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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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"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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"A slick, thrilling, trashy, melodramatic and serialesque soap opera adventure which conceals the complex tale of moral ambiguity beneath."
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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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(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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(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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(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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""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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"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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(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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(2007) |
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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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(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."
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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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(2007) |
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"The lasting effect of all three of Eli Roth's films is a certain kind of Grand Guignol "Punk'D", in which the "mark" is not only embarrassed, he's also cut to pieces."
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" A crazy midnight roller coaster ride to Lynchland. A movie you might half dream through an all night marathon of noir and slasher films, your heart pumping with caffeine."
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"This has to be the lamest alien invasion movie since the killer tomatoes attacked."
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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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"Most noirs are coming of age stories where an innocent learns how vicious and cruel the world can be. Only he usually learns it while a hunk of hot lead burns in his gut."
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"The entire film builds up a dreamlike tension and somnambulant paranoia unlike any film since Carl Dreyer's "Vampyr"."
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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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""The Prestige" is a cinematic trick, nothing more, and the deadpan seriousness is part of the effect, and not an end in itself."
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"At first glance, "Rescue Dawn" might seem like Herzog gone Hollywood, but it's still very much the man's work. Herzog has his cake and eats it too."
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"Built from spare parts left over by American remakes of Japanese copies of "Ringu", "The Return" is at least two steps removed from the first generation copy."
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(2006) |
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"A throwback to the salad days of regional horror filmmaking, when a Romero in Pittsburgh, or a Herk Harvey in Utah could create a movie that was not easily forgotten."
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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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(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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"Tim Burton, Johnny Depp, and Helena Bonham-Carter have made so many films together that they're starting to resemble each other."
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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."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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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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4/5 |
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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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5/5 |
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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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4/5 |
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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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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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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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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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3/5 |
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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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4.5/5 |
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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"Lindsay Lohan wears more clothes in this movie then she does clubbing in real life."
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3.5/5 |
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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."
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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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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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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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