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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's a one-gag film that rises or falls on how funny you find the sight of fat, grease-slicked Jack Black crammed into spandex pants and capering like an epileptic lamb."
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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 restaged version of the long-running Off-Broadway revue of the same title, Naked Boys Singing delivers exactly what it promises."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Thoughtful essay."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Familiar story, electrifying execution."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Offers a bit of NASCAR history, a smattering of engineering facts, glimpses of some of the sport's most popular personalities and a whole lot of hyperbolic chatter about the populist glory of driving really noisy cars in a circle at 200 miles per hour."
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1/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Even by the debased standards of later films released under the National Lampoon banner, this is sorry stuff."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A silly, stupendously artificial enterprise."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This retelling of the familiar tale is as solemnly predictable as a Catholic-school nativity play, and nearly as dull."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The story is small, but their performances give it depth and weight."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Jordan's nightmarish vision of the Australian landscape is vividly haunting."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This unlikely hybrid of The Karate Kid and Fight Club is formulaic and derivative, but sufficiently well made to work as both teen-angst melodrama and bone-rattling brawl picture."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/6 |
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(2008) |
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"Writer-director Gina Kim channels Douglas Sirk by way of Korean tearjerkers of the 1960s in this overheated melodrama."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A late-night cable sexploitation romp masquerading as a thriller about the ruthless social order that governs college cliques."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Lame, derivative comedy."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Performances are solid and the washed-out, blue-tinged cinematography lends a sickish aura to the soul-eroding cubicles, offices and conference rooms that all too vividly evoke the mind-set of depressed wage slaves."
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(1999) |
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"A big mess."
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Film Journal International |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Reconceiving Pocahontas and Smith as symbols of the noble savage and the man tragically stunted by civilization's constraints isn't inherently truer than the legend."
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(2009) |
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"Kabir Khan uses thriller conventions to address such issues as the suspension of civil liberties and the [US] government's ever-expanding power to harass, detain and deny due process to detainees."
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Miss FlickChick |
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6/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Its greatest liability, unfortunately, is Madonna."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The sweet romantic comedy overwhelms the satirical bitterness, producing a fluffy, pleasant, instantly forgettable picture that feels more than a little behind the times."
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7/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Vulgar, stupid and un-PC as it may be, this sequel to 1995's surprise hit Friday is also sporadically funny... occasionally very funny."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Earnest and clumsy in equal parts."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"While it echoes a host of CGI-heavy, action-oriented supernatural thrillers, it manages to retain its own distinct identity. Although this first chapter in a three-part tale is inevitably overburdened with back story, it ends on one hell of a cliff-hanger"
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Painfully maudlin and cliched."
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(1998) |
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"Saddled with a nominally respectable cast and given a theatrical release, its cliched story and gratuitous nastiness leave a bad taste."
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"For dance completists only."
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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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"Parmar's film is light and sweet, comfort food dressed up with a dash of exotic spice."
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Time Out New York |
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Walks a thin line between refreshing irreverence and shameless exploitation of offensive gay stereotypes."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The overall impression is of lives that began before Garcia started shooting and continued after the camera was shut off, a remarkable and quietly haunting achievement."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"A smart, enormously entertaining thriller whose preposterous conclusion in no way diminishes the fun of getting there."
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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 payoff fizzles, but the buildup is intriguing until it topples under its own weight."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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6/10 |
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(1999) |
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"This tale may well weave a more compelling spell on the page; onscreen it's simply ponderous."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There's less to the Coen brothers' adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's 2005 somber thriller than meets the eye, but it's a hugely entertaining slice of sunbaked Gothic."
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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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"Hruska's bloodless little fairy tale is utterly innocuous and instantly forgettable."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"If you never learn much about the man behind the mask, well, that's as Nomi would have wanted it."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Meticulously crafted but frustratingly meaningless."
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1.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Joel Gallen (who created the MTV Movie Awards) and screenwriters Michael G. Bender, Adam Jay Epstein, Andrew Jacobson, Phil Beauman and Buddy Johnson all seem to have labored under the delusion that alluding to pop-cultural tropes is inherently comical."
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(2009) |
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"Atlanta-based playwright Tyler Perry owns the urban moral fable, but the handful of others clamoring for their piece of the pie include mega-church entrepreneur T.D. Jakes, ..."
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"Engaging, fast-paced documentary about the glory days of Australian exploitation movies that will delight existing fans of scurrilous films from Down Ynder and recruit new one from the ranks of moviegoers who aren't offended by extensive nudity, violence"
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Film Journal International |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"With lesser actresses in the leads, it could be merely nasty, but in Dench and Blanchett's hands, it's scathingly tragic without ever resorting to vulgar melodrama."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"While [director] Kudlacek lets some of the elder statesmen ramble, their recollections are a vivid, firsthand window into a bygone era of American art."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"A big, bad bundle of biopic cliches, a glitzy whitewash filled with wince-inducing dialogue and propelled by a smug, from-beyond-the-grave voiceover."
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Miss FlickChick |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Harron and Turner toy with an underdeveloped theme involving Page's efforts to reconcile shame-based religious teachings and her belief that God made the nude body and invested it with an inherent spark of the divine."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Julia Roberts flashes her megawatt smile, Hugh Grant does his patented dithering English fellow bit and they're just as cute as two buttons in this winning romantic comedy."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"It's all too arty for its own good."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/5 |
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(2005) |
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"An unpleasant slog to an unrewarding conclusion that feels far longer than it is."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[The film] squanders a promising premise and a lot of cool special effects on a story that gets more ridiculous and less involving with each passing minute."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Uncomfortable hodgepodge of poignant fantasy, showbiz satire and crime thriller."
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