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The critic on NPR Morning Edition (John DeFord?) is usually pretty good. I started paying attention to him when he absolutely nailed The Matrix. It was a really good review, but you could tell that 1) it wasn't what a critic would normall call a good movie and 2) there was something decidedly odd going on in it and 3) it would add nothing to the arguments over whether Keanu Reeves can act or not.
Now, I hate theatres, the 20 minutes of f*cking commercials, the overpiced food, no smoking, teeange girls on cell phones, suave urbanites having arguments with the screen, screaming children. I only ever go if it is something that Has to be seen on a very large screen. LOTR, f'rinstance. For that, I have found DeFord to be very useful indeed.
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