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"Sunny, light, charming, and agreeably sick at times, 10 Items or Less - The Complete First & Second Seasons apparently doesn't have anything more weighty on its mind than to entertain us with its "improvicom" silliness."
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"Almost quaint and innocent by today's standards, the exploitation trailers included in 42nd Street Forever, Vol. 3: Exploitation Explosion are manna from heaven for connoisseurs of the sewers."
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"Psycho-babble twaddle, masquerading as a quasi-enigma, wrapped up in a fatally pretentious package, and delivered in a humorless, self-involved, self-absorbed manner. In other words: it's the perfect film student movie."
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"When Reed and Malloy muscle that deceptively small but powerful Plymouth Belvedere around the mean streets of L.A., coolly and quietly scanning the area for potential trouble, while the martial driving, pounding theme from Frank Comstock comes up over the"
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(1952) |
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"A distressingly flat knock-off of Gilda and Notorious. The re-teaming of Hayworth and Ford is a fizzle. But a rental is required if you want to see what a real woman looks like."
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(2006) |
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"Agatha Christie book fans, if they're unfamiliar with her life story, may want to give a cursory look to this blah BBC production."
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"Sensational production values, imaginative direction, whipsmart writing, and infectious, knowing performances make these four films an absolute delight -- and an absolute must-see for Christie and mystery fans."
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(2007) |
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"The shift in production direction - away from Series 2's delirious "movie movie" adaptations towards more conventional renderings - was clearly evident in the blankly lush, thoroughly ordinary films of Agatha Christie Marple: Series 3."
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(1989) |
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"For me, at least, the Suchet Poirots provide a seemingly unending supply of humorous moments - interspersed between the killings - that can be as delightful as any out-and-out comedy."
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(2008) |
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"Suchet's grasp of the character in these later feature-length TV movies, is nothing short of phenomenal."
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"Only somebody looking to give young kids a very basic, general history of the evolution of X-Planes should bother with Age of Flight: X-Planes."
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"An intelligent, rollicking, fun action-adventure western featuring two bright, smart performances by Ben Murphy and Pete Duel. Unusually well constructed, with clever, intriguing scripts and a first-class, expensive production."
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(1929) |
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"With a refreshingly gauzy take on the morality of both cops and crooks, Alibi succeeds in upturning our expectations, while providing some startling expressionistic touches in the film's visuals."
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(1978) |
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"Witty without being laugh-out-loud funny, All Creatures Great & Small's low-level "quaintness" goes a long way towards establishing and maintaining its charm."
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(1975) |
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"Carroll O'Connor's masterful interpretation of everyone's favorite bigot Archie Bunker turned a potentially repulsive character into a complex object of fascination and sympathy, all the while astounding us with his virtuoso comic timing and delivery."
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"A critical departure in the writing and directing team leaves this eighth season a disappointing bust."
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(1989) |
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"Part boulevard farce, part bawdy Benny Hill knockabout, part Ealing Studios craziness, and all delightful, 'Allo 'Allo!: The Complete Series Six is a treat"
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(2008) |
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"Tired. Lame. Unfunny. 'Allo 'Allo - The Complete Series Nine is one more go-around two too many times at least. What was funny years before, is strained and uninvolving here."
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(1992) |
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"The Chipmunks look quite vintage and quirkily shaped by character designer Chuck Jones, while the evocative, densely detailed backgrounds come courtesy of Toby Bluth."
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(2007) |
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"There is something about gathering together four or five of these shorts under a common theme - holidays, in this case - that does offer a bit more viewing "weight," if you will."
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(1995) |
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"It's a predictable little story, but it is handled with taste and surprising honesty."
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(2007) |
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"Sadly, in Alvin and The Chipmunks Go To the Movies, Alvin is straight-jacketed into lame movie parodies that offer few if any laughs."
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(2007) |
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"Certainly the documentaries in the America at War boxed set aren't of such a profound nature that they're a be-all, end-all primer on the complex notion of "America at war," but they're a good start"
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(2007) |
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"I wasn't convinced of what the doc had to say, because I couldn't figure out what its ultimate purpose was in the first place."
