Opening this week Part 2

Dustin Putman's Movie Reviews

Opening This Week (Part Two):

Ain't Them Bodies Saints
★½ (out of ★★★★)

VOD & Select Cities - Exasperating in its disjointed pacing, ceaselessly static tempo, and refusal to provide context and development for its nearly comatose characters, this lethargic art-house drama confuses painterly cinematography for overall cinematic distinctiveness.
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Monsters Wanted
★★★ (out of ★★★★)

Now on DVD - An always engrossing documentary about the ambitious 2011 preparation of the Asylum Haunted Scream Park in Louisville, Kentucky, "Monsters Wanted" is something of a successor to 2002's outstanding "Hell House"—minus all of the religious politics.
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The World's End
★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - "The World's End" gets things all wrong, its sarcastic humor more often than not limp and its play for drama tone-deaf and overbearing when a lighter touch might have made a greater impact in regards to themes about reluctantly growing up and coming to terms with guilt from the past.
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You're Next
★★★½ (out of ★★★★)

Nationwide - So superbly conceived and carried out, so draped in tension yet also naturally funny in its tonal command, that it seems nearly impossible not to walk out of the film on a nervy, satisfied high. Horror cinema fans, a word of advice: rally together and absolutely do not let "You're Next" pass you by.
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New Blu-ray Reviews

The latest additions to this new section of the site include: "Cockneys vs. Zombies," "Dark Angel (aka I Come in Peace)," "The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec," "Q: The Winged Serpent" and "X-Ray/Schizoid."
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