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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A film that loves and respects the country's firefighters, but makes the mistake of not getting to know them in a meaningful or substantial way."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Has neither the laughs of Roxbury nor the heart of Superstar, exposing itself as merely a very shallow and forgettable comedy."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Concludes with a big 'huh?' that leaves one questioning what the point was."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"There are a number of enormous, laugh-out-loud moments throughout, enough to mark it as one of the better comedies in recent memory."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An all-in-fun slasher flick—shallow as can be, never scary, unevenly acted, but wickedly comic."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Supposed to be sweeping and romantic, but instead takes on an uncomfortable and creepy undercurrent."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"The only thing Lake Placid ultimately has going for it is its witty dialogue."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"What begins as a button-pushing think piece concludes by pushing all the wrong buttons and losing sight of the bigger picture."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie races around to nowhere in particular, more concerned with rarely spectacular spectacle than a beating heart."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"While there are more moments with flair than in the original fiasco, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider -- The Cradle of Life remains a one-dimensional and suspiciously lifeless affair."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Has two good scenes amidst the creative dead zone that surrounds them."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Preposterous... messy... saccharine."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Carried out with a rare intelligence for the genre, Last Chance Harvey is proof-positive that a firm handle of material can make anything seem revitalized and fresh."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A mesmerizing triumph of both pitch-perfect minimalism and devastating existentialism, painting a bleak, uncompromising portrait of desolation personified."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The most fatal pitfall is a purely Hollywood ending that would be enraging if it wasn't such an obvious foregone conclusion."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Enthralling, mature and full of measured tension. The Last House on the Left is no The Virgin Spring, but it beats the pants off of its direct thirty-seven-year-old predecessor."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Says little about growing up and relationships that hasn't been covered—and better—in virtually hundreds of other pictures on the same subjects."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A tad unorthodox in today's times of fast and furious entertainment for kids, but those who take a chance on it will be pleasantly satiated."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The Last Samurai is so built on common Hollywood movie cliches and superficial, jingoistic messages that it achieves no identity of its own.
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[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"In the terms of the money-hungry Hollywood mindset, The Last Shot is an amusing, likable sleeper hit, but not an out-of-the-stratosphere blockbuster."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"When does a highly watchable movie stop being a beacon of enjoyment and turn into a morally reprehensible insult? For one, when its name happens to be Law Abiding Citizen."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The time spent watching this hackneyed waste is interminable, frustrating, and quite boring."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film is decidedly more involving than [most of the other summer movie extravaganzas], holds more intriguingly original conceits, and--here's a refreshing change of pace--keeps its running time well below the two-hour mark."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Lacks the clarity and identity of the earlier 1974 and 1986 installments."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Not bad but also so frivolous that there's nothing to grab onto and take away from it all. Leatherheads is a good-looking but misguided waste of time and effort."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A sunny, hip confection."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A sort of half-hearted fantasy that is rarely ever involving."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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"A powerfully articulated and subtle drama from famous Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The picture is a beautifully foreboding storybook sprung to life, mixing guffaw-inducing comedy, frightful fantasy, and resonating drama without missing a beat."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Not the be-all-end-all groundbreaker some are labeling it as, but it does put a new, sweet spin on a subgenre long in need of some freshening up."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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0.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A clueless, pointless, unfunny dud. The kind of movie where one can tell that the actors already know they're making a piece of crap."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In every way possible, Letters from Iwo Jima is the superior effort and precisely the kind of film Flags of Our Fathers should have been."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"License to Wed is set on a plane of existence not inhabited by intelligent life, but by widespread nincompoops."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Has a tendency to be marginally entertaining one minute, and then brain-numbingly dull and misguided the next."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This is one dreary, listless film. The sooner it is forgotten and the once-promising director restakes his claim in being someone to watch, the better off we all will be."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Gets a lot of mileage out of some very fine performances before making way for mawkishness in the final half-hour."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Paints a compelling and thought-provoking picture of not only school violence, but violence in general, and the trickle-down effect that a single moment in time can have on one's whole future."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"[Benigni] somehow succeeds at such a genre-bending convention (or unconvention, if you think about it), finding just the right balance between humor and drama so that the film in no way is condescending to the subject matter."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A riveting mystery-drama filled with absorbing writing and even better acting."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"This is Angelina Jolie's movie all the way, and she does not disappoint."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A resoundingly affecting and emotionally cathartic family drama. Lingers and stirs in the memory long after the end credits have rolled."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A well-meaning, yet derivative, film of this sort is basically made or broken by the writing and portrayals of the characters, and both aspects are unsatisfactorily handled."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Amiable enough, but far too cliched and steadfastly generic to be worth recommending."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Disney's most effortlessly charming and satisfying [hand-drawn] creation since 1999's Tarzan."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lions for Lambs will not change anything. It probably won't even put a dent in the the U.S.'s consciousness. Regrettably, it's more of the same with only cursory signs of a soul."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Lisa and the Devil is the real deal, a masterfully poetic journey into darkness and dislocation that is long overdue in finding the audience it so desperately deserves."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(1998) |
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"A preposterous, asinine horror movie (also, in more ways than one) that is about as subtle as a freight train crashing into your house."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"If there is a reason to see it, it's the effortlessly enchanting Murphy, but that isn't quite reason enough. This is one Book that should have remained closed."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"So muddled and frustrating in its storytelling that I felt like giving up on the film halfway through."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It is only once the end credits have begun to roll that you step back, process what you have seen, and leave dissatisfied."
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