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(2007) |
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"A polished, professional look at our most forward-thinking Founding Father. Alexander Hamilton would make an excellent addition to classrooms covering this period in history,"
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"It's a telling look at a mythic American character that many may know by name, but not really by deed. And it's a particularly good program to show to any young person in your family."
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(2005) |
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"American Experience: Jesse James definitively closes the book on whether or not Jesse James was a misguided "hero." He wasn't."
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(2007) |
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"When the six-part documentary sticks to the known facts about various gangsters profiled here, it's a relatively balanced look at these criminals and their careers."
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(1979) |
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"Considering none of the musicals included in the American Movie Musicals: Vol. 2 are particularly successful examples of the genre, as well as the fact that none of the films sport new, additional extras, there's little reason to purchase it."
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(2004) |
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"A finely crafted British TV mystery with Hitchcockian overtones, Amnesia delivers the goods for those who like their thrillers glossy, intricate, well-acted, and well-paced."
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(2001) |
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"Sporting another sensational, scary true-crime performance by Mark Harmon, Ann Rule's And Never Let Her Go is one of the best true-crime TV minis of the last decade."
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(1967) |
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"There's still some of the old Mayberry magic in a few of the episodes, but overall, it's a rather melancholy affair, with emphasis put more on drama -- and rather depressing drama, at that -- rather than on comedy."
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(2003) |
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"Delicate, gentle, and quite charming."
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"Heather Locklear just isn't up to her demanding role in Angels Fall, and the clichéd stranger-in-town/murder mystery has been done to death. With nothing new to say (and a bland production for what is said), Angels Fall falls flat on its fac"
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(1967) |
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"Director Zarkhi assembled an amazing crew of actors and technicians who brought a realistic, downbeat, almost anti-romantic feeling to this much-filmed novel."
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"A miscast Leigh, along with a constipated production that emphasizes looks over content, drags this superficial, thinly scripted version into cliched romance novel territory."
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"It's an entertaining Western, regardless of whether you agree with its message."
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"Wildly overrated, with Wilder delivering facile bromides. Phony through and through."
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"Never letting one frame of the film be conventionally set-up, the funhouse-mirror look of Arabesque is breathtaking in its inventiveness, providing not only a visual equivalent of the story's impenetrable plot, but also a visual bridge over the scr"
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"Never letting one frame of the film be conventionally set-up, the funhouse-mirror look of Arabesque is breathtaking in its inventiveness, providing not only a visual equivalent of the story's impenetrable plot, but also a visual bridge over the scr"
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"Not my favorite incarnation of the Filmation Archie franchise, Archie's Funhouse: The Complete Series still will be fun for fans who grew up on it, with plenty of bonus features included here on this attractively packaged collection."
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"The historic first teaming of Jerry Lewis and director Frank Tashlin jolts this glorious, Technicolor-soaked, gag-rich, fetish-crammed 1950s farce into the stratosphere, producing one of the team's finest films."
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"Depressingly familiar and rote, Aurora Borealis offers absolutely nothing new to the slacker subgenre, the sick grandparents subgenre, the warm, nurturing girlfriend subgenre, or to all the other films from which it borrows."
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"A haphazard collection that will probably only appeal to hard-core military buffs."
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(1989) |
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"Writing as a former die-hard Burt Reynolds fan...even I tuned out from this series back when it debuted in 1989. And the subsequent years have not been kind to this imitative, clichéd private detective show."
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(1939) |
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"Grit underlies the fantasy, but escapism is the main goal."
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"A little tougher, a little snappier, Babes on Broadway moves Mickey and Judy into young adult territory. During the elaborate production numbers, director Busby Berkeley again mesmerizes with his restless, searching camera."
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(2002) |
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"The little kids do love these shows -- although I wouldn't shoot for an audience over the age of five (and you should have a good book laying around for yourself)."
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"It's a pretty cute show, and for innocuous entertainment that might give your kids a good lesson along with the fun songs, you can't go wrong with Baby Looney Tunes Volume 4: Tooth Fairy Tales."
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(1969) |
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"The Babysitter is fairly laughable, not only for its dramatic pretensions, but also it's poor construction."
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