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Jim Luksic's movie reviews Santa Ynez Valley Journal By Jim Luksic, Editor Silent House is anything but; within its walls there will be sobbing, screaming, shallow conversation and violence-related noise. What else would you expect when placing a young lady alone in a secluded, sealed-up lake home? See all stories on this topic »

Early reviews not so thrilled with Nicolas Cage's NOLA-shot thriller 'Seeking ... NOLA.com That a befuddling marketing strategy -- but maybe it's a good thing, judging by early reviews of director Roger Donaldson's film. At movie-review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes, "Seeking Justice" has a solid "rotten" rating as of this afternoon, ... See all stories on this topic » NOLA.com

SXSW Film: Daily reviews and interviews Austin Chronicle They're somehow the humanizing elements in a movie about two vacuous, beautiful, skinny young things with perpetually mussed hair, Jane (Hemingway) and Melissa (Maeve), and a not-so-sweet lady on the wrong side of 80 years old named Sadie (Johnson). See all stories on this topic » Austin Chronicle

SXSW Film Reviews: "[REC] 3: Genesis," "The Babymakers," And "Thale" Complex.com (blog) Starting off in the series' familiar first-person/found-footage style, Plaza quickly abandons that technique for a traditional movie feel, and that's also when the over-the-top gore and laughs begin. The setting is the wedding of lovers Clara (Leticia ... See all stories on this topic »

Capsule reviews of feature films Kansas City Star This action film's claim to fame is that it stars active-duty Navy SEALs. The problem is that these stoic warriors infect Act of Valor with more wooden acting than you'd see at a ventriloquism school. 1 hr. 51 R (violence, profanity) - David Hiltbrand ... See all stories on this topic »

21 Jump Street DVD Talk The roads of movie history are littered with the cinematic corpses of TV-to-film adaptations gone wrong. Films like The Mod Squad and I Spy lie nearly forgotten on a spectrum where the best-case scenario is the high watermark of, say, McG's Charlie's ... See all stories on this topic »

Casa De Mi Padre DVD Talk But there's no build, no finesse, no structure; it's less a movie than it is a joke book. A Spanish joke book. Please check out my other DVDTalk DVD and theatrical reviews here and my film blog The Following Preview here. See all stories on this topic »

Movie review: '21 Jump Street' Los Angeles Times The college filmmaking buddies have turned their off-center humor into a full-time job more innocently with 2009's animated adaptation of kids' book "Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs," more provocatively with the mind-melding irreverence of the MTV ... See all stories on this topic »

To quoth critics on 'The Raven' movie: Tell-tale flop Baltimore Sun (blog) And, let's just say that while they didn't quite give it a "nevermore," Cusack (whose performance rated higher in most reviews than the movie as a whole) might be looking fondly by comparison at his reviews in "Hot Tub Time Machine. See all stories on this topic » Baltimore Sun (blog)

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