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A- |
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(2007) |
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"You want a story? Look at the front page of your local paper. I'm here for the light show."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As purportedly nonfictional cinema, Bloodline poses an implicit dilemma to viewers and critics: How do we know if what we're watching is real?"
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"After two films of their joyous irresponsibility and hedonistic pleasures, I can say with confidence that I wouldn't want to live in a world without them."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Speed Racer may very well give your brain diabetes, and I state that as compliment."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Iron Man has equal parts brain, brawn, and balls, but what it doesn't want you to know is that it has an equally bleeding heart."
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.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Quite possibly the world's first horror-musical-sex-comedy, the strangely impressive originality of Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead doesn't come even close to compensating for its everything-plus-the-kitchen-sink midnight-movie awfulness."
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B |
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(2004) |
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"A deserving, albeit minor classic, if only for being so bold as to describe Katie Holmes' breasts as being "the exact opposite" of the Holocaust."
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"The film exists solely to give the Comic Book Guys of the world a chance to see all their favorite action figures, life size and in full form."
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"A playground quarrel between boys, girls, and cooties."
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A |
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(2005) |
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"If there's one thing the film certainly is not, it's simple."
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B- |
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(1925) |
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"While many chunks of the film are indeed effective (and several downright terrifying), the overall effect is unsatisfactory and bipolar."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Lions for Lambs reminds us of what Hollywood does best, when it wants to."
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A |
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(2006) |
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"[The punchy] theatrical opening... doesn't so much lead viewers into the film as it injects them."
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The Stranger Song |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"I, for one, would be using the F-bomb far more gratuitously if faced with a possible encounter with a creature that could well swallow me whole."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Cloverfield comes to us packaged like a secret government file; if they wanted to maintain the illusion, why not go all the way as did the film?"
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"It's somehow fitting for a film this hodgepodge to arrive in stores on a bare bones disc."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"A market-spawned Happy Meal trinket lacking both skill and wisdom"
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Though broader and less funny than Idiocracy, the political commentary of Zombie Strippers is effectively one-note."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Even the most superficially glossy of surfaces can't completely extinguish the genuine emotions running beneath them here."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Would Kanye West say that The Last King of Scotland doesn't care about black people?"
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A |
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(1976) |
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"Assault on Precint 13's powerful exercise in democracy [...] is nothing short of one for the ages."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The film is most impressive as that rarest of creatures: a crowd-pleaser with a genuinely artistic touch."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"The most accomplished almost-remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari since the passing of the silent era."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Essentially a retread of every bad grade-school joke you're happy to have forgotten."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Lee's film proves that it's a genre as viable as ever, endlessly flexible and perpetually illuminating."
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(2007) |
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"Functions as coach to the titular quarreling couple, almost rigorously evenhanded and unbiased as it details the opposing viewpoints and recollections."
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"The Kite Runner will no doubt warm the hearts of its intended audience, but its nature is one of dubious flattery."
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B |
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(2007) |
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"A great achievement in many ways, Darabont's biggest misstep is his final submission to the road more traveled."
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(2008) |
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"Shutter is a ghost story free of logic and spirit, representative of everything that's wrong with so much of current mainstream studio fare."
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B+ |
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(1978) |
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"The rabbits' interactions mirror those of human behavior, and so too does the film possess a startlingly tangible sense of death."
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A- |
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(1988) |
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"Disney can't touch this."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately trades in schmaltz of the unearned kind, laying it on so thick in the final act that it effectively smothers out the underdog virtues of its all-too endearing protagonists."
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D+ |
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(1998) |
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"Haneke's film doesn't invite audience exploration; it pummels them with preordained conclusions."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Totally earnest but in complete awe of its predecessors."
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(2007) |
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"Like De Palma before him, Ritchie knows how to express substance through style."
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D |
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(2008) |
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"One can only infer that, in order for it to be taken seriously, the makers expected audiences to forget pretty much every movie they'd ever seen before in their entire life."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dean Budnick's nostalgic doc never wants for feeling or a sense of purpose as it examines not simply how this niche in the New York nightlife came to pass, but what it represented and how its presence has since affected the world."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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""Why do girls wear rings on their toes? It's like wearing a hat on your knee." Err, no, not really, Jer."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"The film comes out on the upper side of things by managing to avoid blue balls in the end, but don't think it couldn't use a lesson or two on pumping techniques."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though fittingly directed by Laura Dunn, one can't help but feel the presence of producer Terrence Malick."
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(2008) |
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"So lazily assembled and unenthusiastically performed that it could very well be an alternate cut of itself, assembled from takes that were justly consigned to the cutting room floor."
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The House Next Door |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Fernando Meirelles take note: an honest and unvarnished portrayal of your subject, no matter the intended audience, is the most optimal path toward enlightenment and empathy."
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(1982) |
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"Now that's ballsy."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"As is typical of such fare, the primary goals are commendable for their well-intentioned earnestness, but zero points for such gluttonous condescension."
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(2006) |
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"The 4th Dimension prevails for both its overall lack of pretension, as well as a more implicit approach to such psychological mind games."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"If nothing else, enjoy Nicky Katt's hilariously smart-ass one-liners."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In the Oscars of my mind there exists a category for Cutest Performance, and Lior Liebling just took home the golden statuette."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Is its purported idiocy put to a worthwhile use, or is this just another stale retreat of MADtv?"
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Pristine cinematic journalism."
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F |
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(2006) |
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"Face your fears. A lesson worthy of praise, if the film preaching them weren't so completely full of ****."
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