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1. www.rogerebert.com › reviews › detention-movieDetention movie review & film summary (2021) | Roger Ebert

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   Oct 8, 2021 · But his ghost story never quite materializes from its uncanny ether. “Detention” stays trapped there, at an alienating distance—which is cumulatively frustrating, though it perhaps fits a film about a period marked most by violent suppression and terrible silence. Now playing in theaters. Mystery. Horror.

2. variety.com › 2020 › film'Detention' Review: Glossy Taiwanese Historical Horror - Variety

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   Mar 12, 2020 · John Hsu‘s “Detention” is designed to address that lack in a populist format: the film is an ambitious, if not entirely successful mix of haunted-house horror, monster movie, love story ...

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   • Detention ( 2011) Film Review, a movie directed by Joseph Kahn and starring Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson, Walter Perez, Erica Shaffer, Parker Bagley, and Alison Woods.

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   • Detention was a film that referenced its genres and numerous other films with a freshness that has alluded the last three Scream films and the last four Scary Movie films. There were so many 80’s and 90’s references in Detention that the film was almost congested with them.

   Film Review: DETENTION (2011): Joseph Kahn, Josh Hutcherson

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   • Nonetheless, the absorbing and entertaining “Detention” works well enough as a primer on a traumatic period of history, and as a story of semi-supernatural salvation for sins past, that it earns its surprisingly moving final moments, and even its heavily on-the-nose exhortation to modern-day Taiwan to remember and honor its ghosts.

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   Is 'detention' a cult movie?

   • Detention is easily the kind of hyper, overbearingly referential teen flick that could garner a cult following among audiences (read: teens). They could easily look past the exhaustive jumbling of genres and sheer number of inside jokes.

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4. www.grimoireofhorror.com › the-banshee › detentionDetention (2011) Film Review - grimoireofhorror.com

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   Aug 30, 2023 · Additionally, the movie also earns bonus points for certain deep-cut, slasher historical references that pop up. In conclusion, Detention moves at a fast pace. The talented, young cast is up for whatever their characters’ complex arcs call for. Shanley Caswell deserves recognition for her role as Riley. While audiences could get lost in the ...

5. www.commonsensemedia.org › movie-reviews › detentionDetention Movie Review | Common Sense Media

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   Despite all of Detention's crude gore, substance use, and sex jokes, the filmmakers do challenge the audience with some interesting ideas about popular culture.All of the movie's excessive self-referential humor and commentary forces media-savvy audiences to consider just how predictable and formulaic teen slasher flicks have been in recent movie history.

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   • Director: Joseph Kahn

   • Author: Sandie Angulo Chen
   • Produce Company: Samuel Goldwyn Company

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7. www.vulture.com › 2012 › 04Movie Review: Detention Is a Future Cult Classic

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   Apr 13, 2012 · Detention seems expressly designed for cult status and is certain to achieve it. And it works, for the most part, insofar as a film so determined not to work in all the usual ways can gel.

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8. thecriticalcritics.com › movie_review-detentionMovie Review: Detention (2011) - The Critical Movie Critics

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   It’s because his creation is nothing more than a bad hybrid of the overused teen slasher movie (“Scream,” “Friday the 13th,” “Final Destination,” take your pick) mixed in with elements from flicks like “Judy Moody and the Not Bummer Summer,” “The Breakfast Club,” “Back to the Future,” “Saw” and other better ...

9. film-book.com › film-review-detention-2011-josephFilm Review: DETENTION (2011): Joseph Kahn, Josh Hutcherson

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   Apr 14, 2012 · Detention ( 2011) Film Review, a movie directed by Joseph Kahn and starring Josh Hutcherson, Dane Cook, Shanley Caswell, Spencer Locke, Aaron David Johnson, Walter Perez, Erica Shaffer, Parker ...