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THIS WEEK'S REVIEWS: MARCH 23

300_small The following films were reviewed this week at Guess the Gross:

Casino Royale (2006)

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Posted on March 22, 2007 at 11:45 PM in Film, Reviews | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)

While we here at GTG wait to watch the movies with you guys, many other critics are already having their say on the new movies this weekend. According to our friends at Rotten Tomatoes , it’s a pretty rotten weekend. I’m a big fan of Chris Rock and I loved the trailer for his new romantic dramedy I Think I Love My Wife but early takes are pretty bad. As of this Thursday morning the film has a positive rating of just 17%. Ouch.

Emmanuel Levy calls the film bland and tedious. Lisa Schwartzbaum of Entertainment Weekly says the film is tonally challenged. Of the few positive takes, Richard Roeper of Ebert and Roeper fame says the film shows promise for Rock’s future as a writer-director. Is that what you call damning with faint praise?

It could be worse. Rock could be getting the reviews that Sandra Bullock is getting for her new thriller Premonition. The film has a positive rating of just 10%. with just two positive reviews, and Nathan Lee’s snark-tastic review in the Village Voice is only positive in an ironic hipster sort of way. For the moment, Premonition is on target to be one of the worst reviewed films of the year.

I would give you a sense of what critics think of Dead Silence but like James Wan and Leigh Whannell’s Saw pictures, their latest horror thriller is going unseen by critics.

Will reviews affect any of the new releases at the box office? For Chris Rock, urban audiences tend to not care about reviews, hence the success of Tyler Perry’s critically-reviled successes; however, they might affect the film’s crossover potential. As for Premonition, reviews might take a bite out of Sandra Bullock’s latest. The film definitely wants to reach an older female audience. Unfortunately, older audiences are the ones who tend to listen to critics.

Dead Silence is critic proof and though the film’s marketing campaign has been shockingly weak, horror audiences tend to show up giving the film a shot at solid numbers regardless of critics not getting an early look.