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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
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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."
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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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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Though not without its problems, it is not a film that's easy to forget about, nor do its questions all answer themselves at once."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"Not content to simply re-create the success of its predecessor, the sequel... reveal[s] itself to be a surprisingly philosophical work."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1995) |
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"Time has been kind to it, and future years I imagine will still be kind; a classic is forever."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1931) |
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"A perfect example of the worst traits of Hollywood films in the early sound era."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Spends most of its time clicking... thanks to a particularly game cast that understands exactly what they're doing in a film like this."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A very twisty, clever riff on the whole idea of mobster indie films."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1952) |
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"The Citizen Kane of B-movies, an absolute masterpiece born fully-formed from one very singular mind."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A love story like they don't make any more, except I'm not certain that they ever really did."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1974) |
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"One of the great American films from arguably the finest decade in American filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A failure of speculative fiction, of plot, and of good old fashioned action filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1973) |
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"One of those immensely modest little 1970s dramedy gems that nobody talks about... but every time anyone sees one of them, their response is always the same: "that was a great little movie"."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A good movie it is, but to this Soderbergh junkie, alas, just a hint shy of great."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Creates its environment through suggestion and hinting around... outstandingly creepy."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1971) |
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"One of the most important and influential movies of the early 1970s."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1969) |
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"Age has not been particularly kind to it, but... [it's] carried off with far more competence and assurance than many directorial debuts have enjoyed."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A perfect late-summer tonic... a genial prod at the great problem facing comfortable people in late-stage capitalism."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1989) |
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"The direct-to-video sequel to a direct-to-video sequel; ah, the '80s!"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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