Fresh
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Neshoba (2010)
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"A movie whose concerns remain very much with us today unfortunately, especially in light of Republican Party saint Reagan's decision to speak in favor of "state's rights" at the Neshoba County Fair in 1980."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh 8/10
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
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"What starts as a comedy about unconventional family relationships turns into a drama with ironically more conventional relationships."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Mesrine: L'Instinct de Mort (Mesrine: Part 1 - Killer Instinct) (2010)
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"Except for the brilliant performance of Vincent Cassel, this is deeply flawed movie. Like Refn's "Bronson", it assumes that the audience will be satisfied by unending brutality--a false assumption. But Cassel is brilliant as a creep."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Broderskab (Brotherhood) (2010)
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"This movie does the impossible. Make a gay neo-Nazi lead character sympathetic in a blend of "Brokeback Mountain" and "Made in Britain"."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh 7/10
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Soul Kitchen (2010)
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"This film is frequently likable but is never really intriguing."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh 4/5
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The Kids Are All Right (2010)
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"Could easily have been of a straight, infertile marriage thrown off balance by their biological donor, but then we would have been deprived of the singular pleasure of getting to watch Bening and Moore play such a wonderful married couple. "
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Karina Montgomery
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Splat 2.5/5
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Dinner for Schmucks (2010)
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"Clearly took one funny movie about Tim's relationships and succumbed to the Hollywood pandergeist "we’re making a movie with Dinner in the title, there is gonna be a damn dinner!" But Carell makes it very sweet."
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Karina Montgomery
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Fresh 6/10
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The Stone Tape (1972)
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"At one time Kneale was a font of new ideas, but this play is mostly a reworking of some of the ideas from the much superior QUATERMASS AND THE PIT."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh 8/10
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Inception (2010)
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"This is a long film with a lot of fiery explosions, intelligent ideas, sputtering machine guns, and violent car crashes."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Slingshot (Tirador) (2010)
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"A brilliant study of slum life in Manila that is close in spirit, if not artistic accomplishment, with Bunuel's "Los Olvidados"."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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The Dry Land (2010)
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"Gritty naturalist drama about Iraqi veteran suffering from post-traumatic stress. Utterly free of pat redemptive formulas and far more intelligent than "The Hurt Locker", this is the best movie I have seen in the Iraqi war genre."
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Louis Proyect
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Splat 5/10
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Despicable Me (2010)
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"This film is mildly amusing, but by next week I probably will not remember anything about it."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Alamar (To the Sea) (2010)
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"A great documentary about father-son bonding in the beautiful but threatened waters off the east coast of Mexico that puts a question mark over "progress"."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Red Alert: The War Within (2010)
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"Despite obvious constraints from Indian censors, this movie provides a glimmer of insight into a powerful guerrilla movement sweeping the country's most impoverished regions in a real life version of Avatar."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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The Tillman Story (2010)
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"Quite simply the finest movie that the insane wars in Iraq and Afghanistan has inspired."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh 8/10
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Toy Story 3 (2010)
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"The writing quality is what makes this film work as a comedy, an adventure, and a film with some serious affecting human drama."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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South of the Border (2010)
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"Oliver Stone has made a movie that is essential viewing for both the hard left (like this reviewer) and those who only know about Hugo Chavez from CNN or Fox News (especially you!)"
