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CHERI (2009). Michelle Pfeiffer has been excellent in all manner of movies, but in such period pieces as The Age of Innocence and Dangerous Liaisons, she has proven to be especiall...

LAND OF THE LOST (2009). The surprising thing about Land of the Lost isn't that it contains several hearty laughs; the surprising thing is that it contains any laughs at all. A...

KARLOFF & LUGOSI HORROR CLASSICS (1936-1958). Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi made a series of memorable movies together during the 1930s and '40s (including The Raven and Th...

DRAG ME TO HELL (2009). The face of horror in modern cinema is, sad to say, torture porn, where sadism is exhibited with alarming regularity and imagination is only employed when t...

BATTLE FOR TERRA (2009). Battle for Terra is an animated effort in which alien forces invade a planet, and it turns out that the invaders are, in fact, us – that is to say, a...

AN AMERICAN WEREWOLF IN LONDON (1981). Writer-director John Landis' tongue-in-bloody-cheek horror yarn is considered in some circles to be one of the best werewolf films ever m...

DUPLICITY (2009). Duplicity is a jet-setting romp that proves to be as bright as it is brainy. Writer-director Tony Gilroy, flush from his Michael Clayton success, retains that fil...

ADVENTURELAND (2009). Movie fans need another period coming-of-age flick about as much as the nation needs another Senate cop-out on health care, yet Adventureland proves to be a p...