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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As a champion for the beautiful and the strange, I'll take bottom-shelf Korine over just about anything else currently playing in theaters."
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(1997) |
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"We still await the definitive DVD release of Lost Highway, a film crying out for rediscovery."
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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"It's pensive male anxiety, and for some cultural reason it's easier for audiences to accept female hysteria than the insecurities of men."
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(1988) |
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"See the Baron dance with Venus! See a man outrun a speeding bullet! See the beautiful, mad fiasco that is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen%u2014see it if you dare!"
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2.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Making your way through the film is like eating an entire beautifully sculpted wedding cake."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Alternately terse and elegiac, Shotgun Stories works best when it observes the lives of its main characters, three lower-class brothers from southeast Arkansas."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Brisk, peppy, light on its feet, and trying awfully hard to be reminiscent of a fast-talking Depression-era rags-to-riches comedy, the film can be best described as inoffensive."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's mind-numbingly tedious, perhaps because the rhythm, the plot, even the seemingly indestructible veteran secret service agent Barnes seem lifted wholesale from any random episode of 24."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The lazy regard for David's moral crisis, or lack thereof, is pitiful."
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(1987) |
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"One of the greatest and most representative movies of the 1980s is still able to ironically laugh at the savagery and stupidity happening in our world right now."
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4/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Walker is the dark, neurotic flipside of Repo Man, where the antiheroic title character is not interested in any form of individual self-expression other than a single-minded pursuit of fame and glory."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Chicago 10 is a reminder of a time when the counter-culture was out on the street making noise--a history lesson so removed from our present political climate it feels almost like science fiction."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Some filmmakers do their best work when they don't have much money and their back is against the wall."
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(1972) |
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"Don't watch the trailer on the extras, because like so many of these low-budget shockers it shows all the best parts in advance, so why bother watching the rest? Then again, maybe that's not such a bad idea."
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1.5/4 |
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(1972) |
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"Tragic Ceremony isn't scary enough to induce terror, unintentionally funny enough for camp, or bizarre enough for mad surrealism."
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(1973) |
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"Ricco the Mean Machine is a throwback to when men could smack women around if they talked back too loud. In other words, it has a broad appeal to cultural anthropologists, ironic hipsters, bad movie buffs, and chauvinist pigs."
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2/4 |
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(1973) |
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"If you're feeling nostalgic for some 1970s Euro-sleaze, Ricco the Mean Machine is a guilty pleasure for stoners eager to revisit the land of shag carpeting, bellbottoms, and free love."
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3/4 |
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(1985) |
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"None of Greenaway's films take place in anything resembling naturalism or realism, and they don't feel modern. They're like archaic storybook adaptations of Jacobean plays illustrated by Vermeer."
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(1985) |
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"Greenaway creates his thesis over the decaying corpses of animals, which doesn't inspire a middle-of-the-road kind of viewer response."
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(1982) |
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"Greenaway creates his thesis over the decaying corpses of animals, which doesn't inspire a middle-of-the-road kind of viewer response."
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3/4 |
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(1982) |
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"A puzzle book for intellectual aesthetes."
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(1994) |
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"This epic-length video essay is alternately a tedious school assignment and an eye-opener."
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2.5/4 |
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(1994) |
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"Even if it's good for you, it feels like you're taking medicine."
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(1976) |
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"Unflinching, uncompromising, and finally available in an uncensored version in America, this is one of the dark hidden gems of 1970s Euro horror."
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(1999) |
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"Eyes Wide Shut merits reevaluation and reappraisal."
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4/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Misunderstood as a psychosexual thriller, Stanley Kubrick's final film is actually more of an acidic comedy about how Tom Cruise fails to get laid."
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(1971) |
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"The fiercely ironic A Clockwork Orange has held up over time as a provocative comic horror show."
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4/4 |
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(1971) |
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"Spectacular, operatic, colorful, and exquisitely photographed."
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(1990) |
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"If you're going to write a love letter to yourself, Jack, this is the way to do it."
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3/4 |
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(1990) |
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"The Two Jakes allows Nicholson to reprise one of his most memorable characters as a way of seeing whether he's still got it."
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(1974) |
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"You know what to expect: it's Chinatown."
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4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"The exhaustive, labyrinthine narrative is built up like a fortress around this film's bitter heart."
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4/4 |
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(1972) |
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"Whether taken as a historical drama or a horror film, The Devil is unabashedly a parable about misappropriated anger against the forces of evil."
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(1986) |
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"This respectable piece of 1980s splatter cinema gets a classy DVD treatment."
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3/4 |
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(1986) |
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"Faithful to that netherworld of Lovecraft's fiction where otherworldly monsters lurk just under the fabric of our reality."
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(1964) |
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"Spider Baby is unclassifiable weirdness, and that's meant as a compliment."
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3/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Though hampered by bad distribution deals and multiple title changes, word of mouth helped Spider Baby to connect with fans of schlock cinema."
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(1972) |
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"Clever title, insufferable movie!"
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1/4 |
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(1972) |
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"Clark's first film is memorable only for its catchy title."
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(1985) |
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"Here's a bit of saucy punk dialogue that sums up the movie. Boy: "Hey Casey, do you like sex with death?" Girl: "Yeah, so **** off and die.""
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3/4 |
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(1985) |
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"A tongue-in-cheek, splatter-laden homage to George A. Romero's zombie pictures."
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(1972) |
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"A haunting masterpiece, as mysterious as the deep, dark woods."
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4/4 |
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(1972) |
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"This man-versus-nature story is also about man indulging his most uncivilized instincts, and in their various ways the four men on the canoe trip are transformed."
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3.5/4 |
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(1976) |
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"A completely unheralded classic of bleak 1970s horror cinema."
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(1987) |
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"This fascinating cult item would be an even richer collectible if the DVD included a sense of the project's lost battle against government censorship."
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3/4 |
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(1987) |
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"On the Silver Globe takes raging philosophical bites on the subject of ethical freedom."
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(1962) |
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"Criterion deserves a medal."
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3.5/4 |
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(1962) |
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"Even in this, his first feature, we see that Andrei Tarkovsky is compelled by memories of precious things."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Despite all that talent on display, Sunshine is a philosophical blank slate."
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4/4 |
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(1940) |
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"Is The Philadelphia Story about cutting Katharine Hepburn down to size?"
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