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  • Summary: Serbis, from acclaimed Filipino director Brillante Mendoza, is about the Pineda family, who operates and lives in a run-down movie house that shows dated sexy double-feature films. As they go about their daily activities, we get a glimpse of how the family suffers and deals with each other’ss sins and vices. Preoccupied with their own personal demons, they are unmindful that inside their movie theater another kind of business is going on between the “serbis” boys and the gay patrons. (Regent Releasing)… Expand

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  1. Positive: 9 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 11
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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: Jonathan Curiel
    100
    Serbis has the feel of a documentary, but a documentary can't accomplish what Serbis does: Take us to a corner of the world where sex and regret are so intimately entwined.
  2. The New York Times
    Reviewed by: Manohla Dargis
    80
    Gentle, bawdy and at times rambunctiously, ticklishly rude.
  3. Chicago Tribune
    Reviewed by: Michael Phillips
    75
    The theater building is a four-story monster, and by the end of the picture we know it very well, in all its broken-down glory.
  4. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    This isn't a family -- or a film -- you'll ­easily forget.

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  1. InstaFlicka
    6
    If you are not deeply committed to independent cinema or perhaps deeply into Asian pornography you won't like this film, but if you are... then I say give it a try. Serbis -- a Filipino film with subtitles -- tells the story of a three-generation family living in and running a rundown former family movie theater that now runs soft-core porn and caters to a largely homosexual and illicit crowd. The dark movie house is filled with prostitutes, johns and who knows what else. It is all very unseemly in a movie theater that is just as disgusting as the things that go on there. Throughout the theater there are signs that read â… Expand

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