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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"If 'Jesus is Magic then God is, without a doubt, a Woman: Sarah Silverman."
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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."
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4/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Ralph Waldo Emerson once said that 'war educates the senses,' and that statement has never been truer than when applied to Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Saw's intriguing and genuinely creepy premise is quickly undone by the limitations of both the script and the performers."
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La Movie Boeuf |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The third Saw in the franchise loses its edge."
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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."
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The scariest thing about Scary Movie 3 is that it's actually pretty funny."
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Too much potty humor -- and not enough inspired comedy -- sink this fourth installment in the SM franchise."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"I'll save you all some time: Mr. Peevely the janitor did it and would
have gotten away with it if it weren't for those meddling kids and their darned dog."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Funnier, less offensive, and certainly better company than 'Harry or 'Aphrodite but Scoop still suffers from an overabundance of tired borscht-belt humor."
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"There's extra cheese on this Big Mac.
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Solid storytelling (if a little too slick and calculated) guaranteed to generate a lump in one's throat."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Secret Window is taut, credible, and thoroughly entertaining, and features another eccentric -- and uncommonly good -- performance from Johnny Depp."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Fancy a little S&M? If so, then the kinky Secretary should be right up your alley."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The urgent, free flowing gimmicky rhythms of Richard Green's swing club hippie dream ultimately grow trite and tiresome by journey's end."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Julio Medem's sexy road movie is an Y Tu Mamá También lite that arouses the senses as much as it does the imagination."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Starts strong and keeps getting better."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"The opening credits sequence is so long and puzzling -- it's not obvious what we're supposed to be looking at -- that it sets a bad tone for the rest of the picture."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Like any good Shakespearean work, Shakespeare in Love is filled with love, sex, villainy, despair, tears, sword fights, men dressed as women, women dressed as men, buffoonery, ribald humor, intimidating penmanship...and a dog!"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Not since All the Presidents Men has journalistic integrity been so entertainingly scrutinized."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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(1998) |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Solidly directed, evenly acted, and nicely filmed -- no real surprises, really."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Marky Marksman..."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Another telling example (The Brown Bunny, Anatomy of Hell, Bellocchio's Devil in the Flesh) that hardcore sex seems better suited to hardcore sex films."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Twice as irreverent, twice as flatulent and, at times, twice as much fun as the original."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Michael Moore takes on U.S. Healthcare (or lack thereof) in this impassioned plea for change."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The wine metaphors flow like, er... wine in this bold, boisterous, and eminently quaffable road movie/buddy movie hybrid from director Alexander Payne."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Signs could have been a lot more satisfying had we not seen in the last reel what director M. Night Shyamalan
so carefully avoids showing us in the first several."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Radha Mitchell is the reason to sit through this overblown Grand Guignol entertainment from the director of the similarly overblown Brotherhood of the Wolf."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1999) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Comic, sexy, and ultraviolent -- one of the best films of the year!"
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2/4 |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Even with its potentially interesting supernatural bent, it's still largely schlock footage."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Passionate -- but mostly unremarkable -- filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"An enjoyable and visually dashing computer-generated exercise."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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(1999) |
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Click here to see the review!
[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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2.5/4 |
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(1993) |
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Click here to see the review!
[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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2/4 |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Simple, sincere, and refreshingly unaffected."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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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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(1999) |
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[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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(1999) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(1993) |
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"Not only is the film funny, sometimes side-splittingly so, but it's also very well made, with unexpected moments of real tension and tenderness in and amongst the comedy."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A riveting and necessary monument to remembrance."
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Any hints at sophistication -- and there are many -- are constantly undermined by smarminess and cornball predictability.
"
[movie review] |
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La Movie Boeuf |
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