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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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" While it has the energy and the endless cinematic invention of his early work, the film's command of economical storytelling is something that once eluded Raimi."
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Kinetofilm |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film is only marginally about sex; it's real subject is business. One can argue cynically that all human relationships are a form of transaction."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/5 |
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(1973) |
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"This wasn't the standard "pimp and ho show" but rather a smart, character based crime flick about two hustlers just trying to survive in the City of Brotherly Love."
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Kinetofilm |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie works hard for your money and should theoretically be scarier than the cut rate television production. But it's not. Not by a mile."
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Kinetofilm |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Packed with claw-shredding action and adventure, the film more or less delivers what it promises. The problem lies with what it promises."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(1950) |
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"The craziest true story I've never heard of that turned out to be pretty damn true. Even with Fuller shouting his own melodramatic version of the truth at the top of his lungs"
[movie review] |
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Kinetofilm |
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a FILM with blood in its veins, a heart in its body and a red hot engine in its chassis. It is alive with ideas and a geniune belief in the power of FILM to express them."
[movie review] |
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Kinetofilm |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There is a senseless scare every 5-7 minutes. Now, after one or two you start to get the giggles but after the third or fourth false scare you begin to Laugh Out Loud."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are powerful images that sear into your brain upon contact with your eyes but PUBLIC ENEMIES clearly wants to alienate the audience as much as it engages them."
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Kinetofilm |
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1.5/5 |
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"For two thirds of the film, Hide plays as David Lynch and Quentin Tarantino-lite and not those filmmakers as they are today but as they were in, say, 1994."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"I don't know how many times I've asked myself, "How come they're aren't more films about the Incubus?" Well, here's one for you."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The entire project seems to sweat from the exertion of its writer Nathan Atkins and director Chris Fisher to do something-anything-to make the film worthwhile."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Somehow pulling off the trick of appealing to the wider mass audience with one foot in Star WARS, the most startling thing about this new TREK is how it avoids being AWFUL."
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Kinetofilm |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"What starts off as the best Charles Bronson movie not to star Charles Bronson ends up as a literary adaptation of a novel that thinks it means something or other."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2008) |
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"No one wants to watch Bond chase after Osama Bin Laden and switch off his dialysis machine with a bad one liner. On second thought, maybe that would be great?"
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Kinetofilm |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This isn't the kind of melodrama where a happy facade is slowly torn away-the tensions are there from the start and no one has illusions that things are nice and rosy."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2/4 |
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"Pity the poor vampire. Walking the earth for eternity and forced to drink blood to survive, he can't even be taken seriously as a monster these days. Except as a metaphor."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Real no frills filmmaking. Anything that gets in the way of the main idea is stripped to the bone. This includes certain niceties like character, humor, and even story."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2009) |
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"This is not a movie about moral dilemmas-it's about a father who will rip out your eyeballs if you don't give him his daughter back."
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Kinetofilm |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Lazy filmmaking that fails to engage anyone who doesn't have a personal connection to the story. It's so well-meaning that it ultimately means nothing much at all."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"In SUSPIRIA, Udo Kier says that "Bad luck isn't caused by broken mirrors, but by broken minds"-Well after making this silly movie, director Alexandre Aja might think otherwise"
[movie review] |
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Kinetofilm |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Pacino. DeNiro. Armed and dangerous. In a cop drama. In NYC. Together. Written by the writer of Inside Man. Sounds great, doesn't it? Well, what could've gone so wrong?"
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CinemaBlend.com |
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(2008) |
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"Formally, it demonstrates the power of the aspect ratio in deciding our relationship to the story. Dramatically, the film is at once fascinating and completely annoying"
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Beyond Hollywood |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Tropic Thunder focuses its satire on this Hollywoodization of war, as it depicts the production of a Vietnam genre film that's less "Platoon" than "Platoon Leader" with Michael Dudikoff."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"While not as laughable as the narcissistic Lady in the Water ,it fails just as miserably as narrative and even more miserably with its flat characters and tone deaf dialogue."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This film would make a perfect commercial thriller for James Spader and Rob Lowe were it still 1994."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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7/10 |
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(1971) |
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"Everything that has come to be known as "Melville" exists in some form throughout the film's 98 minutes. The flaws present are those of the greatest auteurs' autumnal works."
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PopMatters |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not the characteristically sharp Mamet dialogue that makes Ejiofor effective so much as what he does between the lines: Moments of powerful contemplation and silence."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Imagine a sort of CSI:18th Century London spliced with a History Channel documentary and you might end up with something like BBC4's unique program "City of Vice"."
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PopMatters |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"While a marked improvement over the utter lameness of Troopers 2, Marauder tries too hard to telegraph its satirical tone..."
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3/5 |
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(1995) |
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"While not exactly a masterpiece, the TV Alien Nation was a significant improvement over the shallow original."
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PopMatters |
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5/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Nominated for the 2005 Best Foreign Film Academy Award, "Noel" is the kind of sentimental tripe the Academy loves to honor in order to justify their own sentimental tripe."
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PopMatters |
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6/10 |
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(2002) |
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"There is a visceral thrill in these images proving Truffaut's point that an actual anti-war film can never be made since the very nature of warfare makes war exciting."
[dvd review] |
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PopMatters |
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8/10 |
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(1981) |
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"Returning to a show you watched during childhood can be a disappointing experience. But GAM holds up very well and is actually wittier than I understood it to be at the time."
[dvd review] |
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PopMatters |
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Whatever your feelings towards Chappelle, this interview goes beyond the boundaries of the performing arts into a dialogue that is funny, insightful, and even touching."
[dvd review] |
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PopMatters |
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2/10 |
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(2006) |
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"The real shame is that Roy's story is riveting stuff and would've made a great honest documentary or at least an amazing '70s crime picture with Oliver Reed as Shaw."
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PopMatters |
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6/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Feast is too knowing and in its own way, too high profile to be born as cult cinema. But it's a reasonable facsimile and as such deserves a look from the genre connoisseur."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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6/10 |
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(1960) |
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"These are far from Martin's best work, but they serve as documents to his likability."
[dvd review] |
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PopMatters |
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5/10 |
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(2006) |
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"A gothic tale with roots deep in Shelly's Frankenstein. Bai takes the part that most adaptations toss out, the moral education of the monster, and puts it front and center."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not Kar-Wai's best work, but cast Tony Leung and Maggie Cheung in the leads, toss in subtitles and some of the same dissenters may be calling it his latest masterpiece."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is both an impressive "calling card" work for the filmmakers and a failure as an actual film."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"There is an effortless artistry in this film that may have deceived many. It looks like a trifle but it packs a punch."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"In attempting to create a shock effect of the new within the old, the baby is tossed out with the bathwater. The core pleasures of genre still have to be respected."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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4/4 |
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"The cleverest conceit of the show is that celebrity doesn't really change a person so much as fan the flames that were burning from the start."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/5 |
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(1984) |
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"Where the brilliant "Raiders" was an adventure film aimed at the child at heart, "Temple of Doom" is really designed for the kiddie market itself."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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CinemaBlend.com |
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