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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Chelsea on the Rocks is very lively, somewhat thrown together in that loose yet aggressively visceral Ferrara style."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It wouldn't be a stretch to compare Paradise to Alphaville, what with its imagining of the modern as otherworldly, or to imagine it as a capsule made by an outer-space explorer who visits Earth and finds layers of mystery in the mundane."
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3/4 |
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(2010) |
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"A worthy public record of a show most people nationwide didn't get the chance to see."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Nearly two hours of yackety-yak is less expressive than one image of White's hand bleeding from the intensity of pressing his guitar strings during a mad improvisation."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Unashamed of flaunting its B-movie conventions"
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(1992) |
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"One of the landmark independent films of the 1990s is given a first-rate, informative, and cleaned-up DVD. The film is a masterpiece, but not for the faint of heart."
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4/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Ferrara was in the right place at the right time to make Bad Lieutenant."
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(1986) |
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"Better than the second and third entries in the Scream series, this sequel is one elaborate in-joke about itself, and if you like the series you might have affection for what it's trying to do."
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2.5/4 |
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(1986) |
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"While there's a superficial been-there-done-that, why don't-we-just-mock-the-whole-thing quality to this entry in the series, it certainly livens up what has become by this point a stale franchise."
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(1985) |
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"Jason kills again--or does he?"
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1.5/4 |
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(1985) |
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"The tone is crude, raunchy, and leering, with kill scenes combined with more nudity than usual."
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(1984) |
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"Jason gets the proper sendoff."
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2.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"This one certainly felt as if it properly closed out the Friday the 13th series before it devolved into unadulterated camp."
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3.5/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Hearts and Minds is an essay told in a voice of thinly controlled moral outrage, which sometimes dribbles over into seething hate."
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(1921) |
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"The Haunted Castle makes the viewer wait in a state of anticipation for something to resonate on screen--and it feels positively endless."
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1.5/4 |
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(1921) |
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"There's almost no expressionistic phantasmagoria here."
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(1954) |
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"Hobson's Choice is a superb addition to the Lean canon, and a charming and surprising selection by Criterion."
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4/4 |
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(1954) |
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"Lean's splendid frames specifically work to show the high and low status of a social grid."
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(1984) |
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"Mondo Video should be commended for their handsome presentation of one of Zulawski's most lush, explosively romantic films."
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4/4 |
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(1984) |
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"Though Kessling can be interpreted as a stand-in for Zulawski, Femme Publique is not his autobiography in the same way his previous film Possession was."
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(1968) |
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"People compare Cassavetes to jazz because his films are lively, vivid, and bursting with energy, and Criterion packs this two-disc set of Faces with extras bursting with vitality. Enthusiasts will be pleased."
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3/4 |
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(1968) |
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"Cassavetes was interested in actors and their freak-show intensities, and their performances give his films a hyper-real quality."
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(1959) |
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"Shadows feels like a Beatnik relic, which gives it tremendous value."
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3/4 |
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(1959) |
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"The Beat generation espoused a rejection of mainstream American values, and John Cassavetes's Shadows feels like a relic from that movement."
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(1982) |
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"So bad it's good, or so bad it's mind-numbing? You decide."
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1.5/4 |
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(1982) |
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"Shot in such a way to capitalize on the brief fad of Reagan-era 3D movies, there's less memorable POV shots from the killer and more images from the perspective of the victims."
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(1981) |
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"Friday the 13th Part 2 is more existential than mumblecore art house cinema, paring life down to the basics: f****g and death."
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2.5/4 |
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(1981) |
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"Friday the 13th Part 2 never aspires to be termite art."
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(1980) |
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"Friday the 13th is the one that started them all, but that doesn't necessarily make it any good, does it?"
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2/4 |
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(1980) |
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"You really have to wonder what exactly made the Friday the 13th series so wildly successful."
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(1997) |
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"One of the finest television films John Frankenheimer made during his final decade of filmmaking, George Wallace deserves a more substantial DVD treatment."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Samuel L. Jackson has hit a rock bottom with The Spirit that's comparable only to Joan Crawford's appearance in Trog."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Looking like he hasn't shaved in days, and wearing the same suit day after day, Smith is playing the Hollywood version of worn and weary."
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(1942) |
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"This handsomely packaged three-disc DVD box set is jam-packed with extras, meant to please fans and cinema history buffs alike."
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4/4 |
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(1942) |
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"The movie has a peculiar magic to it, and it's in the richness of its details that mostly go unnoticed because of the film's pace."
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(1999) |
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"This one was made for the fans, and they'll delight in the latest surreal battle against the Tall Man."
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(1985) |
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"Kiss of the Spider Woman's beautifully compelling story of compassion and love cannot be separated from the time the film was made."
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4/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Argentine writer Manuel Puig's book Kiss of the Spider Woman has a theme that endures throughout all its various incarnations: that of human dignity and compassion surviving within a society that denies it."
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(1994) |
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"If it's only as politically savvy as a college term paper, it's also as gritty as an old-school western."
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3/4 |
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(1994) |
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"What it loses in novelty and subtlety it makes up for in its earnest depiction of love and individual human decency in the face of societal cruelty."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ben Stiller used to be unafraid of pointed mockery, but nowadays he pulls his punches."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Even an average performance by the Rolling Stones isn't boring."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Because the show has been off the air for so many years now, audiences may wonder why these characters haven't moved on from their obsessively singular points of view."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The movie experience gets in its own way."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Adolescent pulp fantasia meets sentimental married life in Guillermo Del Toro's follow-up to his 2004 working-class superhero movie."
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(1968) |
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"This shocker from 1968 is a time capsule of our fears from yesteryear."
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4/4 |
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(1968) |
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"There's a brute force in Night of the Living Dead that catches one in the throat."
[movie review] |
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(1989) |
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"We learn that Indiana Jones was named after the family dog. Aren't you glad you tuned in for his latest adventure?"
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2/4 |
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(1989) |
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"There's considerable pleasure in watching these two lions spar, but sometimes Last Crusade mistakes dotting every I and crossing every T for detailed character development."
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(1981) |
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"Raiders of the Lost Ark holds up as a spectacle film, spooky funhouse ride and rollicking adventure yarn. Steven Spielberg was, then and now, the finest director of grand-scale Hollywood blockbusters."
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