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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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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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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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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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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"
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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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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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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"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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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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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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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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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."
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Elia Suleiman is a talented man who made a striking film to voice the sorrows of his people and there are sorrows to be lamented, but his film is drawn from an ugliness and intellectual dishonesty that besmirches any lesson that could possibly be extracte"
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The development of a "relationship" between Nomi and Negist is the soul of the movie and in some ways it is its greatest drawback."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Go see The Shape of Things, a peculiarly acted, nasty caper, and decide for yourself whether we are being set up by LaBute with a manipulative device or if he is speaking to our frailties and telling truths."
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Bangitout.com |
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"When the Daum's return from Israel, in one of the most impactful scenes, the boys sit with their maternal grandfather, an old wrinkled Jew with a short white beard, and ask him why he never tried to contact the Polish farmer who selflessly saved his life."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"However, between Delpy, Hawke, and Linklater, a script was born and once again the couple meets, this time in Paris, this time for far fewer hours (and in real time)."
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Mr. Gibson has plucked at the rawest of nerves yet I cannot blame him. He is expressing himself through the medium of film and using the text of his bible as the basis."
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film, which means well in its attempt to touch on Kantian philosophy, racial divides, sex and orthodoxy, and secularism versus religion, manages to insult each one of these heavy subjects by not giving any of them the serious, thoughtful attention the"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"even with all the strange impractical goings on, as with all in this recent string of popular entertainment culled from authentic orthodoxy, there are moments of sheer breathtaking joy that elevate the spirit of a Jew by speaking to their core.
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[movie review] |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"While the comedy is at times sharp but mainly chaotic in that frenzied European style, it seems the filmmakers actually intended to make a statement about Jews, Arabs, and the possibility that love can out maneuver politics and overcome unimaginable histo"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In a time where the youth of this nation are fighting and dying to defend this country, the film argues that each one of us can be super under the right circumstance."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Gaudi Afternoon is mostly dream, part nightmare, and part morality play surrounding the concept of mothering a young girl."
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Gigli isn't the equivalent of cracking a whippit, but it is irredeemably flawed"
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