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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Kalin is a very brave and honest filmmaker (and plenty astute), but his subject matter argues that some stories need not be told."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Peled's film allows us to realize damaged men and women at a vital stage in life, trying to raise a young family while at the same time being plagued by memories of evil beyond words."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film clearly intends to skewer our country and its "corrupt", "foolhardy", "hypocritical", "self serving" policies in Iraq, and maybe many of the lacerations are well earned, but War, Inc. reeks of generic Hollywood liberal grandstanding."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The climax of the film, the actual evacuation process, is utterly stunning and unforgettable."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Refusenik does not so much capture the moment as it does educate, however, with material so compelling and inspiring, a thorough education serves."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The cast performs gamely in this grim and gray affair, but with Stanford's words and dead end story, the actors never really stood a chance."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though Bartlett occasionally misfires, the trips and stumbles are made nearly irrelevant by the rampant innovativeness and ingenuity at hand."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film leaves us with the notion that music; sweet simple notes arranged in brilliant order, is one language where even Jews and Arabs can find harmony"
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The beauty of Live and Become is found essentially in one very specific place - the relationship between Solomon and his mothers."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Praying with Lior is a tremendously moving and invigorating film, but Lior's love for davening is minimally responsible."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Salita needs to train and prepare like any other fighter looking to break an opponent's nose in the first round, but all the while he spars with an adversary familiar to us all."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The action and drama related to the taking of the girl and the unraveling of the mystery are inarguably engrossing, but sometimes twists and turns that work on the page are drained of impact once put to screen."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Before the Devil Knows Your Dead is an insightful, incisive lesson in potential. Every frame oozes desperation and there is always a plan being concocted."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"All the pieces combined feel like nothing more than a barrage of exquisitely crafted names"
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Bangitout.com |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"No Country is not a film for weak, unsteady hearts."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Interesting, original, quality work."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film has its moments of purity and at times they are exquisite (they almost seem accidental in their innocence), but it is the story and its ultimate disingenuousness that overturns the cart."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Baumbach is not interested in weddings or preparations for weddings. He is not interested in much else but throwing his audience into the fire and giving us that dirty, nasty taste of family dysfunction in all its seething glory."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"She is a wonderful character in her own right. I'd watch a movie about her going to the movies. But Cody's conviction is to get Juno pregnant so I'll watch a movie about that."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One's enjoyment of Adam Shankman's motion picture will largely depend on one's tolerance for conflict-less, feel good musicals."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There seems to be no point to it all other than to craft an unsettling motion picture with some grisly close ups of throats being slit."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I dare you to sit through Waitress and not fall for Russell.Her face is open like a baby's and sculpted like a goddess'."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Mira Nair's film is called The Namesake which immediately focuses our attention toward the value of names and naming (and that theme is explored occasionally within the film), but to slip even further down the rabbit hole, the more intriguing area of disc"
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I felt as though I could have gathered the same information about Israel's beginnings from a pamphlet, and saved myself the film's forthright baggage"
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"While Portman does outshine everyone and everything on screen and though she certainly gets credit for making the résumé sacrifice in the spirit of embracing her heritage, Free Zone does nothing for her in return"
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Our wide eyed, angel faced chayalot drift hypnotized toward the center of the chaos and we realize that in Israel, there cannot be a movie about just regular teenage girls"
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An orthodox Jew will identify and thereby raise the level of the movie to something beyond the temporal film experience"
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Therein lies the persisting sentiment of guilt and fiendishness in trying to adequately talk about a film that portrays rather poignantly and starkly the suffering of Palestinians"
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"With The Good Night, like any worthwhile dream, you may not be able to fully appreciate the experience, but after you wake up, you vaguely sense that you accomplished something while being out"
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"What is evident by the film's conclusion is that our sincere and honest relationships with fellow men and women is what makes us human and great; not at all our connection to nature"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Pesky, durable John McClane manages to show up everywhere and anywhere a key criminal exercise is taking place."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Any story being told where the conclusion is anticipated and inevitable retains an enormous, likely insurmountable narrative disadvantage."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Illusionist is intent on maintaining a serious and sinister, yet serene temper allowing its four main characters to play off each other and explore their individual dynamic as each represents a different segment on the wheel of good and evil that is e"
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"While the film looks beautiful and the cinematography and staging by Xiaoding Zhao is as magnificent as ever, Curse of the Golden Flower is the weakest of the class (like being the worst student at Yale)."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Little Miss Sunshine is an example of a very nicely done small movie about family that is content and secure enough to deliver everything in a simple, straightforward way, all while being silly and implausible."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Little Children is a fable, complete with a full throated narrator and Aesopesque moral. It teaches its lesson almost like one that would be taught to children - with extreme scenarios and exaggerated characterizations."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The fact that someone was so inspired by our pathetic and pitiable inability to communicate with our fellow man to craft a film with that message and that message alone is noteworthy."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The danger with films like Catch a Fire is that it wields the past purposefully as propaganda without tipping off the audience."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"But dreams of fame evolve. And where once it would have just been enough to be recognized, it becomes apparent only later that this is not quite enough."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film builds very nicely and creates a provocative set up where the self-destructive teacher needs to hold it together for the sake of his students and his habit as best he can between fixes."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"As Idi Amin, Whitaker embodies the spirit of a smiling, deranged, murderous fool. Amin is a child with power and guns and a devastating to watch paranoia and inferiority complex."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Sunshine is the definitive Jewish Experience movie. Beautifully told with heartbreaking eloquence, it is mandatory viewing if one intends to understand what it means to be a Jew living in the world."
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"In Payne's overarching triumph, Sideways is a sensitive, to the point of disturbing, expose of love....love that can blossom with that high school hallway sweetness even in the withered garden of midlife."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Orin Boyd is a cop who "doesn't obey the rules" and although his boss considers him to be "one of the best", he must be transferred to one of the roughest precincts in town."
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"And so now, in the unambitious tradition of the eminent Natural Born Killers - comes the spectacularly underachieving 15 Minutes."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"After seeing spectacular epics like Tarzan, it is difficult to properly appreciate the mediocre, but entertaining Atlantis."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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" Shrek is amusing and charming and it stands on it's own, but it does not rival Disney's best and I'm not saying it needs to, but that simply is the bar."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Stiller portrays a human accident better than anyone and he definitely knows how to extort laughs and sympathy from his audience"
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The Mexican coasts along throwing at us double-agent/double-crossings intrigue, witty one-liners, and some evocative scenery."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The underlying premise of The Believer is simple and understandable to any one of us who have grown indifferent to many of the teachings we accepted with such naiveté, such open hopeful hearts throughout our early education."
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