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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Assured, glossy and shot through with brittle desperation."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[A] sublimely slippery, slightly surreal and not entirely 'just the facts, ma'am' documentary."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Alison Eastwood makes her directing debut with this ludicrous melodrama, in which a troubled couple and a newly orphaned boy heal each others' emotional wounds against a backdrop of blunt metaphors."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A brutal, insanely excessive successor to grindhouse pictures of yore."
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6/10 |
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(1999) |
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"It would help if the leads weren't brittle and stone-faced."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"If even one [rider] were more conspicuously flawed, the film might be more compelling."
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"The film inevitably streamlines and neatens up the Mitchell's spectacularly messy lives. But for anyone who missed the short but influential era of porno chic, it's an eye-opener, a primer on how we got here from there."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Hailed as a clever exercise in neo-Hitchcockianism, this clever and very satisfying picture is more accurately Chabrolian."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Taggart Siegel's loving portrait of eccentric farmer John Peterson is an epic writ small that focuses on a life lived almost entirely on a Caledonia, Ill., farm yet encompasses six decades of changing American social mores and economic upheavals."
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Ana's struggles are dramatized and resolved in true Afterschool Special fashion, but the film is rescued from banality by its uniformly appealing performances."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"...evokes a time of turbulent (and often ugly) emotions with disquieting intensity."
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Even by the debased standards of preachy sports movies aimed at kids, this is pabulum."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"[The] subtle, complex performances could put far more experienced and better-known actors to shame."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"An intriguing mix of the familiar and the alien."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Boe's surefooted manipulation of characters and themes is genuinely dazzling, and cinematographer Manuel Alberto Claro gives the film an intoxicating look."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Spare, sleek and coolly entertaining, even if there's less to this game of true lies than meets the eye."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like many first-time writer-directors, she packs five films' worth of drama, crises and revelations into one, and often lapses into sitcom triteness."
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3/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Offers fans extra helpings of Anthony Hopkins's popular serial-killer schtick."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Inspired by his interest in mixed martial arts, Mamet's ode to the samurai spirit quickly bogs down in coincidence-driven plotting that's only partially offset by a colorful cast of supporting characters."
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Frankenheimer directs with brisk efficiency."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This puff piece is shapeless, repetitive and feels much longer than it is."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Director Nancy Savoca's no-frills record of a show forged in still-raw emotions captures the unsettled tenor of that post 9-11 period far better than a more measured or polished production ever could."
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(1998) |
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"Fuqua...obviously knows a good thing when he sees one and lets Chow dominate The Replacement Killers so thoroughly that the movie's liabilities...slide by relatively painlessly."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The action sequences are well staged and credit where credit is due: The 40-year-old martial artist still has the physical goods, executing 180 splits and gymnastic stunts with the grace and apparent ease of someone much younger."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's hard to watch two fine actors working themselves into a lather for so little reward -- manifest emotional turmoil notwithstanding, the way their dovetailing emotional crises play out is aridly schematic."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Handsome and sometimes creepy, but formulaic in the extreme."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Equal parts Mad Max and Day of the Dead, this third and supposedly final entry in the Resident Evil franchise is no less derivative than its predecessors but moves along at a brisk clip."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Hartnett just seems sullen and sneaky, and the powerhouse performances that Jackson, Alda and Paymer deliver without apparent effort underscore the weaknesses in Hartnett's characterization."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's just a slow slog to a payoff that isn't worth the effort."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Works equally well an eerie fable or a sharply observed family drama."
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2.5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The grisly weight of that central premise hangs over the proceedings like a bloody piņata."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"the story itself is uninteresting, and the songs are painfully undistinguished: They Might Be Giants' So to Be One of Us may be the most tuneless tune ever composed."
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(1998) |
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"An eminently respectable effort without ever becoming a compelling one."
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Despite solid performances from the leads, it comes shrouded in a heavy cloud of ethics-class complications that makes it feel like a "dilemma of the week" TV movie."
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Director and co-writer Takashi Yamazaki mines familiar territory and does nothing especially new with it."
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(2006) |
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"Straightforward documentary [about] ... Bill Talen, 50, who uses his "Reverend Billy" persona to transform pointed criticism of transnational corporate practices into engaging street theater."
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(2008) |
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"Chilly and academic, thoroughly admirable but one step removed from the very real angst of a movie like The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (1956)."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Pretentious and not half as clever as it thinks it is."
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"A deliciously bitter tale of lust and betrayal among dog-eat-dog Wall Street bigwigs."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"McCormack and Cochrane can't transcend the cliched, meandering dialogue, so Brad and Lexi's dilemma never feels like anything but a didactic contrivance."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Its focus on the relationship between fiercely protective Rachel Keller and her imperiled son, Aiden, is surprisingly dull."
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4/4 |
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(1998) |
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"A blockbuster in Japan, this restrained horror film crosses urban legend conventions with Asian ghost story traditions, and the results are truly spooky."
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Sleekly engaging documentary."
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Often spectacular but ultimately rather tedious."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's not a pretty picture, and it's hard not to come away hoping the best but expecting the worst for Corcoran's personable subjects."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"While "much ado about nothing" might be overstating things, after more than an hour and a half of buildup, it would have been nice to see Wu-Tang perform."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The hard-man hijinks are straight from the "mockney" gangster playbook (which, to be fair, Ritchie pretty much wrote) and the whole shebang is faux from start to finish, a middle-class fantasy of thug life. But RocknRolla is so relentlessly kinetic"
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A deep and astonishingly authentic streak of melancholy runs through this fifth sequel to the 1976 sleeper that made both struggling actor Sylvester Stallone and hard-luck slugger Rocky Balboa international stars."
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(2001) |
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"A young, interracial Los Angeles couple faces prejudice...in this well-intentioned independent drama..."
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4/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Campbell Scott's fiendishly mercurial performance as razor-tongued womanizer Roger is a revelation but it's only one of this nimble film's pleasures."
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