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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Spacey's Vincennes is the standout in a just about flawless ensemble, and director Curtis Hanson keeps the hugely complicated story zooming along the boulevard of broken dreams without losing sight of the details that make the trip worthwhile."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Silly, good-natured and full of unlikely moves."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Unpredictable deviations from the formula ... keep the film interesting."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist David Turnley's first feature, photographed in shimmering black and white, is a portrait of the Havana dance hall La Tropical, but is first and foremost a celebration of Cuban dance and music."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Cotillard's riveting performance, distinctive gestures and defiantly wounded body language without ever descending into mere impersonation. It's sometimes wrenching to watch, but it's too gripping to turn away from."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This good-natured genre piece gets the job done while sneaking in a couple of pointed observations about contemporary Latino immigrant life."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The result is a soggy swamp of nyah-nyah-nyah-nyah-nyahing, its only grace notes are Giamatti's fine, nuanced performance as Heep and Christopher Doyle's handsome cinematography."
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A leaden, tone-deaf remake."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A mess that works on the level of swoony fantasy if you're willing to accept that it makes absolutely no sense, not even within the context of its supernatural premise."
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(2001) |
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"The same old Mamet stuff, and not even top-drawer Mamet."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This tediously predictable thriller about Los Angeles yuppies terrorized by their blue-collar neighbor is undone by its pretensions to seriousness."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Strident, bombastic parable."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Jolie is a far better actress than this relentlessly shallow material warrants."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"It's all about action and ogling."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"...There's something fundamentally hollow about a film whose main character is entirely defined by his dysfunction and whose supporting characters exist only to enable it."
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2.5/5 |
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(1987) |
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"In keeping with his generally perverse filmmaking aesthetic, von Trier systematically does everything he can to alienate horror enthusiasts."
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(2006) |
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"In the end, the tiny Shimohira's voice is the most powerful, bearing witness in hopes that future generations will choose peace over war."
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(1996) |
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"Painfully unhip vanity project, with pretensions to being a scathingly satirical look at the contemporary culture of empty celebrity."
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Film Journal International |
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(2008) |
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"Without [Emma] Thompson's valiant efforts, Last Chance Harvey would be too dismal for cable; with them it's simply a trifle."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Provides an illuminating glimpse into what goes on in the dance studio."
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(2009) |
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"The remake of Wes Craven's notorious rape-revenge shocker is a crowd-pleaser rather than a grim moral lesson about the price of doing very bad things, and as long as the downbeat lead-in doesn't put them off, the third-act payoff will have audiences cheer"
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Forest Whitaker's mesmerizing performance as Idi Amin drives Kevin Macdonald's adaptation of Giles Foden's 1998 novel about the dictator's reign of terror, which left Uganda's once-thriving economy in ruins and at least 300,000 of his countrymen dead."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Nimbly sidesteps the pitfalls inherent in stories about perpetual adolescents resisting maturity with every ounce of their strength."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"... veterans Danner and Wilkinson effortlessly make Anna and Stephen more interesting than all the youngsters combined."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"In the end, there isn't much to it."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Avrich's colorful account of Wasserman's career starts out looking like a puff piece, but quickly reveals a refreshing willingness to delve into the dirty side of a glamorous business."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"An honorable film hamstrung by Hollywood conventions."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Nathanson processes this pungent stew of greed, ambition and self-delusion into pablum so sweet and bland it wouldn't shock a convent-raised idealist."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Marred by a certain awkward earnestness."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A little bit nutty and pretty entertaining in a thoroughly unconvincing way. And watch out for that 11th-hour twist -- it's a head snapper."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Unlike many filmmakers who try to stake out the gray area between mundane reality and sleazy surreality, Ruscio maintains a successful balance throughout and gracefully brings the two together in a delicately ambiguous final scene."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"McDormand's powerhouse performance alone compensates for many minor deficiencies."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Despite its leisurely pace, this unpretentious, character-driven picture is a low-key charmer."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Though style ultimately outweighs substance, the film is formidably entertaining."
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1/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Numbingly ordinary."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director and star George Clooney's game attempt to capture the high-spirited silliness of classic screwball comedies falls flat, in large part because Duncan Brantley and Rick Reilly's screenplay lacks sparkle."
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1/4 |
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(1997) |
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"All but the most easily pleased kids will be bored as can be, and anyone who has fond memories of TV's Leave It to Beaver would probably rather not besmirch them."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The film's overall approach is deft, and Sen resists the urge to paint any of the major characters in broad strokes."
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6/10 |
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(2001) |
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"This picture's b-movie values probably play better on video than in theaters."
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"With elephants and horses galore joining the thousands of Thai army and navy personnel conscripted into battle sequences, the spectacle is unimpeachable."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Though it reunites the stars and director of the rousingly old-fashioned swashbuckler The Mask of Zorro (1998), this unnecessary and overlong sequel fails to recapture its predecessor's zing."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's main attractions are the Charlottes, but the price of watching their eerie psychological pas de deux is to endure muddled metaphors and goofy gadgetry."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"This stylized gothic fairy tale unfolds in a Dickensian once-upon-a-time world, a Victorian England of the mind retrofitted with gee-whiz modern conveniences flawlessly realized by production designer Rick Heinrichs."
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(2008) |
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"A chilling coming-of-age story in which a miserable adolescent strikes up a friendship with a vampire girl who appears to be own his age but has, she says, been 12 "for a very long time.""
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3.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"This documentary is first and foremost an exploration of Weber's personal obsessions. But this particular obsession, jazz trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, has a rich and evocative story."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The sad thing is that Arnett, Shepard and McBride quickly establish a loose, easy camaraderie that's a real pleasure to watch. The shame is that they're working with such unrewarding material."
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1/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Cynical and contemptuous of its audience, this lazy sequel oozes an insufferable air of self-satisfaction."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It's hard not to feel sorry for the high-profile cast, obviously working for brownie points in heaven -- they're so good, yet nothing they do can make the movie fly."
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2/4 |
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(1997) |
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"A sickly soft-swirl confection of low laughs and smarmy sentiment..."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Though Dunsmore, Depp and Jeffreys' conceits work more vividly as ideas than as filmmaking, they're ruthlessly true to themselves and grimly powerful."
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