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(1981) |
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"Blake Edwards cleans house"
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CinePassion |
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(1928) |
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"Confirms Walsh's robust chivalry and, as in Queen Kelly, Swanson's personal triumph"
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CinePassion |
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(1943) |
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"Zoltan Korda's wartime coalition is more Air Force muscularity than In Which We Serve fustiness"
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CinePassion |
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(1990) |
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"Unforgettable, whether you like it or not."
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"The most shocking thing about Savage Grace is its flatness"
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CinePassion |
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(1959) |
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"Cinematic coups abound"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"One rummages vainly through tics in search of genuine emotion"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(1953) |
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"Pain and degradation follow, inevitably before the eyes of a derisive crowd."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1953) |
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"The tears of a clown sting twice as much when shot by Ingmar Bergman."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1976) |
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"Overcast freshman feature"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A nightmare"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A genteel burp of a comedy"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1990) |
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"Death, longing, and transformation made challengingly sublime, though the shabby transfer is surely its own kind of hell."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1990) |
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"The Second Circle is awash in the pain of loss, yet how often grim comedy breaks through the austere surface."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Root-canal territory all the way"
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CinePassion |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Are the Coens jokers who tread on despair, or tragedians with a penchant for death's-head humor?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(1956) |
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"As good an introduction to a modest master as you can imagine."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1956) |
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"The effect is not one of (pre) post-modern nudging, but a questioning of the conventions through the director's humanizing gaze."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"The creepiest version yet of the Magical Negro routine"
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CinePassion |
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(1989) |
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"Family kills itself, director exploits it for dour ironies. More at 11."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Michael Haneke could be cinema's Debbie Downer, if only he had any sense of humor."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1943) |
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"Like Lynch's fever-dream of transcendental perversity Blue Velvet, Shadow of a Doubt is about awakening, the simultaneous darkening and enlarging of the world."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1943) |
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"The extras may be recycled, but Hitchcock's view of fragile normalcy is seminal viewing."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1964) |
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"The fervid pageantry is like experiencing the medium with virgin eyes"
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CinePassion |
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(1935) |
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"For collectors of classic pulp, this lavish DVD package can easily be crowned She Who Must Be Owned."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1935) |
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"Women in adventurer-impresario Merian C. Cooper's schoolboyish action yarns are rarely allowed to do anything other than get kidnapped and rescued."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The first project of the here! gay television network's new movie initiative, Shelter regrettably plays closer to Lifetime fodder."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Sparkles like polished ember encasing dinosaur DNA, but Scorsese's best jukeboxes have little use for such reverence"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Meant to be bewitchingly graceful, instead comes off as half-asleep"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Genuinely enlivening"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Computer-animated ugliness"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"The thrust of the movie lies in the trenchant mix of image-rebuilding strategies and genuine politicization the Chicks undergo"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The body politic deserves a finer thermometer than Michael Moore's camera"
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CinePassion |
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(1965) |
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"Far from mocking his penitent protagonist, Buñuel values his tenacity of belief even while seeing his sacrifice as a useless monument"
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CinePassion |
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(1996) |
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"Bart's opening blackboard gag: "I will not skimp on sublimity. I will not skimp on sublimity.""
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Scarcely exploring the liberties of cinema the way the South Park movie did, The Simpsons Movie still showcases deeper and truer colors"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Basically a manipulative thriller with social-commentary aspirations"
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CinePassion |
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(1973) |
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"De Palma's operation is one of (film history) memory reconstruction and transference"
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The supernatural is the hobgoblin of the titular doubting Thomas in The Skeptic, though judging by writer-director Tennyson Bardwell's hapless mood shifts in this tepid horror-comedy, it seems consistency of tone deserves even less credibility."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Takes the tried-and-true route of bullies, PG-rated house parties, nerd-dunking, "That's my boy" winking, and vapid teen romance."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1973) |
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"Allen's investigation of a "cosmic screwing" registers Kubrickian sci-fi"
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CinePassion |
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(1954) |
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"Brute force collides with the gentility of 1950s British cinema"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's tempting to call the new Sleuth a soulless remake, but that would imply that the original had a soul."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Shows how a critic-pleasing film can be every bit as overbearing as a crowd-pleasing one"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Noam Murro's direction follows a sitcom blueprint"
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Araki's latest is surprisingly mellow in its examination of ganja-fueled apathy."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1931) |
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"Lubitsch's glissando rhythm is a thin veneer that never softens the essential cruelty of the story"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The poor man's Guy Ritchie, which is sad since the poor man already has Guy Ritchie"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A snarky genre exercise and its own late-night sketch parody, it parades nothing so much as the force of the public's lowered expectations"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Frequently perched between the poetic and the twee, Green has been bitten by the Whimsy Bug"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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