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  • Genre: Horror, Suspense/Thriller
  • Release Date: 08/15/2008
  • Running Time: 110 mins
  • Director: Alexandre Aja
  • Cast: Kiefer Sutherland, Paula Patton, Ezra Buzzington, Erica Gluck, Amy Smart, Cameron Boyce, Mary Beth Peil, Tim Ahern, Julian Glover, Ioana Abur
  • Producer: Alexandre Aja, Grégory Levasseur, Alexandra Milchan, Marc Sternberg, Moritz von der Groebe
  • Writer: Joe Gangemi, Alexandre Aja, Gregory Levasseur, Jim Uhls, Kieran Mulroney, Michele Mulroney
  • Distributor: 20th Century Fox
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  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 mil, 441.6 mil
  2. Marley & Me, 24.3 mil, 106.7 mil
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 mil, 41.3 mil
  4. Bedtime Stories, 20.5 mil, 85.5 mil
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 mil, 71.0 mil
  6. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, 18.7 mil, 79.3 mil
  7. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 mil, 19.6 mil
  8. Valkyrie, 14.1 mil, 60.7 mil
  9. Step Brothers, 9.1 mil, 81.1 mil
  10. Yes Man, 13.9 mil, 79.5 mil
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Mirrors

Often kidded for the many times he bellows "Dammit!" at eleventh-hour moments on 24, Kiefer Sutherland finally gets to show his range—and he proves equally skilled at "Goddammit!" and "Shit!" Even so, it's a mystery why Sutherland attached himself to this dour, muddled thriller (copied from a Korean shocker) about a tormented ex-cop literally bedeviled by evil forces that use mirrors to stalk their prey. The demons have powers that wax and wane at whim, like wizards at the command of a 12-year-old Dungeonmaster—one moment they can yank apart someone's jaws, the next they can't even steer Sutherland's car into an oncoming truck. Fans of murky tedium will be in heaven: Apart from a few gory moments, French splatter maven Alexandre Aja (The Hills Have Eyes) directs on the principle that a movie cannot have enough scenes of someone creeping through dimly lit sets, although it gets a little livelier (and somehow even dumber) once the spirits invade the home of Sutherland's estranged wife (Paula Patton). Aja saves his one clever visual trick for the end, along with a Zabriskie Point finale full of slow-motion exploding glass. Maybe that's why the ungodly 110-minute running time feels like 47 years of bad luck. — Jim Ridley


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