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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Richard Linklater wraps novelist Philip K. Dick's paranoid, prescient nightmare of addiction and identity lost down the rabbit hole in the same rotoscoped animation that helped produce the blissed-out groove of his Waking Life."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A slickly crafted fable, however dark, but it's shot with haunting poetry."
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(2001) |
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"The film's style is best described as utilitarian, but it gets the job done."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There's no denying that Alan Abel is a character, and any glimpse behind the schemes is better than none."
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3.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A raw, haunting experience."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Schifrin's modest thriller delivers some gross-out gore in the last third, but spends most of its running time building up a tidy atmosphere of mounting dread."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Sweet, likable and consistently engaging, if so insubstantial that it's always on the verge of blowing away."
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2.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"One begins to long for a good explosion."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A shameless Animal House (1978) knockoff by way of Ferris Bueller's Day Off(1986), this college comedy aims low and misses often."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Director Taymor's] reach exceeds her grasp for a good half of its two-hour plus running time. But the other half is breathtaking, simultaneously visually inventive and vividly attuned to the broad streak of melancholy that runs through the 1960s."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Rodriguez's film captures the grinding routine of street-level drug use with numbing precision."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"This sumptuously designed film...has all the ingredients of a juicy historical romp. But it's bloodless, fussy, and undermined by Hilary Swank's stiff, one-note performance."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Barker elicits fine performances from all three leads, and well-known French actress Richard's English-language debut is a lovely addition to her extensive body of work."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Weighed down by annoyingly precious voice-over narration ... and a few more precious conceits than any lighter-than-air love story should be asked to support."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"This tired caper comedy is permanently trapped in the doldrums, drifting listlessly from one gadget-heavy set piece to another without ever stirring up so much as a ripple of energy."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Even by the standards of pop-moral parables passing for entertainment, this is bland stuff."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[The film] isn't especially engaging, despite a quietly charismatic performance by Weiss, a relative newcomer who holds his own against far more experienced actors."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Broomfield's film is typically self-aggrandizing but filled with unsettling moments."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Fascinating? Absolutely."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Subtle performances and the 'you are there' immediacy conferred by digital video give Roy's film the feel of a series of stolen moments."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Sentimental, manipulative, predictable and utterly charming, writer-director Doug Atchison's underdog tale revolves around an indifferent student who blossoms after heeding the siren call of competitive spelling."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There's a story to be told in Al Franken's transformation from smarty-pants Saturday Night Live personality to political commentator on the scrappy liberal radio station Air America, but Nick Doob and Chris Hegedus ... fail to find it."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's heart is Magdiel and the modest dreams that get him through the day but may also be the death of him."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"It's so slack it feels interminable, but it's too short to flesh out the complicated set of historical and individual circumstances that converged at the Alamo."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"If there's a pressing need for a teen version of James Bond-style spy tales, it's not apparent: Twelve-year-olds are already watching the real thing."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"An intricate tale of guilt, grief and dark serendipity...so deft it's hard not to gasp with delight as the plot's pieces slide into place and its machinery begins humming."
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(1997) |
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"A mix of twisted brilliance and drearily predictable sequel contrivances."
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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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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Once the running and screaming starts, the proceedings degenerate into a surprisingly Alien 3-like morass of claustrophobic sprints through dark corridors, punctuated by boogie beasts springing out of the shadows."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"In the end, you have to give Cameron points for putting his financial muscle behind scientific expeditions rather than, say, lavish parties."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Delivers what it promises and not much more."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling."
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"A celebration of friendship, family and resilience that's touching without ever being cloying."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"It's refreshingly low-tech, more like a '70s action movie than a modern-day one."
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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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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Unfortunately, Thornton's love for its iconography doesn't quite bring it to life."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Spare, elegant and tailor-made for intense discussions over dark coffee, Boe's film is a slily bold and delightfully inventive variation on an age-old theme."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Deville gently reveals that they're all simultaneously hauntingly fragile and amazingly resilient, their smiles as piercing as any resigned gaze."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Through Hanks' and Talancon's subtle, naturalistic performance [writer-director Eric Nicholas] cultivates a human dimension often missing from thrillers."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"If Michael Wincott -- who under normal circumstances can chill your blood just by breathing -- can't make the villain compelling, you know the movie's in trouble."
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A romantic comedy whose no-holds-barred gross-out elements sour an already graceless mix of crude pratfalls and heartache."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Though overlong and repetitive, Hirsch's film is vitalized by the same music that helped keep the revolutionary spirit alive."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[The screenwriter] does an admirable job of streamlining a story that unfolds over the course of 20 years. Meanwhile, Apted allows his fine cast the breathing room to make historical figures feel like living, breathing people rather than waxworks."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Rios is the glue that holds Johannesson's neither-fish-nor-fowl film together:"
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Tautou's charisma conquers all."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A sprawling, messy, frustrating and impassioned examination of the psychological fallout from America's obsession with a highly artificial and all-but unattainable standard of beauty."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The whole thing shambles when it should crackle."
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(2002) |
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"Though clearly well-intentioned, this cross-cultural soap opera is painfully formulaic and stilted."
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10/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Subtle and complex."
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(2001) |
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"The script is often obvious and much of the acting is amateurish."
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