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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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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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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Kindness, graciousness, nurturing, and support is the message for couples and community, so even if it's not saying anything new under the sun, all that syrup makes the cardboard taste better."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Grindhouse is more homage than reinvention of schlock."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The more we learn about the bogeyman, the less terrifying he becomes."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As a document of the shape of political thought, the film is successful; but as a living, beating heart about a populace living through a time of upheaval and confusion, it's mediocre."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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1.5/4 |
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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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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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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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(2006) |
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"Like Paul Haggis's Crash, the characters speak their minds so fully (or lie about their feelings so transparently) that the stuff which should be bubbling under the surface is constantly rising in fiery tirades."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Flip on the Independent Film Channel any day of the week, any hour, and chances are you'll find a movie like Factotum."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The idea of "home" as the root of all our desires exists in counterpoint to the war scenes, and Flanders seems to wonder about those desires."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Argento doesn't translate Leroy's novel into the visual language of film, or at least she doesn't conjure up the same feeling the book does."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In effect, this remake is a cover song recorded in a slicker studio with the best equipment."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"When extreme, body-crunching violence is inflicted on these pigs, the playing field gets leveled."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Voters who perceived Gore as a stiff, bland politician hen-pecked by the issues and unable to connect to his audience may be pleased by this makeover."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Offers a sophisticated thesis, digging into the reasons why people joined the Peoples Temple."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Provides a vivid snapshot of Uganda and a tour-de-force portrayal of a creature who is all the more horrifying because his evil is so recognizable, and so chillingly embracing and warm."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The concert achieves mixed success, lurching back and forth between earnest folk renditions of Cohen classics versus twitchy, indulgent freak shows and post-punk gravitas."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Recent examples of slim premises that boasted strong and muscular cinematic style, not to mention a sly sense of humor Miami Vice generally lacks, were Cellular and Red Eye."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Resisting the conventions of the traditional biopic at every turn, The Notorious Bettie Page never finds its footing as a story."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This latest unnecessary remake of a minor horror flick lacks even the benefit of novelty."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"What should have been a distinctively Korean tale of wartime terror will feel like familiar stuff to hardened horror film vets."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"While it's refreshing to see a war film veer into the supernatural so quietly, R-Point lacks the much-needed dramatic tension to get us through its slow-moving 110 minutes."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This one's a long, slow ride down an all too familiar road."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Like the best Charles Dickens novels it demands we grow indignant at the cause."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Satellite is about the idealism of love and how that is placed within the complex and contradictory real world."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"One watches Take the Lead for all the lively moments in between the dim-bulb narrative."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"This two-disc set is sure to keep Gilliam's few Tideland fans buzzing for some time."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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