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1/5 |
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(2003) |
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"2 Fast 2 Furious takes it for granted that the audience is comprised of morons. And maybe we are—all those bad video games have gone to our head"
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"The fast, cheap, do-it-yourself aesthetic of video finally finds complimentary subject matter in Party People, considering the punk movement's similar ethos."
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Matinee Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Maybe Spike Lee's response to 9-11 is shellshock and confusion, but that's not enough to build his latest movie on."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(2003) |
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"Horror fans take note: Danny Boyle’s 28 Days Later is the real deal."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"28 Weeks Later rolls in like a poisonous dust cloud of nihilism."
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"A fairly perfunctory sex comedy, which is too bad because the premise is amusing."
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Matinee Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(1999) |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Even though scene for scene it sticks very close to Philip K. Dick's counterculture classic, A Scanner Darkly feels much more like the earnest theorizing of Richard Linklater in Waking Life mode."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A sentimental and painfully mundane European drama."
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4/5 |
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(2002) |
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"[Charlie] Kaufman could have called this one Human Nature, too -- or A Phantasmagoria of Human Nature."
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2000) |
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3.5/5 |
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(1997) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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4/5 |
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(1988) |
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"Akira will appropriately smash you in all the right places."
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Filmcritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"confidently shot and scripted in clipped, emotionally direct dialogue that’s thankfully not resorting to Harold Pinter, David Mamet, or Neil LaBute"
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Filmcritic.com |
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A- |
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(2001) |
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"The supreme accomplishment in Mann's career."
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Matinee Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Also welcome is the late-70s distrust of corporate authority, where the mother ship winds up being more duplicitous and evil than the marauding alien."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It certainly delivers as a loving homage to two of our favorite monsters and their respective super-duper powers."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2002) |
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"The Southeast London working class housing estate of Mike Leigh's All or Nothing becomes a melting pot for issues that this most humanistic of directors has continually returned to over the years: parents, children, secrets, love, resentment..."
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Matinee Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This is the stuff of soap operas, not serious cinema and certainly not great literature."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1983) |
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"If we subscribe to the idea that the profiteering of man leads to the death of an absent God's morals, the unrest of Almanac of Fall lays down the first stones."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1983) |
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"This is the turning point for Béla Tarr, leaving social realism behind to step into the existential abyss."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/5 |
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(1994) |
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"A deadpan examination of coincidence versus signs; tangibility versus faith."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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D+ |
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(2001) |
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"Meant to be postcard-perfect, it rings false."
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Matinee Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"One wonders whether American Dreamz is attempting to satirize pop culture or merely recreating it."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(1979) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"In his eager passion to fill Amores Perros with explosive imagery, Iñarritu nearly drowns his audience in visual excess."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Who will the snake kill off first: the African-American comic relief guy, the nerves-of-steel heroine, or the treacherous British professor? Take a wild guess."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(1973) |
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"Though it is occasionally slow going, Stephanie Beacham's operatic shrieking makes good on the title's promise."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1973) |
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"Slow moving but frequently lurid."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1938) |
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"An essential gangster film featuring one of James Cagney’s best performances, this classic holds up beautifully even against a less than first-class DVD treatment."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1938) |
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"Angels With Dirty Faces benefits from the Production Code because it forces the gangster film to acknowledge its nihilism."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Steve Buscemi has given us a solid."
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2002) |
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"A portrait of suffering and redemption for its own sake, Antwone Fisher arouses only shallow pity."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The matter-of-fact filmmaking style is made up for by the vitality of the all-around fantastic performances, the striking use of color, and dialogue that's as tasty as an Ernest Lehman/Clifford Odets cookie full of arsenic."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A bitter pill."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It's slow, but it's also sure-footed. Duvall takes it at his own damn pace, and his grouchy old man of a contract killer is a well-rounded and wholly believable personage."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like Young Adam, Asylum is likewise doomed by its own self-importance."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1972) |
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"Though it is sometimes over-praised by aficionados of the horror anthology subgenre, Asylum is a fun, old-fashioned taste of post-mod, pre-1980s macabre in British cinema."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1972) |
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"Asylum tries telling similar tales (twice) and comes up pathetically short in the scare department."
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Slant Magazine |
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A |
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(2001) |
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"The violence of the finale poses troubling questions about self-denial, male dread, and cathartic suffering."
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Matinee Magazine |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"The Aviator is a marvel to behold, and one is quickly convinced that Scorsese can take even the most threadbare screenplay and make it bold and immediate."
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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(2002) |
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"A masterpiece of urban dread, relationships, and identity crisis."
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Film Festival Today |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Bamboozled, for all its numerous and frustrating flaws, is important viewing. It's a film which says, in no uncertain terms, that there are some things we must not forget."
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Filmcritic.com |
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(1953) |
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"A love song for the narcissistic, and theater people are sure to eat up the film, commentary, extras, and first rate DVD packaging."
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Slant Magazine |
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