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Unclean! Unclean!: Reverse Shot's 11 Offenses of 2010

Now’s the time of year when we piss people off. And trust us, though our annual 11 Offenses column (oh, how we could go higher than 11…) incites the angriest mail and message board postings we get, we do not do this for attention (completely). We genuinely hated sitting through these movies. When they receive nothing but accolades, it only makes our ire grow stronger. Though some claim these articles are oppositional, even opportunistic, we prefer to think of them as vital correctives. Our picks have stood the test of time thus far: looking back at past 11 Offenses columns, we must say we have no regrets (anyone who still thinks Slumdog Mill...

Chloe

robbiefreeling: So.... Egoyan.brotherfromanother: Yes.robbiefreeling: The greatest Canadian filmmaker ever.brotherfromanother: He is, according to a new book on The Adjuster, a "poet of uncertainty."robbiefreeling: Which, you pointed out to me right before his new film Chloe commenced, can only be some sort of euphemism.brotherfromanother: Yes. Though I am hardly "uncertain" about what to make of Chloe: in short, it may be the most anti-hooker movie ever made.robbiefreeling: Or anti-woman. Yet, I guess, 6 of one, half a dozen of another....brotherfromanother: All I know is that between Seyfried's clingy sapphic/incestuous predations and Julia...

The Cream of the Crap: Reverse Shot's 11 Offenses of 2009

Why do we put ourselves through it? Why relive those moments and movies that made us question our very livelihood? As usual, the most puerile, rancid films largely were not tepid genre flicks or bloat-budgeted blockbusters but prestige pictures with inflated senses of their own (nonexistent) importance and cynical, audience-baiting hits that commentators and mindless critics like to claim really "tapped into the zeitgeist." So, here it is, our annual 11 Offenses column, which never fails to make our most devoted haters froth at the mouth and spout ad-homonym attacks on our character: “Why don’t you go out and make a movie yourselfs if you thi...

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