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Xx Yy Zz THE X-FILES: I WANT TO BELIEVE (Chris Carter) 3/10 'Wow... The X-Files is dead to me now' X-MEN (Bryan Singer) 7/10 'Finally! A comic book movie that takes the concept seriously!' X-MEN II (Bryan Singer) 8/10 'Powerful follow-up' X-MEN 3: THE LAST STAND (Brett Ratner) 5/10 'Mildly satisfying result but vastly inferior to it's predecessors' X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE (Gavin Hood) 3/10 'A bloated, misguided mess that wasted a prime opportunity to further explore a very interesting character' X-MEN: FIRST CLASS (Matthew Vaughn) 9/10 'Better than I could have expected, better than I could have imagined and I would even go so far as to say better than any X-Men adaptation to date' YEAR ONE (Harold Ramis) 4/10 'Insultingly trite and lacking comedic release' YES MAN (Peyton Reed) 6/10 'Good opening, crummy close. This should have been rated R and pushed the envelope of what agreeing to everything holds for the unsuspecting' YOU DON'T MESS WITH THE ZOHAN (Dennis Dugan) 5/10 'Better than Sandler's recent attempts but still sub par' THE YOUNG VICTORIA (Jean-Marc Vallee) 7/10 'Fantastic period drama marred largely by a terribly rushed finale' YOUTH IN REVOLT (Miguel Arteta) 6/10 'There are a great deal of positive elements here that contribute to create a unique teenage comedy but all-in-all there are simply too many derivative factors that hold the whole film back' ZACK & MIRI MAKE A PORNO (Kevin Smith) 6/10 'Hilarious in places, stupid in others' ZATHURA (Jon Favreau) 6/10 'Not as fun as Jumanji, but wholesome family fun' ZODIAC (David Fincher) 7/10 'Wonderful case-based detective thriller' ZOMBIE STRIPPERS! (Jay Lee) 1/10 'An exploitation relic of the seventies with some of the worst 'acting' I've seen in a long time. Are you at all surprised I hated this film?'