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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."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Even in the fetid swamp of the torture porn genre, it stands out as a particularly awful movie."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1981) |
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"Impeccably crafted, both by the filmmakers and the dancers."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A clutch of disturbingly weak performances stumbling over uncharacteristically terrible dialogue."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Like listening to a great violinist scraping the bow across the strings: for the most part it's quite beautiful, but the scratches are what stand out."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's too easy a movie not to like it, as a diversion rather than a serious work of art, perhaps."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Less the story of a man than the story of the actions he performs... It's hard to imagine a fuller version of what creating the Cuban Revolution must have looked like."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If I conclude that the film is ultimately a touch on the trivial side, I do not believe that I am accusing it of anything that the filmmakers didn't intend it to be."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Its greatest achievement, no question, is simply that it rescues a period of modern history from its suffocating blanket of respect and worship."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It wants to be sleazy, or at least naughty; it's only tired. And it's just too slight to really say much more for or against it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A picture of unpleasant people treating each other poorly that comes across as buoyant and frankly joyful at times."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The movie has just enough of that old-timey grand epic feel for its 144 minutes to breeze by like two and a quarter hours."
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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."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Mostly without incident but bursting with messy humanity."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"A masterpiece of craftsmanship that fails completely on the thematic front."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1966) |
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"A note-perfect dissection of how male sexual solipsism and the world at large intersect."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It might be a clever new-media commentary, but it's an awfully circumspect one."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"If anyone is ever to mount an argument for the superiority of video over film, this movie would of necessity be very near to the center of that argument."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's simply not a movie, not as it stands. It's a five-minute demo reel stretched to feature length."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1969) |
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"An extremely honest attempt to convey abstraction in an essentially non-abstract medium."
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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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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"On a wavelength all its own, but...there are some fairly weighty observations."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the finest character studies of the year."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Head and shoulders above any other family fantasy in recent memory."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The directing and writing team of Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor have between them a boundless imagination, constantly topping one absurdly overstated moment with another, even more absurd."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1923) |
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"More than a little rushed and incoherent [but] there's no denying how very sweet and inventive and pleasant the film was and remains."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1946) |
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"Thanks to four great performances, Crisis largely works, despite its uneven screenplay."
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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."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Neil Young, though he be the writer of some of the finest, most trenchant, angriest political songs of the last fifty years, has no skill at marshaling arguments in a cinematic context."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Its failures are spectacularly highlighted by its overwhelming ambition."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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