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Review: Jumping the Broom

The film tries to balance an improbable barrage of plotlines with crude ethnic jokes
Six months after they first meet, Sabrina Watson (Paula Patton) and Jason Taylor (Laz Alonso) arrive on Martha's Vineyard to wed on Sabrina's upper-crust family estate.

By: ZAK JASON | May 12, 2011

Review: Cell 211

Monzón's intense look at prison culture
Monzón's intense look at prison culture

By: ZAK JASON | October 20, 2010

Review: Hatchet II

Witness the diminishing entertainment returns of watching a belt sander grate through someone's face
Green exploited the teenage-splatter-film æsthetic in his first outing; Hatchet II merely exploits our gag reflexes.

By: ZAK JASON | September 29, 2010

Review: Vampires Suck

And so does this movie.
After burping out a series of noxious spoofs from Date Movie to Epic Movie to Meet the Spartans , Jason Friedberg and Aaron Seltzer might, you'd hope, be ready to return to the Comedy Central kind of humor seen in Scary Movie .

By: ZAK JASON | August 26, 2010

Review: Nobody's Perfect

Niko von Glasow gets right down to it
German documentarian Niko von Glasow has a knack for the blunt. First he asks his interviewees whether they want to kill themselves; then he asks them to pose nude.

By: ZAK JASON | August 26, 2010

Review: Kisses

A prepubescent, hard-boiled version of Before Sunrise
Dylan (Shane Curry) and Kylie (Kelly O'Neill), two tough 11-year-old neighbors in suburban-housing-estate Dublin, flee their abusive homes in search of a better and more adventurous life in the inner city.

By: ZAK JASON | August 04, 2010