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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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(1951) |
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"Quite possibly the most Billy Wilder-ey of all Wilder's films."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Designed to encourage appreciation of the director's visual flair and the sheer joy of the music. And such visual flair it is; and such joyful music."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Director Greg] Mottola and his crew seem wholly disengaged from any kind of cinematic vocabulary... But it's impeccably written, there's little doubt about that."
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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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9/10 |
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(1927) |
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"More than eighty years later...it still looks like nothing you've ever seen."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1986) |
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"If the film fails to click on all the emotional levels that Disney might have wanted, at least it's a brightly-paced bit of comedy and fun."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the very best films to be released in America in the first third of 2007."
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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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10/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Here is what filmmaking looks like at its absolute best: a movie of bold and aggressive originality that expresses itself with the utmost delicacy."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2001) |
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"More than competently mounted, with a hollowness just discernible in its core... feels like the first draft of whatever film Michael Mann set out to make."
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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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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If the film succeeds perfectly in its aim, to recreate exactly a genre of films noted for how shoddy and boring they were, is it then fair to complain when the film is itself boring?"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(2007) |
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"A worse AVP film than the first one just couldn't be made. Except that, impossibly, it has."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1989) |
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"Don Bluth's second outright triumph; a film whose burial in the last 20 years is nothing short of a crime."
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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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3/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's not that bad. It's just kind of gross and upsetting."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"An unmistakably familiar story, but something about its execution here feels fresh anyway."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1986) |
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"Its sappiness is unmissably sincere, and such aching, embarrassing sincerity is never an evil thing in a movie."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Teenagers are restless and get very worked up over interpersonal dramas. Gee willickers, I'm sure glad a film crew traveled all the way to north central Indiana to make that shocking discovery."
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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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(1991) |
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"Anyone who can make a more than 2.5-hour biopic about a New Zealand writer feel as quick and fleet as this is clearly doing something extremely right."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The film settles into a laid-back groove that is, how shall we say, endlessly boring."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Let no man be so crude as to accuse it of its predecessor's insipidity. Let us be forgiving, and say that it is merely weak. It is the vanilla soft-serve of summer adventure movies."
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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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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is very, very funny; and it is very, very exhausting."
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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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8/10 |
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(1994) |
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"Unfathomably gorgeous; perhaps even the most gorgeous film Wong Kar-Wai has yet made, which is not a bit of praise I hand out lightly."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2007) |
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"An astounding work of mythological storytelling."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Fairly well-directed, well-written and well-acted, and it never quite gets around to answering the fundamental question...why does this thing exist?"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Not just unashamedly old-fashioned, but altogether smug about it... For myself, I admire the defiant mustiness of the whole project."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Full-up with caricatures... fails in the most dire way to make any comments on the state of parenting and coupling in America rooted in actual observation."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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