Movie Reviews

We’re a hotheaded group of individuals. We crave a pull quote like anyone else, but it’s not about that. It’s only about you the reader. We love you. We want to take you home and cuddle with you. The following reviews are the opinions of the editors of CHUD.com and are by most accounts bang on.

REVIEW: EX, THE

The Ex feels like a sitcom. There’s a wacky workplace filled with kookie characters. There’s the heartwarming but stressful home life. There’s a zany neighbor kid who brings the cute but also a little bit of safe edge. And it stars Zach Braff and Jason Bateman, guys who are more familiar to us from their … Continue reading

REVIEW: 28 WEEKS LATER

Disasters bring out the best and the worst in people. You can step up to the moment and be a Hero, the guy who helps the crippled lady down the burning staircase. Or you can be the Villain, the guy who muscles women and children out of the lifeboat. In this decade we’ve been feeling … Continue reading

REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN 3 (RUSS’ TAKE)

Earl Dittman wins. He gets his name (even in small print) associated with a massive marketing push and we just get another lousy blockbuster. I’ll spend the next few hundred words explaining eactly why, but for the people who just read the first paragraph and skip to the score, here it is: Spider-Man 3 is … Continue reading

REVIEW: JINDABYNE

The small moral choices are the ones that fascinate me the most, because they’re the ones we all make. We don’t spend our time worrying about robbing a bank or murdering a spouse, but we do think about picking up that ten you saw fall from someone’s wallet or cheating on your wife just this … Continue reading

REVIEW: SPIDER-MAN 3

There’s a moment in Spider-Man 3 over halfway through the film where it becomes obvious that all involved parties realize they have nothing else to prove and simply let their figurative hair down and had some fun. Real fun. This isn’t a spoiler, but when the film enters Superman III territory and showcases a Peter … Continue reading

REVIEW: FRACTURE

There’s something so 1998 about a courtroom movie that hosts a supposed battle of wits between a crafty psychopath and an out-of-his-league-yet-still-somehow-capable young hotshot attorney. And the people bringing you Fracture have no problem with that. They’re banking on people wanting to relive the days when theaters were filled to the brim with simple, undemanding … Continue reading

REVIEW: TRIAD ELECTION

There are some pretty gnarly sights in Johnny To’s Election (most of ’em arrive in the massively disturbing final reel), but nothing in that complex, yet streamlined depiction of gangland politics could possibly prepare the viewer for the unthinkably grotesque set piece he pulls off in Triad Election‘s second act. And it isn’t that the … Continue reading

REVIEW: IN THE LAND OF WOMEN

When Jon Kasdan becomes a successful writer-director (and this seems a fait accompli with those writin’-directin’ genes), he’s going to look back on In the Land of Women and wince – not because it’s bad, but because it is so painfully earnest. The tragicomic tale of struggling screenwriter Carter Webb (Adam Brody) – who flees … Continue reading