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In 1998, Berge "JoBlo" Garabedian founded JoBlo.com. His film reviews generally critiqued movies from the perspective of an average movie-goer. The site eventually hired other critics to write reviews. Garabedian wrote more than 1,400 reviews as the site's main critic, until health problems forced
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