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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Surfwise tries to separate itself from the fray of political documentaries by not taking itself too seriously."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Using title cards, interviews, and endless archival footage, Bialis is able to tie a very specific history to the course of 20th century upheaval."
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(1955) |
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"Since Janus's barebones release of The Red Ballon comes with the 34-minute film and nothing more, highbrow parents might have to find other ways to entertain their kids for the day. Like, you know, Dora the Explorer."
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3/4 |
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(1955) |
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"The story of a boy and his toy, The Red Balloon is widely praised for its narrative and visual "purity," but not enough is said about the movie's delightful manipulation."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Jellyfish exists in a no man's land, adrift in vague, waterlogged abstractions on which the filmmakers can hang their characters' collective baggage."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Though it superficially deals with how military doctors work during a long and unpopular war, Terry Sanders's film more closely disentangles a specialized establishment in its own right."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As far as fable imports go, Bab'Aziz is a step up from the Disney-grade moralism of Milarepa, but it's even less memorable."
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.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Build a Ship, Sail to Sadness is a movie every bit as cumbersome and trying as its title."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Unanswered questions about Derrick's kids and Spanish-speaking mother abound, and their all-too-infrequent interactions point to a hard-knuckled realism about post-9/11 New York that begs to be seen."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The most dispassionate account of the Holocaust in the last 20 years."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One look at Aaron Stanford's chain-smoking, long-haired musician in a Hanes t-shirt and you know Flakes wants so badly to be hip."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Naked Boys Singing! is the biggest waste of d**k since Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Brokeback Mountain."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"True to its title, My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures sees the world through its subject's childlike eyes."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Jane Austen Book Club is pitched as The First Wives Club for coffeehouse intellectuals."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Myths are more popular in the movies than ever, but unlike the Christian extravaganza of The Chronicles of Narnia, Milarepa: Magician, Murderer, Saint won't be showing up on your kid's Netflix list."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Honoré's rambunctious filmmaking process is born truly in the moment."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Greengrass's latest plops on the screen with lots of hi-fi energy but, strangely, very little feeling."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Gavras uses Anna's precocious reason to tackle a generation's idealism head-on."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Laura Smiles teaches us that you can't escape misery, least of all in Jersey."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Rescurrecting the Champ is a snooze."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The movie is a collection of disparate anime parts that never really comes together."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"At its heart, Drama/Mex is a story of people struggling to fulfill their roles, and the camera's forceful gaze is their confessional box."
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Snake Eyes is about multiple perceptions of one major event, their relationship to each other and to the audience."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1990) |
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"De Palma's characterizations may not have the subtle tongue-in-cheek wit of Tom Wolfe, but his version of the story is both more comic and angrier for it."
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(1986) |
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"From Molly Ringwald's pretty-in-pink mouth to the political banter of Jon Stewart's Daily Show, Jon Hughes's frustrated sarcasm branded a generation.
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1986) |
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"John Hughes was born in 1950 but connected deeply with the next generation's cultural brooding."
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(1984) |
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"His name is Jack T. Colton. What's the "T" stand for? "Trustworthy.""
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2/4 |
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(1984) |
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"The message is clear: Love and protection comes with a white face and a big, black gun. His name is Michael Douglas."
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4/4 |
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(1981) |
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"Blow Out is not known as one of Brian De Palma's horror movies, but of all his films, it's the one that feels most like a nightmare."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"You might remember it from May when it starred Lindsay Lohan and was called Just My Luck."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Porterfield finds the rhythms of everyday life well enough, but he rarely grasps the key moments that make them art."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Tough-as-nails and with a heavy British accent, director Paul Yule sometimes resembles a more famous BBC documentarian: Nick Broomfield."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Reiss takes advantage of the contemporary rift between '70s-born freewheeling gay lifestyle and modern gay domesticity."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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""If you're a sissy, or just a big prissy, don't get pissy, missy. It's Gay Day at Happy Land!""
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Munich this is not."
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(1991) |
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"With Delicatessen, Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro shoot for a Terry Gilliam-esque grotesque beauty and only hit grime.
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2/4 |
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(1991) |
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"Delicatessen uses its aggressive stylization and capricious visual contraptions as a form of imprisonment."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The shallowness of female pop culture that Holofcener courageously tears down is just the thing Just My Luck successfully re-perpetuate."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"God bless her soul, Mo'Nique even stays believable as the story requires her to finally fall apart and hit a new self-hating low."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Shoddy screenwriting devices simply pass the time for Whitney to sling hillbilly-isms at admirers of his stand-up comedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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""Trapped in the closet" fittingly describes Tyler Perry's lurid melodrama, in which characters repeatedly stumble onto others' dark secrets during living room chats."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The whole thing unravels like a long night of Trivial Pursuit."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Goossen misuses recognizable names for dubious cameos and pushes eccentric side characters to uncomfortable parody."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Do yourself a favor and rent a very campy Radio instead."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Faris's parody of pop culture's vapid idols transcends the film's own brainless romantic plot."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"After The Skeleton Key, another lifeless Deep South horror movie charting the myriad frights of costumed black people performing defense rituals."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Showtime and Taxi seemingly haunt every shot of Les Mayfield's shrill white cop/black cop buddy movie."
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Slant Magazine |
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0.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Avis layers every sequence with pop singles and confuses poor camera focus and colored lighting for aesthetic flair."
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