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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Shifts between earnest melodrama and zany comedy without making much of an imprint as either...In all of her frequently breathtaking talent and depth, Hilary Swank deserves better than what P.S. I Love You has to offer."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Routine but skillful, P2 takes a bare-bones premise and uses it to string up a series of escalatingly tense situations."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A lame-as-lame-can-be bust."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Palindromes is Todd Solondz's first significant cinematic failure, a pitch-black fable twice as shallow and trite as it is intriguing."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Is (1) a victim of its own hype, and (2) nothing like what it's being marketed as, but there is an audience involvement writer-director Guillermo del Toro manages to work up all the same."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"By the time one of the creatures tosses a character a pipe and they proceed to martial arts fight, it's safe to presume that a shark has been jumped and there is no turning things around."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A superb exercise in eliciting suspense out of simple, progressively sticky situations."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"At no time does it work, providing cheap thrills, bad writing, and a particularly nasty side that tries to pass itself off as popcorn entertainment."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"One of the sweetest cinematic confections of the year. Charlyne Yi is a new star in the making."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Yet another accomplished, stylistically courageous work from a filmmaker whose willingness to take chances and pull them off is his finest attribute."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The viewer walks out of Paranormal Activity wishing there was more to it, while acknowledging all the same that the film's cumulative impact is formidable, permeating long after the lights have come up."
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DustinPutman.com |
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0.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"A mindnumbingly brainless comedy."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"With a storytelling sensibility more common in foreign films than mainstream ones, Passengers is a compact, thought-provoking tale that challenges the viewer while shedding light on one's own life, and how he or she has chosen to lead it."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"How anyone could call Gibson's filmic account anti-Semitic is mindboggling in its confused narrow-mindedness."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1998) |
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"A little too conventional and predictable for my taste. However, when the ending came, the whole effect of the movie was pretty much ruined."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"No better than anyone should have expected, which is to say that it isn't any good at all."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Boring and predictable in both its narrative and its aesthetics, Paul Blart: Mall Cop is dumbed-down, low-rent slapstick with stereotypes galore and a violent undercurrent that doesn't sit well."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1983) |
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"One of those small, deliberately paced, but charming foreign films in which not much happens plot wise, but a lot happens to the characters emotionally."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2000) |
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"An already-flawed motion picture that could have added up to so much more than it ultimately does."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Payback is not, in any way, an entertaining film."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"While the tautly paced Paycheck succeeds at keeping your attention, it offers nothing at all to think about or even remember once its two hours have run their course."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Pearl Harbor is a difficult movie to review. It is in no way a great movie, but it also is far from bad."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"With some fine-tuning, Penelope might have been transformed into a winning little fable about accepting and loving oneself. As is, it only serves to remind of what could have been."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"A wildly inventive creation that is just about as adult as an animated film can get, and at times, I even started to forget that it was, in fact, animated."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For the promise it held at the onset and the foolishly inane places it opts to travel to, this is a particularly arrogant letdown, a thriller with a rancid bite."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"About as appetizing as a candy cane laced with arsenic."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Amidst the troubled waters are some bright spots that lift the picture above being a painful experience; as is, it is merely disposable."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"In the fleeting third act, The Perfect Score hints at what could have been. Unfortunately, its improvements arrive too little, too late."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"The most realistic and horrifying storm ever put to celluloid."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Straddles the line between intrigue and blandness until it decides it's had enough and just sort of peters out."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Difficult to resist even when its allure is only surface-deep."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Constant sequences of drug taking, one after the other, does not a good film make."
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DustinPutman.com |
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Haunting, sorrowful and reverberatingly eerie. Above all, Pet Sematary is a remarkably mature and thought-provoking look at the mysterious nature of death and the complexity of the grieving process."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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"A needless sequel, but a pretty good one all the same."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"If it's family fare you're seeking, see this and skip the dreadful, condescending Cheaper by the Dozen. You can thank me later."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Chooses contrivances over naturalism and sickeningly saccharine sermonizing over lighthearted moralizing."
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A small movie in size, but large in heart and enthusiasm. Global warming be damned, Elle Fanning's smile alone could melt the polar ice caps."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"More of a stunt than a fully-developed motion picture, but it is nonetheless pulled off with an engrossing flair."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Plays like a sitcom that just so happens to feature characters infinitely more real and complex than the genre usually permits...[Katie Holmes] is a joy to watch."
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DustinPutman.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Begins as a been-there-done-that stoner romp before turning into an outlandishly silly and graphically violent action-thriller. The tone may be schizophrenic, but the sheer, unabashed showmanship of the whole thing warrants praising."
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DustinPutman.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A ninety-minute movie containing two or three big laughs, another two or three small ones, and eighty surrounding minutes of lazy, misguided, laughless tripe."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Desperate and dreary, The Pink Panther 2 is an empty-souled star vehicle that hasn't a clue what actual wit and comic timing entail."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bloated beyond comprehension, overplotted to the point of aggravation, and about as soulless as a ship captain specter, [the film] is a total mess."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A grand-scale train wreck."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"By the end, the film has gone from being a cheesy delight to an aimless, tired smorgasbord of empty action scenes."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Do anal probe gags sound like fine family entertainment? How about multiple scenes depicting ugly gay panic? Not to worry; a penis joke referring to a male member as an 'antenna' is right around the corner."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The most uneven motion picture Tim Burton has ever made."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"An always-entertaining and fairly thoughtful film on the subject of love, and how everyone hopes for it in one way or another."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"The film is a magical experience."
[movie review] |
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DustinPutman.com |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A provocative morality tale, The Pledge is not only the first great motion picture of 2001, but also a film that exposes Sean Penn as being every bit as talented a director as he is an actor."
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