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Movie Review Roundup: Sept. 12

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Once Upon a Time in Mexico



A guitar-picking gunslinger
continues his cacophonous quest for revenge in director Robert Rodriguez’s
third and final El Mariachi bloodbath, a contemporary homage
to Sergio Leone’s 1960s spaghetti westerns. This blood-soaked epic
dazzles when the bodies pile up but confounds when the convoluted
plot kicks in.
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Cabin Fever



Five friends isolated
in a cabin contract a deadly flesh-eating virus and are forced to
fight the disease–or fight off their closest friends. Eli Roth’s
extremely disturbing and grotesque Cabin Fever is an artfully executed
horror picture with creative characters and a stimulating storyline
that will grip you from start to finish.
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Matchstick Men



When an obsessive-compulsive
con artist meets his 14-year-old daughter for the first time, it changes
his life forever.With an excellent cast and expert direction, Matchstick
Men
just may con you into having a rollicking good time. The bonus
is you won’t mind being "taken" at all.
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In Theaters
Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star



Dickie Roberts, a former
child star grown up into a 35-year-old has-been, decides to rent a
family for a month to experience the childhood he never had–and land
the part of a lifetime. Pathetic, no? Well it is…as a comedy, but it works on some level.
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Pirates of the Caribbean:
The Curse of the Black Pearl



Considering it is based on a Disney theme park attraction, Gore Verbinski’s film is surprisingly good, but it probably would not have been half as entertaining if it were not for Johnny Depp’s roguish Captain Jack Sparrow.
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