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"Compared to its predecessor, the new screenplay might well have been written by Betty Friedan."
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(2007) |
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"Away from Her is one of those exceedingly rare instances of an adaptation that not only honors but actually surpasses its source."
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(2007) |
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"In outline, EGG is a romantic comedy with a standard genre plot -- good guy tries to win good girl away from bad guy -- but at its center, it's really about a guy trying to ... live in an ethical way even though everyone around him is corrupt."
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(2007) |
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"Though still best known for her over-the-top "SNL" characters like Mary Katherine Gallagher and Sally O'Mally, Shannon is surprisingly adept at playing this quieter tragicomic role."
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(2006) |
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"O'Toole's performance is full of wit and vigor and, even at Maurice's weakest, there is a sense of a man who lived life fully and partook of every pleasure available."
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(2006) |
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"Lieutenant is a sly act of provocation, a repudiation of American filmmaking technique and of near-universal attitudes about cinematic violence."
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(2007) |
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"As a biography of Edie Sedgwick, it's pretty near worthless, but as an evocation of both the glamour and the horror of the Factory, it's as seductive as Andy himself."
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(2007) |
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"The visuals and the performances (excepting my Gyllenhaal quibbles) are across-the-board fantastic, and there are both scares and suspense aplenty, even for those already fairly familiar with the case."
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(2007) |
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"The whole thing feels a bit smug and complacent, as if having a worthwhile subject were the only requirement for making a worthwhile film, and Apted directs in a respectable "Masterpiece Theatre" style that effectively drains away any inherent drama."
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(2007) |
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"It seems almost perverse to willfully take a subject so bizarre and disturbing and esthetize it into something beautiful, but, love it or hate it, there's no denying the film's seductive power."
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(2007) |
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"It’s melodrama at the Lifetime-movie level, but even that is a step up. Perry will never be a great filmmaker, or probably even a good one, but he's moved into the ranks of the mediocre."
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(2007) |
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"Foster is the one truly, disturbingly believable young actor in the cast, all sweaty adrenaline and menacing self-loathing."
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(2006) |
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"The script, such as it is, takes the form of a kinky fairy tale set in a violent, brutish world; imagine the Brothers Grimm rewritten by Charles Dickens as a letter to Penthouse Forum."
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(2006) |
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"Morgan is never satisfied with a straightforward camera setup or with a simple asphyxiation -- not when he can shoot from a disorienting diagonal and give you an asphyxiation, eye-gouging, neck-breaking, and impalement all at once."
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(2006) |
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"Everything about it is gorgeously over the top, much like the family melodrama that occasions it."
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(2006) |
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"[Condon's] affection for the musical goes a long way toward smoothing over the bumpy spots in the narrative, though at times it creates new ones of its own."
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(2006) |
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"Fanning's ubiquity and uncannily adult mien have given rise to a fair amount of backlash ... but I, for one, remain fully in her thrall."
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(2006) |
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"INLAND EMPIRE is 172 minutes of exhausting, patience-shredding, yet continually intriguing filmmaking, a work that will divide fans and critics and probably lead to a few isolated instances of marital discord."
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(2006) |
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"... a film that's ostensibly about the murder, mutilation, forced labor, kidnapping, and brainwashing of black Africans but whose creators insist that what's really important is whether the roguish white guy gets it on with the hot white chick."
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(2006) |
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"Though in some ways its plot is never entirely convincing, it is, on its own limited terms, nearly perfect."
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(2006) |
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"[T]here can be no doubt that this is the work of a mature artist at the top of his game."
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(2006) |
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"None of this is ever funny, and what's more, we just don't care."
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(2006) |
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"Every fictional take on a real-life artist gets a few things wrong, but it's been a long time since I've seen one quite as spectacularly wrong or thoroughly insulting as Fur."
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(2006) |
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"Though the filmmakers don't quite deliver on all they promise, neither do they pull any punches."
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(2006) |
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"A Good Year is, structurally, nothing more than a rickety assembly of the creakiest cinematic clichés."
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(2006) |
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"If this all sounds a bit Manichean and over-earnest, well, it is."
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(2006) |
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"Sure, she's vapid, spoiled, and self-indulgent, but she's more recognizably human than any of the girls on "Laguna Beach" or "My Super Sweet 16.""
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(2006) |
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"Pity the poor filmmaker who gets there second."
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(2006) |
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"The Grudge 2 is one of the more flavorful American J-Horror adaptations I've seen (and I've seen 'em all), well-paced and, at times, genuinely scary."
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(2006) |
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"Breaking the taboos of movie sex allows [Mitchell] to set them aside and get at a deeper understanding of the ways that sex can connect us and the ways that, no matter how we might wish otherwise, it never can."
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(2006) |
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"While some will quibble with its view of recent history or its depiction of certain figures, there is little point disputing the elegance of its construction."
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(2006) |
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"A viewer can admire and be amused by what Gondry's doing without ever really connecting emotionally with the film."
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(2006) |
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"The Black Dahlia is a good movie, a finely crafted, tasteful, polished, entertaining, and reasonably faithful adaptation of James Ellroy's novel. But it's not a great movie, and that third adjective above is one reason why."
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(2006) |
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"Neil LaBute's remake of The Wicker Man is a stupid, stupid movie."
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(2006) |
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"Outside of the musical numbers, Idlewild is nothing more than an old-fashioned crime melodrama, a generic jumble of Prohibition-era gangsters and aspiring musicians - any one storyline instantly recognizable from a dozen other films."
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(2006) |
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"Freundlich is a pretentious film-school brat who seems obsessed with making botched retreads of the kinds of thesis pictures that people in film school like to pontificate about."
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(2006) |
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"It helps that the hot blonde is Kristen Bell ("Veronica Mars") who can basically do anything (she even sings - see "Reefer Madness") and remain effortlessly adorable and charming."
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(2006) |
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"The film's (partial) salvation comes - oddly enough - from Robin Williams, an actor I'd just about given up on."
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(2006) |
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"The act just isn't cute anymore. In truth, it hasn't been for at least a couple of decades. So why is it that Woody Allen continues to insist on playing "Woody Allen?""
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(2004) |
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"What it doesn’t have is any real point -- it’s a love story with the lovers missing."
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(2006) |
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"At its best, an episode of the series felt like an hour's worth of comedy crammed into 22 minutes, while the movie feels more like an hour's worth of comedy stretched out to feature length."
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(2006) |
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"A Scanner Darkly is a fascinating esthetic and intellectual experience but, like addiction itself, it's an emotional dead end."
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(2006) |
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"Where the first movie was bad in that it was actively obnoxious, much of the sequel is bad in that it is too bland and innocuous to give offense or, for that matter, entertainment."
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(2005) |
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"If you've ever lain awake at night wondering what might happen if someone were to combine the porny misogyny of Joe Eszterhas with the blood-soaked eroticism of Anne Rice, you can now rest easy; Eternal provides your answer."
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(2005) |
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"Though it's derivative and it doesn’t all hang together, it’s still better and smarter than the average romantic comedy -- give me Ben Younger over Nora Ephron any day."
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(2006) |
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"Altman doesn’t do much here that he hasn’t done before -- and much of it better -- but he does it with such ease and élan that it’s impossible not to get caught up in it all."
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(2005) |
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"Those seeking transcendence here will surely be disappointed."
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(2006) |
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"X-Men: The Last Stand is the best kind of summer blockbuster, alternating giddy adrenaline rushes and gripping emotional jolts."
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(2006) |
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"It's sad to see Hanks, who usually tackles any role with such earnest enthusiasm, phoning it in, though I suppose it's to his credit that he can't quite seem to take Langdon seriously."
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