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5/10 |
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(1989) |
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"A film much better written than executed... has the appearance at every moment of a hatchet job that got cranked out in record time because nobody involved had any real desire to make it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Marion Cotillard is perfection itself in this role."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1955) |
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"Easily the most beautifully-animated piece to come out of the Disney Studios since the Golden Age ended."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Doesn't quite feel as definitive as the filmmaker intended, although I can't imagine how any film on the subject could get closer than this."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A glossy "bad cop" thriller that achieves only a banal, surface-level recreation of Neil LaBute's old cage-rattling proclivities."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1988) |
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"What charmed me when I first saw it as a six-year-old in theaters now strikes me as rather middling, indifferent storytelling and character development."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1971) |
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"The subject is, by any standard, worth suffering the sometimes dodgy filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Nothing at all besides two funnymen and one disposable, objectified woman running from place to place, screaming a bit, joking about bodily functions, and running around a bit more."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The wonderful performances are the crux of the movie, and its primary success; for there are significant problems with the story as a story."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Entirely satisfying, and a perfectly worthy use of 100 minutes. There are points in life when it does not do to ask any more of a film than this."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Much less tawdry than the original, and much more harrowing."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1964) |
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"Where the film fails as a narrative - and it fails rather mightily in places - it succeeds as a mood piece."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Asia Argento is the lively center of a sometimes meandering tale of sexual intrigue."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1992) |
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"Positively sprints through its narrative, achieving the adventuresome spirit so hopelessly absent from Cooper's clumsy and simple novel."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1971) |
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"It's better perhaps to view it as a visual poem about cars in motion."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1989) |
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"It's certainly a cut above the standard late-'80s horror film, though hardly up to the level of Tobe Hooper's original."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The first truly heartbreaking disappointment of the movie year...too drowsy for its own good, less an homage and more a terribly slowed-down retread of some screwball tropes."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1973) |
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"Silly beyond words, but it's the kind of silly that's also incredible fun and awesome, especially if you are or once were or ever wanted to be a twelve-year-old boy."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"While the script crackles along, the visuals are powerfully uninteresting."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1963) |
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"There have been plenty of movies about the conflict of the old and the new, but none seem to contain the whole world in their scope the way that The Leopard does."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1915) |
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"A cracking good story...in those wonderful moments where Musidora's kohl-marked face stares right out of the screen and into your soul, it's terribly perfect."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"An awfully wonderful vampire story, thanks largely to pushing itself so far beyond the limits that "vampire story" usually implies."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's not quite as bad as some would have it (it will not, for example, kill puppies), but it is really very horrible."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Full of fussed-over significant images and delicately planned interlocking narrative motives, and it's about as subtle and clever as somebody clubbing you over the head with a folding chair"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1952) |
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"Though the film is wrenching like few others, this is only because it is also a masterpiece."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"A wholly satisfying comic-existential bit of fluff."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Where I see thrilling structural and formal exploration, another viewer could see so much pretentious twaddle, and that's a perfectly reasonable response."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's a great muddle from the word go."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Exactly the kind of flavorless bourgeois froth that the men it takes for its subjects would have ridiculed mercilessly."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1989) |
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"The long-awaited proof that Disney animation could, in fact, return almost the quality and beauty of its Golden Age."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1961) |
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"Intuited rather than explained & felt rather than understood."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1979) |
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"Its representation of Christ's modern-day doppelganger as a grubby little crimelord is certainly compelling."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If it is ultimately a bit on the shallow side, that conclusion doesn't seem to matter much at the end of the film's frequently hilarious 116 minutes."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Refreshingly stripped-down."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1973) |
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"One of those immensely modest little 1970s dramedy gems that nobody talks about... but every time anyone sees one of them, their response is always the same: "that was a great little movie"."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Despite its already toxic reputation, it has probably 12 or 18 gags that really work...[but] while some of the jokes click, most of the jokes that fail, fail apocalyptically."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"It's very pretty and very prestigious and it has no heart."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1932) |
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"Hollywood's first musical masterpiece...pushed the limits of conventional narrative filmmaking until they just about broke."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"As soon as it has to face the real world, and deal with "emotions," it goes completely slack."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The sex scenes, and the love story that sparks them, simply don't work, and that's not a minor problem."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Good acting] can certainly help, and for the most part Lymelife is functionally competent and barely familiar enough to be dull."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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