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(2006) |
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"[O]h, yes, the evil cleverness, the deep and seriously profound wit of casting... Keanu Reeves... with his melancholy insolence that everyone mistakes for lethargy, with his irony so deadpan it goes all the way back around to something like calculated sel"
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(2001) |
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"Does what truly great science fiction does, which is get you to think about what it means to be human."
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(2002) |
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"Gaghan gives in to Hollywood slickness, smoothing over what should be pleasingly rough edges with a glossy, pinup cast."
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(2001) |
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"A story to appreciate, laugh at, and cry with no matter where you or your parents came from."
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(2002) |
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"It turns out that Grant, once he finally shucked his irritating and not at all adorable nervous mannerisms, is quite a fine and ingratiating actor."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1997) |
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"This is just a better makeup job on the same misogynist theme: live woman = nothing; dead woman = power."
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(1996) |
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"Saunders’s scripts are universes of bitter wit in which absolutely nothing is sacred..."
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(1992) |
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(2006) |
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"This is almost like a lost movie from my teenhood, a forgotten relic of the late 70s, early 80s, when even summer comedies came with a touch of social commentary and a bit of class consciousness -- when they ate the rich instead of aspiring to be one of t"
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(2009) |
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"[T]oo-earnest, underemotional... [but Dancy] and Byrne are what make this a movie worth seeing, for their delicacy and tentativeness in coping with one another..."
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(2006) |
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"Cheap-looking, amateurishly written, and badly acted..."
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(2002) |
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"[T]he movie is like a snotty little kid who thinks he can shock you with all the naughty words he knows..."
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(2002) |
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"Kaufman lets is all out here, painful and raw, the battle creative people who’d actually like to make a living off their creative efforts fight between originality and commercialism."
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(1999) |
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(2009) |
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"Eisenberg has a quirky, sensitive cool that distinguishes him from the slew of teen or almost-teen movie ranks of the moment..."
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(1993) |
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"If Cary Grant met Harrison Ford on the set of a John Wayne movie directed by Roger Corman, they might spontaneously combust into Campbell's titlular bounty hunter..."
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(2006) |
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"Frantic and frequently fierce under its laid-back facade, this is some quality funny business."
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(2000) |
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"By making us conspirators in the humor, by constantly breaking the fourth wall ... to remind us that this is a movie about a movie about a kids' cartoon TV series, Rocky and Bullwinkle surprises and delights."
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(2005) |
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"[L]ooks and sounds and feels as if it were... made by kids who’d broken into Dad’s toolshed and borrowed his filmmaking toys."
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(1986) |
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"Anime fans seem to think this 1908s TV series is a classic, and they're welcome to it. Newcomers not wearing the rose-colored glasses of nostalgia will find it as tedious as, well, most cartoons shows not first approached in childhood."
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(2005) |
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"This could have been, maybe, a rich and fascinating invented place to explore and hang out in, but instead it feels like exactly what it is: a bulls**t Hollywood excuse for science fiction."
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(2001) |
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"The Affair of the Necklace has costume-drama snob appeal in spades, 'tis true, but this is pure bodice-ripper romance, done up right."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"[A] bit of a mixed bag: some work better than others..."
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(1997) |
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(2004) |
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"[I]f Brosnan is still turning heads, Harrelson is still turning stomachs..."
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(2003) |
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"[F]eels like a halfhearted attempt to remake a proto-feminist B flick Roger Corman tossed off in 1968..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Uninspired and unabashed rip-off of Spy Kids."
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(2004) |
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"[F]or creepy middle-aged guys who get turned on by nubile animated Japanese schoolgirls.... Ewww."
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(2003) |
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"As much a pointed and wise exploration of a documentarian’s involvement in his subject matter as it is an angry indictment of the American judicial system."
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"[A]n illuminating cavalcade of human behavior at its worst... and once in a rare while, at its best..."
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(2006) |
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"[P]retty darn wonderful: uplifting without being sappy, inspiring without being unrealistic. I confess I got a bit sniffly at the end, even though I saw the ending coming..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2004) |
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"[T]he whole film would be a cartoon if only it had the energy to be ridiculous."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2006) |
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"Smartly, tartly feminist..."
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(2004) |
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"[A] disaster of a film, three hours of butt-numbing tedium punctuated by moments of hilarious high camp."
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(2004) |
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"Law’s Alfie just doesn’t have the sharky heart that Michael Caine’s did 40 years ago..."
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"[T]he historical context probably is the best way in which to appreciate this hit-or-miss collection of sight gags, wordplay, and middle-class angst..."
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(2001) |
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"[Raises] the bar on portrayals of competent, capable women..."
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(1985) |
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"It's like being at the world's (unintentionally) scariest ever tea party... or maybe the funniest."
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(1985) |
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(1979) |
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"The greatest science fiction horror film ever made."
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(2005) |
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(1995) |
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"I haven't seen these movies since they first aired, and it was a delight to catch up with the Franciscos -- the alien Tenctonese immigrants to Los Angeles -- and human Detective Matt Sikes..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1997) |
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"Sigourney Weaver is amazing to watch."
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(2004) |
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"How many awful, monotonous, stupid movies does Anderson have to make before they take away his scissors and crayons?"
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(2003) |
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"[A] chillingly quiet masterpiece of understatement and suggestion..."
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(2009) |
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"Five minutes into the film, I already was hating these monsters. The kids, I mean, not the aliens..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"Wow! Aliens! No, I mean really, creatures like nothing you’ve ever seen before..."
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(1950) |
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"All About Eve is a film that you see completely differently once you know what's going to happen."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"Plopping a 45-year-old actress... into a role clearly intended for, at best, a 23-year-old is a bizarre way to deal with the role shortage [for older women]."
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(2001) |
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