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D- |
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(2009) |
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"...a dismal looking affair with flat sound. If it's title sounds like something that might happen in a dentist's office, that's about what sitting through it feels like."
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Reeling Reviews |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"...features the singular most awful line of dialogue in a movie this year..."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"...a fascinating dual character study lodged within a somewhat stodgy film."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Meadows gives his film so much forward thrust it feels like a road movie as it follows the ramblings of his two young leads."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...mostly a big bore that delivers on few of its promises...Cutler's inadvertent focus on Coddington suggests a conceptual change during filming stuffed into a pre-conceived marketing campaign."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"while "Taking Woodstock" is a bit of a shaggy dog story, Lee uses a subtle build to show how 'three days of peace, love and music' transformed a rural farming community."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...cowriter/producer Bernd Eichinger, who gave such depth to a much shorter historical period in "Downfall," here eventually loses his audience by refusing to streamline his cast and focus on a few significant events. It's a 10 part miniseries stuffed in"
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Goldthwait takes a double pronged approach to the concept of celebrity death - and who knew how timely his subject would become - by looking at how society leaps to put those who die unexpectedly on a pedestal while their inner circles seek to profit."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Quentin Tarantino is like a kid in a candy store reinventing WWII... [with] a wallop of a climax that reimagines a cinema auditorium as a Holocaust gas chamber by way of the throne of the great and powerful wizard of Oz."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...the filmmakers never really make us buy that this man was so averse to violence he was willing to sell out his friends - for profit mind you - to help save the British. And yet the film really works as a political thriller."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"...both the somewhat sentimental tale of a senior citizen making a change in the life of a child and a movie that forges its own path with unexpected developments."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"I can't recall when I last noticed such a lovely and distinct color palette used in a documentary...a poetic reflection on man facing his mortality."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"As we get to know each of these three guitar gods, what impresses isn't what draws them together, but what separates them. As such, the central conceit of having the three meet doesn't really work..."
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Reeling Reviews |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Despite a few chuckles, this loud, obvious and raunchy comedy suffers from a worse fate than its cheesiness - it's utterly forgettable."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...a sci-fi parable about bigotry and corporate greed that, backed by Jackson's special effects house WETA, brings a whole new world to the Science Fiction genre."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...at its most magical when it observes the every day."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...a superior romance when compared to the usual Hollywood suspect, but it is even better as an introduction to the novel which spawned it."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...director Chan-wook Park ("Old Boy") has a field day tossing several genres into a blender to concoct his deliriously wacky, erotic, comedic and gory twist on the vampire tale."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...plays like "The Golden Compass" without the depth crossed with "Being John Malkovich" with far less wit."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...an upbeat crowd pleaser that should break Yi out of the L.A. underground comedy circuit."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"...a distillation of two good books into something less than intoxicating, but it's still good fun whenever Streep is on screen."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...a total cheat."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Verheyde does a terrific job conveying the mind set of an eleven-year-old girl with expert direction of a talented trio of inexperienced actresses."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The humor in the stand up routines is actually pretty bad for the most part, and yet Apatow makes the humor organic, the fun in watching the "Funny People" who perform it being 'themselves' amongst themselves."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Kempner leaves no stone unturned in giving layers of dimension to Gertrude Berg, who could almost be described as the Eisenstein of sitcom television production...one of the best documentaries of the year in a year crowded with them."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"The film is certainly interesting, but considering its excessive running time, very little is given over to the opposing view...One doctor's court trial never makes it clear if any of patients had less than desirable results."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Mayer and his lead, Hugh Dancy, do a fine job conveying where an 'Aspie' is coming from, but Mayer's direction of his actors is weak with several scenes notable for off timing, amateurishness or staginess."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"A baby jumps in the forefront of the slaughter and one can only imagine its horrified panic - this is a dolphin holocaust and it makes one's blood boil at man's capacity for cruelty."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"... a strong character study set within a compelling morality tale."
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...turns out to be not half bad, a bag mixed with a good running gag weaving around mechanical romcom cliches played out with charisma by Butler and featuring Heigl in agreeable mode."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Director Jaume Collet-Serra (2005's "House of Wax") serves up a hoot of a trashploitation flick that both follows preset patterns and upends them."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Marking follows four contestants for the three months leading up to "Afghan Star's" finale and, while there are some amusing parallels to "American Idol," it is also clear Glambert would risk stoning had he been performing in Afghanistan."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"...a mesmerizing portrait of an artist that gives exposure to beautiful work too little known, but it makes it audience work for its art."
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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""Thick of It" veteran Peter Capaldi has the long-limbed, flapjack body language of John Cleese and dizzying delivery. His is a great comic performance..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...ends on a meets cutesy note, but what comes before is a giddily original take on the sentiment that 'love is blind.'"
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"The film is amusing, the musical numbers inventive, but it is also self-indulgent and full of inside jokes. One wishes that Le Besco had aimed for some real truths along with sending up the cliches."
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...the ever darkening and endangering story is in excellent hands as it heads towards its finale...Rickman is sublime."
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.reviews |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...plays as if director Lynn Shelton watched Kelly Reichardt's "Old Joy" and decided to turn it into a comedy. It's abrupt ending plays like a filmmaker who has run out of idea."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Borat got some pretty uncomfortable and surprising behavior from people. Brüno shoots fish in a barrel."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"..."Food, Inc." for fish."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Baratz's work may not be the slickest, but he took a risk and followed through under arduous conditions to let an audience share in a mystical journey. The film itself is an act of faith."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"...provides loads of biographical info, but saps the juice out of its subject...Crowley deserves the Ken Russell treatment."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Jacques Tati with dance!"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"...about the bonds that keep us tied to people, places and things...Denis has a mesmerizing directorial style"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"...one of the most exciting and fresh films of the year."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...Sid meet Buck (voice of Simon Pegg, "Shaun of the Dead," "Star Trek"), a weasel who acts as tour guide and helps 'buck up' the flagging series."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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"Bezançon has done a beautiful job moving back and forth through time and bringing background stories to the foreground before letting them slip away for another's point of view."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"...reminiscent of Abdel Kechiche's "L'esquive" ("Games of Love and Chance"), yet while that film felt modern, urban and gritty, this one is more steeped in urban moodiness and doomed romance..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Anyone who thought "The Passion of the Christ," with which this film shares producer Stephen McEveety and star Caviezel, was its own form of torture porn, be forewarned."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...keeps one at arm's length, the subject handled with a light touch that keeps the emotions it should evoke at bay."
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