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"One dalmatian too many."
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(2003) |
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"Anyone who quickly denounced Madonna's Swept Away as being the worst film of 2002 clearly hadn't seen 13th Child."
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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)."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Superb performances by Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro, and Naomi Watts highlight 21 Grams, Alejandro González Iñárritu's electrifying follow-up to Amores Perros."
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Michael Winterbottom puts the Manchester, England music/club scene circa 1980 under the microscope... and forgets to take the lens cap off!"
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The scariest thing about Danny Boyle's film is the surprisingly large percentage of people seemingly infected by its cheap and shoddy plagiarism."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Apparently it takes 'Weeks', rather than 'Days', to enjoy a sprightly-paced, finely-acted, and surprisingly intelligent apocalyptic zombie horror."
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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."
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"8 1/2 Women is a Greenaway film through and through -- intriguing to fans and maddening to the uninitiated."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Eminem's compelling, assured, workaholic performance lifts 8 Mile above its standard fare convictions."
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1.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"8MM doesn't condemn or condone its subject matter, it just exploits it."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"With A Scanner Darkly, Richard Linklater proves that anything worth doing is worth doing right, no matter how painstaking a process doing it right might prove to be."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Without a doubt Hugh Grant's finest on-screen performance."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"An imaginative, funny, and highly original journey."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Reminds us, unequivocally, why 3-D failed to catch on. "Special" effects notwithstanding, this Robert Rodriguez quickie is strictly for the younger set."
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(2004) |
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"Spends so much time down Selma Hayek's shirt fronts that we come away suffocated."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Beautifully crafted, daringly staged, and movingly scored, AKA is a triumph of British cinema (and cinema in general)."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Director Atchison succinctly separates the film's emotional core from a surfeit of cornball classism."
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2/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Murky and unworthy (especially of its director)."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"I didn't hate it nearly as much as I ought to have, thought I would, and/or everyone else."
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Everything you'd expect from a Cameron Crowe movie, and more."
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(2004) |
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"Ben Stiller's latest comedic vehicle is amiable but strikingly underwritten."
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A cinematic delight."
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3/4 |
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(1999) |
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"There are times when American Beauty feels like it might be toppling over into melodrama, but Mendes grabs the reins and reels his actors in, generating power and a lot of perspiration in the process."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Spendid!"
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"First-time director Alejandro González Iñárritu has taken an original story and fashioned it into a tale that is gritty, multifaceted, and brimming with edgy performances."
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Crystal is good, and De Niro is even better."
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(2004) |
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"Pretentious pornographic stuff and nonsense."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"If you like crude, crass, and stereotypically offensive "humor" then you'll love Anger Management."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"All it did was convince me that Mel Gibson appears to have found his niche, as the Grande Dame of Brutally Realistic Semi-Mythological Epics."
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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."
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(1999) |
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"The only sequence more shocking than the film's disturbing opener is its last.
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Rather than observing the intimate details that make an Art School project special, the filmmakers opt to focus on Art School partying (i.e., drinking and vomiting) instead."
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(1997) |
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"As Good As It Gets is decent, if not vintage, James L. Brooks, made all the more palatable by that man Jack Nicholson."
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"You know you're in trouble when you have difficulty telling Johnny Depp and Charlize Theron apart!"
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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."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Better than the second, and almost as good as the first!"
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Scatological doesn't even begin to describe it. Heather Graham is sh#t too."
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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."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A high-energy document to the power of performance and uncanned creativity."
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(2006) |
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"Babel is a well-intentioned -- and finely acted -- tower of power that might have worked better had its theme of universal communication difficulties been better integrated."
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3.5/4 |
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(1993) |
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"No other filmmaker could have made The Baby of Mâcon. And no other filmmaker would have wanted to.
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A rare disappointment from Almodóvar: perilously over the top gay chic coupled with an overly familiar condemnation of the Holy Catholic Church's blind eye towards pedophilia."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Drunk and disorderly."
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(2001) |
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"The best example to date of why mainstream movies don't feature explicit sex scenes."
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(2003) |
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"Taking themes and ideas from Kurosawa's Ikuru and Kasdan's The Big Chill (to name a few), director Denys Arcand still manages to make this film his own."
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(1989) |
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"Was it worth the wait? Actually, yes."
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(2005) |
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"Get 'Shorty out of your head for a couple of goofy, irreverent hours and there's a good chance you'll enjoy this inferior yet amiable sequel."
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(1999) |
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"The kind of film you might want to see several times to appreciate fully: every characterization, every line of dialogue, every frame of film stock has something unique to offer."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Slight, corny, and hopelessly predictable."
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