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Film Reviews by Grae Drake

Movie maven about town

Grae Drake

Grae Drake began her love affair with cinema as a wee bairn, as she spent every weekend corralling her friends over to the local cinema to see the latest flick. Soon, her hunger for film became ravenous when she starred as an extra in the short film Alexander the Grape, directed by her high school crush that she really, really wanted to impress (she failed, by the way, but she blames the script).

Having sat through everything from The Bicycle Thief to White Chicks, she remains a cinephile with varied tastes (although she has a special love for documentary, as she believes watching them takes the place of paying for grad school). Her undergrad was spent at the University of Texas at Austin, shooting, editing, and producing films that were honored at Sundance and the Directors Guild of America.

You can keep up with Grae at her movie review podcast The Popcorn Mafia, or on Twitter at twitter.com/popcornmafia.

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Showing all Grae's Reviews
Movie Title Rating Release Date
Drive 4.5 See this movie. NOW. 09/16/2011 Sep 16, 2011
Abduction 1.5 A lot of Lautner and nothing else 09/23/2011 Sep 23, 2011
Machine Gun Preacher 1.5 Hotel Rwanda it ain't 09/23/2011 Sep 23, 2011
Dolphin Tale 2.0 Inspiring but lacking porpoise. 09/23/2011 Sep 23, 2011
Killer Elite 3.0 Gave a judo chop to my cynicism. 09/23/2011 Sep 23, 2011
Moneyball 4.0 Oscarball. 09/23/2011 Sep 23, 2011
Weekend 4.5 Uplifting and Shirtlifting 09/23/2011 Sep 23, 2011
Dream House 0.5 Counting sheep is a bigger thrill. 09/30/2011 Sep 30, 2011
What's Your Number? 1.0 A big ole ZERO. 09/30/2011 Sep 30, 2011
Courageous 2.0 Preaching to the choir. 09/30/2011 Sep 30, 2011
Take Shelter 4.0 Took me by storm. 09/30/2011 Sep 30, 2011
50/50 4.5 Buy one ticket and thank me in the morning. 09/30/2011 Sep 30, 2011
Dirty Girl 2.0 Platforms as big as its heart. 10/07/2011 Oct 07, 2011
The Human Centipede 2: Full Sequence 2.0 The movie so nice they made it twice. 10/07/2011 Oct 07, 2011
The Ides of March 3.5 Clooney for Prez 10/07/2011 Oct 07, 2011
Real Steel 3.5 Real great. 10/07/2011 Oct 07, 2011
The Big Year 1.5 Ruffles no feathers. 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
Texas Killing Fields 1.5 Snoozing Fields 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
The Thing 2.0 Any “Thing” would be better. 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
Fireflies in the Garden 2.5 Makes you feel like a bug on a windshield. 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
Trespass 3.0 Like Funny Games, but funnier. 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
Footloose 3.5 A retread with sole. 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
The Skin I Live In 4.0 Who says movies with subtitles are boring? 10/14/2011 Oct 14, 2011
The Mighty Macs 1.0 You know the drill. 10/21/2011 Oct 21, 2011
The Three Musketeers 1.5 A remake for the Facebook generation. 10/21/2011 Oct 21, 2011