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"[N]ot... actively awful -- it’s just sort of boring and completely predictable and a little bit laughable in its psychology."
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(2002) |
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"Niccol cleverly tweaks Hollywood’s delusional obsession with itself."
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(2007) |
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"[A]n enrapturing movie, deliciously gorgeous and impossible not to fall in love with..."
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(2005) |
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"It's not quite My Big Fat Syrian Forbidden Romance, but almost."
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(1971) |
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"This horrendous early 70s throwback... is being marketed as some sort of hip retro cool thing, when it's really just an artifact from the era that was best left dead and buried."
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(2003) |
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"[U]tterly inoffensive and completely harmless..."
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(2002) |
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"[A] treacherously seductive and highly disturbing film..."
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(2005) |
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"[M]ight actually be worthy of licking the boots of Raiders of the Lost Ark..."
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(2006) |
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"It's Nancy Drew meets Sherlock Holmes!... [Billie] Piper cannot hide how damn cool she is..."
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(2007) |
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"Billie Piper is even more spectacularly confident in her second outing as the young woman now daring enough to set herself up in the City, London's financial center, as a consultant..."
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(2002) |
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"Tony Gayton’s script doesn't give us anything we haven't seen before, but director D.J. Caruso's grimy visual veneer and Kilmer's absorbing performance increase the gravitational pull considerably."
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(2004) |
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"[A]rcane and provocative film... cements [Ki-duk Kim’s] reputation as one of the most astonishing artists working in cinema today..."
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"[T]urns out that the immigrant Samoan culture Down Under looks remarkably like immigrant cultures all over the Western world: Irish, African, or even big fat Greek, you've seen this all before..."
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(1986) |
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(1970) |
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"Just say ‘Burgermeister Meisterburger’ to anyone over 30, and watch ‘em giggle. We all know this story..."
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(1994) |
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"It opts for pleasant Christmas fantasy instead of phony sentimentality."
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(2002) |
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"I was so caught up in its genuine, unsentimental Christmas magic that I forgot to be snide and sarcastic and cynical."
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(1996) |
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(2007) |
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"[H]onestly, Shaggy and Scooby-Doo and the gang got into spookier situations than this."
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(2007) |
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(2007) |
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"[H]er schtick seems deliberately calculated to induce paroxysms of nerdy joy in a specifically juvenile segment of the male audience..."
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(2003) |
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"[E]xcruciatingly unfunny..."
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(2005) |
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"Just when you think you’ve got a grip on what Planet is, Jang switches gears, while always maintaining an astonishing discipline..."
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(2004) |
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"[A] wickedly funny takedown of that particular brand of isolationist religiosity that seeks to shut out the wider world..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2001) |
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"Not only is it not funny, it's pathetically sad."
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(2004) |
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"I take it as proof that Saw is half a parody of serial-killer movies... that Elwes goes stark raving bonkers off-the-deep-end awful in the film’s final moments."
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(2005) |
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"[T]he earnest message-ification... vies with the meaningless and sadistic violence as the most stomach-turning aspect of the flick."
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(2006) |
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"Why must Hollywood torment so those of us with IQs in the triple digits?"
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(2007) |
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(2007) |
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"It's mostly notable for the astonishing array of British film talent on display..."
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(2001) |
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"[S]urprisingly mushy..."
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(1993) |
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"While SCHINDLER'S LIST is the least Spielberg-ian and least showy of the director's work, it demonstrates an artistry that is at times highly stylized."
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(2002) |
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"[T]epid... lazily self-indulgent..."
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(2006) |
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"If Clueless is Jane Austen for people who don't know from books, then Scoundrels is farce for people who think Restoration comedy is when you spill a barrel of doorknobs in a fancy hardware store."
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(2003) |
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"[A]bout as rebellious and free and rockin' as a Clear Channel radio station, packaging payola-ed ‘cool’ for a mass audience and dishing out focus-grouped, MBA-approved ‘hip’..."
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(2006) |
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"What do you do when you're confronted with maybe the most wonderfully strange, most magically enchanting, most heartachingly romantic movie you've ever seen?"
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(2004) |
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"This is not a review -- how could it be, as the film was not screened for this critic -- have I mentioned that? Instead, here are three alternate storylines..."
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(2002) |
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"When Matthew Lillard -- who has the highest Skeeve Quotient ever recorded -- is the best thing in a movie, you know you’re in deep doo-doo."
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(2002) |
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"Incredibly nonsensical balderdash but damn funny, and only about half unintentionally so."
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(2002) |
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"The Bard as black comedy -- Willie would have loved it."
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(1996) |
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"Scream cleverly plays with movie conventions and the audience's expectations so that we're kept constantly guessing."
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 6/10 |
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(1997) |
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"While Scream 2 made me chuckle and jump out of my seat a couple times, it feels, for the most part, like an exercise in self-reference that doesn't know how much of a good thing is too much."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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 6/10 |
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(2000) |
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(1970) |
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"A roduction that suffers from its theatrical roots and its need to not only make its antihero see the error of his ways but go way overboard in making up for his past."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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 9/10 |
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(1988) |
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"Dickens would approve."
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(2001) |
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"[V]eers from the profoundly silly to the achingly poignant, often in the same scene..."
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(2002) |
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(2002) |
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"[U]nless honest intentions and street cred are enough for you, give this one a pass, because it doesn't quite pay off in the end."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Downright Shakespearean in its intimate sweep."
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