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"De Felitta's portrait of Paris -- who died in June 2004 -- isn't always flattering, but it is genuinely moving on many levels, none of which require knowledge of or even interest in jazz."
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"An icy plunge into the dark depths of the human mind."
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"A rare example of a flat-out Indian horror movie [that] borrows liberally from The Amityville Horror playbook and familiar Asian horror tropes, but the haunted soap opera is a new wrinkle."
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(2006) |
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"The film's saving grace isn't that its plot is particularly unpredictable, it's that [director Richard] Donner and screenwriter Richard Wenk give the actors time to put some flesh on their characters' bones."
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(2007) |
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"It's about finding someone whose assets outweigh the flaws and hoping that that person is mature enough to do the same for you. Weighty and downbeat though that sounds, [Delpy's] film is delightfully light."
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(2005) |
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"Though it ultimately devolves into megabudget Hollywood action-movie cliches by way of John Woo, Lee's handsome blockbuster is an entertaining variation on the American formulas that have colonized world cinema."
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(2005) |
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"An intoxicatingly beautiful, maddeningly elliptical and utterly enthralling meditation on the fleeting pleasures and haunting aftermath of doomed romance."
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(2000) |
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"Funny, thought-provoking and, yes, touching."
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(2003) |
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"This unrelenting horror tale's paranoid genius lies in equating free-floating wrath and physical sickness."
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(2007) |
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"Flawed, but it knows where it's going, and it gets there in a chilling blaze of fire, blood and poisonous fog."
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(2005) |
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"While most anthology films have one standout and one weak link, all three tales are short, sharp shockers."
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(2007) |
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"Vampires stage a blood orgy in a tiny Alaskan town that spends a month of every year sunk in the darkness of polar winter in this gory adaptation of Steve Niles' popular graphic novel."
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(2002) |
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"The movie's low budget shows, but the competent (many of them also sitcom veterans) cast keeps things moving smoothly."
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(2007) |
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"It may not be by-the-book history -- a relative term in any event, when discussing the ancients whose worldview embraced men, gods and monsters -- but what a spectacle!"
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(1998) |
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"Time and tragedy may have flattened the four girls into remote paragons of youthful virtue, but the viciousness of anti-integrationist rhetoric is palpable and should never be forgotten."
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(2004) |
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"Though Quentin Tarantino's influence is clear, writer-director Pen-Ek Ratanaruang imbues this material with an engaging energy and a bittersweet undercurrent of alienated sorrow that makes it seem fresh."
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(2002) |
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"This theatrical whim is like a dessert so rich it's almost inedible but too irresistible to put down."
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"Pays homage to the golden age of spaghetti Westerns and gleefully skewers the romantic image of cowboy righteousness that fuels American theme parks, country music, political campaigns and cigarette ads."
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(2009) |
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"A flat-out gorgeous vision of a devastated world whose script is as thin and formulaic as the imagery is rich and original."
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(2005) |
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"Aimed at the head rather than the heart, Karz's film is intended to encourage wide-ranging thought and promote constructive debate, useful ambitions in a post-9/11 world too often characterized by hard-line ideology and us-against-them thinking."
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(2006) |
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"Richard Linklater wraps novelist Philip K. Dick's paranoid, prescient nightmare of addiction and identity lost down the rabbit hole in the same rotoscoped animation that helped produce the blissed-out groove of his Waking Life."
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(2001) |
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"A slickly crafted fable, however dark, but it's shot with haunting poetry."
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(2001) |
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"The film's style is best described as utilitarian, but it gets the job done."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There's no denying that Alan Abel is a character, and any glimpse behind the schemes is better than none."
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(2001) |
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"A raw, haunting experience."
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(2006) |
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"Schifrin's modest thriller delivers some gross-out gore in the last third, but spends most of its running time building up a tidy atmosphere of mounting dread."
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(2001) |
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"Sweet, likable and consistently engaging, if so insubstantial that it's always on the verge of blowing away."
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(2007) |
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"[Director Taymor's] reach exceeds her grasp for a good half of its two-hour plus running time. But the other half is breathtaking, simultaneously visually inventive and vividly attuned to the broad streak of melancholy that runs through the 1960s."
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(2001) |
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"Rodriguez's film captures the grinding routine of street-level drug use with numbing precision."
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(2004) |
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"Barker elicits fine performances from all three leads, and well-known French actress Richard's English-language debut is a lovely addition to her extensive body of work."
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(2003) |
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"Broomfield's film is typically self-aggrandizing but filled with unsettling moments."
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(2007) |
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"Fascinating? Absolutely."
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(2002) |
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"Subtle performances and the 'you are there' immediacy conferred by digital video give Roy's film the feel of a series of stolen moments."
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(2006) |
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"Sentimental, manipulative, predictable and utterly charming, writer-director Doug Atchison's underdog tale revolves around an indifferent student who blossoms after heeding the siren call of competitive spelling."
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(2006) |
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"The film's heart is Magdiel and the modest dreams that get him through the day but may also be the death of him."
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(2002) |
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"An intricate tale of guilt, grief and dark serendipity...so deft it's hard not to gasp with delight as the plot's pieces slide into place and its machinery begins humming."
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(2009) |
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"If imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, It Came From Outer Space should be blushing like a schoolgirl, because this deadpan recreation of 1950s sci-fi movies is a tribute to its low-budget, high minded charms."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"In the end, you have to give Cameron points for putting his financial muscle behind scientific expeditions rather than, say, lavish parties."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Unfolds in a series of achronological vignettes whose cumulative effect is chilling."
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"A celebration of friendship, family and resilience that's touching without ever being cloying."
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(2002) |
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"It's refreshingly low-tech, more like a '70s action movie than a modern-day one."
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(1999) |
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"Based on a 1969 novel by the late Walker Hamilton, this moody film is ravishingly beautiful to look at and refreshingly unlike the glib, movie-centric crime thrillers so popular with younger first-time directors."
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(2005) |
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"Spare, elegant and tailor-made for intense discussions over dark coffee, Boe's film is a slily bold and delightfully inventive variation on an age-old theme."
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(2004) |
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"Deville gently reveals that they're all simultaneously hauntingly fragile and amazingly resilient, their smiles as piercing as any resigned gaze."
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(2007) |
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"Through Hanks' and Talancon's subtle, naturalistic performance [writer-director Eric Nicholas] cultivates a human dimension often missing from thrillers."
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(2003) |
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"Though overlong and repetitive, Hirsch's film is vitalized by the same music that helped keep the revolutionary spirit alive."
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(2007) |
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"[The screenwriter] does an admirable job of streamlining a story that unfolds over the course of 20 years. Meanwhile, Apted allows his fine cast the breathing room to make historical figures feel like living, breathing people rather than waxworks."
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(2008) |
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"Rios is the glue that holds Johannesson's neither-fish-nor-fowl film together:"
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(2001) |
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"Tautou's charisma conquers all."
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(2008) |
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"A sprawling, messy, frustrating and impassioned examination of the psychological fallout from America's obsession with a highly artificial and all-but unattainable standard of beauty."
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