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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I got the feeling that shock, confusion, and even disgust greeted the misinformed Jewish patrons itching for rapture."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For a small movie trying to shoulder its way into the summer m ix, it could have been a hidden gem; either the most touching film of the season or the most pleasantly silly."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A Serious Man sheds light on a series of uniquely Jewish challenges, from agunot and uniformly bad noses, to anti-Semitism and the eternal struggle to define "What Hashem wants from us?""
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Bangitout.com |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"What The Unborn represents manages to be a thousand times more disturbing than anything Goyer captured with his pen or camera"
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Basically, with Watchmen, the filmmakers could not win."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For all the nightmarish scenes conceived as a creepy cross between Burroughs and Weisel, we don't receive the cathartic satisfaction typically related to the dramatization of Jewish tragedy."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"All the intense, pent up passion between Benjamin and Daisy which kept the film so taut and engrossing for an hour and a half is a mortifying drain once they unite and are free to express their devotion."
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Bangitout.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[Though] The Dark Knight is a film one can respect, it is very difficult to enjoy."
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Bangitout.com |
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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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"Much of it reminded me of those well-intentioned, ingenuously performed school Holocaust programs like Survivor and The Wall where the actors emote like it's a grand ole mitzvah."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"We must figure whether Beauvier's intentions are pure, whether her relentless pursuit of Father Flynn is rooted in virtue, fear, jealousy, or a troubling brew of all three."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"While the film is violent and decidedly tragic, the overall sensation of watching it is nothing you haven't experienced before with numerous films, from Death Warrant to Lock Up to Oz."
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not fair to ask the film to appeal to your somber, jaded adult sensitivities when the reason you fell in love with Indiana Jones in the first place was because it was the stuff of boyhood daydreams."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The only story that matters (in the larger sense) is that JCVD is a phenomenal achievement, and not despite the work of Van Damme, but thoroughly because of it."
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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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"Sean Penn must create something completely foreign to his understanding and sell it as if he felt Harvey Milk's struggle with every fiber of his being - and he does"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film and those like it are merely the reflection of ageing creative people in hopeless search for an elixir."
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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[The Reader] is positively goyish in its glassy eyed treatment of Jew killing, not that it aims to be anything more than an exercise in moral insurrection."
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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Revolutionary Road is content to be a powerful film about an ordinary troubled marriage; the kind taking place in a handful of houses on your block - perhaps even in your own."
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Bangitout.com |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It is as if we are constantly reminded that we do not drink from the fountain of real wisdom, but rather, with Slumdog Millionaire, it is just a movie, that it is most assuredly written."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"While the blogs and talking heads seem to be wrong-headedly preoccupied with issues of semantics and race, what I found to be the most authentically disturbing is Tropic Thunder's use of war and soldiering as basis for levity."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Rourke is convincing and honest, marvelous and touching, but he's not required to channel emotions that linger far and away from the man he has become."
[movie review] |
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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"
[movie review] |
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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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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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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"
[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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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"
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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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"
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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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3.5/4 |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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"
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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"
[movie review] |
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Bangitout.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Praying with Lior is a tremendously moving and invigorating film, but Lior's love for davening is minimally responsible."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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'."
[movie review] |
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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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