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Le Fond de l'air est rouge (A Grin Without a Cat) (The Base of the Air Is Red) (1977)
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"The greatest documentary ever made about the struggle for socialism. The real thing, I should add, rather than the epithet applied by Glenn Beck to the Democratic Party and its leader Barack Hoover."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Daybreakers (2010)
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"Pointed social commentary using the vampire as a metaphor for an increasingly predatory bourgeois society."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Splice (2010)
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"A modern version of "Bride of Frankenstein" making the point that even monsters can feel sexual longing."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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District 9 (2009)
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"Best when it operates as yarn rather than as social commentary, even if it is filled with logical inconsistencies."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh 7/10
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Nothing (2003)
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"Natali's script is constantly inventive in finding implications of this power."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh 9/10
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Cypher (2005)
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"Brian King's screenplay make this a fast paced science fiction adventure very much of the style of Philip K. Dick."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Hakuchi: The Innocent (Hakuchi) (1963)
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"Hobbled mostly by the original material, a Dostoevsky novel, as well as an 80 minute cut imposed by the studio bosses, it is still worth seeing, especially for Kurosawa fans--this means everybody obviously."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Drunken Angel (1948)
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"A combination of "Open City" and "Mean Streets", as well as Kurosawa's first movie and the first one to use Toshiro Mifune."
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Louis Proyect
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Splat 5/10
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Mini (2010)
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"The film takes some patience, but the comic style does eventually kick in."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh 6/10
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Splice (2010)
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"The film sadly lacks the fresh originality of Natali's previous films. Natali's film about DNA-splitting seems disappointingly recombinant."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Sex and the City 2 (2010)
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"A perfectly pleasant way to spend a couple of hours. The vitriol directed against this movie mostly has to do with the ageism and sexism of the reviewers rather than its merits."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh 6/10
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Valhalla Rising (2010)
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"Even with colors subdued, the photography is beautiful and the tone is believable, though far from pleasant. This is Viking life unromanticized."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh 7/10
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Exam (2010)
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"The ninth person working on this puzzle will be the viewer."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh 6/10
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Whiz Kids (2010)
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"The film is exciting, but is somewhat handicapped by the non-public nature of the final competition."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Looking for Eric (2010)
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"A wistful tale about a sad sack who is counseled by an imaginary friend, a soccer superstar. Not so much "A Beautiful Mind" as it is Woody Allen's "Play it again, Sam"."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)
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"A reasonably interesting mess in the spirit of Andy Warhol's Frankenstein."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Vincere (2010)
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"Movie starts off with a bang, but begins to lose interest as the main character (Ida Dalser) descends into mental illness. "
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Louis Proyect
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Splat
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Women Without Men (Zanan-e bedun-e mardan) (2010)
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"A movie with honorable intentions that is hobbled by its magical realist origins that put exposition and character development at the bottom of its concerns."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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Nobody Knows About the Persian Cats (Les Chats Persans) (No One Knows About Persian Cats) (2010)
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"If the movie contained nothing but musical performances, it would be worth the price of admission. Beyond that, it is about as good an explanation of why Iranian youth revolved as you like to find."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh 8/10
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The Nature of Existence (2010)
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"Sort of a "Whitman's Sampler" of religious, metaphysical, and philosophical beliefs and opinions from all over the world."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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North Face (Nordwand) (2010)
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"Very likely the best movie ever made about mountain climbing, with some barbed commentary on life under Nazism."
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Louis Proyect
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Splat 4/10
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The Human Centipede (First Sequence) (2010)
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"In THE HUMAN CENTIPEDE, relatively standard mad scientist horror film elements combine with a truly twisted premise."
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Mark R. Leeper
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Fresh
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Stray Dog (Nora inu) (1963)
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"A great movie sharing "The Bicycle Thief" scenario about a stolen object needed for economic survival, as well as the tableaux of a shattered axis city."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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The Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (The Bad Sleep Well) (1962)
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"A powerful tale of a son seeking to avenge his father in a world of corporate malfeasance with Hamlet-like dimensions."
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Louis Proyect
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Fresh
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The Good, the Bad, and the Weird (2010)
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"An old-fashioned entertainment of the kind that Hollywood no longer knows how to make."
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Louis Proyect
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Whip It (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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G.I. Joe: Rise of Cobra (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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Funny People (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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Pontypool (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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Shorts (Shorts: The Adventures of the Wishing Rock) (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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Orphan (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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Analyze That (2002)
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Jerry Saravia
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Public Enemies (2009)
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Scott Mendelson
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