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(2008) |
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"Surely this is the greatest satire of the American presidency ever made for film.... Surely this would be a horror story if it were true..."
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(1997) |
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"Wag the Dog is satire, no question about it -- the wonderful cast positively revels in the absurdness of it all."
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(2008) |
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"[A]s slices of TV history go, this first ambitious collection of just one year of Wagon Train is a wonder."
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(2006) |
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"It's hard to figure out if writer/director Vondie Curtis-Hall... is demonstrating simple ineptitude here, or out-and-out Ed Wood-itude."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1997) |
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"Ignorance truly is bliss, sometimes."
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(2007) |
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"It has a feeling of... I don't want to say secret insight about the experience of being a woman, but... the experience of half the human race is... so often simply not within the purview of the male-type people who make the vast majority of movies."
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(2000) |
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"Anyone who craves a moving and involving romantic movie will love it."
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(2007) |
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"[A] razor-sharp dissection of the new archetype of modern mythology -- the rock star -- and how we interact with him on a societal level..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"I... grovel at the feet of Joaquin Phoenix, with whom I've always been a little in love and to whom I now must pledge myself completely."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2002) |
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"This isn't quite Glitter, but almost."
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(2004) |
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"[A]ll about vigilantism being Okay as long as you really, really know you’re right and there’s no one bigger than you around to stop you..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1987) |
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"'Greed is good... greed works,' Gekko intones famously in Wall Street, and it was meant to be a shocking pronouncement at the time. That's the attitude that feels old-fashioned now."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"Wall-E is art. Hell, it's philosophy -- it's practically religion."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1995) |
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1990) |
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1993) |
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(2005) |
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"There's a handcrafted- with-love-for -your-enjoyment quality to the W&G toons, and it's all sort of more-so and inflated here, on the big screen."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Maybe it’s a cultural thing, but this is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"[S]imultaneously feel[s] exhilaratingly like one of the most cleverly original action scripts in years and... comfortably reminiscent of a slew of hero's-journey adventures..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2007) |
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"[D]enies us the simple, brainless pleasure of watching these two guys get Oriental on each other's asses. It's like someone made Gamera vs. Mothra and, oops, forgot to give us two guys in rubber suits battling to the death."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2001) |
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"[An] unguarded tenderness makes The War Bride so heartbreakingly stirring even after multiple viewings..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2007) |
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"These kids are amazing in the most literal sense of the word, and you will never forget them."
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(2005) |
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"[A] wonder of contemporary, big-budget Hollywood filmmaking -- it’s its own antithesis at the same time it’s a stunning example of it."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"This is a film to unnerve any New Yorker, as it wanders city landmarks, like Grand Central Terminal, with destruction in mind..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"[W]eary with its own irony..."
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(2008) |
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"It’s as if the movie is stuck in a muddy middle, unable to go whole hog with its sending up of toxic Americana and unwilling to be serious about exploring how toxic it really is."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1994) |
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(2009) |
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"[P]robably the best three-hour version of the story that could be made..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[A]ppropriately bleak and rife with animated horrors even more powerful than they were in the still illustrations of the graphic novel..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2009) |
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"[D]oes indeed look very much like the graphic novel, but I don't see any reason to watch this on a TV when it's a much more pleasurable and rewarding experience to read it for myself..."
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(2006) |
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"Every moment that is exquisite here... is tinged with a profound melancholy... For every beautiful moment... there is an ugly counterpart..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2007) |
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"Snug and amiable, this is a comfy easy chair of a movie... one easy to let yourself sink into and enjoy in spite of yourself..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"[S]mart, nicely acted, and it looks great, far sharper and more stylish than its reported $1 million budget would lead you to believe it could be..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2000) |
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(2006) |
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"[O]f course real people's real pain can be turned, yet again, into trite, glossy cinematic junk food. How could we possibly doubt this?"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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(2005) |
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"Fans of the band may most appreciate the second disc, which features hours of music from three legendary live performances"
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"For the initiated, though: revel in the reminiscences of Minutemen Mike Watt and George Hurley of that brief period in the early 80s when the band astonished fans of underground music."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2007) |
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"[S]o drenched in raw, ineffable male anger and love... that it howls with authenticity."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"The likes of the sneakily subversive Wilson and Vaughn deserve better... but this is darn close to a perfect showcase for what they can do, and how much better they do it together."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2005) |
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"Debra Messing... is a nightmarish golem-creature constructed, Frankenstein-monster style, from the worst stereotypes of modern femininity..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2001) |
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2008) |
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"[O]ne of the absolute worst movies ever produced by the hands of humans..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2002) |
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"Like these Russo guys lookin’ for their Mamet instead found their Sturges."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2004) |
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"It’s all so idiotic as to be laughable, except that when comedies go bad... they’re painful and headache-inducing..."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(1961) |
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"Demonstrates yet again the enduring quality of Shakespeare's work."
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(1999) |
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"[T]he stellar cast, one of the best ever assembled, really shines..."
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(2003) |
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"There’s so much that’s right and yes-finally! about this simple and unpretentious film that even it’s predictable heartwarmingness and uplifting triumph-of-the-human spiritness seem groundbreaking."
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The Flick Filosopher |
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(2003) |
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"Weirdly disturbing daddy-fantasy."
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(1998) |
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