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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"New Jersey-born, Taiwan-raised director/cowriter Bay-Sa Pan gives the conflict a culturally particular spin and elicits strong performances from her appealing cast."
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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"This brutal, stunningly choreographed spectacle weaves together lyrical beauty, blasphemy, sadistic cruelty and grotesque sentimentality with breathtakingly smooth assurance."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Miller gives a go-for-broke performance as the increasingly desperate and undone Sedgwick. But she lacks the fragile charisma evident in even the coarsest Warhol films, and without it there's no reason to care."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Infuriating and challenging in equal parts."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The main story, whose creepy premise demands major tiptoeing around lest it slip into the realm of outright smarminess thoroughly unsuitable for a PG-13-rated comedy."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[Tarsem] Singh's visual sense is stunning, but he's also attuned to the darker corners of children's imaginations."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Director Gregory Hoblit consistently opts for an atmosphere of gloomy malaise rather than going for the cheap shocks."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Charging Albert's film with looking too much like an American chick flick is to give it short shrift."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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9/10 |
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(2000) |
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"A surprisingly charming fable."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Indie director Bezucha has held on to just enough individuality to breathe a little life into the cliches."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Stravinsky's 'Firebird Suite' accompanies a beautifully rendered story of death and rebirth."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This follow-up to the much-reviled Fantastic Four is cheerfully stupid, shallow and, frankly, more than a little tedious."
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(2009) |
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"A sly, witty and utterly enchanting adaptation of Roald Dahl's mordantly whimsical book about a thoroughly domesticated gentleman fox who pines for days when the world respected his wildness."
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3/4 |
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(1973) |
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"Eerie, surreal and a welcome respite from Disney-style animation."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Lepage maintains a leisurely pace and lets the narrative wander, but ultimately lands on the right side of the line between contemplative noodling and aimless navel-gazing, ending with an image that's simultaneously melancholy and playful."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Commits a striking number of sins against competent filmmaking."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"To call the film noisy and brainless isn't even a criticism -- it's unadulterated auto-porn, as shallow and shiny as it wants to be."
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1.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"[a] pointless, meandering tale of eccentric New Yorkers navigating the treacherous waters of love and survival"
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(2001) |
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"A viciously insightful examination of the ways in which the bond between two teenage sisters is tested when they begin to realize just how powerful and double-edged a weapon beauty is, and how cruel the consequences of its unequal distribution can be."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"To call Christian's film unpolished is an understatement, since Rodney isn't a particularly engaging protagonist and Christian badly overuses his sulky voiceover."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Matt Mochary and Jeff Zimbalist's documentary traces the history of Grupo Afro-Reggae, a community-based action group that arose in Vigario Geral, one of the notorious favelas (slums) that ring Rio de Janeiro."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Clever, fast-paced and surprisingly moving, Fay Grim takes a page from Alfred Hitchcock's Americans-abroad thrillers, in which the glossy surface lies lightly over betrayal and disillusionment."
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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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"This intensely derivative mishmash owes its creepiest images and conceits to other films."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Turturro's clammy, lumpen Cain is a profoundly disagreeable guide down the rabbit hole of hallucinatory paranoia."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"An air of melancholy permeates even Yuen Wo Ping's dazzling fight sequences -- which rely on wire work and computer enhancement much less than most contemporary martial-arts films -- and the final scenes pack a surprising melodramatic punch."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Repetitive and edited in a stuttering, lightning-fast style that makes it impossible to see who or what is doing what to what or whom, John Gulager's directing debut is horror at its most reductive and least resonant."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This simplistic teen drama features an engaging young star but doesn't miss a "follow your dreams" cliche."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Kilmer and Dorff, who was also an executive producer, immerse themselves in difficult roles and the film's overall air of social commitment will surprise viewers drawn in by its exploitation-movie promotion."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Stupefying, big-budget compendium of erotic thriller cliches."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A vivid record of live acts whose rough-edged immediacy is an integral part of their appeal."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"This is one of Jaglom's most accessible and genuinely enjoyable films."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This romantic comedy about a guy, a girl and the Boston Red Sox is surprisingly sweet."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's just a clever, pointed little fable about the price of complacent conformity, slavish worship of the status quo, and trading freedom for the illusion of safety, wrapped in a sugary-sweet, Jordan-almond-colored coating that looks good enough to eat."
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10/10 |
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(1999) |
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"A bracing, mesmerizing, bitterly funny and deeply unsettling fable."
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3/6 |
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(2008) |
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"The result isn’t pro-war, just pro cleaning up the mess, one amputee at a time."
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Time Out New York |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Westby's sympathy for the Scottys of the world is evident, but like them he doesn't always know how to put his best face forward."
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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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"Naim's potential is evident, but his debut is a frustrating exercise in missed opportunities."
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The characters are paper-thin, and many of the plot's contrivances are just plain silly."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The formula is so rigid that no matter how clever the variations, they're still fundamentally predictable: Any character around long enough to acquire a name is bound to wind up resting in pieces."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Certainly evidence that truth is stranger than fiction, but it's also tedious and shockingly uninvolving."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"[Fisher's] heavy-handed montage of war, civil rights demonstrations... is so amateurish it very nearly succeeds in trivializing the power of [Shicoff's] performance."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Is aimed squarely at everyone who loved Good Will Hunting...it's the same only different -- the very definition of formula fiction."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Forster approaches this story of elaborately repressed desires with admirable restraint, resisting the temptation to reduce Barrie to a tangle of pop pathologies."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It feels as though everyone involved was having a rollicking good time, and while the film itself is wildly uneven, Lin and company get in a few pointed jabs at Hollywood fatuousness and self-delusion, cultural stereotypes and '70s fashions."
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(1997) |
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"You have to give Seagal points for having his heart in more or less the right place, but Fire Down Below is a hugely silly movie."
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Film Journal International |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Just when the film seems to be getting bogged down in 'before I made it big' anecdotes, Gurwitch wisely broadens her focus, interviewing ordinary victims of corporate 'right-sizing.'"
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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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"Wassel's reach exceeds his grasp: The film's storytelling is choppy and sometimes obscures important relationships, and not all of the actors are capable of the emotional range that would give their characters convincingly tragic dimensions."
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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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"Almost two hours of tedious vulgarity, which leaves plenty of time to feel sorry for Greenwood, whose efforts to deliver a warm, subtle performance are regularly upstaged by poo jokes and bratty hijinks."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A high-tech variation on The Desperate Hours (1955, 1993), this thoroughly formulaic thriller, in which a middle-aged everyman has to go mano a mano with the bad guys who threaten his family, goes through the motions with singular dispiritedness."
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(1997) |
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"Simultaneously coolly stylized and surprisingly emotionally persuasive."
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Film Journal International |
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