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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Though the raw material is juicy stuff, the details and the larger picture never come together and the cast is uneven."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Frequently funny -- sometimes very funny indeed."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There no way around it: Russell's performance is spunky and just about irresistible, no matter how much you hate spunk. It's hard to imagine Waitress working without her."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"If you're already asking, 'Why don't these alcoholic losers just stop picking at their mental scabs and grow up?' this is not the movie for you."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"[A] witless farce."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The draw is Phoenix and Witherspoon. Together the two are hotter than a pepper sprout."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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4/6 |
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(2008) |
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"Smith’s film is a pure, unabashed humanitarian call to action, but her subjects are eloquent and her cause unimpeachable."
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Time Out New York |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[Director Mary Olive] Smith makes no pretense of keeping a dispassionate distance from her subject: Her film is an unabashed call to action that shines a spotlight on a problem whose intimate medical nature relegated it to the shadows."
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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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"Though ultimately flawed, the film's depiction of velvet-gloved cruelty and matter-of-fact betrayal is surprisingly potent, and it's pure pleasure to watch Bacall prowling the corridors of power."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Despite the callow, self-absorbed aspects of Phillips' undertaking, there's something endearing about his determination to recreate -- and then some -- a 30-year-old gesture that looked nutty then and only looks nuttier now."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Eminently worth seeing, even if it leaves you wishing it were as consistently inventive as Aardman's first feature, Chicken Run."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"McAvoy delivers a strikingly nuanced performance as Wesley and Bekmambatov puts a high gloss on the increasing preposterous goings on, but in the end it's an idiot fable, all sound and fury signifying nothing."
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Patwardhan offers no solutions, but poses disturbing questions."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"It unfolds in the angst-haunted shadow of the 9/11 terror attacks and teeters on a thin edge of sheer panic -- the carnage is no gleeful game and the devastation is so overwhelming that human defenses crumble like sand."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The trouble with this satirical take US involvement in Iraq, penned by Mark Leyner, John Cusack and Jeremy Pikser, is that the real thing is equally absurd and only marginally less funny."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"In the end it feels rather thin and less than the sum of its handsome parts."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"De Mello's dedication is inspiring enough to speak for itself."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A rollicking cross between Raiders of the Lost Ark and The Good, The Bad and the Ugly."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Fluffy and disposible."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The film aims low and scarcely lives up to its own diminished expectations."
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(2000) |
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"If it weren't for the presence of Reeves, this movie would have gone straight to video, and that's exactly where it belongs."
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Revitalizing a genre as overworked as this one is no job for beginners."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2009) |
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"A first-rate adaptation of Moore and Gibbons' densely imagined, alternate pop culture history of the world, a dazzling, dystopian fable with a deeply dark heart."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though the material is familiar, [director Celine] Sciamma has a light touch and avoids many teen-movie cliches. Her girls aren't hyperverbal -- in fact, they're the opposite, guarded and always listening for cues before they reveal themselves in words."
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(1998) |
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"Good and dumb, in equal measure!"
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(2000) |
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"So glacially paced and relentlessly unpleasant that it quickly becomes hard to care who's doing or did what to whom."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Davidson's young cast is remarkable, engaging and guilelessly funny without being so cute that their calculated actions ring false."
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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 film benefits from a strong cast; McConaughey's Lengyel is eccentric but ultimately engaging, while David Strathairn and Ian McShane, as Dedmon and a grief-stricken father, respectively, deliver subtly powerful performances."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Yes, it's sappy. It's also silly, utterly unironic, a sketch stretched out to feature length, and, if you're in the right mood, pretty darned cute."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"The modern-day characters are nowhere near as vivid as the 19th-century ones."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Writer-director Malcolm D. Lee wraps a soft and gooey message in a thick crust of crass slapstick."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(1997) |
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"This sublimely creepy, low-key film is not for all tastes. But The Well casts a haunting spell,"
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Film Journal International |
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1.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Most of the scenes fall flatter than a lead soufflé."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Whaledreamers is clearly a labor of love and a call to action, but it's undermined by the sheer volume of topics it tackles in addition to the main subject."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Newcomer Grace seems born to the part of an unformed young woman whose character cries out to be shaped, but it's Ivey's unobtrusive skill that shapes their onscreen relationship into something thoroughly convincing."
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"This slow, derivative chiller wastes far too much time on red herrings and telegraphs its plot points with painfully obvious dialogue."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Quickly tumbles down a rabbit hole of annoying psychobabble, dubious science and embarrassingly silly animation."
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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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"The goofy use of animated, Flubber-like blobs aping Robert Palmer's Addicted to Love video (by way of illustrating the irresistibility of desire itself) makes it hard to take the science seriously, which is the Bleep problem in a nutshell."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Not bad for a fake preacher."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Chadha transforms this sitcom material into a lively and charming film about the melting pot at full boil."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Worthy sentiments all, but not exactly fresh insights."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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(2001) |
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"Strenuously quirky."
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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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"Though the script never rises above sitcom-style one-liners and sight gags, strong performances invest both the jokes and the syrupy moments of forgiveness and reconciliation with no small measure of, yes, heart."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Though once capable of writing distinct characters, Toback now populates his pictures with one-dimensional conceits who all talk like undereducated hustlers, from college professors to bottom feeders and international lions of business."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The message is wrapped in facile video-game imagery, snarky commentary and simplistic sequences in which Spurlock enjoys the hospitality of Muslim families who decry terrorism and remind him that the Koran preaches hospitality and confidence."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3/5 |
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(2000) |
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"There's a caper and there are some laughs, but this isn't a larky caper flick."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The film's measured pace may put off impatient viewers, but the brilliantly underplayed ending is worth the wait."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"[White Chicks] squanders every opportunity for sharp comedy in favor of pratfalls and fart jokes."
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TV Guide's Movie Guide |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"[An] atmospheric but deeply stupid thriller..."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A sneaky delight that glides effortlessly between the past and present without a single detour into either the uplifting clichés of American sports movies or the creepy voyeurism that sometimes attends films about young, well-built athletes."
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