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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"...a dispirited affair and often feels like a parody — a decidedly self-serious one — of one of Bertolucci or Pasolini’s boundary-pushing offerings from the ‘70s"
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3.5/4 |
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(1971) |
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"a bloody, rip-roaring good time"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The Machinist, in terms of its gimmicky, save-the-conceit structure, is a bit like the self-consciously clever Memento but not even half as fun."
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Perihelion Journal |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Wood's story-world details are rendered beautifully, but without a framework to hang them on"
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Ainouz’ script and style seem unwilling to explore below the surface. He embraces the story’s physical details...without revealing much of his subject’s soul."
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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1/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a simple-minded circle jerk about exploitation, peopled by characters without the least bit of originality, vitality or appeal"
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Laconte's direction is calculative all the way, but his telling fails to register very much"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"utterly fresh and appealing from start to finish"
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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4/4 |
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(1962) |
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"With spry editing and camerawork, [Frankenheimer] fuses together a documentary-like realism and more expressive stylizations to create a hybrid thriller-satire"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This humorless and nonsensical so-called thriller--a total misread of Frankenheimer's classic original--never quite engages..."
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"plays like a high-end Discovery Channel special, but it's compelling and beautiful just the same"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"From one part of the world to another, Maria Full of Grace swirls with movement and stirs us with its torrents of feeling."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2006) |
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"It's as fast and loud as you'd expect, but where it catches you off-guard is in its breathtaking stupidity."
[movie review] |
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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4/5 |
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(1966) |
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"This is take-no-prisoners cinema by an artist too honest to exempt himself from its scalding gaze."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"fabulous"
[movie review] |
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Jaman.com Jaman |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Brosnan's sleazy, broken-spirited hitman Julian Noble nabs the spotlight in Richard Shepard's generally pleasing comic thriller"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There's no ground here that Allen hasn't gone over before, but...as a thriller, it's compulsively watchable and generally well acted"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"a Dante-esque descent into a distinctly American form of Hell"
[movie review] |
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The script manages a few compelling characters, but the rest falls into that non-descript Troubled Teenager category."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1973) |
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"showcases Scorsese's artistic strengths and weaknesses as they stood at the outset of his career"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(1969) |
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"a quintessential late-60s time capsule piece"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"An entertaining and penetrating look at the creative process"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's filled with so much vitality...that one comes away admiring the filmmaking while feeling deeply touched, even inspired, by the fiery life at the film's center."
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Keys succeeds in limning an engaging portrait of an artist and mentor who's spent a lifetime affirming the power of art to inform and delight, and, if he can help it, effect positive social change."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"From the outset, the movie bumbles into genre territory inhabited by superior specimens"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A dollop of Saving Private Ryan, a dash of Letters from Iwo Jima, and a sprinkle of Italian neorealism characterize the style and sentiment of Miracle at St. Anna."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a disaster"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Its plodding, sporadically effective script may not entice much, but it finds a haunting eloquence thanks to Theron’s lacerating, career-defining performance.
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[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3/5 |
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(1979) |
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"ludicrous but enjoyable hooey"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For those of us attuned to the punched-up presentation of The Amazing Race and Survivor, built week by week to maximize human drama and suspense, Morning Light is just reality lite."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Garcia Bernal and de la Serna offer heartfelt, charismatic performances which...give Diaries its simple, enduring appeal."
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"so threadbare in offering character motivations and background that it hobbles the performances"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"90 minutes of wheezing emotional flare-ups, played with such straight-faced sobriety that I wanted to slap these people and tell them all to lighten up"
[movie review] |
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I.E. Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Spielberg described Munich as his 'prayer for peace,' yet his movie strangely lacks the eloquence and yearning of a prayer."
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"a triumph of filmmaking: of structure, character development, and pacing"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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2/4 |
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(1971) |
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"a gorgeously filmed exercise in smug depravity"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(1962) |
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"truly exhilarating"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"a bizarre, beguiling coming-of-age drama"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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