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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The film's persuasively doom-haunted atmosphere and star Christian Bale's astonishing transformation into an emaciated walking skeleton are hypnotic, in a roadkill, rubbernecking sort of way."
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"But Ash is a charmer, and Russell (whose Irish accent is passable) flings around her fondly remembered mane with flirtatious gusto."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The film benefits from a phenomenal central performance by Lopez de Ayala."
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(2001) |
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"An assured directing debut studded with cleverly realized moments."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The film's a trifle, but a beautifully crafted one."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[The film is] too long and its tone is disconcertingly uneven, but Perry never betrays or condescends to his characters: He agonizes with their unhappiness and rejoices in their victories."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Only Rejtman's sharp eye for absurd detail and the bleakly subtle joke separates comedy from tragedy."
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10/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Anderson gives his cast the room to deliver phenomenal performances."
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1/5 |
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(2004) |
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"This amateurish comedy features some amazing sequences shot in Moscow. But everything else about it is second rate."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The result, a dissection of the complicated dynamics of sexual and economic exploitation, is pitiless and occasionally inspired."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Darabont seem to have conceived this nostalgic tear-jerker in the tradition of Hail the Conquering Hero, without noticing that Preston Sturges's response to small-town patriotism was an astringent shot of satire."
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2/5 |
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"Although the story is as predictable as can be ... the performances are better than those in most super-low budget horror pictures, and Jessica Gallant's super-16mm cinematography is surprisingly handsome."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The performances are better than one might expect from a cast of first-timers and lightly employed professionals, and Mena's characters rarely do the sort of spectacularly stupid things that provoke derisive laughter from seasoned horror-moviegoers."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The impulses that produced this project ... are commendable, but the results are uneven."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"If it weren't for the running flatulence gag, the whole silly business might be mistaken for slight, clean, fast-moving fun."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The film works best when it's sticking to the guns and poses conventions of macho crime pictures. When it reaches for emotional resonance, the results range from unconvincing to ludicrous."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"It's Jagger's bone-dry, mournfully brittle delivery that gives the film its bittersweet bite."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[This] irresistible documentary about self-taught topiary artist Pearl Fryar is a portrait of a polite, church-going, thoroughly decent man who found his bliss training and trimming discarded plants into fantastical things of beauty."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If the film ultimately amounts to little more than a midlife coming-of-age story, it's richly imagined and filled with fanciful touches that are in keeping with its passionate subject."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Packaged as a rollicking political comedy, writer-director Barry Levinson's much-ballyhooed reunion with Robin Williams wobbles unsteadily between broad humor and paranoid thrills. The result is a bland muddle."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[Scott] cares too much about stylishness to let the festering ugliness of true vigilantism stain his carefully art-directed mise-en-scene."
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7/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Milos Forman's film is a series of incredible simulations that never quite cohere into a movie."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Even as Andre's journey takes detours into stalking, counterfeiting, robbery and worse, the film maintains an incongruous sweetness of tone."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Undermined by [Potter's] awkward script, which is weighted down by its conspicuously big ideas."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Clever, in a 'dare you to name this hommage' kind of way, but it's fundamentally heartless and coldly hollow."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A fine and thought-provoking film in its own right."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A bit amateurish, but wholesome and achingly sweet."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The film accomplishes the near-impossible, conjuring up and maintaining an unremittingly bad vibe that speaks wordless volumes about the Family's evolution from sex-driven hippie commune to the drug-fueled slaughter machine."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Reservations aside, Jacquet's film is an extraordinary document of life at nature's extremes."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Slyly devastating."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Shot on digital video as murky as Masuoka's imagination, its creeping sense of dank dread is as slow to build as it is hard to shake."
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3.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The film's ensemble portrait of women caught between nostalgia for the tough and free-spirited babes they were ... and uncertainty about what their futures hold is almost painfully on target."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's a shame to see such dedicated performers flay their psyches in the service of such fundamentally shallow material."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Moreno's subtly calibrated mix of intelligence, naivete, rebelliousness, charisma and practicality produces an unforgettable protagonist."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[It's] of a piece with Lost in Translation in its sympathetic depiction of a pampered girl-woman whose unhappiness is no less real for being the pure product of privilege."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"a colorful charmer that might even persuade a few skeptics to check out the real thing."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This well-intentioned film about loss, grief and new beginnings gets bogged down in syrupy cliches and blunt self-help dialogue."
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3.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Small but beautifully acted drama."
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(2008) |
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"You don't have to be Catholic to shudder at Pascal Laugier's bitterly apocalyptic Martyrs, but it helps."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"[A] ragged political satire."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"There's no need to be a fan of Patrick O'Brian's 20 Aubrey/Maturin novels to enjoy Peter Weir's adaptation of the first and tenth entries in the series."
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1/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Painfully unfunny and misguided to boot."
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(2008) |
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"Aditya Chopra's romantic comedy could teach Hollywood a thing or two about breathing life into hoary cliches."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"This thin chronicle of bad behavior among the rich and self-obsessed is above all painfully derivative, borrowing wholesale from Theodore Dreiser's An American Tragedy and echoes Allen's own Crimes and Misdemeanors."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"A breezy crime picture with an unforced sentimental underbelly."
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"This dazzling pop allegory is steeped in a dark, pulpy sensibility that transcends nostalgic pastiche and stands firmly on its own merits."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"More comic book-like and less intriguing than the original, the film's punch-drunk cyber-mysticism still has a darkly seductive allure that sets it apart from juvenile, Star Wars-style space opera."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It brings the saga to a satisfying close."
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(2001) |
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"The chronology is haphazard, and facts about the exploitation business are delivered offhandedly and without context."
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"McKee's darkly clever notion that tragic hipsters doing their second-hand damnedest to be weird are thoroughly unprepared to handle someone who truly is weird gets bogged down in a listless narrative and one-dimensional characterizations."
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