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 B |
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(2007) |
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"...Guy Pearce is fabulous as Warhol, delivering a complex portrait of the pop artist as a bundle of contradictions."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Moore would,...have us believe that Baghdad under Hussein was a utopia of children in playgrounds and happy, smiling people everywhere before the U.S. moved in.
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[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2006) |
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"plays like How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days crossed with Without a Paddle.
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[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2001) |
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"...one can't help but think that this film will make it far
more difficult to ever take love for granted."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2008) |
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"Equal part bedtime story and contemporary art museum installation, "The Fall" is unlike anything you've ever seen."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"...despite cliched characters and parents straight from central casting, the performance numbers are executed by some pretty talented kids and Megan Mullally and Bebe Neuwirth are intriguing as the school's singing and dance instructors."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Its sparkling cast and a few inventive riffs on an old outline make this a welcome holiday entertainment."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2005) |
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"With a few more polishes, ...may have almost sparkled, but it's been left with too many flaws to quite make the grade.
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[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"What sets "Mr. Fox" apart from the rest of the Anderson oeuvre, apart from the talking animals, is that Anderson's writing is glossed with some wry hardboiled noir and more than a few double entendres."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A+ |
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(2002) |
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"[Haynes'] homage to such films as "All That Heaven Allows" and "Imitation of Life" transcends them. Simply put, "Far From Heaven" is a masterpiece."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Writer Chris Morgan's already proven a predilection for action over logic and director Justin Lin, who's switched gears from Sundance darling to sequel hack, plays to his strengths."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2001) |
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"Director Rob Cohen ("The Skulls"), whose filmography inspired
no hope going into this film, delivers a flashy B flick that's sure to attain a cult audience"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2001) |
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""Fat Girl" is no pleasure to watch,
yet haunts in retrospect.
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[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C- |
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(2007) |
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"...while Fay Grim has initial, humorous promise it devolves into a convoluted morass...the search for Henry is far more interesting that the finding of him."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2004) |
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"Testud, who appears to be fluent in the Japanese language, throws herself into this role and is wickedly funny as she flounders in the perverse environment"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"Richard McGuire delivers the coup de grace, a masterpiece of black and white animation and the best exploration of the omnibus's theme."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2006) |
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"And the 3rd season of Project Greenlight proves the charm with the slick, sick but funny bit of Grand Guignol directed by Hollywood son John Gulager."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2002) |
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"an exercise in cinematic excess whose faults almost add to its charms"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2005) |
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"Fallon's a second stringer to Barrymore's big leagues,
but "Fever Pitch" is still a winner"
[movie review] |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Not surprisingly, the musical selections are fittingly raw but with the exception of supporting actress Francesca Kingdon everything about the film is amateurish."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2001) |
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"While the idea behind "Final" is a good one, eighty minutes of tedium is too much to ask for its revelation."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2003) |
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"Where else have you seen a death scene that involved a leaking aquarium, a crane, pigeons, a mobile, a sheet of glass and nitrous oxide?"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2006) |
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"It's a surprise, really, that this entry is as much fun as it is, but trilogy looks about as far as this destination can go."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2006) |
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"centered by the endearingly off the wall performance of a rejuvenated Vin Diesel, but in focusing on a lovable clown, Lumet merely skims the surface of the seventy-six dark deeds that brought twenty mobsters to trial."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"A solid entry into the 'teacher/student' genre."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2003) |
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"The concept of a fish with short-term memory loss sounded dubiously annoying, but DeGeneres just swims off with it"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2004) |
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"a moving tribute to the man who encouraged his readers to never lose their sense of wonder"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C- |
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(2006) |
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"...this hack job of film doesn't even have the smarts to include or make mention of firewall technology."
[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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(2008) |
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"...once the Hennegans begin their build to the final race, everything false into place with a quickening intensity towards 'the most exciting two minutes in sports.'"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2007) |
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"Guy Pearce is two for two in 2007 playing American users whose actions come back to haunt them."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"James Nesbitt is searing in a performance that bubbles both with rage and a tightrope type of wit."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2004) |
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"In trying to goad Leth to ... 'liberate' himself by making crap, von Trier has instead given his friend a global stage as a highly creative and assured filmmaker.
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[movie review] |
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(1999) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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rec.arts.movies.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."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2006) |
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"...while it is a difficult film to relate to, one cannot dismiss its director's visual acuity and ability to provoke the mind."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2003) |
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"Could be described as a Spanish Lolita, but the dynamics of its older man/teenaged girl relationship are far more sympathetic."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Abraham has done a good job at setting up his characters, but then he fails to develop them, putting his story on cruise control."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2007) |
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"...a film that is at once a heist movie that feels sprung from its time and place and one that casts a modern eye on feminism, Apartheid and even health care...a solid little gem."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2008) |
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"...astonishing in the amount of information packed into its lean ninety-three minute running time...enthralling (and frightening!) to listen to."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2003) |
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"fans of Chabrol should find small pleasures in one of his
lesser works"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2001) |
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""The Fluffer" starts with a bang, but can't quite sustain the expectations it raises.
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[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2006) |
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"...while Flushed Away is studded with little comic nuggets, it is its story that disappoints..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2006) |
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"So while Flushed Away is studded with little comic nuggets, it is its story that disappoints."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 D- |
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(2008) |
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"Fly Me to the Moon's idea of high hilarity is to have Nat's mom fret 'Oh my lord of the flies,' then feel the need to repeat the 'joke.'"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2007) |
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"...the film is too specialized in subject and too ordinary in execution to attract much attention outside the cycling circuit."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2003) |
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"The Fog of War is one of the most stylistically stunning of Morris's works"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"If this documentary does not change your mind about how to procure the food you eat, nothing will."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2008) |
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"...never aspires to much, but it's easy on the eyes, a vicarious Caribbean vacation, a beach read on a rainy day."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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