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(1956) |
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"There is a kind of glum, low-rent fatality to the production that suggests oppression through attrition"
[movie review] |
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(1968) |
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"There is simply no substitute for the cinema experience"
[movie review] |
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(1957) |
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"Smart enough to keep you watching and earn your forgiveness for clunky moments along the way"
[movie review] |
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(2001) |
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"Even though Spielberg's heart is beating throughout A.I. you still feel the ghost of Kubrick watching from hidden vantage points"
[movie review] |
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(1988) |
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"Almost too much of a good thing"
[movie review] |
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(1990) |
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"(An) audacious, subversive interpretation of Carroll's 'Alice'"
[movie review] |
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(1976) |
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"Like seeing the world's biggest school project unfolding before your eyes"
[movie review] |
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(1992) |
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"Enough material to fill a movie script of epic proportions"
[movie review] |
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(1971) |
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"You would be wise not to read any further material about BAD until you’ve viewed it for yourself"
[movie review] |
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(1968) |
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"The rhythm comes from the sharp, snappy dialogue. And Davis snaps with the best of them"
[movie review] |
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(1983) |
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"ANTARCTICA has many sad moments but these are undermined a little by its uneasy mix of fact and conjecture"
[movie review] |
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(1987) |
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"So diverse in nature that it can only be evaluated piecemeal"
[movie review] |
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(1977) |
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"Conveys a sense of despair I haven't discovered in most other horror films"
[movie review] |
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(1973) |
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"You may find yourself giggling with disbelief or maybe just embarrassment"
[movie review] |
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(1965) |
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"In the Wishman universe, women are helpless and men are bestial"
[movie review] |
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(2000) |
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"Its content will earn it a following from as many witless viewers as it will thoughtful ones, but that's no reason to condemn it"
[movie review] |
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(1967) |
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"Despite all the action and violence it's the peaceful moments that linger"
[movie review] |
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(1971) |
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"We're used to Eastwood playing a hero, so we accept his casual words and silky delivery without really questioning it"
[movie review] |
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(1973) |
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"Starts off as a children's story but ends up like a landlocked version of 'Moby Dick'"
[movie review] |
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(1979) |
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"In his early days, Meyer was spoofing the genre; in ULTRA VIXENS he is spoofing himself"
[movie review] |
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(1976) |
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"The 'star-studded' cast of familiar faces is one of the conventions of disaster movies that writers Cohen and Fred Freeman have stuck to"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1978) |
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"Imparts quintessential elements of the male psyche more persuasively than Milius' other gung-ho action pictures"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1985) |
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"THE BLACK CAULDRON hitches up its pants, says good-bye to Mom at the door, but then decides to go no further than the front yard"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1949) |
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"The innocent approach to 1949’s LAGOON works better when viewed as an alternative or balance to the less restricted remake."
[movie review] |
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(1993) |
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"Ferrara keeps the human element at the forefront of the story"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1971) |
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"Delirious, hilarious, visually dazzling"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1962) |
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"The outright stupidity of the production is entertaining at first, but becomes tiresome"
[movie review] |
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(1971) |
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"Altman's running joke through this movie is that it is a birdwatching film"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1989) |
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"Works effectively as a kind of goofy homage to suburbanites"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1979) |
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"Many quirky spins on familiar standards"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1968) |
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"Great curio value because it is so patently a product of its time"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1970) |
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"Definitely one to see in a cinema"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1981) |
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"I'm sure many a critic remarked at the time that the ex-Beatle's best acting performance to date didn't require him to speak"
[movie review] |
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(1950) |
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"Stake[s] out supposedly serious territory to justify our own morbid fascination in the subject"
[movie review] |
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(2005) |
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"If Charlie is upstaged by the factory, then the factory itself gets upstaged by Willy Wonka"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1966) |
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"Another Warhol put-on."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1978) |
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"(The) total lack of unity, while seen as CIRCLE OF IRON's greatest liability, could also, however, be its biggest asset"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1991) |
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"A great dance that Sayles choreographs"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1986) |
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"A catalogue of second-best decisions"
[movie review] |
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(2008) |
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"Follow(s) Joe Bob Briggs' "first rule of drive-in moviemaking""
[movie review] |
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(1962) |
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"(The) distributor's alternate title SOULS FOR SALE...advertises
the film's sinister proceedings right from the opening credits"
[movie review] |
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(1970) |
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"Difficult viewing, although there are some intriguing nuggets buried within"
[movie review] |
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(1971) |
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"This just wouldn't have worked with fakery or process shots"
[movie review] |
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(1998) |
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"About as purely existential an experience as you can find in cinema"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1988) |
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"Enough inventive moments to make it interesting"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1989) |
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"The storyline is standard exploitation (or raftploitation?) fare but tries for better"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1998) |
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"A metanarrative intrigue into those huge creative spaces"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1974) |
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"Nearly everything it needs for status as a cult classic except a star turn in the lead role"
[movie review] |
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(1982) |
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"It makes my head spin to think how many viewing hours must have been spent in order to knit this story together"
[movie review] |
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(1934) |
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"Death...as a house guest that can't be gotten rid of"
[movie review] |
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