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'2.75/5' |
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"The film is almost patronizing in its immutable bleakness."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The audience learns everything [director] Loktev is willing to reveal about her central character within the first 20 of her 94-minute film."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The film's resolutions are either too facile or too vague."
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2.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"One way to look at this movie is as an elegantly acted, art-house woman's picture."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"The point of view will be familiar from the news and documentaries, but conveyed more subtly than, say, Michael Moore's Fahrenheit 9/11 or Robert Greenwald's Uncovered: The War on Iraq."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Not a line of the pungent dialogue is wasted. Beneath the quasi-documentary veneer lies a well-written screenplay."
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2.75/5 |
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(1972) |
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"Like a psychedelic and bloody Lana Turner vehicle, Death Walks at Midnight is easily the most entertaining of NoShame's recent releases of '70s giallos."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"If the blogosphere makes hay from the fact that Radcliffe goes beyond first base in this film, the robotic storytelling will deflate any curiosity."
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'2.75/5' |
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(2005) |
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"What follows during an assembly plant inspection is a more specific exposé on outsourcing in the developing world than last year’s fact-filled The Corporation."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Not only is this an incredible saga of Jack London proportions, it's also a great detective tale."
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3/5 |
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(1919) |
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"With her bee-stung lips and exaggerated swivel, [Mae] Murray's the precursor to Betty Boop."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Though film buffs will like the many references, the story takes a back seat to the visuals, and images, no matter how sensational, can only carry a film so far."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Count on the first tear to fall by the 55-minute mark."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"By far, the first half is the most effective as the outing goes from bad to disastrous: Sarah [Shauna Macdonald] gets trapped in a tunnel ("Just keep breathing!"), and the rest are lost - this film is not for the claustrophobic."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"It is filled with feeling and far from sentimental or cloying, with a beautiful score enhancing the melancholia."
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Johnston's story may seem like another '80s cultural footnote, but just when you think ... you've seen it all, another fascinating chapter in his eventful life comes along."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"An extended skit on The Carol Burnett Show with fleeting full frontal nudity."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It’s the didactic dialogue... and the plot contrivances... that might produce snickers."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A small-scale film on a grand-sized canvas: director Julian Schnabel and his cinematographer, Janusz Kaminski, meet the challenge of adapting ... Bauby's 1997 memoir."
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"As the core character, Kidman delivers a restraint performance, undercutting the script’s didacticism and literal mindedness.
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1.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It's all talk and very little action. And unfortunately, most of the talk consists of thesis statements disguised as dialogue."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Shanley's play would seem ideally suited for the scrutiny of a camera. But if anything, the film feels less nuanced, bulldozed by Streep's take-no-prisoner performance."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Downfall straightforwardly depicts Hitler's last days as not to offend."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"For adults, its charms eventually wear thin, but there are enough loud special effects and scary sequences to hold the attention of its preteen audience."
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3/5 |
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(1919) |
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"This disc offers two silent films of America's first Asian film star, both with memorably melodic musical scores."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The film rehabilitates the duchess, sanitizing her behavior"
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