The Cinefile

A File of Ryan Pratt's Movie Reviews

And attention-span-sensitive advice to see-it, buy-it, rent-it, wait-for-it, or skip-it.

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

White Christmas

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Rent-it - A typical overly-cheerful classic Christmas story starring Bing Crosby in a Vermont cabin where the holidays are almost always bla...

The Polar Express

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Buy-it - The children's book is a better version of this Christmas story, but the animation was groundbreaking at the time, and if you w...

Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale

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Rent-it - It is Black Christmas meets Bad Santa, a horror comedy that takes place on the eve of Christmas in northern Finland, where an ...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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Rent-it - The third in the series of National Lampoon's "vacation" films starring Chevy Chase's Griswold family may very w...

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

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Rent-it - Miracle on 34th Street is the quintessential heart-warming Christmas story that is even more touchingly beautiful in HD.

Kisses

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Rent-it - An Irish film finally getting it's much deserved worldwide theatrical release, follows two kids who run away from home on Chri...

It's a Wonderful Life

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Buy-it - This classic holiday film is my mom's all-time favorite, and one of the only movies you can (and maybe already do) watch every ...

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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Rent-it - The animated version of the Grinch is the better of the two (the other being Jim Carrey's live-action version) and is a annual...

Four Christmases

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Skip-it - Not even Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn can sweeten this sour holiday comedy about an happily unmarried couple (not be confuse...

Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas

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Skip-it - The perfect casting of Jim Carrey as the Grinch is the only "rentable" part of this film - but the visuals are rather st...

Christmas Tale

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Rent-it - A foreign film about an interesting and maddening French family during the holidays.

A Charlie Brown Christmas

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Rent-it - Another classic Christmas film that you could catch on all the major networks post-Thanksgiving, but is worth a look on Blu-ray th...

Year One

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Rent-it - I didn't think this had a shot at beating The Hangover for the best comedy of the year, but Harold Ramis strikes comic gold ag...

Yogi Bear

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Skip-it - Whether you are on team Boo-Boo (voiced by Justin Timberlake) or team Yogi (voiced by Dan Aykroyd), the only thing more terrible a...

You Again

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Skip-it - Kristen Bell will never look hotter than she does standing next to Jamie Lee Curtis and Sigourney Weaver in this less-than-average...

You Don't Know Jack

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Rent-it - Al Pacino is Dr. Jack Kevorkian, the man who aided the suicide attempts of over 100 terminally ill patients, and though this film ...

Youth in Revolt

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Rent-it – Michael Cera's expected style and humor are transformed when his own character in the film takes on a "cooler" Holde...

9

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Rent-it - Besides being unable to connect with these strange creatures, this film has everything you want in a movie, including some spectac...

500 Days of Summer

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Rent-it - Rarely do you find a romantic comedy that feels like it could actually happen to you, but 500 Days of Summer plays out like every ...

41-Year-Old Virgin Who Knocked Up Sarah Marshall and Felt Superbad About It

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Skip-it - Skip this spoof of Judd Apatow comedies about an older virgin who attempts to "score" with some help from his horny frie...

2012

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Skip-it - Even visually 2012 is nothing special, with effects like the things you saw in The Day After Tomorrow and even Independence Day.

2 Fast 2 Furious

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Skip-it - Too terrible.

17 Again

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Rent-it - The story has been done a hundred times before but never this well, and never this funny.

127 Hours

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Rent-it - James Franco is the infamous outdoorsman Aron Ralston who famously got trapped under a boulder while on one of his solo adventures...

12 Rounds

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Skip-it - If you are looking for an onslaught of action you've found it. Hoping for a logical, interesting plot? The WWE has better stor...
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