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"Oh my god: the silly, it burns. It burns!"
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9/10 |
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(1961) |
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"101 Dalmatians has a lilting, lyrical charm that few other Disney films achieve."
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9/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Cruella is back, vampier and funnier than ever, and kids will love her all the more."
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(2007) |
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"This ain't bread-and-circuses [celeb] infotainment intended to distract us from the very real, very dangerous problems we face as a society. It's exactly the opposite, and absolutely terrifying."
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(2009) |
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"This ain't the real 12 Rounds. Not the actual movie. It's more like a storyboard. Or an animatic. That's it. Just to give you an idea of what the real movie's gonna look like. Man, you're gonna love it, I swear."
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(2004) |
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"You won’t stop expecting Tom Hanks to jump in and dance out ‘Chopsticks’ on the big flat piano on the floor..."
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"The best, most enthralling adventure movie I've seen in a good while."
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(2007) |
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"Sure, this is pretty much an episode of The Twilight Zone, but it's a really, really good episode of The Twilight Zone"
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(2001) |
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"I watched an episode of Whose Line Is It Anyway? just before writing this, and it obviously warped my fragile little brain."
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(2006) |
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"[G]oes all the way around from snark to serious, starts out like it's gonna rag on Die Hard and ends up being way more thoughtful and actually even sorta solemn about dirty cops, systemic corruption, and how damn exhausting New York City can be."
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(2009) |
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"Efron dominates the screen with his charm and his effortless comic timing..."
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(2003) |
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"Very, very cool and very, very dumb."
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(2009) |
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"Emmerich wasn't content to merely make the biggest disaster movie ever: he had to make every disaster movie ever... [I]t's like something Ed Wood would have made if he had a budget..."
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(2008) |
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"[A]lmost entirely preposterous -- never mind that it's apparently based on a true story -- and yet somehow wonderfully entertaining at the same time..."
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(1987) |
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"Oh my goodness, it’s one of my fantasies: Johnny Depp in a policeman’s uniform."
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(2002) |
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"There’s nothing quite as amusing as watching the rise and fall of an arrogant prick who's both delusional and visionary."
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(2002) |
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"Not the kind of tale one expects to be so heart-stoppingly distressing, so emotionally devastating."
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(2008) |
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"[H]erewith the latest example of whalebone-corseted conformity masquerading as a postfeminist statement on modern independent womanhood..."
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(2003) |
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"[H]umanistic and unsentimental, like some lost science fiction flick from the 70s that’s just been rediscovered."
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(2007) |
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"And so as the world seemingly renews its dedication to taking itself straight to hell, even our horror movies suddenly seem less like mere entertainments and more like real-life fever dreams..."
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(2005) |
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"[B]eautifully, expressively quiet..."
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(2007) |
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"The concept? Brilliant... The execution? Oh, dear."
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(2007) |
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"This is one of those ur-stories that actually feels like a slice of ancient wonder and grandeur..."
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(2001) |
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"This is so relentlessly wrongheaded and downright ugly a movie that you want to call The Hague and demand an international tribunal be formed to investigate possible crimes against humanity."
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(2007) |
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"[G]loriously old-fashioned in the best movie way, redolent of its pulpy, junky roots in the pure adventure thrills of dime novels but also heady with consequence..."
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(2002) |
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"A cheap movie, false and phony, that thinks it’s about moving beyond cheapness and phoniness."
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(2005) |
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"[T]his isn’t, at its heart, a comedy. It’s an achingly sad tale about loneliness and hopelessness..."
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(2004) |
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"[I]ts exploration of the realpolitik of a fantastical situation lives in gray moral shadows and finds all kind of new ground in unexpected places..."
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3/10 |
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(1998) |
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"I don't get that lifestyle, but I was hoping that 54 would show me why so many people find that appealing. It was not to be."
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(2002) |
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"[Nothing] more than an Elvis film, except there’s a lot more sex and violence than Blue Hawaii and the music video sequences feature creative profanity instead of surfboards."
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3/10 |
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(1998) |
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"If Schumacher wants to make some porn, fine -- First Amendment and all that. He can do whatever the hell he likes. But he can't pretend to make a statement against porn with a piece of voyeuristic and pornographic crap like 8MM."
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(2005) |
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"Perhaps we're supposed to feel sorry to see this young dumbsters being taken advantage of by modeling agencies or poked and prodded by photographers and stylists; perhaps we're supposed to laugh at them -- I couldn't work up the enthusiasm for either."
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(2009) |
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"[A] mysterious conundrum of a film that is beautifully grim to behold and actually sort of massively depressing by the time it's over... but in a good way..."
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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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(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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(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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(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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