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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's transition from sight gags to tear-stained family drama is especially abrupt, and most of the musical sequences are undistinguished."
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Film Journal International |
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5/10 |
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(1998) |
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"Preachy."
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(1997) |
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"There's a certain novelty factor at work here that may appeal to die-hard Willis fans... As to everyone else, it's hard to imagine why they'd want to bother."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This heady mix of fantasy, romance and mind-bending monkeyshines survived a tortured development process ... to emerge, if not unscathed, intact and intense."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(1997) |
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"A modest crime thriller."
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Film Journal International |
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"That this modest crime thriller can't quite live up to its audacious dance across so many strata of hip and hommage and self-referential cool it makes your head spin is hardly a surprise, or even a criticism."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A disappointing tease of a movie, all low-rent glimmer and ominous hints of something awful that either happened or is going to happen."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(1993) |
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"The best thing filmmaker Reinhard Jud does is nothing: He just lets Ellroy be Ellroy, and you could hardly ask for more."
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The plot's contrivances are uncomfortably strained."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/5 |
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(2002) |
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"This film is painfully predictable."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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6/10 |
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(1998) |
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"It all looks great, but really...who cares?"
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Humor leans heavily on elementary pop-culture parody, a particularly tiresome and parasitic form of humor that depends on an audience of smirking know-it-alls who can be trusted to snicker whenever they get the reference."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"While billed as 'an intimate look' at Jay-Z, the film reveals next to nothing about him beyond the fact that he possesses a formidable ability to spin and remember lengthy rhymes, however vulgar and reductive their content."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Too many undifferentiated teens in peril undermines this landlocked variation on Lifeboat."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"It's more clever than funny ha-ha, and has a handful of seriously creepy moments ... the movie a smarty-pants horror buff cooks up while ticking off grade-Z slasher clichés."
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Horror Hacker |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"This slight but thoroughly charming film benefits immeasurably from the assured performances of leads Juliette Binoche and Jean Reno."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Now that's entertainment."
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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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"Though overall an overwhelmingly positive portrayal, the film doesn't ignore the more problematic aspects of Brown's life."
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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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"Both excruciatingly dreadful and so truly peculiar that it's hard to look away."
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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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"The minutiae of Carter's book tour isn't always enthralling, but his personality drives the film: pious, stubborn, devoted to his wife, curious, professional, warm and yet slightly removed from the fray, conciliatory, meticulous, self-effacing, funny."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Whaley's determination to immerse you in sheer, unrelenting wretchedness is exhausting."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2008) |
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"There's something to look at even when there's nothing going on, which is seldom, and Rai and Roshan are exceptionally attractive swathed in pearls and glittering gems."
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Film Journal International |
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The bad news (or perhaps this is the good news, if you're a 10-year-old boy) is that the big yucks (in both senses of that word) are derived from fart lighting, elaborate poo gags, and an attenuated bit about a dog who gets his bits frozen to a porch."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"One of the movie's first images is a flashing 'Auto Pilot' sign, and that's how it seems to have been made."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A problem picture that says all the right things and does all the wrong ones."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Witless parodies of James Bond-style spy thrillers don't come much more pointless than this dopey vehicle for Rowan Atkinson in Mr. Bean mode."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Nelson's film eschews sensationalism, and knowing how the story ends in no way diminishes its visceral impact."
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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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"A formulaic thriller too in love with its own intelligence to bother with the lowbrow business of being scary."
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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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"This dumbed-down spin on Jules Verne's classic adventure tale was devised as a kid-friendly roller-coaster ride, and it delivers the goods. Whether anyone over the age of eight wants the goods is another matter altogether."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"This taut thriller is sharply directed by John Dahl and benefits from fine, low-key performances by Walker, Sobieski and Zahn."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A beguiling mix of the generic and the unfamiliar, and it ends on a shot that's nothing short of heartbreaking."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Shimizu generates a sense of palpable dread in each segment, expertly manipulating tried-and-true scare tactics supplemented by a truly inspired use of spooky sound effects."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film looks great, but at a brisk 88 minutes, there's no time to fill in back story, and the cliffhanger ending is so abrupt that the movie seems bizarrely truncated."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Morrison and screenwriter Angus MacLachlan put an unusual spin on the old chestnuts, playing them straight -- well, almost straight -- and letting the subtle, knotty humanity shine through the surface tics and traits."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"First-time screenwriter Cody Diablo's gently comic, different-for-girls tale of a pregnant, hyper-verbal teenager is the distaff answer to the testosterone-fueled hijinks of movies like Knocked Up and Superbad."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Veterans of the dating wars will smirk uneasily at the film's nightmare versions of everyday sex-in-the-city misadventures."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Even a bracing mean streak can't save this gross-out romantic comedy from its lazy mess of a script, a string of slapstick gags that demand arbitrary, stupid and out-of-character behavior from all concerned."
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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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"[Drew] drags down an otherwise likable drama that draws its three stories together in a quietly effective climax."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A disturbing examination of what appears to be the definition of a 'bad' police shooting."
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