Inside

The Devil Inside
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 7% (Critics) / 29% (Audience)
Directed By: William Brent Bell
Written By: William Brent Bell & Matthew Peterman
Starring: Fernanda Andrade, Simon Quarterman and Evan Helmuth

Synopsis: This documentary style film follows a woman as she treks to Italy to discover what exactly happened to her mother 20 years ago during an exorcism.

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