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"If you think I'm being tasteless, you should see the movie."
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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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(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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(2009) |
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"For better or worse (worse, if you ask me), A Single Man is precisely what you'd expect from fashion designer Tom Ford"
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(2009) |
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"Korine is just too old for this s**t"
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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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(2009) |
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"Structurally and even editorially, it's kind of a mess, but [it] hooked me."
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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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(2008) |
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"A gift that keeps on giving"
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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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 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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 2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"More like 'bloated.'"
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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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(2008) |
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"Blame the Brits for making this kind of morbid farce look easy..."
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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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(2008) |
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Click here to see the review!
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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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(2008) |
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"Rachel Getting Married has the disadvantage of arriving soon after Margot at the Wedding"
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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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Film Freak Central |
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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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(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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 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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 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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"A "Never Forget" PSA done up as a Bergmanesque psychodrama..."
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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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 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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 3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Unlike Spielberg of late, [it doesn't] cop out"
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An elegiac piece of filmmaking that transcends cheap thrills"
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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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 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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(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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 1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bargain-basement Dennis Potter"
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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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(2007) |
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"Walk Hard brings the funny and a keen observational sense"
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(2006) |
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"[Accepted] would be funnier with an R rating on principle"
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(2006) |
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"If All the Invisible Children proper has any lessons to impart, they revolve around the auteur theory"
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(2006) |
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"A movie that only a Rupert Pupkin could enjoy guilt-free"
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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"
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 3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Cantet's pictures are screwball comedies played straight"
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(2006) |
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"OMG! It's The Passion of the Lohan!"
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(2006) |
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"The filmmakers' stoicism finally proves insurmountable and indefatigable"
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(2006) |
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"It sits there like a dead frog waiting for the electrodes"
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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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 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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 2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Clark remains a compelling, primal anthropologist--but there are only so many times you can applaud a one-trick pony"
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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"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Sympathies sway back-and-forth between the wife and the husband, but never within the same episode, making Ozon just another god from the machine"
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Film Freak Central |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Just the latest quasi-magic-realist, two-birds-with-one-stone shrine to non-traditional families and the power of myth"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Philip Seymour Hoffman disappears into the title role, yet the movie is fundamentally superfluous"
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Film Freak Central |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Wittier than Not Another Teen Movie, stealthier than Storytelling"
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