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(1996) |
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"If I'd known beforehand that Ben Stiller directed The Cable Guy, I might have been more excited by the prospect of seeing it. And I'd have been all the more disappointed in the end."
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 9/10 |
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(1980) |
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"This nearly plotless, angry class comedy is more a barrage of traded insults and slights than anything else, and it refreshingly recognizes that class has nothing to do with money or lack of it."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"It’s all more bittersweet and tangier than you’d expect, saturated with a bracing Yorkshire humor..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2006) |
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"[T]here's a lot of cinematic pleasure to be had in Heath Ledger's thoroughly un-self-conscious performance..."
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(2007) |
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"[A] must-see for its honesty and its fine, graceful performances..."
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(2007) |
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"This modest film is a must-see for its honesty and its fine, graceful performances."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"[A] grimly riveting unpeeling of Capote’s psyche..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Shocking and heartbreaking... a portrait of a family falling apart, squeezed dry from without and within."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"[A]s smart and heartfelt as it is observant about the universalities of the lives of women..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"I'm not sure I could tell you what this trippy anime fantasy was about if threatened with torture."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2004) |
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"Oh dear lord, the hearts and the rainbows and the giggling and the hard plastic candy-colored CGI bears singing -- someone make it stop!"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Delphine Gleize achieves a mastery of the visual, the metaphoric, and the dramatic that few other veteran filmmakers could pull off."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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 6/10 |
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(1993) |
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2006) |
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"[T]hey're cars! But they're people! But they're cars! Huh?"
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(1942) |
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"This is the ultimate movie. This is the purpose for which Hollywood invented itself. This is how good a film can be."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"[A] frantic farce that shows off [Ledger's] comic charms to glorious effect.... he's got Casanova's gift of seduction, no question."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2006) |
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"[A]ll that distinguishes this slight, awkward teen comedy from the slew of Saved by the Bell knockoffs that populates cable TV aimed at kids is its Latino cast and Spanish-language dialogue..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2006) |
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"[E]xactly what I was hoping for, and everything I was expecting from the first Generation X James Bond... It's Bond's superhero origin story reconsidered from a perspective that respects and understands the authority and the intensity behind the character"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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 60/100 |
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(1976) |
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(2008) |
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"This no-fuss, bare-bones crime drama is old-fashioned in a way that's crisp and refreshing..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2000) |
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"An unforgettable film."
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(2007) |
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(2007) |
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"[O]ne of the most striking [documentaries] I've ever seen..."
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(2002) |
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(2007) |
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"[B]eautifully crafted... creates an aching loveliness of psychic empty space..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2002) |
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"[Spielberg] achieves a retro hipness, an early-60s, skinny-ties-and-martinis, Pink Panther kind of cool."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2002) |
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"Good fun."
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(2004) |
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"It’s almost identical, in terms of plot and character, to the delightful Danish film it’s a remake of, so why does it fall flat and leave a slightly greasy aftertaste?"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2000) |
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(2004) |
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"I used to love the old Tracey Ullman show, but I don't think even she, goddess of comedy, quite approached the astonishing range of ingenious characters the way that her heir apparent, Catherine Tate, does."
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(2001) |
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"I started to wonder if beating a joke to within an inch of its life constitutes cruelty."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2004) |
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"Eww, it smells like cats in here. Not that I don't love cats, but I don't want my supposed-to-be sleek and stylish comic-book movies reeking like that."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1933) |
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"[A] delightful, passionate drama."
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(2005) |
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"Shades of Moria, Batman!"
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 6/10 |
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(1998) |
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 3/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Carl's fantasies are fairly dazzling visually and frequently pretty gross, but they're never scary."
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(2004) |
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"[O]ne of those movies that succeeds partly by not being anywhere near as bad as you were expecting it to be -- by being, really, not so bad at all..."
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(2001) |
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(2008) |
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"[Jolie]'s oozing that mysterious charisma that's half dazzling intelligence and half riveting talent and half the magic of the gods of Hollywood smiling on her, and through her."
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(1997) |
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"There is a kind of sadistic pleasure to be had, if that’s your thing..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"A delicious antidote to moviedom’s typical characterization of women as simpering victims."
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(1981) |
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"This is quite possibly the most lyrical, most spiritual sports movie ever made."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"I hate what the changes in tone and attitude from the 1971 flick say about how we’ve changed as a culture over the last 30 years..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2007) |
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"22 years after Ferris Bueller's Day Off -- the definitive Gen X high school movie -- comes the next great, generation-defining high-school hero..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2007) |
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"[I]t's funny, it's actually funny... all rapid-fire snark... Imagine if C-SPAN produced a modern screwball comedy..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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 3/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Vapid and self-consciously kitschy, these gals are a 13-year-old boy's fantasy of a strong woman. This is Hollywood aiming T&A at little girls, but I wouldn't let any little girl I cared about see this film."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1976) |
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"[A] lot of camp appeal for 30somethings..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Appears to be an experiment to discover exactly how incoherent a movie can be before even girls in bikinis... are not enough to keep the audience’s attention."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2001) |
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"This is a long-lost classic from The War that fell through a time warp and landed at our feet today."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2002) |
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"It’s all arty and jazzy and people sit and stare and turn away from one another instead of talking and it’s all about the silences and if you’re into that, have at it."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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