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3/4 |
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"a polished, professional, by-the-book approach to the improving real-time plot strategy."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"(Has) an acerbic sense of humor and a fantastic ear for struggling-relationship dialogue."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Packages the disaster-happy director's greatest hits into one cataclysmic picture."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"(The book) raises a number of interesting arguments, most of which (the movie) ignores."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The riveting second half rewards your patience and tolerance for emotional pain."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"These R-rated comedies sure know how to be raunchy. They just don’t know how to be short."
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The kind of movie where telling people to see it isn't enough. You physically want to drive them to the theater so they'll be there in time for the next showing."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Beyond the impressive visuals, there isn't much."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A low-rent, off-Broadway spectacle that's desperately in need of a stage"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Adam's disorder is but one piece of a tender relationship puzzle that's nurtured out of its shell by the performers."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A pretentious, naval-gazing pity party thrown for condescending, affected blowhards."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Movies this tiresome and obvious have no business in multiplexes."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The message remains fantastic for kids, even if the director allows his events to teeter toward comical near the end."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Pokes fun at a program that doesn't take itself seriously, cutting down easy targets like an eighth-grade bully picking fights with first graders."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"On almost every level, this remake is a marked improvement."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A handsomely crafted and beautifully acted awakening story that's predictable but consistently rewarding."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Takes some getting used to, but ends up being as bleak as Zwigoff's coal-blackened Bad Santa."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Smaller than you'd expect, though many may remember it for the exquisite period detail, production design or fluid camera work."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The first film I've seen this year that made me feel something."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Finds a tense undercurrent (that) keeps us involved through the film's moderate pace and constant narrative shuffling."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The year's first film that kept me laughing from end to end with intelligent and perceptive punch lines that don't aim for the broad side of a fraternity house."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Paints vivid noir suspense with extremely broad brushstrokes, often pushing style to the forefront at the expense of story"
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Bustles along to its central theft, then treads water until (it) can map a proper end game."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Embarrassment, thy name is Basic Instinct 2."
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A smash, one of the finest comic book adaptations of all time and one of the best films of 2005."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"corny, cool and beautiful"
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lumet moves Devil with a purpose, all the while maintaining a firm grip on his live-wire cocktail of guilt and paranoia."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Wrings pain out of heartbreaking truths, and steamrolls to an unpredictable conclusion that's suspenseful, mildly coincidental, but gut-wrenchingly sad."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Given his modest talents as a filmmaker, the first half of Book might represent the best Verhoeven can do."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Recycles the charitable messages of other religion-based films, from "Facing the Giants" to "Fireproof," but presents them in an accessible, mainstream package."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A mainstream action adventure that happens to stand on a base of headline-grabbing current events."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Has huge laughs."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Wears the confidence of a well-planned feature."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An unapologetic genre picture powered by a pair of honest performances that plucks our emotional strings and races our pulses."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Every bit as unpleasant as it sounds. But the film's intentions are to examine a separation, and the story achieves its set goals."
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Faithfully adapts Jane Austen’s (work) without sacrificing any of the frivolous joy that infects most Bollywood productions."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Plays by the strict and proper rules of the period genre, resulting in a predominantly frigid and impersonal love story."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Lingered with me for days, though more for its noteworthy performances and breathtaking cinematography than for its divisive same-sex subject matter."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Follows an offbeat path to reach that destination, and most will enjoy the journey."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Hardly memorable at all."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Comes across like a refresher course, and not the higher education Moore has strived for in the past."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"a tongue-in-cheek sex romp that barely hides its Mel Brooks-inspired puns under powdered wigs."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"I can't say enough about Luke, who has been good before but breaks out with this multifaceted performance."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Burton’s modernized take ... benefits from improved special effects and the unhinged brilliance of his repeat collaborator, Johnny Depp."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bartlett would make a decent sitcom character, and the uneven film plays out accordingly."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Winick's Web can't contend with White's lyrical book or the flawless animated feature in the long run."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An 80-minute sprint on a treadmill, a frantic romp with no destination."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A wonderful excursion that's alive with the imagination of fantasy literature and in tune with the beating heart of family cinema."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Smith has nothing original left to say and no original ways left to say it."
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Charlotte Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Where Pixar would have made a nutritious main course out of the character issues in Lord and Miller's script, "Meatballs" skips them in favor of dessert."
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