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8/10 |
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(1982) |
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"The award-winning book had a pretty crackerjack story to begin with, but in some respects, I think Bluth and his co-writers have bettered it."
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5/10 |
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(1981) |
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"Cloying and cutesy, a helpless callback to a number of truly classic movies that it couldn't hope to equal, let alone better."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1977) |
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"The one completely successful Disney feature produced between 1967 and the beginning of the company's renaissance in 1989."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1977) |
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"One of the most charming of all Disney features... like anyone else, when I see it I am swiftly and inexorably carried back to childhood, in accordance with the drippy clichés."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A more delightfully bad movie hasn't been seen in all of 2009."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1973) |
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"Blatantly caters to a juvenile audience, without making even the slightest attempt to entertain the grown-ups unless it happens that they like Saturday morning cartoon-level hijinks."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1970) |
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"Insofar as the film has any real ambition driving it, that ambition seems to be that the Disney brand name must be kept alive until somebody could figure out what to do with it."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1989) |
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"It might have been nice to actually have some kind of emotional response to it, in addition to just nodding and thinking, "ah yes, this seems to be properly observed.""
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1967) |
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"It's not merely disappointing but frankly soul-wracking that The Jungle Book isn't any better than it is."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1939) |
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"It competes only with It Happened One Night for the title of Capra's most entertaining film ever."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1963) |
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"It makes a good effort at being something like My First Arthur Story."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1987) |
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"Great performances and characters feel a bit imprisoned by the walls of the film frame."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1959) |
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"One of the handful of Disney features that can be rightfully called perfect."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Even when director Lee Daniels overplays his hand the worst, the film is always wholly worthy of discussion."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1955) |
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"Easily the most beautifully-animated piece to come out of the Disney Studios since the Golden Age ended."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1986) |
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"[The filmmakers] wager everything on the audience finding mid-'80s dream research to be the height of compelling cinema."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1953) |
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"Not an especially mature film, probably the most "kiddie movie" of all the 1950s Disney features."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Impales itself on the smug awareness of how stuffed full of extraordinarily twisty ideas it is, without bothering to make sure that those ideas add up to anything halfway worthwhile."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1951) |
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"An emotionally chilly exercise... At the same time it is gorgeous indeed, one of the most singular movies in the Disney canon visually."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The biggest surprise... is that it isn't absolutely dreadful. Perfectly pointless, maybe, but not dreadful."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1950) |
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"Great animation, but not quite as great as the pre-war standard; deeply problematic gender issues in a reed-thin story; some brilliant characters, a lot of fairly dull ones."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1939) |
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"It is first and best an Ingrid Bergman delivery system, and you can never really have too much of that, wouldn't you agree?"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1949) |
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"The most competently animated of all the package films, and for the Disney animators in their prime, mere competence was a surpassingly high mark."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1948) |
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"A film much more entertaining than you'd expect, even if only two of its seven sequences individually reach classic status."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1947) |
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"If it wasn't already obvious from glancing at the studio's other work from around the same period, this would be proof enough that the steam was starting to go out of Disney's art."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1982) |
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"A suffocating 151 minutes long, with a healthy portion of that running time devoted to a hunk of Holocausploitation of the most crass and cynical variety. And that's the good part."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1946) |
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"One of the saddest little orphans in the whole of the Disney animated features canon... though the film hits more than it misses over the course of its ten sequences."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Tom Hardy gives] one of the best performances of the year, maybe. It is certainly one of the most committed."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1945) |
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"By far the strangest feature-length movie in the history of the Walt Disney Company, with virtually every new minute bringing something more insanely creative than the last."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1943) |
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"Not a well-remembered bit of Disneyana, and I am not prepared to argue against the justice of that fact."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It doesn't add up to more than an elaborate punking, and... I don't understand who it is that's being punked. Von Trier's detractors? His fans? Charlotte Gainsbourg?"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1942) |
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"Vies only with Pinocchio as the most technically accomplished work of animation to come from the studio's Golden Age... the last gasp of a maturity and gravity that would immediately disappear from Disney's features."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1948) |
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"While the the film is representative of the absolute worst of Universal horror... it is one of the very best Abbott and Costello vehicles."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1941) |
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"One of the most emotionally potent of all animated movies; I might be inclined to say, of all movies, period."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1940) |
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"Ribboned with flaws both impossibly minor and embarrassingly large, but it surely must count as one of the most visually stunning American movies ever made."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1945) |
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"At least the weirdness gives it a surprising, fresh edge that might as well pass for good by this point in the cycle."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1944) |
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"71 incomprehensible minutes of the very worst Universal had to offer."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1943) |
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"While it is quite silly and suffers from one of the worst casting decisions in the 33 year history of the classic Universal horror, Son of Dracula is actually halfway decent."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1940) |
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"One of the crown jewels of American cinema, and arguably the most beautiful animated movie in history."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1943) |
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"Pretty much the end of Universal's horror line as a home for even the vaguest kind of serious filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A standard-issue coming-of-age story done well enough and without distinction."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1937) |
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"There are only a tiny number of films that have come anywhere close to equaling its achievement."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1981) |
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"A talented filmmaker made a thriller that was absolutely no better than it had to be, and indeed it is quite thrilling, when it is not forcing us to watch its cardboard characters."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1956) |
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"A pretty fine little movie it is, with drop-dead gorgeous black and white CinemaScope photography."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1942) |
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"It gets the job done with admirable efficiency, no excess of imagination, and all in a compact 67-minute frame, and you really wouldn't want it to be any longer than that."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A triumph (a very relative triumph) for two reasons: first, it is not so confusing as Saw IV, and second, it is not so sleepy and wholly pointless as Saw V."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The fact that Jonze and Eggers are revealing so much of themselves in this emotionally crabbed tribute to the unending hell of childhood is itself reason to see the film."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1941) |
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"A film of sometimes uncertain greatness that is nonetheless the most entertaining and effective Universal monster movie since Bride of Frankenstein."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1939) |
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"A surprisingly good effort to extend the narrative of the first two films in a manner both intelligent and likely."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the most humane things I have seen all year."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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