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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A surprisingly sharp and cynical story about success, public image, and fame and is about both those who have it and those who don't."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The story is simple and compelling and the title leaves no doubt where the story is going. This is a powerful film for those willing to see its extreme violence."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"While the book works fine for the younger set, the film tries to be too much an Alice-in-Wonderland-class story for all ages, but it rarely works for both young and old at the same time."
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5/10 |
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(1996) |
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"Co-written and directed by animator Bill Plympton, this film is uneven both in its humor and in its appeal."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"From opposite ends of the world the two can say anything to each other, and the clay animation lets us see what their minds' eyes are seeing. The story is wise and funny in ways it could not be in live action."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"After UP set a standard for character development, CLOUDY WITH A CHANCE OF MEATBALLS falls short."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In Steven Soderbergh's hands and with some very strange stylistic choices the story becomes muddled and more confusing than necessary."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Hayao Miyazaki is off his game with this film that has weaker art and animation than his usual films and a script that needed another draft or two."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Some of it is good; much of it is preposterous. In trying to meld comedy and tragedy it entertains fitfully and requires more patience than most Tarantino films do."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is bizarre and at times touching, but in the end leaves the viewer perplexed and a little unsatisfied with the stories."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"issues are complex and the approaches to the solution are even more so. This film makes it hard to agree with either side."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The plot of this film is impenetrable but the dialog is hilarious and comes a staccato pace. This is a comedy of political backbiting, in-fighting, and out-fighting."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The first half is inventive, but the film really loses steam in the second half. Too many technical problems went unsolved in bringing this story to the screen."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"While the film is asking difficult questions, it is a first rank piece of science fiction. When it starts to answer those questions in the easiest and most predictable ways the film becomes just another loud summer action film."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Rather than a serious attempt to resurrect the Gothic horror of the 1960s it is more just a reverential nod or even a send-up."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"This film will bring back memories of films like MEMENTO, 21 GRAMS, and some time machine stories, but it is really very different."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Bill Plympton's fourth collection of his short films is every bit as creative, if not quite as anarchic, as his earlier work."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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9/10 |
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(1960) |
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"This is a classic, and I consider it one of the best family films evermade. It is moving and says a very great deal about life and about art."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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" The film is fun, but the characters are not well developed. The audience has to be onboard not for the characters but for the twisty ride."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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"This is a big, spectacular film that may even be an education for American audiences. We see little historical spectacle from Hollywood these days and hopefully Bollywood will help fill the gap."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It builds to a satisfying and almost funny denouement with a cleverly intricate sequence involving all of the primary characters of the plot."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"DEAD SNOW is done with sufficient style to keep it interesting, but a little originality would have gone a long way."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"What is nice about this film is it is different from most of the horror films being made currently. What is disappointing is that it is not enough different from some of the classics of the horror genre."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Pixar has gone past the point where they made animated films that happened to be good stories. Now they are making good stories that happen to be animated."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The film suggests the viewer see the proceedings in two ways, as a believer might and as an unbeliever might. This makes it really two films."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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"The package is one that should really stoke your sense of wonder whether you are six years old or sixty. This is a collection of documentaries that glory in spectacle."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Gertrude Berg herself probably could not have made a better documentary of her life and her creations than YOO-HOO, MRS. GOLDBERG."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a good science documentary about a problem that does not get much press. [It] raises disturbing questions."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2002) |
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"It recreates the feel of the period, but in the end its obscurity undercuts its power."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A new fan of the series--and there are more that I would have expected--can enjoy STAR TREK, but a veteran "Trek" devotee will get a lot more out of it."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"This is a Grand Guignol science fiction rock opera. The plot is minimal and for a rock opera, there is too little real melody."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"At times a little pretentious, but a reasonable, not perfect, meditation on art and beauty and the relation of the living artist with the dead who have contributed to his art."
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high 0 out of -4..+4 |
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(2005) |
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Click here to see the review!
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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+2 out of -4..+4 |
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(2005) |
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Click here to see the review!
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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+2 out of -4..+4 |
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(2005) |
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"Followers of the series will find a more mature Harry and a more mature style, less sugary but not actually drier than the previous films."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The jokes are good; the animation is fine; the 3-D is awesome. But still the film fails to make a monster or an alien as powerful a character as the little clownfish Marlin from FINDING NEMO."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The novel was written for young adults and the film feels like it pulls its punches. The final horrifying revelation is still a long way from the painful realities of those days."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"I like the sheer quantity of ideas in this film, but I am not sure that they all fit so nicely together. I expect with some thought the flaws will seem less important and the audacity of the plot will win out."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"All the various visual styles come together perfectly. It is rare to find a film that can be enjoyed from start to finish."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The nifty plot and the puzzles that keep coming should be a pleasure for any thinking viewer."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"SKILLS LIKE THIS has a lot to offer, reminding us of the adage that the cheapest way to improve a film is with solid writing."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"With a film featuring all this violence and with superheroes the last thing you would expect is a film so dreary and tedious."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Amusing and frustrating. But it is undeniably entertaining and one gets a certain amazement at the creativity of Khouri's mind under pressure--much the same quality that Clifford Irving has in THE HOAX."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(1975) |
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"Even after three and a half decades this film still will be controversial and still has a real impact."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"At heart what makes the film powerful is Winslet in so strong a performance and so totally different from anything she has done in the past"
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Somewhere between Gaiman's writing and the rendering on the screen this film loses coherence with too little happening that makes sense."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"While the main character is Michael Sheen's David Frost, Frank Langella is fascinating as the cold and withdrawn Richard Nixon."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"This is a highly affecting film, and Sean Penn gives the most moving performance of the year of a very ordinary man whom history moved to greatness."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Justin Routt writes, directs, and stars in a film that amounts to little more than a laundry list of pet peeves. Humor is a matter taste and this humor mostly is not to my taste."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The story produces a gamut of emotions from comic to tragic. This film is touching and occasionally powerful. If one can get by the early negative characterizations, it eventually rewards the viewer."
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