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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Quite a charmer."
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"While the transgressive trappings (especially the frank sex scenes) ensure that the film is never dull, Rodrigues's beast-within metaphor is ultimately rather silly and overwrought, making the ambiguous ending seem goofy rather than provocative."
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The combination of Lee's discomforting subject matter and distancing style ... makes this slow-moving drama a challenge that doesn't seem entirely worth the effort."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Daniel O'Connor and Neil Ortenberg's engrossing documentary about the life and times of publisher Barney Rosset, who spent much of his career advancing the cause of free expression, is a flawless match of style and subject."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"One of those rare movies in which it doesn't feel as though the cast's fun is being had at the viewer's expense."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The smug "It's our party and you're not invited" vibe of the second film is gone, replaced by a fizzy sense of shady glamour that makes an insanely complicated story of scams and swindles go down as smoothly as an ice-cold Bellini."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"This lackluster sequel was surely much more fun to make than it is to watch."
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7/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Plays like something spewed out by a top-drawer screenwriting program!"
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The plot and characters feel like afterthoughts."
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(1999) |
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"Even if it doesn't live to its inspired beginning, Mike Judge scores something with all the marks of a workplace cult classic!"
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Billy Kent and Adam Wierzbianski's genial comedy about one woman's search for sexual satisfaction takes an unsmutty attitude but falls disappointing short of its ambition to be both sympathetically straightforward and funny."
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"This is absolutely not a film for all tastes, but it's a masterpiece of pitiless power whose audacious, ambiguous climax strikes a note of insane romanticism as haunting as it is perverse."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There are no surprises for anyone who's seen the earlier version, and younger horror fans may find the modest body count and restrained gore unsatisfying."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Screenwriter Alex Rose, first-time director Gaby Dellal and their cast consistently hit the right notes, and the result is an uplifting tale that you don't have to be embarrassed to enjoy."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like The Buena Vista Social Club, to which it has been compared, the film's great strength is its performance footage."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Crowder and Dower's film is a refreshing reminder that... without the Cosmos' brief and shining moment in the sun, suburban soccer leagues would be as rare as collegiate boccie tournaments."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Banderas inhabits the role of the mariachi with a feral grace undimished by the seven-year gap between films."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The complications are predictable, as is the resolution."
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1.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Not a video game, but an incredible simulation of one trying to pass itself off as a movie."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Maybe all those bloody corpses curdle the laughs...in this neo-noir comedy of murders."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The cast is uneven but never amateurish -- Goss may not be much of an actor, but he looks terrific in various states of royal undress; much the same could be said of Yul Brynner -- and the production values are consistently high."
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(1998) |
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"It's not one long series of gunfights and carefully choreographed car chases: it's a throwback to character-driven 1970s-era crime thrillers."
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Film Journal International |
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9/10 |
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(1998) |
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"The film rests firmly on the shoulders of Streep and, to a lesser degree, Zellweger. Their performances, and Carl Franklin's understated direction keep the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul."
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Boxoffice Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Carl Franklin's understated direction keeps the tears and life-affirming revelations from congealing into chicken shmaltz for the soul."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There's nothing subtle about Pelegri and Harari's culture-clash romp, but it's sometimes frantically funny."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The quality of the CGI-heavy special effects is variable ... but the demon zombies and Doson's cackling familiar are crowd pleasers."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Overall, it's rather less entertaining than the oh-so-French Secret Things."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"A leisurely elegy for the American West with Kevin Costner's Unforgiven written all over it."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"An ingenious triumph of imagination over budget."
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(1997) |
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"What makes it all work is Amenabar's smoothly assured handling of the material, which is always in danger of becoming too silly to bother with."
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Film Journal International |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Veteran documentary filmmaker Nina Davenport parses an ill-conceived experiment in cross-cultural understanding that began with the best intentions."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Though clearly shot on a shoestring, it's handsome, tightly written and generally well acted."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Doc's] failure to systematically lay clear, linear historical groundwork for the events of late 2004 and 2005 is obviously deliberate, but without it the film is unenlightening to anyone not already conversant with the history of modern Ukraine."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"While the actors try to play things straight-faced, they're defeated by Helgeland's screenplay and take refuge in old habits."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ostensibly about Mobile, Alabama's annual Mardi Gras tradition, which dates back to 1703, Margaret Brown's documentary is actually an examination of the racial divide in a city that claims there is none."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Recycled sin, more like it, but preposterously entertaining nonetheless."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This elegant, psychologically rich ghost story compares favorably with the best of the genre, including The Haunting (1963) and, especially, The Innocents (1961)."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"While Salita is a charismatic subject, Jason Hutt's documentary feels unfinished; still in his early 20s, Salita's life and career are works in progress."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Despite a barrage of puns that will whiz over the heads of the average eight-year-old ('virus con dios,' 'Funny, he doesn't look fluish,' and the like), this film wasn't intended for the enjoyment of adults."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director and co-writer Hazanavicius' comedy generally avoids broad jokes in favor of tweaking the conventions and attitudes of cold war-era spy thrillers just enough to bring their fatuous absurdities to the surface."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Portman and Johansson are phenomenal alone and together."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Caught between efforts to redress Eurocentric accounts of the conquest of Mexico and a tendency to slide into old-movie melodramatics, Carrasco's film is often gorgeous, never less than entertaining and occasionally moving."
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The fact that the big surprise is so obvious makes the deliberate pacing seem painfully slow."
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3/6 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s a thoughtful, sometimes revealing look at creative lives and the forces that shaped them."
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Faintly melancholy and alluringly fatalistic, this mercurial romance passing as a crime thriller is slyly entertaining and darkly sexy."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Directors] Sawhney and Singh would have better served their subjects if they had stacked the deck less."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Slick but ludicrously contrived."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Toback quickly reveals himself as an insufferable, opinionated blowhard who pontificates shamelessly about the art of the cinema while indulging his own obsessions on film."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Overall, the performances are surprisingly convincing, but the mockumentary elements feel out of place and the intrusive switching between B&W and color denotes nothing; it's just a gratuitous flourish that detracts from the raw story material."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The film's practical lesson is that you should steer clear of dogfights unless yours is the biggest, meanest dog in the game."
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