Joo-Wang John Lee is a computer programmer at Binghamton University by day and a movie critic by hobby. Upon insistent suggestion from people around him, he finally decided to start critiquing movies in writing instead of just verbal form among his friends. His writings can be found at John's Movie Blog.
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Enjoyable minor fare for the Coens who draw good laughs out of perpetual idiocy.
An all too predictable thriller that merely lives and breathes off the veteran actors' personas rather than expanding on them.
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Movie Review: The Hottie and the Nottie
An act of cinematic carnage that was committed, not made.
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Movie Review: Tropic Thunder
An irreverent comedy that fires in all directions and thankfully hits more than it misses.
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Movie Review: [Rec]
The Spanish horror film [Rec] reinvents the POV shaky cam exercise to create a classical haunted house picture.
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Movie Review: Taken
The kidnapping villains in this movie clearly have no idea what kind of super spy father they are dealing with.
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Movie Review: The Chaser
An unusually effective thriller from South Korea that breaks numerous genre conventions to mount an angry, scathing social commentary.
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Movie Review: The Dark Knight
A transcendent superhero movie and an ambitious marriage of allegorical artistry and pop entertainment.
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Movie Review: Wanted
A balls-to-the-walls action thrill ride - nothing more, nothing less.
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Movie Review: Get Smart
A disappointing TV adaptation with too much stock summer action and too little humor.
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