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(2008) |
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"An offbeat a comedy of discomfort."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"This film's lavishly beautiful animation is as sophisticated as the story is solemnly dopey."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Ashley Sabin and David Redmon's bittersweet film documents the efforts of two New Orleans natives to help their beloved city heal from Hurricane Katrina's devastation."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The production design, score and choreography are simply intoxicating."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Once it settles down, it becomes a star-making vehicle for Jackman, and a supremely polished example of the sort of swoony love story cherished by women who secretly hope that some day their prince will come."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"While sumptuously beautiful, the film is often stilted and undermined by some painfully amateurish performances that no good intentions can smooth over."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Director and cowriter Niall Johnson's black comedy falters at the end, but until then it manages to wring gentle humor from murder most well bred."
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3.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"A very entertaining, hugely neurotic romantic comedy!"
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"If only there were some spark between Modine and Gershon (who's hampered by an annoying and unnecessary English accent)."
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2.5/5 |
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(1955) |
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"Rosen attempts to provide a rounded picture of the composer's life and work through archival footage and voice-over readings by Eric Bogosian from Khachaturian's diaries and letters, but the man remains a less vivid presence than his music."
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Even by the low standards of formulaic sports comedies, this one comes up short."
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Either the most inept vanity production ever made or the most deadpan satirical prank ever pulled."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A snazzy kick -- it's never less than hugely entertaining -- that should in no way be mistaken for an unbiased account."
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"If your sensibilities are in line with Tarantino's, the result is sheer sleaze Nirvana."
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4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The more intense your own relationship with movies, the harder it is to resist Tarantino's love of reinvigorating the exploitation icons of his youth and synthesizing the vivid movie-going experiences of his cherished memories."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Preposterous without being surreal."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A small film whose virtues are probably best appreciated on tape."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Were there more meat on the bones of this fable about hypocrisy and spiritual hollowness, [director] Marsh's pacing might seem deliberate rather then merely slow."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"It's hard to see the point in cobbling together scraps of legend and even smaller scraps of historical fact into a story this generic."
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"[Jackson] delivers three solid hours of breathless, enchanting entertainment."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The stranger-than-fiction cast of characters is fascinating, and their high-stakes machinations are nothing short of mind-boggling."
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1/5 |
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(2005) |
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"[A] crass, trashy and none-too-funny comedy."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Scott's skill at handling of action sequences is thrilling, but Bloom lacks the gravity and raw charisma his role demands and robs the film of narrative urgency."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ejiofor's polished, energetic performance -- including several song-and-dance numbers -- enlivens what's basically comfort food in movie form, but sometimes comfort food is exactly what the doctor ordered."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"[Allows] the actors to inhabit characters who are painfully contradictory, frustrating, flawed, vulnerable and bound to each other."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"This tribute to old-fashioned hard-boiled detective fiction is laced with Hollywood satire and the snappy, lightning-fast dialogue that helped make writer-turned-director Shane Black's name synonymous with hard-edged '90s action comedies."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The story is formulaic, but this brutal, fast-paced thriller makes excellent use of Li's martial arts prowess."
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(1997) |
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"It isn't the first hellbound road movie to end up on a nuclear testing site in the desert (there's always Kalifornia), but Bennett makes you feel as though you haven't seen it before."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A light, formulaic romantic comedy that plays with genre conventions just enough to make its cotton-candy charms feel almost fresh."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"... the film is relentlessly peppy, often quite funny, sometimes a bit too convinced of its own adorableness and ultimately as smoothly reassuring as a TV sitcom."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"This brazen mix of old and new is undermined by the predictable story, shallow characterizations and a dopey sense of humor that evokes Monty Python and the Holy Grail without actually being especially funny."
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1.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Suffice it to say that it plays exceptionally badly in English."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The film never finds its tone and several scenes run too long."
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(2009) |
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""Front-loaded with a pervasive sense of unease ... but once the plot's wheels start grinding in earnest, [it] follows that runaway subway train off the rails.""
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2.5/5 |
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"Whether deliberate or accidental, the look of stunned perplexity on little Jadu's face when he finds himself in the middle of a hillside musical number is itself worth the price of admission."
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Antal's debut is a sharp, blackly comic hugely entertaining thriller that manages not to get entangled in half-baked symbolism until its very last shot."
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(1997) |
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"A cheerful, fast-paced entertainment that's truer to the spirit of classic pulp than, say, John Milius' brutal, mean-spirited Conan the Barbarian."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"You don't have to be a kung-fu freak to revel in the film's energetic silliness, but it helps."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Beautifully animated, the celebrity voice performances are terrific, and the action sequences negotiate the fine line between being physically convincing and becoming too intense for the young children who are the film’s primary audience."
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1/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Mocking kung fu pictures when they were a staple of exploitation theater programming was witty. Mocking them now is an exercise in pointlessness."
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