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3.5/5 |
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"The western has been buried and revived so many times in recent years that it's beginning to resemble one of George Romero's stale zombies..."
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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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(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."
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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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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It appears that Ron Howard knew that he had to change the way everything was done in the previous film, and sending Tom Hanks to the barber was a very good start."
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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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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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3/5 |
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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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(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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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"
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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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(2007) |
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"A slick, thrilling, trashy, melodramatic and serialesque soap opera adventure which conceals the complex tale of moral ambiguity beneath."
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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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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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(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."
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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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(2006) |
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"The last words onscreen read: "James Bond Will Return!" Of course he will. The difference is that for the first time in years, we actually want him back."
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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."
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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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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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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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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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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Staying out of the courtroom, it's about what goes on before the trial, a period of brinksmanship that plays like an intense secret war waged between truly ruthless enemies."
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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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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."
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(2007) |
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""Dead Silence" is not going to reinvent the genre. It's actually a big pile of nonsense, but that doesn't stop it from being fun nonetheless."
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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."
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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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(2006) |
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"Scorsese has made an incredible cover version of the original, imbued with every ounce of his artistic personality transforming it into something both familiar and new."
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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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(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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4/5 |
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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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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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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."
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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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7/10 |
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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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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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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."
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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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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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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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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."
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"A mediocre attempt to play with exploitation fire without getting burned. A pair of anti-septic fakes that miss the entire point of exploitation."
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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."
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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"."
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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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(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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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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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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(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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