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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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10/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The narrative is nothing more than a framework for scenes of unforgettable visual art..it still comes across as the cinema's best exploration of how stories are made in many a year."
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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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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"For a film that's supposed to be playful, it's an awful, tedious drudge."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A superfluous, wandering plot ultimately keeps it from attaining the heights of a modestly diverting action thingy, dooming it instead to the pits of a modestly disappointing action thingy."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1926) |
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"A great work by a great director, and one of the most instantly accessible silent films ever made."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Filmed... with a colorful, grimy intimacy that unabashedly showcases all of the oozing pores that the filmmakers can find, but never makes its settings seem unpleasant or unlivable."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Why watch people die discreetly with a small amount of CGI blood when you can cue up the DVD of the second film and watch that kid get squashed like an overripe grape?"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Violates the most basic rules of cinematic storytelling grammar; and for this reason it transfixed me."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"For those on the right wavelength...this is magisterial cinema."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Business-as-usual for a sports movie."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Essential viewing for anyone with even a slight interest in the quality and substance of their health and food, which darn well ought to include everybody."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A bad movie, bad in almost every respect, bad as adventure and bad as romance and bad as comedy. It's really completely bad."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Not one second in the film is unpleasant, for even the bummer scenes have the wistful ring of truth. But I do mind how much of it is no more than pleasant."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Vaughn and Witherspoon are plainly uncomfortable in their roles,... two of the flattest performances of any romantic comedy of recent vintage."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1981) |
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"Cloying and cutesy, a helpless callback to a number of truly classic movies that it couldn't hope to equal, let alone better."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"At no moment does this stop feeling like an especially glossy and especially joyless episode of Law and Order."
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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."
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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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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"A soulless concoction that's a joy-sinkhole for the whole family."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Freddy vs. Jason is a pretty awful Nightmare film, but only a mediocre F13 film."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1991) |
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"It makes less sense than any preceding Nightmare film...although it's so out-and-out crazy that it's at least a little bit more entertaining than some of them"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Only just about as good as it absolutely has to be. Which is admittedly better than most of the densest sequels in the original run of films could claim."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1980) |
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"Makes not the slightest attempt to hide the outright theft of every one of its ideas from much better films."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1981) |
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"All things considered, it probably should have been a whole lot worse."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(1982) |
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"So appallingly, overwhelmingly stupid that it is stupid even by the standards of the Friday the 13th franchise."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1984) |
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"Not so venally stupid as its predecessor."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(1985) |
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"This is not a fun stupid movie. This is a stupid movie that makes me want to claw my skin off."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(1986) |
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"It's kind of a nice film, and nice exploitation films are nobody's idea of a good time."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1988) |
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"By this seventh entry in the series, being different just for the sake of it really is justification enough."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(1989) |
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"An inscrutable narrative that pukes its way across an unforgivably long 100 minutes."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A fine entertainment for a winter night that plays it completely safe."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Leo gives the kind of performance that's easy to overlook because it doesn't have any Big Moments...so fully inhabited that it never crosses your mind that you're not watching a real woman."
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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."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"No, Michael Haneke's new version does not need to exist. Regardless of its inherent quality or lack thereof, it serves essentially no useful purpose."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It's that very shagginess and earnestness... that makes the film, however clumsy, so charming."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1936) |
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"The film's message is resonant far beyond the moment of its creation, speaking even to our modern-day political reality."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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