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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"An old-school thriller just as heavy on intellect and thought-provoking ideas as it is on chase sequences and shootouts."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A lazy, juvenile, starkly unfunny and consistently unrelatable family film."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"By the very nature that it is more appealing than a lobotomy, Daddy Day Care is a superior [Eddie] Murphy venture."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Comfortable and enjoyable in an unpushy sort of way."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"So is Dance Flick worth recommending? Not for everyone, or for many. But there is an exuberance in the direction, and a certain not-easily-offended audience who will eat it up. You know who you are."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"By no means an earth-shattering, important film, but it is quiet and entertaining."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"As jaggedly formed as [it is] around the edges, the focal point in each of these characters' lives remain crystal clear and solidly effective."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"[Colin] Farrell may only have about fifteen minutes of screen time, but he is easily the star of the movie, creating one of the best screen villains in quite some time."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Darjeeling Limited is a pleasant trifle, and that's it. Individual moments shine but they do not make a satisfying whole."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Effectively gritty when need be, but for most of its running time meanders as it tries to find its central story arc."
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Nihilistic, imaginative and emotionally gratifying, The Dark Knight is in many ways a groundbreaking triumph, and perhaps the best superhero film to date."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"When Dark Ride goes for the throat, it has some fun. The rest of the time it's rather insulting."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Dark Water proves that the horrors of the human condition are just as frightening, if not more so, than all things that go drip in the night."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"So dimly lit and its plot so threadbare that the viewing experience is not much more gratifying than sitting in a pitch-black room for 95 minutes."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"As amateurish as first-time director Jonathan Liebesman is with handling his performers and their roles, he is a clear technical expert, heightening a distinguishable, foreboding atmosphere while delivering thrills and chills at a clip rate."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Poor Alyson Hannigan somehow retains her dignity throughout, even in the face of ridicule and material that couldn't have seemed good on the page, let alone during shooting."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Dawn of the Dead is creepy, smart, classy moviemaking. The film takes no prisoners in its sole goal to scare you silly."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Content to parade out an endless, ever-wearying line of cliches, ludicrous plotting and dialogue, and paper-thin stock characters whom the viewer forms no relationship with."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This is some of [Kline and Judd's] most astonishing respective work in memory. De-Lovely is unremittingly romantic."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Hidden from critics for a reason."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Norwegian zombie film is pretty standard, by-the-numbers fare, so generic it might as well have been shot by a soulless Hollywood studio."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Low-rent, boring, brazenly mindless garbage."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As entertainment, the film is equally unpleasant and captivating. As a more serious drama, it alternates between heartbreaking and heavy-handed."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Its downfalls are evened out by a creativity all too rarely seen at the movies."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A mind-bending supernatural horror film with more promise than it delivers."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An absorbing, gentle slice-of-life, light on plot but heavy on smaller moments of keen human interaction and observation."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Can a movie title be so unthinkably bad that it single-handedly ruins the viewing experience? As it turns out, yes."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A one-part mean-spirited, one-part saccharine, all-parts forgettable piece of fluff."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Go in expecting a masterpiece of modern cinema, and you are surely setting yourself up for a disappointment. But go in expecting to be genuinely entertained, and you'll have yourself a rollicking time."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A respectable family drama, but is all the more disappointing since it is obvious that it could have been so much more."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's all been done before, and better. Furthermore, the nearly two full hours it takes to reach its foregone conclusion begins to pry on one's nerves."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"When so many movies are predictable cookie-cutter affairs, it makes one appreciate the flawed Déjà Vu for the risks it takes and the heady imagination it implores."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Runs smoothly and likably until a maddeningly dumbed-down and cloying finale that sinks the entire film."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A pulpy, operatic, rousingly good crime thriller."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Anyone with even a passing knowledge of the genre who is paying attention will be able to guess almost from the start where things are headed."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Becomes so enthralling and intense that perspective viewers shouldn't be surprised if they forget to breathe for minutes at a time."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A nice, respective try, but Detroit Rock City just misses the mark."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There are some big laughs to be had, but just as many fumbles. Deuce would have been better off staying stateside and talking to his late wife's artificial leg."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1999) |
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"It is simply a very funny comedy—no more, no less—and sometimes, that is enough."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"At best, Deuces Wild is adequate direct-to-video fare. At worst, it's a horrifically bad theatrical release."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The year's shrewdest comedy thus far."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The Devil's Rejects is meanspirited, graphic, and bubbling over in ultra-realistic viscera, but it isn't without sociological merit."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A sly, extremely potent political satire, aided by a first-rate cast that hungrily dig into their respective roles with a vengeance."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"While most of the physical comedy is lazy and predictable...what surrounds it is a surprisingly charming diversion with a rather clever premise."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The very first movie I have seen in the secret agent series to warrant a recommendation."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Suspenseful and rousing and rarely stopping long enough to wear out its welcome. As crowd-pleasing spectacle, Live Free or Die Hard fits the bill."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"A distressingly lifeless concoction."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"For the not-easily-offended, this is certainly one of the most deliriously ballsy comedies to hit screens in years."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As depressing and empty a cinematic experience as any other picture this year or last (or maybe the whole decade). To label it as simply unfunny or vacuous or ugly or boring would be a compliment."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Children not already familiar with the past iterations of A Christmas Carol will be in heaven if they can get past the spookier elements, while the rest of viewers will be happy with, if not quite euphoric for, what Robert Zemeckis has cooked up."
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