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"When (Swank) steps into the right role, she wears and inspires it like Denzel Washington."
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"Here's an old pile of trash, every inch of it delightfully reeking. It goes back a decade, when it was released as Generation X-Tinct, though its style is situated among the grimiest floors of the 70s grindhouse."
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(2008) |
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"Plays on conventions so smoothly that we're never distracted from the ride."
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(2007) |
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"In a case where the most dangerous are kept dangerously close, here we have a rarity: a suspenseful, yet dramatic Western."
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(2008) |
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"With measured visual flash, Luhrmann highlights the delightful presence of his two stars and realizes an unlikely feelgood film, in spite of its grave matters."
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(2008) |
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"Director [Frank Henenlotter] holds fast to his old-school style of goofy thrills and analog FX."
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(2008) |
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"The audio is occupied by only the sounds the characters make ... moments of silence open up an emotional void."
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(1932) |
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"These minor classics have been unavailable on DVD until now, and what a treat it is that they've arrived together in a slick little digipak, especially for you 'Legacy Collection' owners."
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(1973) |
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"Forget the 'Moan' -- Russ Meyer sensationalizes the whip and offers maniacal slaveowners in this screwy vision of a colonial plantation, circa 1835."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Like in the better moments of Donnie Darko, Kelly serves up suspense and dread - until he moves into act three by sending his story into a nebulous orbit."
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(2006) |
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"Seeing is believing, and the clever Maddin understands a dimension of his medium that many of his contemporaries won't dare approach: with the right compelling images, anything is possible."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Radiates with youthful imagination and the joys of using it to abandon the everyday."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Masterpieces of literature-to-film are a rare breed; this film falls short with satisfaction."
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(2009) |
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"Fate breeds fatalism in a tale that Guillermo Arriaga masterfully writes and directs. It's realized so beautifully and viscerally that - I hate to say it - Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu now seems a little obsolete."
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(2007) |
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"Celebrates a duty to responsibility, even if the duty defies the federal law."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The film's stunt is to unveil a simple truth, and its reputation relies on the fact that other filmmakers have yet to make the jump."
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(2009) |
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"The fantastic journey stems from the kids' housebound daydreaming - dinner time is inescapable, after all."
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(2008) |
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"Undeniably fun for the kids, though it requires a camp sensibility in its adult audience. But in doing so, it is a warm return to the live-action Disney movies of yesteryear."
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(2008) |
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"A warm return to the live-action Disney movies of yesteryear."
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(2009) |
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"A mastery of inspiration by writer-director Henry Selick. At the finale of this visual delight, every hired hand and technician also deserve acclaim."
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(2004) |
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"Plays like a fever dream recalled upon waking, told with the immediacy of fear couched in relentless pleasure."
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(1984) |
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"Almodóvar on crazy nuns should be as madcap as Peter Jackson was on zombies ( ... ) But the result is a rather low-key affair."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Lets many humorous conceits fly."
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3.5/5 |
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(1956) |
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"One of the masters of cinema continually thrills because he grabs us from the outside (i.e., through social commentary) and the inside (by tapping into the psychological)."
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(1975) |
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"Death Race 2000 is as Corman as his B-grade action pics come, with cars flying through the frame, blood spilling behind them, and overnight pit-stops for some sex ("navigators" in each car keep their drivers juiced up)."
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(2009) |
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"The humanity of District 9 adds another dimension to this multilayered, rewarding work - one of the best of the summer, and undoubtedly the most inventive from the multiplex this year."
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(2007) |
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"While The Diving Bell is based on Bauby's elegant, well-wrought words, [Director Julian] Schnabel's film is so steeped in the visual that it is surely the purest of cinema."
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(2008) |
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"Exhausting yet invigorating, it's a drama one witnesses more than just views."
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(2006) |
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"Captures the flavor of a contemporary indie -- courtesy of an innovative auteur and one of our greatest male performers."
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(2008) |
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"Even if Horton's world can't shine like Whoville, this movie's visuals keeps things vivid, while digital animation is so often crisp, precise, and cold."
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(2009) |
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"Resistance and rebellion to the studio routine resounds throughout Drag Me to Hell, and as a return to the filmmaker's original witty shocks and gross-outs, how goddamn touching it is."
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(1979) |
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"This 1979 budgeter takes up from the 70s grindhouse and precedes the flourishing horror-comedies of the 80s."
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(2009) |
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"This film entertains through gameplay, turning suspenseful, comic, then romantic as if in the hands of a master card dealer. But Gilroy's trickeries can be revealed by just slightly encroaching the stage."
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(1990) |
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"Dunye's documentary style is so personal that it seems confessional, almost therapeutic. The results are self-assured, natural, and fascinating."
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(2006) |
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"Under Gordon’s eye, Macy draws pity for a character who feels nothing beyond his own suffering."
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8/10 |
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(1957) |
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"A reflexive exercise in noir."
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IdentityTheory |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The kids and adults can dig this one, though adults may be stricken with Disney deja vu by this point."
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"This purported nature documentary muses on everything it encounters."
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IdentityTheory |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Be prepared when seeing this film: you'll ponder the old adage about being what you eat."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Keeping the style objective and routine, [co-directors Tony] Gerber and [Jesse] Moss remain non-judgmental of the bizarre carnival they have uncovered."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Perhaps Simmons is the man Apatow fears he will become. If so, with Sandler's help the filmmaker's fashioned a solid work of self reflection. There's plenty to love and laugh along with here."
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(2009) |
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"The high-pressure environment of live television was described as "Summer Stock in an iron lung." Perhaps the programs' invigorating style required such energy."
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(2008) |
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"A brilliant exercise in American gothic."
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(2007) |
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"Overall, a measured mix of clichéd horror bits and wit to joke about them keeps Hell's Ground even for a horror audience."
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(1991) |
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"As Mamet writes, so he directs -- his shots get to the point, usually one we don't forget."
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(2009) |
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"I Sell the Dead sports playful genre inventiveness, in which fans can delight and even outsiders can enjoy."
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(2009) |
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"The film's elements hum into a glorious experience, with its narrative as captivating as its visualization."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This children's fantasy flirts with the dark side, though family values win out."
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(1939) |
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"As he headed westward in his films, a new, darker Jimmy Stewart helped redefine a genre."
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(2008) |
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"Many have described Journey as a 3D film dumbed down to a theme park attraction. However, its visual splendor would have left Walt Disney weeping and Sergei Eisenstein preaching of cinema's second coming."
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