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"Structurally and even editorially, it's kind of a mess, but [it] hooked me."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The increasingly slick Reitman...has the good sense to not slather every emotional beat in score and really seems to like his actresses."
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 3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Its wizardly craft provide[s] further evidence that Bong is one of the most formidable filmmaking talents to have emerged this decade..."
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"...Loses its flavour faster than chewing gum."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A political thriller in the sense that it's bound to polarize audiences..."
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 0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Even with the film's scant running time of 77 minutes, the unrelenting use of Mondrian splitscreen is bound to give anyone a headache."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The title translates as Behind Me, which is sort of where I want to put this Lukas Moodysson-esque downer."
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(2009) |
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"If you think I'm being tasteless, you should see the movie."
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 2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"More like 'bloated.'"
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 2.5/4 |
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(1989) |
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"...Batman hasn't gone totally stale."
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 4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Generally heralded as the first of its kind, Black Christmas may actually be one of a kind."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The most haunting sports film, or at least the most haunting film about the margins of a sport, since Fat City"
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(2008) |
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"Rachel Getting Married has the disadvantage of arriving soon after Margot at the Wedding"
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Film Freak Central |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Clever and affecting"
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 3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A gift that keeps on giving"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's unfortunate that the unfairest criticism one can level at Shine a Light is arguably the most legitimate as well: it's no Gimme Shelter"
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 0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A film that opens with celebuspawn Cyrus practising scales and ends with me wrapping my lips around the barrel of a twelve-gauge"
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(1997) |
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"Finally just another schoolmarmish prestige piece touting America's moral superiority"
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 2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A distaff version of Weird Science with a similar metaphysical disregard for logic"
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(1996) |
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"Surely the only movie to ever suggest a dumbed-down His Girl Friday, Road Runner cartoon, and The Abyss simultaneously"
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Film Freak Central |
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(2007) |
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"Walk Hard brings the funny and a keen observational sense"
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(1976) |
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"Clearly, film is not their forte."
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(1992) |
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"Pitt's tendency to turn into a space cadet without a well-defined archetype to play slows the movie's pacing to a crawl"
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Film Freak Central |
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 0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Game Plan makes The Pacifier look like No Country for Old Men."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2007) |
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"Disney's charmless live-action resurrection of the beloved super-mutt [is] just a bunch of mercenary actors and technicians who can barely disguise their contempt for the film's screenplay"
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"You look at a movie like this and wonder how some screenwriters can have the temerity to go on strike"
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Film Freak Central |
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(1987) |
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"For a movie so aesthetically on the ball, it's a shame the screenplay is not the least bit industrious."
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Film Freak Central |
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Lust, Caution] gets around to honouring its pretensions towards truthfulness in a climax that exposes the sham of Blackbook."
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Film Freak Central |
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 3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"HD seems to have reawakened in Romero a sense of mischief."
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Film Freak Central |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[Marries] CGI to Guignol whimsy in ways so tasteless that you can hear the crackle of Argento's mojo working."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I kept waiting for mimes to show up, on screen or off..."
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A "Never Forget" PSA done up as a Bergmanesque psychodrama..."
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Ozon is] too tony now for the vaguely subversive pastiches with which he made his mark."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Blame the Brits for making this kind of morbid farce look easy..."
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(2000) |
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Click here to see the review!
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(1981) |
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"Looker's surface pleasures are undeniable"
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 1.5/4 |
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(1989) |
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"The Little Mermaid was a mirage, not an oasis."
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 3.5/4 |
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(1981) |
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"A southern gothic--and a damn good one at that"
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 3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A would-be victim of its own London After Midnight-esque mystique"
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Film Freak Central |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"You can sense that it wants to be talked about more than it wants to actually say anything"
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Film Freak Central |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The filmmakers' stoicism finally proves insurmountable and indefatigable"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The screenplay could in fact have just as easily served as the template for a Roland Emmerich/Dean Devlin turkey"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Everybody's trying too hard--or not hard enough"
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Film Freak Central |
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An elegiac piece of filmmaking that transcends cheap thrills"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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 0.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"More of the same hollow irony Black practises as VH1's resident Mike Nelson"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"An underdog comedy that's neither funny nor poignant nor ingratiating"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Unlike Spielberg of late, [it doesn't] cop out"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"More than earns its presumptuous double entendre of a title."
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Film Freak Central |
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 0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"OMG! It's The Passion of the Lohan!"
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