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6/10 |
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(2010) |
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"Cindy's conclusions are directly at odds with the evidence on the screen, and the entire story is surprisingly compelling for such a modest effort."
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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 opens with a quote from Chris Hedges saying that war is a drug. ... The film makes that quite clear, but I am not sure it says a whole lot more than that."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A day in the life of a man in deep depression."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It is hard to know what Jackson was intending to do with this film. Instead of telling the earth-story he seems to have wanted to give us some indelible images of heaven"
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The actual story is muddled, but the imagination of the visual imagery is very good."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"This year Canada's PONTYPOOL ranks as high as any United States science fiction films I have seen."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It is odd that a film on such a painful subject in this economy can still entertain. Perhaps the economy even helps it."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2010) |
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"The film sweeps viewers from intricately beautiful works of folded paper art to the submicroscopic origami of proteins, and it is well worth the trip."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Like James Cameron's previous film, TITANIC, there are enough good bits to make a really great film and enough bad bits to make a real stinker. Go for what is good and ignore the bad."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"There is a lot that is interesting to see in the world created by Shane Acker but not enough to make the feature film satisfying."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Perhaps because of the directing or perhaps because of stilted manners of the late Georgian and early Victorian era the film never again catches fire as it does in the early scenes."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Some good country music and some people you care about make this film likable if nothing flashy. But Bridges's characterization is first rate."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The story is just a little too straightforward and predictable with Eastwood apparently too anxious to concentrate on too much detail of the final game."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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""Wit, grace, and charm" is a lyric for one of the songs in the film, but it could have been describing the film itself. Told with its breezy style, this could be the most charming film of the year."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"This is a worthwhile story told with lukewarm emotion. The doomed love comes off as less a tragedy than a pity. The background makes this story more interesting than the foreground does."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Through the whole film one has the feeling that the real story is just about to begin, but like the original military project, we go nowhere and nothing ever comes of anything."
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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 film is full of some very cogent arguments, there are major flaws in his case."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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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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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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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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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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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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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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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."
[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 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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[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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"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."
[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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"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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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high 0 out of -4..+4 |
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(2005) |
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