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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Unrolls like a perfect storm of focus-grouped situations and joke-writing by committee."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"There's a lot to not love about the film...[but it's] one of the most thoughtfully designed post-apocalypse futures put on film in years."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1983) |
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"A masterpiece of the human condition...[but] below the very peak of Imamura's filmmaking powers."
[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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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's a film of subtleties...delicate, but infinitely rewarding."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Would that the film were a tenth as deliciously bad as its title."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"True or fake, The Bank Job is a brisk entertainment that doesn't need believability to work."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2005) |
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"There has never yet been a Batman story with quite this kind of psychological trauma. If Ingmar Bergman had ever directed a superhero movie, it would have looked quite a bit like this."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The most apolitical film yet made about the conflict...showcasing villainy on every side, but nobility and sometimes heroism as well."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1966) |
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"One of the essential works of world cinema."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1971) |
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"If only one-hundredth of the films it influenced had one-hundredth of its perfection, the horror film would be a much less disreputable and more wonderful thing than has been the case."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"At best it's a collection of very good ideas in search of a framework, and at worst a dramatically stale film based on a terribly messy screenplay."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The kind of film that will make you feel better about cinema, humanity, and life itself."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1946) |
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"It's true that a bit of the film's impact has been diluted by its significant influence both within its genre and without; but the original is still a special thing, a beautiful hallucination."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Jane Austen did not live the life of Elizabeth Bennett, but even if she had, there was no reason to be this bland in presenting it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Too confusing to be humorous."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Gives a crackerjack cast some fine characters and dialogue to tussle with."
[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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7/10 |
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(1926) |
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"Best enjoyed as a sample of the state of the art circa 1925, not as a timeless masterpiece."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2007) |
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"This is what happens when directors with lots of money and powerful computers get all hot and bothered about the latest new toys."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1983) |
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"One of the greatest character studies imaginable."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Tremendously routine, in a way that an adventure film about talking Chihuahuas should not be."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It simply presents, and assumes that we have the inherent morality to understand that what we are watching is evil."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1970) |
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"The very definition of self-conscious camp, certainly not Art but much too intelligent for Trash."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1948) |
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"Not in the top 10 or 15 or 100 films ever made... But it is undeniably good, very good."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1925) |
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"Though a virtually uncountable number of war films in the intervening 84 years have trodden upon much the same ground, few of them indeed have been able to equal its achievements."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1980) |
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"Personal observation bleeds out of every scene, and somehow it feels like a true story in a way that most war movies can't achieve."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1969) |
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"One of the most self-assured debuts of all time, a work so certain in its conception and execution that almost 40 years later I'd still quickly rank it as one of Argento's finest."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1933) |
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"If any Hollywood film from the '30s is positively begging to be rediscovered...this is it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1971) |
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"Isn't nearly as visionary as the best examples of the giallo form."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Confronts us with an ugly humanity that is nevertheless unnervingly human."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1985) |
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"It may have cost five times the amount of any other Disney film in the preceding two decades, but by God that money ended up on screen."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Chaining people to your radiator is a Wrong Thing To Do. This is not the opinion of Black Snake Moan."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"I can't imagine what circumstances would lead me to watch the film, in its entirety, a second time. But I'm glad I saw it once."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A movie rotten with the fear that the audience might possibly miss the point if the filmmakers don't hammer us over the head repeatedly."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Obnoxiously typical, and only its pointlessly convoluted series of double crosses in the middle even gives it the semblance of drama."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1993) |
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"A teen horror film with grown-up violence."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Easily the best Disney animated film since 2002's Lilo & Stitch... a return to core values for the studio."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It is not in the remotest sense a challenging or extraordinary film...cannot reasonably be described as anything other than adequate. But it is a pleasing film in a very simple way."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It is exhilarating, and when it is over, you just want to get right back in line to ride it again."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Contemptible awards-bait... The Holocaust deserves far more than this prim Masterpiece Theater treatment."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Too unpleasantly stern to be exploitation, and too bloodthirsty to be drama."
[movie review] |
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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?"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A paean to friendship and conspicuous consumption that is just simply wrong. On a number of levels."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1960) |
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"If it isn't as iconic and elemental as its predecessor, that's no reflection on how well it works as a vampire entertainment on its own...an unusually original way to continue the closed-off story of Bram Stoker's novel."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It's been fussed over until there's not an inch of life left in the thing, just the glassy pleasures of an instant museum piece."
[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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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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