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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"One of those stage-to-film adaptations that leave very little doubt that as good as everything is in the film, it was consistently better on stage."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1988) |
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"The Waters film for your grandma, who will probably be only a little bit freaked out by it."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1978) |
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"Virtually perfect. It is the one horror film that I would beg each and every lover of movies to watch, if I could pick only one."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"If it wasn't a remake of Halloween, Halloween might have been pretty awesome."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1982) |
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"There are more than enough giant logic holes, stilted characters and idiotic developments to make sure that it is bad for reasons transcending its simple poorness as a sequel"
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1988) |
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"Though it is a slasher movie at all points, it's an atypically intelligent example of the form...a quantum leap better than its two immediate predecessors."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1989) |
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"Completed the transition to full-fledged brainless slasherdom begun in Halloween 4 at at time when the brainless slasher film was at its very worst."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(1996) |
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"The series' nadir...nothing but a delivery system for murder and half-glimpses of naked women."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1981) |
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"Does the worst thing any sequel can ever do: it retroactively taints the original and makes it less interesting."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Moments here and there are extremely well-made, but on the whole the movie seems to consist of nothing but a whole lot of disjointed, underlit scenes of a big dude stabbing people."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1998) |
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"It's somewhere around minute 58 - that's in a film that runs 80 minutes before credits, folks - before anything particularly interesting happens."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Provides the Halloween franchise with a clear, objective Worst Movie Of The Series...a virtually flawless collection of all the things that can make a slasher film unwatchable."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Collapses, despite a game and talented cast, and a brilliant concept. Well, concepts don't make movies."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Feels like they shot the story treatment without ever bothering to turn it into a screenplay....the film is full of empty patches: not plot-holes exactly, but spots where it seems we aren't getting a full movie."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Stands up as a motion picture in addition to working as a delivery system for gags... as fine a mystery and character study as it is a comedy."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The film is absolutely functional, and deserves no praise greater than "it's no worse than it ought to be"."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Other than its ripe possibility for mockery, I cannot think of anything that makes the film really worthwhile."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Leigh finally discovers the entire other half of human experience that he's always ignored, and in the process directs his best film since Secrets & Lies."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Insightful this film may not be, but that's never its aim. It's about making us laugh at the silly antics of a couple of dudes we met before and pretty much like."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The peak film in the franchise... from the acting, to the writing, to the production design to the cinematography, which is so unbearably lovely that I can't even quite stand it."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The good outweighs the bad by a wide margin, but just not quite enough to make this the best Harry Potter movie ever."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Every individual element is either tremendously good or completely horrible, with virtually nothing left hanging in the middle ground of straight-up mediocrity."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1948) |
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"One of the most nasty-minded, brutal dramas in a genre noted for - practically defined by - its overwhelming nihilism."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1995) |
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"A slow-moving, overburdened, well-meant and at times quite entertaining slog."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Having a properly slimy bit of modern exploitation filmmaking isn't something to scoff at, but I do wish that the experience had even a bit of fizz to it."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"An essentially unending parade of some of the most visionary images ever to grace a fantasy movie."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It isn't Bad any more than it's Good, for it is a business venture after all, and Disney can rightly assume that their target audience won't care."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"There is not any plot worth discussing: people go into a desert, some die. The end."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1999) |
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"A profoundly generous treatise on how men and women misunderstand and torment one another."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The scenes involving musical performances...are the best parts of the movie, and it would be much enriched if there were more of them."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1958) |
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"There will never be a greater vampire film than Nosferatu or Vampyr, not ever. But Hammer's Dracula puts up a strong fight to come in at third place."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"A rather tender-hearted, often sorrowful, more often hilarious view on the familial conflicts between generations and between siblings."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Hostel, Part II is bad, but it's not the most objectionable torture porno by any conceivable yardstick."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's a movie that is literally, painfully funny, insofar as I occasionally laughed so hard that I thought my chest was about to collapse."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Anna Faris gives one of the best performances of the year thus far in a movie that never comes within swiping distance of deserving it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1945) |
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"At least the weirdness gives it a surprising, fresh edge that might as well pass for good by this point in the cycle."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1944) |
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"71 incomprehensible minutes of the very worst Universal had to offer."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The film does the right things well enough that it's a satisfying, if hardly earth-shattering experience."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"One of the most brutal, devastating things I have seen in long time, and I cannot imagine that a more seasoned director would have been able to improve upon it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Extremely good whenever characters keep their mouths shut; when there's dialogue, it's usually heavy-handed and leading."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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