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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The measured tone, though understatedly indignant regarding the miscarriage of justice, will likely draw viewers into the conversation."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Saddest Music is like a Saturday Night Live spoof that has a promising beginning, but doesn’t know how to end."
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2.25/5 |
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(2002) |
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"[Director] Tavernier takes his time in capturing this time period – at the expense of a concise narrative and often the viewer’s interest."
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'2.75/5' |
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(2005) |
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"Both a valentine to [Liv] Ullmann and a star-making film debut for [Julia] Dufvenius"
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3.25/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The Plastics in Mean Girls don’t stand a chance against Saved’s Mandy Moore as the duplicitous Hilary Faye."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The confrontational family dinner features archetypes that would have been at home on Dallas."
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3.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Before you scoff at yet another benevolent look at a family straddling two cultures, Kechiche subtly subverts the genre."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"With plenty of girl-on-girl action, this is the movie that photographer David Hamilton would love to make."
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3.5/5 |
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(1964) |
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"Germi shares with Billy Wilder a similar cynical tone matched with stellar storytelling."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"With its opening sequence - a hilarious flashback to happier times when all the adults made nocturnal whoopee like clockwork - Doctor Lewis climaxes way too soon."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Although the plot remains essentially the same, little else is left of Cooper's original story, as the film's title implies, and the results are anything but magical."
[movie review] |
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School Library Journal |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Forget the politics, bawdy humor wins out."
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"[A] continuously startling film"
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Shortbus is perhaps the most wittily and gleefully performed feature film to contain actual sex scenes."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"For ... those who have been away from the Great White Way, it will be like reading a whole season's worth of Playbills."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"More Cavalleria Rusticana than Gomorra."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Performed with subtlety and offering no pat resolutions"
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4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Hands down the most heart-rending French film to be released in the U.S. in the last year."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Sir! No Sir! is a reminder of Fonda's star power, past and present ... her charisma and zeal haven't mellowed a bit."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"By focusing on the enforcement of [women's] rights, Sisters in Law at least offers solutions and well-justified hope.
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This is the real Art School Confidential."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[Drake's] music and the picturesque footage of the English countryside dominate the documentary... creating an irresistible pull for Anglophiles."
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4/5 |
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(1959) |
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"Don't expect [Tony Curtis] to be invited to the Actors Studio any time soon."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This modest but amicable tale has more depth and more spirit than many films twice its length."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Based on her painfully vulnerable performance, don't be surprised when the promising [Abbie] Cornish joins Hollywood's pool of Aussie ex-pats."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"As raw and a flight of adolescent fancy as Saturday Night Live's "Lazer Cats!" skits."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The story is so well told that the symbolism supports rather than sustains the plot."
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2.75/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Straightforwardly scripted, it's not difficult to imagine this earnest and conventional retelling as if it were an original Playhouse 90 production.
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2.75/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The episodic L’auberge Espangnole is like a younger and European version of Friends."
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2.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Fans of the books will be pleased with the film version, which is equally as action packed and fast paced. It's doubtful they will begrudge the story changes."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Visually arresting, Baek Dong Hyun’s cinematography will stay with you even as the film’s facile moral lessons fade away."
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'3.5/5' |
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(2005) |
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"[Jeff Daniels] and the rest of the cast play their roles with uncommon ease."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"As played by Crudup with a high-pitched, faltering voice, [Ned] Kynaston's actual gender is never in question."
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2.25/5 |
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(2004) |
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"As the film speeds along, the portrayal of Stander becomes soulless. His motivations are drowned out by the screeching gateways."
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3/5 |
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"It would be hard to imagine a more eclectic box set."
[dvd review] |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Matthew Vaughan's movie version of Neil Gaiman's 1999 Stardust actually attempts to broaden the characters -- when you wish he would just get on with the story."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Lying beneath all of these colloquialisms is an amicable 1980s coming-of-age romp."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"As comforting, a bit hokey, and predictable as a CBS Sunday Night Movie, this intimate film should play well on television."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"endlessly fascinating"
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'2/5' |
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(2007) |
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"The plot is never overwrought, but it never fully ripens either, mostly because of some of the actors' self-consciousness and the stop-and-go pace."
[movie review] |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The title could refer not only to the lead character, but also to the film itself."
[movie review] |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This blunt and methodical chamber-piece thriller, filled with deceptively lazy afternoons, has the seductive and flinty heart of a Ruth Rendell novel."
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4.5/5 |
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(1950) |
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"Many of its featurettes ... benefit hugely from the participation of co-star Nancy Olson."
[dvd review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.75/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[Spurlock’s] like a jovial frat boy bingeing on burgers instead of beer."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This is the real A Prairie Home Companion. You can practically hear Garrison Keillor's voice as an implicit narrator."
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Film-Forward.com |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Paltrow provides the depth that the script lacks, making a lot from very little."
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