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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Only Ian McKellan seems to understand the profound silliness of the film in which he finds himself, and he camps it up accordingly; the rest of the cast soldiers grimly through this preposterous, 148-minute marathon looking understandably exhausted."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The film seems longer than its 93-minute running time, but kids will probably enjoy its potty humor."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There are fewer laughs and more lectures... but there's plenty of sass and soul in between."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Renner's performance as Dahmer is unimpeachable, fascinating without being charismatic."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Contains a couple of lovely scenes that are all but smothered by a shambling mess of self-conscious eccentricity."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"For every cliché embraced in its entirety, another is subverted just enough that you're pleasantly surprised."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The actors' diverse accents clash, some are clearly more fluent than others and the sense of relief when anyone speaks a rare line in Spanish is palpable."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Contains striking moments, but never coheres."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Amid all this self-conscious cleverness, the one sequence built around primal emotions feels hideously out of place, its gravity diminished by the self-consciously kooky antics that surround it."
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(1998) |
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"A surprisingly haunting confection."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(1998) |
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"It's all about the amazing look, cobbled together from an astonishingly evocative range of sources: Nosferatu and Mad Love, Brazil and Metropolis, a haunted mosaic of bits and pieces of movie memories."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ledger's mesmerizingly damaged agent provocateur is the film's dark heart, a presence so malevolently unpredictable that it remains palpable even when he's not on screen."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The gloomy cinematography and rapid-fire editing ensure that the tooth fairy isn't overexposed, but you can't see much of anything else, either."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/6 |
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(2008) |
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"[Director Jay] Jonroy’s movie never jells."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The road to formulaic romantic-comedy complications and ethic clichés is paved with good intentions in first-time filmmaker Jay Jonroy's cross-culture love story, which might as well be called My Big Fat Kurdish Wedding."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A buzzed-up gloss on the original, it's entertaining -- if fundamentally shallow."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A lopsided mix of top-shelf spectacle and cut-rate casting."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The story could easily bog down in its mix of cumulative incident and complicated interpersonal drama. But with Bekmambetov at the helm, it's a high-energy blast."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"For the first hour director Arau ... and his co-writer and wife, actress Arizmendi, negotiate the story's tricky mix of comedy, social satire and science fiction with surprising aplomb."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film's relentless focus on the personal shortchanges the larger issues and ultimately reduces Fellner, Rifkin and Dixon to sociopolitical stereotypes."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A Porter biography that makes Porter's songs sound flat and undistinguished is on the wrong track."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"This scrappy little gross-out horror comedy is extremely uneven."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Though the story is formulaic, the bleakly naturalistic performances give it an uncomfortable sting."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2008) |
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"A pitiless look at the worst aspects of teenage male horndog-dom ... if there weren't some poisonous kernel of truth in its grotesque, testosterone-poisoned "what if?" premise, no-one would be squirming."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Shot largely in Toronto and cast with the best of the B-list, this film has the low-rent gloss of a made-for-cable thriller."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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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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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Sure, having bottles of Armadale vodka crammed into every other shot could be read as a pointed swipe at crass endorsements of luxury liquors. But when you know Armadale is owned by Roc-A-Fella, it looks a lot like crass product placement."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Given the controversy, which strongly suggested that the filmmakers had it in for President Bush, the film's biggest shocker may be how kind Range and coscreenwriter Simon Finch are to him."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This reductive revenge thriller preaches at the same time it panders to base payback fantasies."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A misfire of spectacular proportions."
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2.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"That it feels so predictable is, ironically, a tribute to the universality of the experience it explores."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"An excellent introduction to the subject, and a movie buff's delight."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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4/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Simultaneously heartbreakingly beautiful and exquisitely sad."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Avant-garde filmmaker Pat O'Neill's haunting ode to pulp fiction and the now-vanished Ambassador Hotel is steeped in decaying Los Angeles glamour and the ghosts of noir thrillers past."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's a b-movie lark that aspires to something more and falls short, and the less you expect in the way of believability, the more enjoyable it is."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Perhaps it's time to send the oh-so-amusing head case into the same oblivion as the hilarious drunk, along with the notion that the love of a good woman fixes all."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The film keeps facts and figures to a minimum and lets the breathtaking images (underscored by George Fenton's sometimes bombastic score) carry the show."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(1999) |
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"The characters are two-dimensional and the story is intensely formulaic."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(1998) |
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"Goes for two and three climaxes, blows up far too many things, and generally wears out its welcome before it's over."
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Film Journal International |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"An utterly preposterous but entertaining sci-fi action brain-bender, this 'what if?' tale makes high-tech hay with the idea that deja vu isn't just a hiccup in the neural circuitry."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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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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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Short, sharp snapshot about celebrity and life on the fringe has nothing new to say, but it says it with considerable charm and affection."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The harder you try to follow the narrative the more frustrating the film becomes, but its sleekly menacing images work their way into your brain like slivers of dry ice."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Martin Scorsese's remake of the Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs (2002) is a thrilling return to form."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"[Derailed] pivots on the kind of big twist that thriller fans will see coming when there's still plenty of time to get off the tracks."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There's too much arty writhing and too little concrete character development."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Six weekend warriors on a caving excursion find themselves fighting for their lives in Neil Marshall's harrowing follow-up to his lean, larky werewolf picture Dog Soldiers (2002)."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The result is by turns sad, infuriating, frustrating and cautiously hopeful."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This bare-bones plot is merely an excuse to string together a series of gross-out jokes involving bodily fluids, private parts, food and genetic deformities."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There's a surprisingly sharp little sting hidden in this sleek throwback to old-fashioned Hollywood melodramas about sweet young things thrown into the lairs of hard-edged harpies who value their careers above all things womanly."
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