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"[T]his wonderful movie... is not relentlessly grim, but it is endlessly poignant even in its lightest moments..."
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"[B]rought me... to a low during which I was actually calculating the precise moment in which [this] crossed the line into categorical awfulness..."
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"The worst -- and best -- that can be said about it all is that it's inoffensive."
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(2006) |
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"Watts and Norton are extraordinary actors, and in fine form here, but they never click together..."
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(2006) |
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"Holy ruby slippers, is this one grim film. Enthrallingly spooky, appropriately frightful, but grim. Grim like it might make the Brothers Grimm say, "Well, it's a bit dark, isn't it?" in an accusatory tone."
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(2002) |
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"[Foster and Fincher are] locked in a box... and it's a box that's unopenable except by cheating."
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(2008) |
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"There's not enough story here... and the moodiness is of a type that doesn't speak to me..."
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(2009) |
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"Does no one else see that the few genuinely creepy and original moments here are so few and far between that this would have been far more intriguing as a YouTube short...?"
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(1998) |
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"Pariah, like a through-the-looking-glass version of American History X, is brutally raw and often difficult to watch, but this low-budget indie is an important film that deserves to be seen by a large audience."
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(2009) |
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"[Y]ou probably cannot ever go wrong with a flick set in the City of Light and starring one of the most luminous actresses ever to grace the arthouse screen..."
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(2008) |
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"Oh my goodness, I didn't expect this: Paris 36 is The Muppet Show in, you know, Paris in 1936."
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(1970) |
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(1970) |
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"Oh, the power to bewitch that is incarnate in that horribly catchy theme song is but part of the paranormal cunning of this singing family in flare pants."
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(1999) |
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(2004) |
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"This isn’t a movie: it’s a theme-park ride for Jesus freaks. SEE the hunks of flesh ripped from Jesus’ side! EXPERIENCE the stations of the cross like never before!"
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(1998) |
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(2007) |
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"[A] compelling example of purely cinematic storytelling that eschews almost all dialogue and lets moody colors and visceral action tell a tale that is mythic and metaphoric..."
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(2003) |
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"Routledge inhabits desperately unhappy women who endeavor mightily to convince us their lives are more than what they are..."
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(2000) |
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(1970) |
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"A spectacular and unvarnished look at a man who thrives in war while also sowing the seeds of his own downfall."
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(2009) |
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"Oh my goodness, it's a ripoff of Die Hard. A shameless ripoff that gets more and more shameless the longer it goes on..."
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(1998) |
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"Pretend you're renting it for a kid and go get it."
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(2000) |
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"A cheaply manipulative film of constructed sentimentality that left me feeling angry at how it tried to jerk my emotions around."
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(1999) |
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(2003) |
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"Starring Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman. And Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman’s stunt doubles."
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(1997) |
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(2006) |
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"[S]o many movies that are designed to appeal to the 'faith and values' crowd... end up being smugly exclusionary... But this bridges that divide..."
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(2001) |
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"The kind of crap that deserves to be slapped silly."
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(2008) |
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"McAvoy is... unaffectedly charming... Ricci is her own kind of quirky-captivating... And the two of them even share a fair bit of romantic chemistry."
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(2005) |
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"[J]ust cuz a movie has subtitles doesn't make it deep or meaningful or even worth your time..."
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(2009) |
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"Smug? Damn, this is a self-satisfied, arrogant excuse for a film, in which the red-herringness is piled on with outrageous aplomb till there can be no doubt that Twohy is daring you to guess what's up and hoping you're not up to it, or not caring if you a"
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(2007) |
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"Picking the single dumbest element in this extremely dumb movie is easy."
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(1998) |
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(2008) |
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"[W]eirdly, ambiguously intriguing..."
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(2004) |
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"[K]inda boring, with occasional moments of ludicrousness, and a few instances -- surprisingly -- of lucid social commentary."
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(2000) |
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"A rare treat in a summer movie."
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(2007) |
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"[A] cautionary tale about the dangers of Internet chat. You know, like everyone was worried about in 1996. Coming for Summer 2008: Don't Go Near the Telegraph!"
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(2007) |
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"There is no question that the animation style of this French production is unlike anything we've ever seen before..."
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(2003) |
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"It’s all there in the subtext, the scary-tender discovery of the bittersweet adventure of romance and attraction and, yup, even lust."
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(2006) |
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"I am allowed to say this, because I've been on both sides of the [fat-girl] fence: Phat Girlz, shut the f**k up."
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(2003) |
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"Quick, dirty, and economical, with an on-the-fly energy that Hollywood films rarely evince these days."
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(1997) |
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"Ventures into challenging, intelligent subject matter that few other films dare to."
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(2002) |
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"A darkly lavish and harrowing re-creation of the Warsaw occupation."
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(2003) |
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"Katie Holmes... gives her most subtle and audacious performance yet..."
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(2004) |
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"Fairy godrapper Xzibit... gives sorry cars extreme makeovers..."
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(2008) |
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"Here's yet another excellent argument for the legalization of marijuana... it will prevent us seeing more movies like this one..."
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(2006) |
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"[A] desecration of a comedy classic -- not a remake of the Blake Edwards films, it's more like fictional-character assassination..."
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"[I]nventive... sarcastic... outrageously entertaining..."
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