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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The first half is dumb kid stuff, but the second is classic melodrama aimed straight at viewers who've experienced life's cruel caprices and taken stock of what really matters."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2000) |
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"As a modern-day variation on the classic submarine-movie themes, U-571 is a smoothly crafted nail-biter."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Straightforwardly entertaining and a genuine nail-biter."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Director] Dornford-May's straightforward filmmaking neither glamorizes Khayelitsha and its residents nor plays up the contrast between the silky score and their hardscrabble lives."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(1998) |
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"There's fun to be had for horror junkies, but others may want to wait for Reynolds' next picture."
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Film Journal International |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It is message filmmaking so blunt you might be tempted to root for the parasitic reprobate over the saintly old man, and that's just not right."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Kurt Wimmer's film epitomizes just about everything wrong with post-Matrix, comic book-/video-game-inspired, Hong Kong-action-style sci-fi thrillers."
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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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"There isn't an original moment in the mix, but it's not as crass or vulgar as much of what passes for 'family friendly' entertainment, and it keeps the precocious pop-culture references to a blessed minimum."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"A pretty young woman who looks especially fetching in her underwear is plagued by increasingly horrible dreams...at least, she thinks they're dreams until her whole life goes to hell. Some effective chills amidst the silliness."
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"A considerable emotional investment in comic book lore is required for that to make this glum, poky picture worth watching through to the final revelation."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"A cheerful Frankenstein's monster, cobbled together from bits of dozens of zombie gut-crunchers, plus aliens, acid rain and assorted X-Files weirdness."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s the same argument Michael Moore made in Sicko, but it bears repeating."
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Time Out New York |
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9/10 |
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(1997) |
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"Adler's portrait of emotional disintegration is in many ways as harrowing as Roman Polanski's Repulsion, thanks in large part to Morton's terrifying performance."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Rather than converting messy, real-life experience into slick, formulaic entertainment, Well's script transforms it into a shapeless, internally inconsistent mess of artificial contrivances."
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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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"It's Lucas' slithery turn as Deel, which could easily have degenerated into an exercise in mustache-twirling villainy, that keeps you watching through the last turn in the dusty road."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Handsome though the film is ... the story is strangled by speeches about bloodlines, customs, alliances, feuds, battles and ceremonies."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"Silly, convoluted supernatural prequel is partially redeemed by its Goth style and reputable lead actors."
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Film Journal International |
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"This fundamentally cold (and very French) conceit is muffled in fuzzy layers of (very American) soul-baring."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Hallstrom's resolutely old-fashioned film, based on Mark Spragg's novel, is sympathetic to the internalized WASP way of grief, and enriched by Redford's and Freeman's subtle, superlative performances."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"It's hard to believe it took two directors, British brothers Charles and Thomas Guard, and three screenwriters to make this vapid remake of... [the] insidiously unnerving A Tale of Two Sisters/Janghwa, Hongryeon (2003)."
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Slick but deeply dumb."
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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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"There's no particular message to their joint feature-film debut, except perhaps that chance plays a significant part in the direction people's lives take, but it's an entertaining diversion whose clever structure gives pulp-crime cliches a welcome twist."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The greatest mystery surrounding Rupert Murray's impressionistic documentary about a man who's lost his memory is neither whether it's real or an elaborate put-on (as persistent rumors suggest) but why it's so fundamentally unaffecting."
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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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"It's an uneasy mix, and not an entirely successful one. But the film is flat-out gorgeous and contains moments of sheer lunacy."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2005) |
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"Li's dramatic turn is no match for his fists of fury."
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Time Out New York |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The Brit-gangster grit, punched up by fight choreographer Yuen Wo-ping's visceral action sequences, mixes awkwardly with the sappy sentimentality."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Ultimately, Mantel and Skrovan achieve the goal of reminding a generation that grew up enjoying the protections that Nader had spearheaded. But they also frankly acknowledge that the very qualities that made him an incorruptible activist also blinded him."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"A dark and discomfiting comedy of sexual insecurity, this scruffy mockumentary about a couple's odyssey through sex therapy marks the feature-film debut of documentary-trained writer and director Leslie Shearing."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"A beguiling mix of the familiar and the exotic, vivid proof that a good story can withstand endless variations without losing its fundamental vitality."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Tame and passionless."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Merits watching if only because it's a bracing corrective to the deeply entrenched image of Europe's Jews plodding, sheep-like, to their deaths in Nazi concentration camps."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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7/10 |
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(1998) |
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"Fun if you like this kind of thing!"
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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5/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Resolved: Film students are annoying in person and insufferable in movies."
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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 surreal fairy tale that coils in on itself like a slow-motion whirlpool and achieves an atmosphere of sublime creepiness without ever precisely making sense."
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