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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Unashamedly old-fashioned and corny, if not quite up to the director's usual high standards."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The scenes between Poppy (Sally Hawkins) and driving-instructor Scott (Eddie Marsan) have real bite."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Danny Boyle takes a love story, wraps it up in television game show, and delivers it via a kaleidoscopic travelogue of Mumbai. And it works. Splendidly!"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Grumpy Glaswegians going at it are once again the focus of David ("Young Adam") Mackenzie's bleak and dreary -- but not wholly uninteresting -- drama."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This flat, uninspired sailing documentary from the Walt Disney studios has surprisingly little to say."
[movie review] |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"British funny man Simon Pegg continues his downwards spiral with this lame, "'Devil Wears Prada"-styled "comedy.""
[movie review] |
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Nobody plays put-upon quite like Ben Stiller."
[movie review] |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The complexities of the script, while clever, will likely fly over the heads of most within its target demographic."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"Scores an 11 (out of 10) for sheer inspired lunacy but it's the writers' unexpected fondness for their subject matter that puts the film in a class all its own."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A pleasant return to the silliness of the Coens' earlier pictures from the stiltedness of their latter-day offerings (No Country' excepted)."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The highs and lows of getting one's first book published are intricately and delightfully examined in Norwegian director Joachim Trier's mature feature debut."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A dull dramatization of -- and ill-fitting testament to -- British journalist George Hogg's experiences in war torn China."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Jack Black puts the "POW!" in Kung' pao."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Stuart (Re-Animator) Gordon's murky misuse of Mena Suvari and Stephen Rea makes John Carpenter movies look like Art."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Where are the truth in titular advertising police when you need them?"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"More bronzed bodies bearing arms leading to inevitable shootouts delivered via a washed-out, hand-held digital style pulsing along to an infectious Latin beat."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Maybe I've got some subconscious porcine fetish thing going (or something) but I think Christina Ricci looks kind of cute with a pig's snout where her nose should be..."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"By the time this intense, well-made drama has run its
inevitable course you might well want to collapse in the snow and wave
your own arms up and down in surrender."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"OK of its type, even if its type is starting to exude that slightly disagreeable scent of 'been there, done that.'"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Daniel Day-Lewis's magnificent, sanguine performance as oilman Daniel Plainview is just one of many reasons to catch P.T. Anderson's latest feature."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A harrowing look at how war takes its terrible toll on the innocent."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Arguably, it's "Even Better Than the Real Thing.""
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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4/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Pacino at the top of his game."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Are we supposed to be charmed, or shocked, by this? Allen doesn't seem to know."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Money is really important in this world, apparently."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As an addition to the psychological thriller genre, The Orphanage is a solid, well-rehearsed entry."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"By the end of the The Water Horse...Russell's film has pretty much morphed into Free Willy IV: Lassie Go Home."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"So darned depressing in its observancy that it's no stretch to assume that writer/director Jenkins might have experienced something entirely similar first hand."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Screenwriter Cody's wit and imagination are seemingly endless."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A majestic and intimate romance that should rightly cement the careers of director Joe Wright and leading man James McAvoy, and give Saoirse Ronan some much-deserved exposure."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"With No Country for Old Men, the brothers Coen return to Texas -- and to form."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A huge disappointment after Baumbach's sublime 'Squid and the Whale. Ugly and mean."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Six sexy spelunkers in an underground fright fest make for keen and claustrophobic cinema."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Alas, it just doesn't work. It could have, but it doesn't."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The games, the traps, are still the thing and as long as Jigsaw's flunkies continue to build 'em, we will come."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Nice to look at, but about as weighty as the froth atop a tall skim latte."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"For all its quixotic quirkiness, The Darjeeling Limited is little more than artifice for the art house set."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This sporadically funny Farrellys farce is worth watching (mostly) for Stiller (Ben) and the game Akerman (Malin) in the leads."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Good Luck Chuck is a soft-core male indulgence posing as a hip Hollywood good luck chuckle."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There hasn't been a documentary this sick since Kirby Dick's Sick!"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The brains behind Cartoon Network's Aqua Teen Hunger Force have stretched their 12-minute plus commercials 'Adult Swim' series entry into 86 rather uneven ones."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bravura performances can't save this 'One, a run-of-the-mill vigilante flick from director Neil Jordan (not known for his run-of-the-mill anything)."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There are certainly worse ways to kill 90 odd minutes of one's time than spending two days in Paris in the estimable company of "Woody" (Adam) and "Mia" (Julie)."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Yet another stirring example that The Western is still very much alive and kicking."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's refreshing to see the French finally producing a worthy entry in the horror genre."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Wall-to-wall stiffness runs rampant in this latest take on Jack Finney's oft-filmed 'Body Snatchers yarn."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If you like your outhouse humor explosive then this 'Camp's for you!"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"When it's not fast and furious, The Bourne Ultimatum settles for slick and noisy... and it's often hard to tell these two moods apart."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I could watch Kingsley and Leoni for days. They're the film's true draw."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Cute idea, poor execution..."
[movie review] |
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