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83
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82
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82
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82
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82
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81
Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
79
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78
I've Loved You So Long
77
Pray the Devil Back to Hell
76
Betrayal - Nerakhoon, The
75
Pool, The
73
Girl Cut in Two, A
72
I Served the King of England
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69
Ashes of Time Redux
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67
Synecdoche, New York
64
Appaloosa
63
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63
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63
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62
Duchess, The
59
We Are Wizards
57
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57
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55
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55
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51
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50
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47
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47
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46
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43
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43
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41
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40
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40
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34
My Name Is Bruce
34
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32
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31
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30
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28
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Alien vs. Predator
Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation
FILM:
GAMES:
MPAA RATING: PG-13 for violence, language, horror images, slime and gore
Starring
Sanaa Lathan,
Raoul Bova,
Lance Henriksen,
Ewen Bremner,
Colin Salmon,
Tommy Flanagan,
Joseph Rye,
and
Agathe De La Boulaye
The iconic monsters from two of the scariest film franchises ever battle each other for the first time on film. (Fox)
| GENRE(S): |
Action
|
Horror
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Sci-fi
|
Suspense/Thriller
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| WRITTEN BY: |
Paul W.S. Anderson (also story)
Dan O'Bannon & Ronald Shusett (characters)
Jim Thomas & John Thomas (characters)
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| DIRECTED BY: |
Paul W.S. Anderson
|
| RELEASE DATE: |
DVD: January 25, 2005
Video: January 25, 2005
Theatrical: August 13, 2004
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| RUNNING TIME: |
100 minutes, Color |
| ORIGIN: |
Czech Republic / Canada |

All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
50
The New York Times
Dave Kehr
Between the Predators' dripping their glow-in-the-dark green blood and the Aliens' getting their rubber cement mucous all over everything, this is certainly a very sticky movie, though not, ultimately, a very frightening or commanding one.

50
Los Angeles Times
Carina Chocano
Surprisingly free of gore, unlike its predecessors.

50
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
This is one schlockfest that may be enjoyed more by casual viewers than by hard-core fans, since writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson breaks with the established mythology of both properties whenever he feels like it. Like it matters.

40
Village Voice
Ed Halter
With perfunctory battle sequences, cardboard characters, and uncreative scare 'ems, Paul W.S. Anderson's monster mashup isn't quite terrible enough to be so-bad-it's-awesome, but his swift (if forced) plotting and amusingly shoddy costumes mean that there could be worse ways to enjoy air-conditioning.

40
The Onion (A.V. Club)
Keith Phipps
It would take a true visionary not to borrow from Alien Vs. Predator's predecessors, but Anderson lifts more than most will consider polite, borrowing to the point where some viewers may wonder whether he simply edited in footage from the old movies (or even, at one point, "Jurassic Park").

40
LA Weekly
Tim Appelo
Make sense? No, it doesn't. But if you manage to endure the exposition, you'll get what you paid for: popping chests. Invisible stalkers. Nicely paced chases through corridors that constantly reconfigure in interlocking stone puzzles.

40
The Hollywood Reporter
Kirk Honeycutt
The fifth outing for the slime-dripping, shape-changing creatures, the Aliens are looking a little dogged, perhaps ready for the Alien Retirement Home. Meanwhile, the Predator warriors, who never achieved the artistic heights of their counterpart, look better invisible. When visible, they resemble robotic can openers gone berserk.

40
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
A reductive spook show in which a bunch of puny humans get chased around by scary monsters.

40
Variety
Dennis Harvey
The thing-a-ma-jigs have it out with the whatch-a-ma-call-its -- as several humans scurry and scream between -- in Alien Vs. Predator, the kind of two-for-one dogfight (last repped by "Freddy Vs. Jason") that usually does more to bury a franchise than revive it.

40
Empire
Dan Jolin
Fans beware - your fave two sci-fi franchises have been stripped of all their guile and maturity.

38
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
It's a murky, empty-headed dive into the depths of the Antarctic and the heart of monster movie cliches that leaves you praying for most of the cast to get killed off fast, to put them (and us) out of our misery.

38
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
The film is critic-proof and it will find an audience, but it's hard to imagine even the film's target demographic (teenage boys) being overly enthusiastic about the product. It's disposable entertainment of the worst kind.

38
Philadelphia Inquirer
David Hiltbrand
Anderson gets style points for the pyramid, though. The building - a combination of Aztec, Egyptian and Cambodian elements loaded with sophisticated gadgetry - totally rocks.

30
Dallas Observer
Luke Y. Thompson
Well, Sanaa Lathan's in there somewhere as the smart and sexy ass-kickin' chick, but it's really all about the monster disembowelments, which happen often.

30
Film Threat
Pete Vonder Haar
It will end up frustrating fans of both movie franchises enough to make them wish someone more competent was in charge.

30
Slate
David Edelstein
The first 45 minutes or so is stupefying--flat, disjointed, missing all human connective tissue.

30
Chicago Reader
Cliff Doerksen
Dumb.

25
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
Its often hard to figure out whos winning, much less care about it. One thing is certain: Nobody is going to be demanding a rematch.

25
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The actual fights between the predators and the serpents are too silly to contemplate. Both shiny and metallic, they look like kitchen appliances fighting it out. That's when you can see them. Writer-director Paul W.S. Anderson ("Resident Evil") has created the darkest, if not worst, sci-fi movie since "Battlefield Earth."

20
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
This space invaders stuff is, like, so 1981.

0
San Francisco Chronicle
Mick LaSalle
Take a wretched premise. Imagine the worst picture that could be made from it. Then imagine something even worse. That's Alien vs. Predator.


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