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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If you're looking for an adultery- and revenge-fueled family melodrama so subdued that it keeps a hit-and-run fatality, cuckoldry, and murder entirely off screen, Three Monkeys is your movie and Nuri Bilge Ceylan your not-so-genre-inclined auteur."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Revanche is almost fatally reluctant to get its hands dirty, its milieu shifting on a violent twist from a grimy Vienna brothel to the rural exurbs for buckets of guilt, angst, and frequently clumsy metaphors."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A baroque high comedy of endemic corruption, Il Divo doesn't treat the early-'90s scandal that brought down Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti as a tragedy, thriller, or tale of long-delayed comeuppance, but with resigned wit and florid carica"
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Asserts that, under a tragicomic two centuries of home misrule, the most devalued citizens of Lima have failed to be consigned to the limbo ("el olvido") the oligarchy has constructed for them."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Kevin Macdonald can't begin to approach the paranoid genre mastery seen in the films of John Frankenheimer and Alan Pakula."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"American Violet has the necessary anger to engage its subject but also the generic topical-telefilm aesthetics that often render it glib and inauthentic."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"At best a cute anecdote that scrapes by at just over 70 minutes."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An immigrant's saga more than "a baseball movie," Sugar ultimately runs headlong away from the clichés that mar formula sports-related narrative films."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The heart of Mottola's autobiographical paean to young male mortification lies in the one-on-one scenes between his able leads, Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Unmade Beds, with its occasionally twee chronicling of pogoing in funny hats and heart-to-hearts between NSA lovers, portrays its seekers as planets aspiring to bubblehood, or at least one tandem leap into the void."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A drearily tame learning-and-growing homosocial comedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Suggests that either video artist Michel Auder culled the wrong footage from a lifetime of compulsive camera-wielding for this "fictional autobiography," or was saddled by fate or egoism with an inapt subject."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Troell's lens doesn't consistently uncover the beauty and character we're asked to believe his heroine finds with hers."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An unholy genre mutation undreamt of on the isle of Dr. Moreau, An American Affair piggybacks the pubescent sexual awakening sapfest onto the JFK assassination conspiracy thriller."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1994) |
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"A still relevant call for communion among diverse African-American communities, and an elegy for an activist-artist."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Grounds the life-and-death struggles of the downtrodden in the quotidian: where to sleep, how to get clean, who to love."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The crude-dude genre staples are mechanically rendered: gay panic in a biker bar, mescaline-fueled dreams, highway chases, and cancer."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As fine-looking a 3D stop-motion fantasy that four years of top-flight craftsmanship can produce."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A literary fantasy with a charm deficit."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Baldwin took a similarly fanciful history-mining approach for Tribulation 99, but Mock Up on Mu is more than twice as long and determinedly more obscure."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1979) |
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"A deserved dust-off for an aggressive form of stoner comedy long supplanted by Brand Apatow."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Mondo Video is far from the most refined or successful expression of O'Donoghue's darkly antic vision, but its spray of seething, occasionally fetishistic buckshot is unmistakably in its master's voice."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A character study of a Nazi quisling that's frequently too muddled to reach even the level of banality."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1992) |
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"The future Dogme 95 king's last work of crafty artifice: less than meets the eye."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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"The German moral tragedy of the Nazi era is obscured by the movie's ostentatious arsenal of tricks and toys."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Gran Torino being a Clint showcase helmed by the Last Movie Star himself, Walt's reformation is nearly inevitable, but skirts being cloying on the strength of the 78-year-old icon's raspy brusqueness."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1951) |
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"Supplying even screenwriter North's translation of "Klaatu barada nikto," this classic's new package has all a fan needs save for a model ship."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1951) |
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"Iconic from the get-go."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Frost/Nixon is a trivial afterword to a historical footnote, a showbiz story inflated into a retroactive therapy session for one of 20th-century America's biggest knaves."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1987) |
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"A key postcolonial work of remembrance from Africa's father of film gets proper dissemination"
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Sembene never descends into the one-note shrillness of Spike Lee at his worst."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An accomplished generational anecdote ... the subject still feels mostly like "just a football game.""
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The novelty of the franchise reboot hasn't so much worn off as been squandered on a scenario lacking in genuine thrills and long on ill-advised navel-gazing."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1927) |
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"The newly burnished look of a silent-cinema landmark demands a fresh gaze at Keaton's least characteristic great film."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1927) |
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"The General isn't likely to be the favorite opus of the star's purist fans, but it's the one with the trappings of ambition and historical poesy"
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(1970) |
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"Camp it up, Mary, the Boys have been culturally rehabilitated, remastered and are drunk-dialing your number."
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3/4 |
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(1970) |
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"The sizzle of the bon mot%u2013tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film's momentum."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Cannibalizes both the Stax/Motown era of soul music and the shopworn road movie with an equal lack of freshness."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A true tall tale that unfolds like the Great Unwritten Cold War Rock Novel."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In under 20 minutes of screen time, Jeanne Moreau supplies One Day You'll Understand with an otherwise absent emotional weight of reconciliation to the anguished history of WWII France."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Leans on players in the policymaking game as talking heads on issues and tactics, people with a personal stake in the outcome to fully humanize the issue and a few who straddle both categories."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An overblown nearly-real-time documentary-cum-"art installation.""
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This incarnation of Johnny Got His Gun is a mismatch of medium, text and talent."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Lacking characters as cartoonishly entertaining as the bee geeks in Spellbound, director Caroline Suh doesn't dig deep enough."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Choke makes its source material's everything-but-the-kitchen-sink absurdism broader, less expressive and cheaply reductive."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(1969) |
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"Its poetics of insurrection still resonate with any armchair anarchists who’ve even fleetingly wished death to their oppressors.
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Stylus Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An anti-conspiracy lampoon of conspiracy thrillers, the Coens' Burn After Reading paints its floundering Washington inhabitants as intractably or even fatally stupid."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1967) |
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"The slick gospel of Luke is delivered with star sheen and ensemble luster in this middling package."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1967) |
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"Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film's efforts to sentimentally "humanize" him by psychological revelation are clumsy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dite's limited awakening is neither tragedy nor the kind of bitter, fatalistic farce seen in Lina Wertmuller's Seven Beauties."
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