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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Erupts with the freshness and energy only first time filmmakers can generate-yet has the control and mastery over its subject that novice directors take years to command."
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PopMatters |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This could be the story of Paris Hilton if she were to be married off to an impotent French Prince instead of dating meatheads armed with camcorders."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"This was never intended to be a conventional movie, but more like a personal industrial film illustrating the process that brings the corpse of a cow to your dinner table."
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PopMatters |
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7/10 |
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(1988) |
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"Maybe it's no surprise that the decade in which AIDS reared its ugly head produced an astonishing number of films concerning dangerously repressed homosexual protagonists."
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PopMatters |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Outside of surface details involving flesh eating and body rot, these zombie stooges look more hung over than dead. This is really a sex comedy with a zombie theme."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"A crazy little film, modest in its scope but grand in its ambition. It paints it's story in loud primary colors, with intense pressure cooker characterizations."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/5 |
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(1985) |
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"This is one of the greatest films ever made. Period. It's outrageous, erotic, gory, jaw-dropping, genre-busting ,shocking, and altogether exhilarating filmmaking."
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PopMatters |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"With a plot Frankensteined from the remains of "Hostel", "The Descent" and "Wolf Creek", "Turistas" was clearly never going to be on anyone's 10 best list."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/5 |
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(1980) |
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"Teleporting Zombies! Hanging priests! Bleeding eyes! Organ regurgitation! The plot is meaningless and the characters senseless. But these are pluses for films in this cycle."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"With "Rocky Balboa", Stallone's created the first real "sequel" to his original, a deserving bookend that recaptures that film's sense of character and realistic detail."
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PopMatters |
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4/10 |
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(2006) |
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"It's really not much fun watching the non drama of our hero Randy (Michael Pitt) staring at the walls and keeping the hands of the more brutish Jake from clawing up his skirt."
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PopMatters |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The best Tarantino riff of 1994."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A very detailed portrait of a time and place that is about to change forever. This is a Long Island of 1976 in someone's memory, like a faded Polaroid in an old shoebox."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Patchwork filmmaking designed by a corporate mentality devoted only to the defense of the lowest common denominator. The viewer is assumed to be stupid and easily duped."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Hartley pretzels his faux spy plot into "Syriana"-like knots and ends up with a fascinating if somewhat flawed absurdist romp."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3/5 |
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(1990) |
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""How can the same thing happen to the same guy twice?" asks a bewildered and ultra-ironic John McClane. Well, make a film as successful as Die Hard and you'll soon find out."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Like the films of Polanski and Nicolas Roeg, "Head Trauma" is a slow burn movie, the kind which gradually pulls you deeper and deeper into its own twisted reality."
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PopMatters |
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Summing up a complex human being in two hours is like an MTV spot about Nelson Mandela cut to a Kanye West track. We don't really get to know Sedgwick at all."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Effectively tells the story of "The Black Cat" through the troubled life of the author himself, mixing fact and fiction like a horror movie version of "Shakespeare in Love"."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The work of a master visualist trying to walk the line between narrative and visual spectacle. The story is there, but it just sits on the side of the visual experience."
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PopMatters |
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5/10 |
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(2006) |
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"No matter that it's based on a book, the movie is more about how the reality of the time was seen through the lens of a Michael Curtiz while he was filming "Casablanca"."
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PopMatters |
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5/5 |
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(1972) |
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"Strips the artistry of the Henry James original and leaves us with a hairy, overweight, naked and sweating Brando brutally kneading Stephanie Beacham's breasts into new shapes"
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PopMatters |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"It's not too hard to imagine that the inspiration for this show came during a late night, cannabis fueled attack of the munchies. It's no masterpiece but that's the idea."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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8/10 |
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(1980) |
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"Diana Rigg plays the title role without remorse. Her Hedda suffers no fools and appears ready to strike like a coiled snake."
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PopMatters |
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5/5 |
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(1982) |
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"It has a plot that moves as though it were carefully thought out, and yet it also appears to be desperately improvised on the spot."
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PopMatters |
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Imagine a campfire story told by Jack London after downing a bottle of Jack Daniels. The chilly atmosphere would be in full force but the plotting might be a bit punch drunk."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"While not really a "horror" film, "Bug" contains more weirdness, tension and suspense than most other "genre" releases last year."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/5 |
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(1992) |
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"Fighting against pop culture expectations and a century of vampire cliché, Coppola's approach is unique. Like it or not, no one had ever seen a "Dracula" quite like this."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"It's different, but is it any good? As another former President might say, "Depends on how you define 'good'.""
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/5 |
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(1974) |
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"Beyond all the "masterpiece" rhetoric, this is actually a great movie."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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7/10 |
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(1968) |
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"This is not the kind of horror that comes from cobwebs and creaky doors. Its horrors are all too human and impossible to cast off with a simple fade out."
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PopMatters |
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(2007) |
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"Lindsay Lohan wears more clothes in this movie then she does clubbing in real life."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(1978) |
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"For Malick, Man is just a small part of a world which just keeps going round with or without his petty squabbles, crimes, loves, or melodramatic plots."
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PopMatters |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Outlandish, preposterous, contrived,and implausible thriller which happens to be fun if you ignore the fact that it's outlandish,preposterous,contrived and implausible."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2006) |
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"DePalma is like a magician who dazzles us with a trick only to show us, alas, it really was only a trick, and in the meantime he's stolen our watch."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Constructed from spare parts in a bionic writing room, the show has the arms and legs of "Alias" and "Heroes" but without a heart and brain of its own."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Movies like "Street Kings" are sitting ducks in a shooting range for film critics who laugh all through the movie only to condemn it for being so damn entertaining."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2006) |
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"Lots of questions are left unanswered, like a movie you fell asleep watching on late night TV and were never able to find again."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2006) |
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"What is most annoying about "Lady" is that no one ever considers the possibility that nothing magical is actually occurring.The film starts out silly and just gets sillier."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2005) |
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"Amid the sound and fury of most TV, the filmmakers deserve credit for simply having sly fun with a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing more than what it promises."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2006) |
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"The budget seems so charmingly low, you actually feel that after Bauer and Hastings share a bottle of wine they might have to pour it back into the bottle to reuse later."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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4/4 |
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"Unlike the overrated "Brick", Veronica Mars wasn't Hammett in high school attire but the real thing, Hammett in high school himself, late for class and with a hangover."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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""The Woods" plays like a classic Lewton film of the '40's, where the emphasis was on telling a good yarn without much ado and wrapping it up in a tightly wound 70 minutes."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2006) |
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"Seven films later, with the conventions of throat croaking and neck cracking having moved into camp, it's amazing that Shimizu can still find new ways to turn the old screw."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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""Edmond" is beyond black comedy, it's a comedy in almost total stygian darkness. A comedy where the laughs make you cough up razor blades."
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PopMatters |
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(2006) |
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"To say that "Abominable" is the best movie ever to premiere on a basic cable channel is degrading both to the movie and to Bigfoot."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2006) |
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""Bubble" is paced very deliberately, like a slowly dripping faucet. Scenes do not seem to be performed, but rather captured like surveillance videos."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2006) |
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"If you thought Van Sant's "Psycho" reshoot was weird, check this out. It's a community theater version of that old classic "The Omen", filled with all your favorite scenes."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2007) |
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"Some may think it isn't fair to compare Zombie's film to the original. Too bad. It's called "Halloween" and I'm pretty sure it's a remake of a movie called "Halloween"."
[movie review] |
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Beyond Hollywood |
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(2007) |
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"This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked."
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Beyond Hollywood |
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