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4/6 |
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(2008) |
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"Sentimental without being cloying, the film is a charmer, just like the gravely wide-eyed Pham."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"The trouble with Terminator: Salvation ... [is that] there's a yawning void where its emotional center should be."
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Miss FlickChick |
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Based on a 1969 novel by the late Walker Hamilton, this moody film is ravishingly beautiful to look at and refreshingly unlike the glib, movie-centric crime thrillers so popular with younger first-time directors."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"Is the new Star Trek movie perfect? Absolutely not. But I went in an original Trek fan ... and came out feeling oddly elated, grateful for the things that worked and secure in the belief that the rough spots will work themselves out in the a"
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"This old-fashioned psychological ghost story ... repeatedly compels supposedly mature and intelligent people to do preposterous things in order to keep the plot moving."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Upscale casting goes a long way towards elevating the pulpy material ... [but while] Wolverine tries hard, it never transcends its origins."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, It Came From Outer Space should be blushing like a schoolgirl, because this deadpan recreation of 1950s sci-fi movies is a tribute to its low-budget, high minded charms."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"When the newspaper thriller's obituary is written, State of Play may well be cited as the genre's last gasp."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2003) |
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"Smart, provocative and deeply satisfying the originalState of Play is well-worth seeking out, regardless of what you thought of the US do-over."
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Miss FlickChick |
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4/6 |
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(2009) |
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"The film doesn’t force an artificial resolution on their battle of wills, which may be the most enlightened thing about it."
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Time Out New York |
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(2009) |
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"Wrestling star John Cena is the dead weight that drags down this brainless but energetic action picture."
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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(2008) |
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"You don't have to be Catholic to shudder at Pascal Laugier's bitterly apocalyptic Martyrs, but it helps."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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""Front-loaded with a pervasive sense of unease ... but once the plot's wheels start grinding in earnest, [it] follows that runaway subway train off the rails.""
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Tony Gilroy's dryly jaunty, globetrotting, spy-vs.-spy romp is ... just good enough to make you wish it were better."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"It's a shame the film isn't more artful, but an imperfect look at [the] accomplished, unpretentious [dancer/choreographers Carmen de Lavallade and Geoffrey Holder] is better than none at all."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"The remake of Wes Craven's notorious rape-revenge shocker is a crowd-pleaser rather than a grim moral lesson about the price of doing very bad things, and as long as the downbeat lead-in doesn't put them off, the third-act payoff will have audiences cheer"
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"A pathetic excuse for a comedy [that's] actually ... a feature-length effort to reposition Playboy's brand of squeaky-clean titillation as relevant to young men weaned on internet porn."
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Miss FlickChick |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"This Cinderella fantasy transforms a geek into a princess, and teaches a few life lessons along the way."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"A rare example of a flat-out Indian horror movie [that] borrows liberally from The Amityville Horror playbook and familiar Asian horror tropes, but the haunted soap opera is a new wrinkle."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A first-rate adaptation of Moore and Gibbons' densely imagined, alternate pop culture history of the world, a dazzling, dystopian fable with a deeply dark heart."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Though admirably serious and ambitious, this fish-out-of-water comedy-drama ... is a jumbled collection of moments that range from the touching to the tedious."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Lovecraft's The Shadow Over Innsmouth looms largest in this offbeat film's influences, and while it can't be called faithful ... it does have an authentically doom-haunted atmosphere."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2006) |
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"Straightforward documentary [about] ... Bill Talen, 50, who uses his "Reverend Billy" persona to transform pointed criticism of transnational corporate practices into engaging street theater."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"For all of its snarky holiday/family bashing, Four Christmases wimps out in the third act and reaffirms all the traditional values it affects to mock."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Without [Emma] Thompson's valiant efforts, Last Chance Harvey would be too dismal for cable; with them it's simply a trifle."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Not as perceptive as Etoiles or as ... entertaining as Ballets Russes, [but] still a glimpse into a priviledged, ruthlessly demanding world few outsiders ever get to see."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"One hell of a heart-wrenchingly sad, blisteringly angry, profoundly heartfelt movie that dares you to walk away with a shrug and a glib quip."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2006) |
