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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Thanks to filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, the after effects of these 1-in-700,000-odds' strikes are brought into horrifically mesmerizing view and accompanied by a music track ... that magically reinforces the storytelling."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"... it's an important discussion of how life surprisingly unfolds."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Scott Sanders and his co-writers Michael Jai White and Byron Minns unrelentingly lampoon all manner of ghetto life clichés and cultural sacred cows."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The payoff combination of Karaoke unleashed, with its slinking lyrics spilling over archival footage of the riots (replete with half-step modulations) is unforgettable."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"An astonishing tradition of cruelty"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Taking a walk down Cheat Street"
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Adam Salky's entry into the coming of age genre ... tells the age-old story with a few interesting wrinkles."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The third installment of the Eating Out series is an engaging affair that is the most accomplished, balanced offering to date."
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JWR |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Never taking the easy way out, Five Minutes of Heaven digs down to the very core of twin hell-on-earth existences."
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Buried in the muck of despair"
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Thank goodness for the tracks"
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The abduction of innocent life"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Coming to grips with the sin of repression."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The flick slips by with enough enjoyable scenes to make it worth a peek."
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JWR |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bordering on peace."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Sex in the Cinema"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Then as now, the world recoils as the various documentations of those horrors become available for all who wish to see."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The cinema's insatiable appetite for all things vampire has just received a bloody musical helping of rock 'n' roll that aims for the jugular then doesn't let go."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Those willing to think for themselves, not in a rush for the dénouement and appreciate cinematographic narrative techniques will surely savour nearly every frame of director/co-writer Nuri Bilge Ceylan's ... exceptionally crafted tale of crime, corruption"
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JWR |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"... a new level of deep social commentary, frequently in danger of plunging over into the abyss of human foible and despair, finds its incredible resolution in a well-loved solo piano work (Debussy's "Clair de lune") ..."
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Like mother like son"
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A thoughtful history of on-colour humour."
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JWR |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Those who love to laugh will be rewarded many times over: Who knew that humping a lawn ornament, winning a fishing tournament with a snagged larynx or trying out for the last spot on the Frisbee all-star team would produce belly laughs on the first down?"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Whimsy of the highest order. More, please."
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JWR |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Unfortunately, the collaboration ends up looking wonderful but suffers from too many contradictions to make its very personal statements convincingly."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Rarely has the unholy alliance between Church and State been so succinctly delineated than in this detail-rich documentation of the near-daily ritual of purging the glorious state of Texas of its 'worst of the worst'."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The pawns of war"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Till life do us part"
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... imagine yourself as Chance when he finally gets to be himself, in front of family and friends, his arch enemy is humiliated and he gets a big wet one from the man of his dreams."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... 'Drowning your sorrows' takes on extra meaning as Hyeok-jin (a wonderfully naive performance by Sam-dong Song) is convinced by his boozing buddies that a change of scenery will mend his grieving heart."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... writer/director Hanan Peled has crafted a magnificent film that has as much to say about blind devotion and chronic denialism (ironically, on both sides of the Nazi persecution of the Jews) as the immediate and lingering effects of systemic ethnic cle"
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This homage to one of the world's most creative, impassioned artists paints a fascinating portrait of Derek Jarman's life through the filmmaker's most extensive on-camera interview and a letter of retrospection written and read by long-time collaborator a"
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Whether along for the ride of a fast-paced plot or savouring the spiritual/moral undertones, it's a film in which few will fail to find something to enjoy."
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JWR |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Director/screenwriter Micha Lewinsky's leap from shorts to feature is well-intentioned, has moments of promise but can't find enough originality or character development to lift it from the realm of OK to ah-ha!"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The best part comes right off the top as Juliet Wright sings and dances up a storm during the opening credits."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Tribute whets the appetite"
[dvd review] |
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JWR |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In search of the inner Jim"
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... Deepa Mehta turns her own Punjabi culture inside and out as this tale of arranged marriage moves from ceremonial joy through the willful blindness which spans the generational divide to the employment of myth, magic and fable ..."
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Death of a Terrorist"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Fending off the global repo man"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The result has some hilarious moments (the attack on the refrigerator drawer; brutally swift justice in dictator court), but can't shed its basic stand-up-and-decree-new-laws conceit ..."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"For his début feature, Pasion exhibits savvy understanding of the human experience, a wicked sense of humour and the ability to draw powerful performances from his cast."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The devil's in the steel mill."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Devotees and newcomers alike ought to get their fangs into this production for one simple reason: style."
[dvd review] |
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JWR |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Not even acting legends Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson could, er, rise above ... a script drowning in a tide of situation cliché, precious coincidence and more saccharine than a diabetics convention."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Dying to see the world"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... there's more than enough entertainment and self deprecation to fill theatres everywhere."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Six degrees of desperation"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Dying to find endless life"
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Rolling along the tracks of despair"
[movie review] |
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