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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Despite its low budget, the assets of Fessenden's film include startlingly rich cinematography and an above-average cast, most of whom have roots in New York's downtown performance scene."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The monstrous images that are so effective in Plympton's short Plymptoons can be unpleasant at feature length and eventually overwhelm what is, at heart, a Grease-like teen–movie parody."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's a pallid, unthreatening version of Waters' original, but it's also breezy, light entertainment, good clean fun on the order of -- who'd have thought it? -- Disney's blockbuster High School Musical."
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1.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The entire movie is so formulaic and forgettable that it's hardly over before it begins to fade from memory."
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(1998) |
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"It's a blast."
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Rosenthal (Halloween II) seems to have forgotten everything he ever knew about generating suspense."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's genuinely funny, oddly romantic and surprisingly engaging for what could easily have been an obnoxious vanity project."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For parents who were unable to secure tickets for the young fans in their households, it's nothing short of a godsend."
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8/10 |
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(2001) |
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"Though the movie is clearly meant to work on its own, the relationship between Starling and Lecter plays best if you're familiar with Lambs."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Both silly and preachy."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Attal's characters are one-note position statements, which forces the unsubtle soundtrack...to bear the brunt of clarifying their thoughts and feelings."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"In all, it's a peculiar mishmash, simultaneously bland and suggestive."
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Roos' sly, throwaway insights into the ways people deceive and undermine themselves are both ruefully funny and painfully on the mark."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Sharply written, flawlessly acted."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A queasy blend of exploitation-movie nastiness and blunt moral lesson."
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(1998) |
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"Anyone who goes in expecting unbridled dopey fun will be disappointed."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Reminiscent of 1970s Italian crime pictures, which ratcheted up the violence and cynicism of their American models but invariably lost something in the translation."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Hurwitz and Schlossberg's sensibilities are coarse, juvenile, lewd, relentlessly tasteless and sometimes surprisingly perceptive when it comes to the glorious variety of racial stereotyping. The film isn't subtle but it can be funny."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Making such a tragedy the backdrop to a love story risks trivializing it, though Chouraqui no doubt intended the film to affirm love's power to help people endure almost unimaginable horror."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Inventive visuals and funny bits abound, but the film's gritty look and unsentimental characterizations -- Harry, Hermione and Ron are far from golden teens -- ominously foreshadow the truly wicked shape of things to come."
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(2009) |
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"The impending magical apocalypse and the agonies of young love get equal time in this fantasy with its roots planted firmly in the realm of real human relationships and experience."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It feels like a placeholder, not because little happens but because so much plot must be served in order to set up subsequent events that there's no room for the gentle human moments that anchor Rowling's heroic fantasy epic to the everyday world."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[Cuaron] leaves his mark without betraying the source material."
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3.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"It may be long, but it's not boring."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"[T]he film never really engages..."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"[Toback's] fondness for fancy split-screen, stuttering editing and pompous references to Wittgenstein and Kirkegaard ... blends uneasily with the titillating material."
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6/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Loud, obvious and without a wisp of ambience!"
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(2008) |
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"This old-fashioned thriller about satanic pacts and collateral damage delivers tame shocks and a cast full of TV-friendly faces, from Gossip Girl heartthrob Chace Crawford to Jake Weber of Medium."
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Film Journal International |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"What could have been a routine but entertaining crime story gets hopelessly muddled in its telling, despite the efforts of a generally strong cast."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Despite the high-powered credits... this slight cautionary tale about slumming rich kids is a minor effort."
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Though too long by a good half hour, Lee's latest film packs a genuine emotional punch."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Uncovering the dark face of a sugared-rose like Tatou is a good gimmick, but it's not enough to sustain a feature-length film."
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"There's never a dull moment and seldom one that isn't sublimely ridiculous."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"This limp comedy is never as nasty as it ought to be."
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The throbbing, insinuating soundtrack is terrific, and the animated interludes are a welcome respite from the blathering heads, but Senger's point, if he has one, is maddeningly unclear."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Williams, Bonham Carter and Bettany all deliver beautifully shaded performances."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"While in her earlier movies Jennifer Love Hewitt made an impression by spilling out of her tops, in this one she spills out of her clothes at both ends."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A Stephen King tale with the merest hint of the supernatural, suspended in syrupy nostalgia..."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The conclusion, clearly meant to feel ambiguously poetic, is distinctly unsatisfying."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Uneven, profane and occasionally flat-out hilarious."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Terrio keeps the multiple stories flowing smoothly, and the setting goes a long way to justify the web of fortuitous interconnections."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Solidly entertaining and surprisingly free of the Mamet-isms that can suck the life right out of the most tightly crafted story."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"For anyone unfamiliar with pentacostal practices in general and theatrical phenomenon of Hell Houses in particular, it's an eye-opener."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Both dull and pretentious."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Ephemeral films expert Rick Prelinger is on hand to situate the films in a larger cultural context but the clips speak louder than any interview, evoking a pre-seatbelt era of highway carnage and celluloid tough love."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"[A] handsomely styled horror picture, which also makes a good-faith effort to differentiate among the victims-to-be before it starts picking them off."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[Hellboy] is gloomily gorgeous, but its tone careens recklessly between light comedy and dark portentousness and the character relationships suffer."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The wonders are, if not endless, then abundant. And in a movie landscape where "effects" too often supersedes "special," wonders are worth savoring."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though their interest sometime borders on obsessive, [director] Hustwit's stellar roster of experts parse Helvetica's origins and implications with engaging passion and striking articulateness."
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(1996) |
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"A genuinely creepy and entirely worthy follow-up to McNaughton's film."
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