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"Michel Ocelot's jewel-like fable unfolds in a once-upon-a-time version of medieval North Africa alive with vibrant colors and dazzling patterns."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Recalls the old-fashioned, golden-age Hollywood movie-movies that wrapped forbidden desire, aching heartbreak, personal tragedy, war, adventure and breathtaking thrills in a glittering overlay of movie-star glamor."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Very Bad Things meets Knife in the Water in ... [this] thriller about not-so-bright young things trying to cover up a nasty accident."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A big, bad bundle of biopic cliches, a glitzy whitewash filled with wince-inducing dialogue and propelled by a smug, from-beyond-the-grave voiceover."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Chilly and academic, thoroughly admirable but one step removed from the very real angst of a movie like The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956)."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Mickey Rourke's mesmerizing, road-wreck performance as [a] washed-up wrestler ... is the only reason to sit through The Wrestler's cliches"
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"The ... all-too-convincing squalor and misery ... make the feel-good ending seem righteously earned."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"The cast['s]... collective efforts go a long way to mitigating Shanley's pedestrian grasp of film language."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"The kind of movie Don Siegel and Sam Fuller used to make, a blunt but perceptive slice of American discontent filtered through the prism of B-movie conventions."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"It's a strangely arid piece of filmmaking, handsome, respectful, unsensational and thoroughly lifeless."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Peter Morgan's play about the behind-the-scenes research, negotiation and fundraising that produced the Frost-Nixon interviews may not sound like natural-born movie material...But the talk is choice, and the film... is mesmerizing."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2007) |
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"The 1984 Delhi riots [are worked into] into the story of an American-raised college graduate who returns to her South Asian roots and is shocked by what she finds."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Ram Gopal Varma's... reworking of The Godfather... delivers the casting coup of Bollywood's royal family %u2013 Amitabh Bachhan, his son, Abhishek, and Abhishek's wife, Aishwarya Rai %u2013 ... [but] the result is overwrought and cliched."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"Poised somewhere between an outright art movie and a mainstream Indian feature, [this] behind-the-scene look at the hopes and shattered dreams of aspiring Mumbai movie stars could as easily have been called "What Price Bollywood?" or "Run, Vikram, Run.""
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Cross I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry with the all-but forgotten 1970s farce The Gay Deceivers, then dress it up with elaborate musical sequences: Et voila!"
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Aditya Chopra's romantic comedy could teach Hollywood a thing or two about breathing life into hoary cliches."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"A tediously earnest, well-intentioned and scrupulously even handed [topical thriller], in the style of made-for-TV problem movies."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"An energetic, if uneven, movie masala whose ingredients include broad comedy, fists of fury, dark family secrets and musical numbers."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"A taut, nihilistic, exercise in heartland desolation, and unlike most films whose success is predicated on an 11th-hour twist, it plays 100% fair: The truth is out there from the beginning, if you're willing to see it."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2009) |
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"It's hard to believe it took two directors, British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, and three screenwriters to make this vapid remake of... [the] insidiously unnerving A Tale of Two Sisters/Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Twilight is pure fantasy, emphasis on the pure... it's a soft-focus reverie for girls who want to be Disney princesses and have their bad boys, too, as long as the bad boys are models of tormented self-restraint."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2008) |
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"Nacho Vigalondo's bleak time-travel thriller... [chronicles the travails of a] classic film noir schmuck: No matter what he does, sooner or later fate will stick out her foot and trip him up."
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Miss FlickChick |
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(2007) |
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"This short, stripped-down, first-person horror picture delivers some brutally effective shocks and gradually conjures a haunting atmosphere of ever-escalating panic and despair."
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Miss FlickChick |
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