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8/10 |
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(2010) |
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"The film's tone is primarily, even exclusively, reflective; observing human behavior simply because humans are interesting."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Look, if you go for the whole Zac Efron thing, all is well. Me, I found his blandness to be a crippling flaw from which the movie had no prayer of recovering."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A more delightfully bad movie hasn't been seen in all of 2009."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the year's best... a narrative film masquerading as a documentary, and more of an essay on the status of life in a modernising China than either"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It is, no, not revolutionary, but miraculous and playful... the smartest film I've seen about romance in literally years."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Creates its environment through suggestion and hinting around... outstandingly creepy."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Director Greg] Mottola and his crew seem wholly disengaged from any kind of cinematic vocabulary... But it's impeccably written, there's little doubt about that."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Frustratingly shallow, refusing to be about anything in particular. No, that's a lie: it's about a great many things, and it is horribly superficial about every one of them."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If the film succeeds perfectly in its aim, to recreate exactly a genre of films noted for how shoddy and boring they were, is it then fair to complain when the film is itself boring?"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A standard-issue coming-of-age story done well enough and without distinction."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Let no man be so crude as to accuse it of its predecessor's insipidity. Let us be forgiving, and say that it is merely weak. It is the vanilla soft-serve of summer adventure movies."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It doesn't add up to more than an elaborate punking, and... I don't understand who it is that's being punked. Von Trier's detractors? His fans? Charlotte Gainsbourg?"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Full-up with caricatures... fails in the most dire way to make any comments on the state of parenting and coupling in America rooted in actual observation."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The kind of film that will make you feel better about cinema, humanity, and life itself."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A frothy mystery that you could call comic largely because no other adjective seems to apply very well."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Though not without its problems, it is not a film that's easy to forget about, nor do its questions all answer themselves at once."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Impales itself on the smug awareness of how stuffed full of extraordinarily twisty ideas it is, without bothering to make sure that those ideas add up to anything halfway worthwhile."
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A paean to friendship and conspicuous consumption that is just simply wrong. On a number of levels."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A love story like they don't make any more, except I'm not certain that they ever really did."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Tom Hardy gives] one of the best performances of the year, maybe. It is certainly one of the most committed."
[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 a fine movie to like, although nearly impossible to love. And from the man who gave us the immensely lovable Brick, this is a minor disappointment."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Mostly entertaining; but it's not very memorable, insightful, probing, or revolutionary."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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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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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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The sprightliest movie about mowing down revenants with a chainsaw that you are are ever likely to see."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The biggest surprise... is that it isn't absolutely dreadful. Perfectly pointless, maybe, but not dreadful."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It signifies nothing. Still, its sound and fury are undeniably impressive."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A rickety, old-fashioned scare picture made by a man who proved many years ago that he has nothing left to prove in the horror genre."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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2/10 |
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(2009) |
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"I am no expert in the field of Dragon Ball. However... the first live-action, English-language film in the franchise is absolutely insipid."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A perfectly-crafted espionage thriller married to the best throwback rom-com in years."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A suffocating, completely unimaginative 90 minute slog that all adds up to: what, exactly? If there are any stakes in this drama, high or low, then I somehow managed to miss them"
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A bit like watching sausages getting made, but it's fascinating... made from the trenches for people who have no idea what casting looks like."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A perfect late-summer tonic... a genial prod at the great problem facing comfortable people in late-stage capitalism."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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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)."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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?"
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[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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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Not even remotely as bad as it could have been. Because, let's call a spade a spade: "sentient guinea pig spies" could easily have been just about the worst movie ever made."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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1/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A bit like having pieces of metal thrown at your face in a wind tunnel."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Lose Michael Douglas and there is pretty much nothing about the movie that's appealing in even the smallest degree."
[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 not at all as disposable as it seems at first glance."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"I do not know if history will judge this an important document of the Times In Which We Live, but it surely seems to me that it captured something vital."
[movie review] |
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Antagony & Ecstasy |
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