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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"What keeps the saccharine 'Hey kids, let's put on a show!' vibe at bay is Mario's surprisingly clear-eyed view of his father."
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4/10 |
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(1998) |
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"This film may scar impressionable children for life!"
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Despite its provocative elements, there's less to Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu and Guillermo Arriaga's variations on the theme of miscommunication and careless acts than meets the eye."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For all its generic qualities, Babylon A.D. is well acted, briskly paced and consistently clear: Like Neil Marshall's Doomsday, it's bare-bones genre entertainment, no better or worse than it ought to be."
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(1999) |
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"In all honesty, it's not very funny."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Siddarth Annan's light romantic comedy takes an abrupt, 11th-hour turn for the melodramatic that imbues it with unexpected resonance without seeming completely contrived."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Just a series of character skits, some charming and others tedious."
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(2008) |
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"Veteran director Frank Henenlotter's first film in 16 years is a lewd, rude tale of sex and the city, and it's a blast."
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1/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Longer, louder, stupider and more vulgar than 1995's Bad Boys."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"By turns enthralling, seductive and deeply disturbing, Almodovar's tragic fable is steeped in a swooning sense of passion's power to inspire, pervert and destroy that draws the fractured narrative into a satisfying whole."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Richard Linklater's cynical kiddie-sports comedy is less a remake of The Bad News Bears than a cover version; for all the updated riffs and personal noodling, it's best when it doesn't stray too far from the original material."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Despentes has her polemical bona fides in impeccable order."
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The cliched story makes precious little sense."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The sight of earnest young Russians fiddling and banjo-picking as though to the holler born is so wondrously strange it's hard not to smile."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The film feels less mythic than self-consciously portentous."
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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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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"You don't have to know an arabesque from an alligator handbag to enjoy Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine's loving documentary about the various incarnations of the Ballet Russe."
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"For all the sundered families, bereaved mothers and mourning spouses, there's not a shred of genuine feeling in the entire film."
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"The result is blunt but powerful, if only because the imagery it decries is so hateful."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A post-feminist fable of growing up and getting your groove back, and more importantly, a showcase for the mature charms of Susan Sarandon and Goldie Hawn."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The film never escapes the constraints of its genre, but it's a hell of a ride."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film is handsomely cold looking, but so generic that it's hard to work up much interest in its car chases, shoot outs and frequent breaks to ogle the firm young flesh for sale in Bangkok's fleshpots."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Though the script's twists and turns are fairly conventional and the Davis subplot is handled in an awkwardly obvious way, first-time feature filmmaker Robert Connolly understands the power of style."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Lurking behind a criminally bad title is a surprisingly tight, clever, twisty heist tale."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Like CAR WASH (1976), this loosely structured comedy is less about plot than character, and its characters are carefully drawn and flawlessly played."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A showcase for the loose, occasionally very funny, give-and-take between instantly recognizable characters."
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2/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Is it dumb? You bet. Is it funny? Sporadically."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"As the mismatched interrogators, Travolta and Nielson seem to be in two different and incompatible movies."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"For all the sex and slicing, the most shocking thing about it is how dreary it is."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Christopher Nolan and David Goyer's somber prequel puts the darkness back in the Dark Knight's corner of crime-fighting hell."
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Once the little beasts start crawling into cars through the exhaust pipes with malevolent intent and dive-bombing people in convenience stores, it's hard not to think of Gremlins."
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(2000) |
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"Movies this dreadful don't come along every day, and hugely expensive movies this wrong-headed, cliched and just plain stupid are rarer still."
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Film Journal International |
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4/10 |
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(2000) |
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"While the look is cool -- like a tinted B&W film, all washes of green, blue, amber and red -- the story's broad strokes are painfully clichéd and its details make no sense at all."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This wry, low-key comedy swims defiantly against the stream of contemporary comedy, eschewing bodily-function jokes and obvious gags in favor of laughs so sly and self-effacing you could almost overlook them."
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Enervated sequels full of witless in-jokes shouldn't lob stones at enervated sequels full of witless in-jokes."
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"It could have been a seductive fable with a concealed sting; instead, it's just a lazy moral tale."
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3/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Fans of the first film will want to see this extension, though it stands equally well on its own as a portrait of thwarted, headstrong women trapped in a degraded present and borne back ceaselessly into the past."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Duris' jittery, defensive performance keeps the suggestion of violence close to the surface."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Would be more appealing if the women's behavior weren't alternately moronic and venal."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Crowe's performance ... [is] a strikingly good and moving one."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"All that positive energy is in keeping with the film's kinder, gentler vibe, but it's not very interesting."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Hathaway and McAvoy bring some genuine, if discreet, sparks to their secret romance, but there's something fundamentally lifeless about director Julian Jarrold's shallow gloss on Pride and Prejudice."
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3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"It's quite enjoyable on its own terms."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Feels slight and attenuated, even at a brisk 82 minutes."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"They're frank, funny, resilient and altogether captivating."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A cavalcade of colorful profanity, bachelor-party hooker gags ... and shopworn bodily function jokes, this vehicle for Howard Stern sidekick Artie Lange is slob comedy at its slobbiest."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A resolutely old fashioned story of personal tribulations played out against a backdrop of political turmoil, Sivan's film is well acted, beautifully photographed and oddly reassuring."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Sure, the film's flashy visuals (apparently geared to engaging video game-impaired attention spans) are entertaining, but its cynicism is distasteful."
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(1999) |
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"A comic invention that simply must be seen to be believed."
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"You just have to marvel at how well Jonze and screenwriter Charles Kaufman keep the whole thing from strangling on its own eccentricity."
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