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1/5 |
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(2003) |
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"21 Grams thrashes wildly...exhorting us to feel something. Apart from the fleeting satisfaction of its structural parlor game, I felt little...save exhausted boredom."
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"a wild cocktail of campy, gory fun"
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"deft and stylish"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(1977) |
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"The first half...is some of Altman's best stuff. The second half downgrades into rather pretentious and dithering malarkey"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Apatow's sex comedy...hits its stride eventually, and keeps us rooting for it...thanks to its honesty and sweetness"
[movie review] |
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Perihelion Journal |
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3/5 |
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(1941) |
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"Syrupy political sentiments aside, 49th Parallel is still a worth a look as a niftily crafted action-adventure of the period."
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a nicely played but all-too-preciously eccentric romance"
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Cinema Writer |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"If only [Cerda's] storytelling and filmmaking techniques were on par with his compelling subject matter, The Abandoned might have been a horror movie worth screaming about."
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie's rewards outpace its flaws by a mile and give us another reason to follow the career of a gifted young lead actor."
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"I hereby declare a moratorium on any such filmmakers entering India in hopes of preventing any further culturally condescending journeys into the white man's heart of darkness."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"All Gordon Green can manage are...dreamy images, blunt-edged characters and dialogue, splattered like so-much Cheese Whiz over a shapeless mess of a pseudo-poetic narrative."
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Cinema Writer |
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4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"A vulgar, crassly funny, tender, always affectionate nostalgia trip, Fellini style."
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Cinema Writer |
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It gets the mood right, but never slows enough to explore its rich, existential landscape--the cynical, ultimately humanist, musings at the heart of Pekar's comic manifestos."
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A waste of cinema, and of precious time."
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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3.5/4 |
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(1969) |
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"A strange and most challenging film"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"flat and simplistic"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A tedious dud that sparks once or twice with big laughs"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"gravely calls into question Towne's current abilities as both a screenwriter and director."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The Aviator feels like old-fashioned Hollywood with a bracing jolt of Scorsese's cinematic flair"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Awake manages a weak pulse for a time but dies ultimately in its makers' hands."
[movie review] |
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Offensive to all and on every level, Badland tops the landfill of this year's worst."
[movie review] |
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"pleasing to the eye but not to the heart or the soul"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/5 |
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(2003) |
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"...jerkily paced, dramatically obvious, and seems penned by a self-serious 16-year-old"
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"can't decide how irreverent it wants to be, and settles for a neither-here-nor-there attitude that, luckily, scores with a few genuine laughs"
[movie review] |
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Jaman.com Jaman |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"It's passable entertainment that our culture has wildly overrated."
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Cinema Writer |
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4/4 |
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(1966) |
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"what really resonates on watching Algiers is its message about the widespread loss of civilian life and the staggering destruction to civic infrastructure as the heaviest costs of war"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[a] charming, intelligent romance"
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"an impressive cross-cultural achievement for director-cinematographer Sivan"
[movie review] |
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Jaman.com Jaman |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"As a pop-culture parlor game for fans...Behind the Mask scores. Otherwise, it's a shaggy dog story, enlivened by Baesel and Wilson's terrific performances."
[movie review] |
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"its irresistible charms and performances are what linger and make Beckham a popcorn, er, samosa flick worth savoring."
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Kevin Spacey's dedication is clear, both in his performance as Darin and in his wonderful direction"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Blithely confuses a “possession” story, laced with unsavory sexual undertones, for a daring take on Eastern spiritualism."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1915) |
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"a masterpiece that still packs a punch and whose standard-bearing genius remains untarnished."
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Zatoichi triumphs where few movies dare to tread"
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"in a storytelling strategy rare for [Zwick],we don't find ourselves laden with didactic demands, but, instead, swept up in an exciting narrative, free to process its moral equations on our own"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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3/4 |
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(1955) |
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"a generally absorbing and sometimes funny look at the capricious nature of Luck"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In spots, the movie can be hysterical. But, for the most part, its appeal is not unlike that of a veteran rock band putting on a greatest hits concert."
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"documentary activism at its most galvanized, charged with action and, while often emotional, never bogged down with dewy-eyed sentimentalism"
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"von Trier is just too self-absorbed a filmmaker, too much "the boss of it all" to allow for anything as anarchic and joyful as a screwball comedy to bloom from this material"
[movie review] |
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"[a] thoroughly safe, slow-footed comedy"
[movie review] |
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Jaman.com Jaman |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"a satisfying conclusion...to this intelligent series"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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2/5 |
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(1992) |
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"misguided and ludicrous"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Brick is just an elaborate noir send-up, and an enjoyably kooky one at that"
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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(2004) |
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"Bright Young Things lacks free-spiritedness and bite."
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A gallery of worthy performances, crisp direction and a quietly graceful script make Brokeback Mountain something of a landmark in Hollywood's 2005 slate of movies."
[movie review] |
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Cinema Writer |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Bubba Ho-Tep tries ineffectually to be both a lyrical character study and a darkly satirical horror flick."
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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1.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"staggeringly clueless"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A staggering miscalculation."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"a loving tribute to a writer, his craft and, above all, the idea of living and dying by one’s own creed"
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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" Fever packs its share of jolts and none-too-shabby black humor, both worthy of a place alongside Romero"
[movie review] |
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Los Angeles Alternative |
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