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5/10 |
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(1943) |
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"Not a well-remembered bit of Disneyana, and I am not prepared to argue against the justice of that fact."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1982) |
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"Sans soleil is more intuitive than rational, and that makes it a singular, overpowering experience."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1954) |
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"You are well aware at every moment that you are watching something that has been assembled with utmost precision."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1973) |
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"An original direction to take a tremendously played-out franchise, but I think I'd have been happier with no eighth Dracula film at all, rather than this particular eighth Dracula film."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"More like an awful family's greatest hits than any sort of probing, comprehensive study."
[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 the very particular humanity of the characters involved that makes it a successful and unique work of art."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2004) |
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"There is such a storm of terrible dialogue in Saw as to legitimately draw comparisons to none less than Ed Wood."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Quite hideous."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Nihilistic, amoral, self-congratulatory wanking."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Perfunctory and confusing and needlessly over-plotty...but somewhat better-constructed and significantly less morally outrageous than at the very least Saw III."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Square in the middle of the series, quality-wise: though the new film has some unabashedly dumb moments, its plot lacks the pathetic contortions that we saw in Saw IV"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A triumph (a very relative triumph) for two reasons: first, it is not so confusing as Saw IV, and second, it is not so sleepy and wholly pointless as Saw V."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1953) |
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"Not just a showcase for motifs that Bergman would use to create masterpieces later; it's a great film all by itself."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1970) |
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"A rattling collection of warmed-over ideas filmed on a paltry budget...doesn't do anything that Dracula and Prince of Darkness didn't already do better."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1996) |
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"Self-knowing badness is in fact badness; it might actually be worse than just regular old badness because it is, in addition to everything else, smug."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1997) |
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"There's a lot more going on here than in Scream... So why isn't it a slam dunk? Because of the writing, which is just lousy in any number of ways."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2000) |
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"A bad slasher movie, made by a talented man who brought hardly a one of his talents to bear."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(1982) |
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"The award-winning book had a pretty crackerjack story to begin with, but in some respects, I think Bluth and his co-writers have bettered it."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(1989) |
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"It might have been nice to actually have some kind of emotional response to it, in addition to just nodding and thinking, "ah yes, this seems to be properly observed.""
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Very probably the worst of Ferrell's starring vehicles."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1955) |
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"Triumphs on the strength of [Alida Valli's] presence..you'd have to go very far to find a more luscious movie."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"An uncommonly moving and wonderful experience: it is a cinematic depiction of a mindset, and a quiet and especially internal mindset at that."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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0/10 |
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(1978) |
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"A motion picture whose awfulness can hardly be imagined on a human scale."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A masterpiece; maybe even their best since Fargo. It is certainly the most deeply felt."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Only the most morbidly inattentive viewer could possibly fail to figure out virtually every twist in the story from details supplied in the first five minutes."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1927) |
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"The kind of movie that births a lifelong love affair with silent cinema... I'd be extraordinarily hard-pressed to come up with any way in which it's not flawless."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"For the most part, the scary parts are the scary parts, the funny parts are the funny parts, and never the twain meet."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Though it does not redefine the boundaries of the concert film like The Last Waltz did, Marty's love letter to the Stones is much more than alright; in fact it's a gas."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1985) |
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"The chief success of the film...is to remove the Holocaust from its comfortably horrifying place in history, and restore a human face to the atrocities."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The real problem is that 80 minutes of essentially non-stop action...are eventually wearying"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1988) |
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"One of the ugliest movies ever made, and that's just exactly the way it should be: it takes place in an irredeemably ugly world."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(1988) |
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"Far more compelling and beautiful than the Dekalog episode which shares its story."
[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 far too open in its desires (MAKING MONEY) to be hate-worthy."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"What happens is the same as every other J-horror remake only less so, at least in part because it stars Rachael Taylor and Joshua Jackson instead of actual famous people."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Sure, it makes some mistakes, but it got the job done. It's gotten Middle America talking about socialized healthcare."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Among the most visually distinctive movies of the year."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1983) |
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"Not a particularly effective movie... [but] it is an exceptionally memorable one - one that lingers in the brain, disturbing and discomfiting."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(1988) |
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"If your main reason for seeing a movie is a big quantity of corpses, then Unhappy Campers is right up your alley."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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3/10 |
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(1989) |
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"The direct-to-video sequel to a direct-to-video sequel; ah, the '80s!"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1959) |
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"One of the handful of Disney features that can be rightfully called perfect."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"This was never going to be a masterpiece, but it didn't have to be nearly so frustrating."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Such style! ...the most exhilarating movie of prestige season, even as it is almost entirely taken up with suffering."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Dennis Quaid's performance is the only thing that keeps the film from tipping too far into flat-out misanthropy."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The most-flawed film by a tremendously important American director."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(1937) |
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"There are only a tiny number of films that have come anywhere close to equaling its achievement."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The story surely is interesting, but in this form, not terribly enlightening."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(1943) |
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"While it is quite silly and suffers from one of the worst casting decisions in the 33 year history of the classic Universal horror, Son of Dracula is actually halfway decent."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(1939) |
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"A surprisingly good effort to extend the narrative of the first two films in a manner both intelligent and likely."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Moving and entertaining in a modest way...it's nice to have a reminder that America doesn't have a monopoly on sweetly uplifting movies about life lessons."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(1982) |
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"A suffocating 151 minutes long, with a healthy portion of that running time devoted to a hunk of Holocausploitation of the most crass and cynical variety. And that's the good part."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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