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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."
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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."
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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."
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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?"
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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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."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Frustratingly shallow, refusing to be about anything in particular. No, that's a lie: it's about a great many things, and it is horribly superficial about every one of them."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1979) |
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"A better story than you'd probably expect for a film of this kind of this vintage."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A reflective mood piece, creating a very particular image of the jungle that transcends narrative or even meaning."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"To those of use who know and love his movies, it has a pervasive sense of the familiar... not at all revelatory or exciting. It's a fine movie, if you like this sort of thing (most people don't)."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1936) |
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"Dracula's daughter herself is strange and memorable,far better than the tawdry B-movie in which she made her first and last appearance."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Moodysson actually really loves his characters and wants them to be happy, rather than putting stock characters though a series of heavily predictable trials and tribulations on the way to a forced happy ending."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The first half is wholly successful, the second one is flawed... and the movement from one part to the other is handled with all the grace of a dachshund on wet ice."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"This kind of movie only has to work once, and it works about as well that one time as anything else in history."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2010) |
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"The film's tone is primarily, even exclusively, reflective; observing human behavior simply because humans are interesting."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1978) |
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"A good-enough Western that I can only really recommend to genre fans, or people who have some particularly strong affection for one or another of the actors."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1935) |
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"This was to be [director James Whale's] last horror film. Small wonder; what could he possibly have left to prove?"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Kim Hye-Ja's performance is absolutely magnificent, the kind of performance that seems to radiate straight out of the actress's body."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The central concept, that we are watching a community respond to the literalisation of one of its most cherished urban myths, can't quite stand up against the facts of the matter."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1931) |
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"If it isn't the best American horror film of the 1930s, that's only because the extremely gifted director James Whale wasn't done with the franchise quite yet."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If it is ultimately a bit on the shallow side, that conclusion doesn't seem to matter much at the end of the film's frequently hilarious 116 minutes."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Drips with huge stylistic flourishes that attack the audience as though with a cudgel... its furious thundering seems to me a good match for the story."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Even if it's not the most cogent political docu-essay ever made, it's surely coming straight from the heart."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A masterpiece; maybe even their best since Fargo. It is certainly the most deeply felt."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Start[s] to add up after a while to a faintly unbearable level of dread."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A frothy mystery that you could call comic largely because no other adjective seems to apply very well."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A suffocating, completely unimaginative 90 minute slog that all adds up to: what, exactly? If there are any stakes in this drama, high or low, then I somehow managed to miss them"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1931) |
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"The quick cash-in proves to be a much more mature and comprehensible work... even as it makes a couple of mistakes that Browning was able to avoid."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1976) |
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"It really couldn't be better made in any respect. The cinematography, sound, editing, acting - all of them are effectively flawless."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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