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.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The degree to which R.S.V.P. slowly but surely alienates the viewer is nothing short of remarkable..."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"...the film never manages to express
that extreme feeling of risk that the real-life girls must have felt."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"...suffers from a pervasively stagnant atmosphere that effectively drains the energy right out of its high-octane moments..."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...an alternatingly intriguing and maddening cinematic experience..."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"...successful as both a documentary on the suburbs and an intimate look at the ups and downs of an admittedly quirky nuclear family."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...there's nothing about Radio's life (the film is based on an actual person) that seems to warrant a full-length movie being made about him."
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2.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"While there's no denying that it's very well acted and flawlessly filmed, Raging Bull is nevertheless...sporadically engaging but mostly overrated..."
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film's focus on clumsy, inept characters results in a series of jokes that are beyond lame..."
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3.5/4 |
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(1981) |
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"Justifiably one of the most indelible adventure films in cinematic history..."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"...ultimately redeemed by Kevin Bacon's expectedly engrossing performance."
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3/4 |
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(1988) |
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"...there's more going on here than just the standard grin-and-smirk performance that dominated much of Cruise's early work."
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2/4 |
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(1997) |
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"...probably Miike's most accomplished and coherent effort - though it's still suffering from a whole host of problems."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...fans of the [action] genre flat-out owe it to themselves to check out the movie theatrically (if only to encourage the studios to quit making watered-down garbage like Hitman and Live Free or Die Hard)."
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3/4 |
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(1985) |
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"...precisely the sort of unapologetically brutal piece of work that's sorely missing from contemporary multiplexes."
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3/4 |
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(1988) |
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"...an entertaining, sporadically electrifying piece of work that makes up in thrills what it lacks in relevance."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"...ultimately one of the most uneven and least compelling efforts from Disney's Pixar Animation Studios to date..."
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1.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"...this just isn't an interesting story, with the Mitchell brothers making for truly unsympathetic protagonists."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"...even the most inept viewer will have little difficulty in figuring out precisely where the film is going at all times."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...the movie's final half hour [is] affecting and involving in ways that one might not have initially anticipated."
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3.5/4 |
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(1954) |
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"...the film surely remains one of the most memorable and downright essential examples of the slow-burn thriller genre."
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3/4 |
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(1940) |
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"The meandering storyline, however, ultimately prevents the film from living up to its reputation as one of Hitchcock's best..."
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Rebound isn't completely unwatchable, I suppose, but there's just got to be a better way to spend 87 minutes."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"About the only element in the film that might appeal to viewers past puberty is Larroquette's performance, which is expectedly enjoyable."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...impressive visually but completely dull storywise."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...plays like one of those lame straight-to-video flicks that usually star either Eric Roberts or Dean Cain..."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...a deliberately paced and downright thoughtful piece of work."
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1/4 |
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(1968) |
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"...frustratingly esoteric and inaccessible."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"...as far as thrillers go, this is certainly a consistently entertaining and exciting one."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...never quite becomes as compelling or intriguing as we get the impression it's supposed to be."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"...tense, exciting, and thoroughly entertaining..."
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2/4 |
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(2000) |
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"[The Red Letters is] generally entertaining, though, and especially enjoyable is Paul Gleason essentially reprising his Breakfast Club role (except this time he's a Dean instead of a Principal)."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...an ambitious yet wholly underwhelming endeavor..."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...a sporadically uneven yet consistently engaging effort that'll undoubtedly please Mamet's devoted fans."
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3/4 |
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(1994) |
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"...[The Ref is] the sort of movie that improves on repeated viewings."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"...McConaughey goes for broke and turns this guy into an amalgam of every hard-nosed soldier previously committed to celluloid."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"...nothing more than a sitcom-level romcom that becomes more and more predictable and flat-out conventional as it progresses."
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2/4 |
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(1989) |
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"...director William Lustig tries his best to infuse the movie with a decent amount of style."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...Religulous begins to seriously run out of steam somewhere past the halfway mark, as the repetitive nature of the movie's structure becomes increasingly tough to take."
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"...impossible to resist."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"...the filmmaker dwells on some of the less interesting aspects of his [subject's] life..."
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0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"...suffers from an unpleasant and relentlessly distracting animation style that ultimately renders its few positive attributes moot."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's not until the pieces finally start to fall into place that Rendition becomes the hard-hitting, thought-provoking drama Hood clearly wants it to be..."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"...that rare musical that just might appeal to folks that ordinarily shun the genre."
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Replicant doesn't even come close to some of Van Damme's better flicks (Timecop and Sudden Death), but it's certainly an improvement over what he's been up to lately."
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2/4 |
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(1984) |
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"...the movie, more often than not, just comes off as strange for strangeness' sake."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...remains entertaining because of the two stars, both of whom give incredibly charismatic performances."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"...never quite as compelling as Hüller's performance..."
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"...may be worth a look if you ever wondered what [Ringwald] would look like as a brunette (answer: weird)."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"...much of the film's success is due primarily to Bale's captivating, flat-out astounding performance as the actor becomes Dieter to an almost ridiculous degree..."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"...while the film is consistently entertaining, it never quite packs the emotional wallop that one might've hoped for..."
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