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May 4, 2012
At the Movies: Quoth ‘The Raven,' what a bore
By DAVID GERMAIN
AP Movie Writer
AP Movie Writer
What would Edgar Allan Poe be doing if he were alive today? Clawing at the inside of his coffin, desperate to get at the people who used and abused his ingenious, diabolical tales as the basis for the pile of cinematic bird poo that is “The Raven.”
| The Raven |
 Director: James McTeigue Cast: John Cusack, Alice Eve, Brendan Gleeson, Luke Evans Rating: R Running time: 110 minutes |
Like carrion feeders themselves, the filmmakers peck and gnash at Poe's stories to fill out a plot that sounds sort of cool in concept — a serial killer using the author's fiction as a blueprint for ghastly murders — but is featherheaded in execution.
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