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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Whether you find either man funny or infuriating depends in large part on whether you identify more with their narcissistic quests for self-knowledge or the collateral damage left in their wakes."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Despite the period setting, the Mortmains' tribulations will be familiar to anyone who ever felt a stranger in his/her own family or despaired of finding a place in the world."
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Hudson and Gallman both aim for the heart rather than the head, and this is heart-wrenching stuff."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Falls into the formulaic rhythms of modern fables in which disaster turns out to be a blessing in disguise."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"David O. Russell's smarty-pants head-trip, which aims to provoke discussion of big questions by wrapping them in hipster laughs, begins with a sputtering burst of profanity and ends up struggling in the sticky strands of its own elaborate contrivances."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Simultaneously nasty and painfully dull."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[Shopsin is] a small piece of New York history, and Mahurin's film is the portrait he deserves: small, noisy and oddly engaging beneath the bluster."
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(1997) |
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"At 73 minutes, [Plympton's] obsessions become repetitive and even a little dull."
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(2009) |
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"A fresh, darkly funny blend of crime [graverobbing, to be precise] and supernatural hijinks ... that delivers an offbeat but carefully balanced mix of shocks, homages and uneasy chuckles."
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1.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"The attractive youngsters run, scream, declare that this can't be happening and repeat as necessary."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Boyer dutifully follows Sutherland and the band around hotels, and documents a series of shows, devoting generous screen time to DeLuca's tormented repertory, but overall the drama stays between the lines."
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(1997) |
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"It's a tribute to Conor McPherson's richly detailed script and the fine performances by McDonald and Gleeson that they genuinely do grow on you."
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(1999) |
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"A shameless, straightforward soap opera (no Almodovarian excess here!), but it's pretty entertaining on its own sudsy terms."
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"It gets off to a grating start, but this slight comedy eventually finds its feet and delivers a holiday-themed package made up in equal parts of mild laughs and sweet-as-sweet-can-be sentiment."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Preston's script is a frustrating jumble of provocatively elliptical exchanges and awkwardly obvious exposition."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Salvatores draws strikingly unsentimental performances from his young actors, all making their film debuts, and juxtaposes the petty meanness of children with the calculated cruelty of desperate adults to haunting effect."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"An unexpectedly engaging futuristic mystery."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Prehistory's first blended herd begins a new adventure some tens of thousands of years after joining forces in the face of a global deep freeze (no, the math doesn't work, so stop worrying about it)."
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Beautifully acted, refreshingly un-camp in its take on wide lapels and progressive rock and occasionally coolly moving. It's just that ultimately, there's less here than meets the eye."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The puzzle pieces are all there. But when you put them all together, the result is a bit of a gyp -- neat but utterly forgettable."
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5/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Less-than-inspired!"
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film winds up being neither fish nor fowl, and sat on the shelf for the better part of two years before being released."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lazy little thriller about murder in the Hamptons aspires to update classic noir situations and characters but falls sadly short."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Produced by John Singleton for writer-director Franc. Reyes, this preposterous tale of crime-family values should be far more entertaining than it is."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This handsome, elegant and restrained fable about love, artifice and power in fin de siecle Vienna is lavishly imagined and yet oddly airless."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Harris evidently aspired to the cathartic intensity of Greek tragedy. But his derivative pastiche feels like the Cliff's Notes precis version of WASP-misery cliches."
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"What's the difference between documentary and hagiography? Directors James Stern and Don Kempf don't seem to have given the matter much thought."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Though of particular interest to students and enthusiast of international dance and world music, the film is designed to make viewers of all ages, cultural backgrounds and rhythmic ability want to get up and dance."
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3/5 |
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(1998) |
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"Dynamite 3-D dinosaurs invade an Afterschool Special-style story."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A pleasant surprise."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In Between Days is a small slice of a suspended life, intimate and filled with the mundane details most people forget when the waiting is over and their real lives begin."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film is a trifle, but a darkly entertaining one."
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"The greatest mystery ... is how this thoroughly trashy picture wound up opening theatrically, rather than going direct to video where its sleazy assets might have been appreciated."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"An inconsequential sitcom spiked with a couple of well-placed barbs."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's soul is the musicians whose love for Mozart's compositions is as vibrant as their desire to share it."
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4/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Meticulously observed and devastatingly well-acted."
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"A bitterly promising screenwriting-directing debut from playwright Neil LaBute."
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1.5/5 |
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"Were the film's tone not so hysterical it might be provocative; as it is, insights and insults are inextricably intertwined."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Kudlacek's film includes interviews with a fascinating cross-section of Deren's contemporaries, as well as generous excerpts from her films."
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"That the 27-year-old Usher isn't much of an actor is no surprise, but he's strikingly uncharismatic for someone who's been in the spotlight since he was six."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Brevity is the soul of camp, and at close to two-and-a-half hours, Boll's film is just too exhausting to be fun."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"David Sington's stunning documentary sweeps away the layers of cynicism and familiarity, giving nine men who were there the opportunity to tell their riveting stories."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though the portentous title is taken from the Old Testament, the film's concerns are painfully timely and forcefully articulated."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"As a film, An Inconvenient Truth falls somewhere between an auditorium survey class and a stump speech, and if it covers no new ground, it benefits greatly from Gore's air of educated sobriety and principled rectitude ..."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Brad Bird's richly imagined, retro-moderne homage to the superhero-fueled daydreams of his youth creates a vibrantly original mythology."
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Finally, science fiction the way it used to be: rousing, cosmically xenophobic and ferociously patriotic... Take that, space bullies!"
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(2001) |
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"Everyone involved obviously had a blast, but in the end this is a one-joke movie, and the joke is stretched too thin."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The overall effect is either exhilarating or exhausting, depending on your emotional investment in the franchise, but credit where credit is due: Steven Spielberg and George Lucas set out to make one for the fans and delivered."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Both [films] feature a cast of characters who are truly stranger than fiction and raise questions about the packaging of real-life events that resonate more powerfully than ever in the infotainment age."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Even when the film is in danger of getting bogged down in its own complications, the hard-boiled poetry of its images is arresting."
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