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 B |
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(2007) |
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"Several beautifully intercut musical numbers keep the action moving and the dialogue in between is sweet, tart and subversive."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A |
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(2006) |
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"...one of the best male performances of the year from Gosling and a breakthrough for its filmmakers and young costar Epps."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2007) |
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"...a sometimes thoughtful reimagining...also plodding and brutal rather than horrific. The leaner, creepier original remains the classic."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2000) |
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"Too intent on its own modernization trickeries for its own good."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"Cowriter/director Andrew Flemingpresents the anti-inspirational teacher in Marchz - the guy's a mess and Coogan is simply brilliant playing him, but Fleming's overloaded his film"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C- |
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(2008) |
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"[Smith] should have pushed for a rewrite as "Hancock" only flies so far before degenerating into a lame and illogical "My Super Ex-Girlfriend.""
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Director Todd Phillips ups the ante on his "Old School" antics in "The Hangover," a movie which solidifies the comic chops of Cooper and Helms and should make a star out of Galifianakis."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 9/10 |
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(2001) |
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"Director Ridley Scott and lead Hopkins have presented us with a buffet worth lingering over."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"The suicides are mostly very originally staged and creepy as hell...Mark Wahlberg is OK, but a scene where he 'forgives' his wife's indiscretion is just plain weird, as is Zooey Deschanel throughout."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A |
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(2008) |
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"This is writer/director Mike Leigh's best film since 1993's "Naked" and, in a sense, its photo negative twin - female centric as opposed to male, light vs. dark, optimistic vs. nihilistic..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2005) |
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"There's really only one compelling reason to see this film and that is the extraordinary performance by young Ellen Page, a breakout if ever there was one."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Reeves has charm to spare with the kids and Lane but fails to convince in his drinking, gambling scenes."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2008) |
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"It's laugh out loud funny, and once the screenwriters figure out how to resolve's Patrick Harris's return, they still have Amsterdam."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2004) |
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"an epic pothead movie with laughs and smarts"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2002) |
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"one of those coulda, woulda, shoulda films that frustrates with its unrealized potential"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2002) |
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"This one does for the series what The Wrath of Khan did for Star Trek."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2005) |
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"Harry Potter's not just for kids anymore. Director Mike Newell has reset the bar for the series and delivered a smashingly dark and dramatic film"
[movie review] |
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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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 B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Director David Yates, the first Brit to helm the series, invests "Order of the Phoenix" with a very sinister tone from his opening frames..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2004) |
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"an influx of terrific British actors, the oncoming adulthood of the film's three young stars and the fabulous effect that is the Hippogriff sock this one over"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2001) |
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"While Chris Columbus has done what Warner Brothers, Rowling and most of her readership wanted...he's ironically lost some of the magic"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2006) |
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"Christian Bale, who also executive produced, has gone to the psycho well one too many times..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2002) |
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"works on the whodunit level as its larger themes get lost in the murk of its own making"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 D+ |
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(2003) |
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"Sitting through The Haunted Mansion is about as exciting as watching a stranger's slide show of their trip to Disneyland"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2009) |
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""The Amityville Horror" already spawned several sequels - did it really need a spinoff too?"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2004) |
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"[Garai and Luna] deliver the real emotion of a first love while remaining good examples for the tweenie crowd"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 c |
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(2009) |
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"...occasionally sweet and occasionally funny but also infrequently relatable, oddly dated and often downright off putting."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 3/10 |
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(2001) |
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"This script ... is the sorriest piece of work that's been greenlit in over a year of weak Hollywood product."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Rampling and Young give all kinds of subtle shadings to their performances and their dual scenes of leaving the island, one broken-hearted and accompanied by 'old' Haiti, the other finding a new, horrific exhilaration, deliver a final, resounding punch.
"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Argento has made a ferocious film including her own committed performance, but like her character, she loses control in the final goings.
"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2003) |
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"would have made a great vehicle for Bette Davis in the 1940s"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2001) |
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"This female rendition of "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" doesn't break any new
ground, but is more entertaining than it has any right to be due to its
talented cast..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2001) |
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"a film in the tradition of King adaptations "Stand By Me" and "The Shawshank
Redemption.""
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2002) |
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"the film doesn't sustain its initial promise with a jarring, new-agey tone creeping into the second half"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(1986) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A |
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(2001) |
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"
The rock musical is created anew with John Cameron Mitchell's dynamic,
fearlessly individual vision and Stephen Trask's perfectly evocative music
and lyrics."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2005) |
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"Heights is tonally blue in both look and feel and features a fierce performance by Glenn Close.
"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"The sad fact is, Madsen riding a chopper is cooler than the sight of Hopper in a suede fringed jacket, proof that you can't go home again."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2007) |
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"...a pastiche of classics of the genre and flat out homage to the original "Texas Chainsaw Massacre" that observes all the conventions with a twinkle in its eye."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B |
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(2004) |
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"Hellboy's characters may be reminiscent of X-Men, they're a lot more fun. Only a weak villain mars this new comic book entry.
"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2008) |
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""Hellboy" was fun, but "Hellboy II" is even better...where else can one see a blotto red devil beast and humanoid amphibian massacre "I Can't Smile Without You?""
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C- |
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(2008) |
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"If ever a movie pushed my cynicism buttons, this one was it..."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B- |
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(2004) |
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""Lawrence of Arabia" locations, "The Mummy's" sandstorm, a rescue a la "Raiders of the Lost Ark," and a scrappy horse besting bigger thoroughbreds like "Seabiscuit.""
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 A- |
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(2006) |
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"Yamada's film is old-fashioned in the very best sense. He is a great story teller and director of actors."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 D+ |
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(2005) |
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"...its surprise twist is more annoying than frightening."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 9/10 |
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(2000) |
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"The large cast is full of surprises from Tim Robbins' outrageous new age homewrecker to Lisa Bonet's indie artist."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
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(2005) |
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"Aja creates a very effective slasher thriller only to light a match and send it up in flames with a third act twist that makes absolutely no sense"
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 B+ |
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(2005) |
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"David Cronenberg's elegant direction of Josh Olson's adaptation of John Wagner and Vince Locke's graphic novel almost seems like overkill for this spare and obvious tale."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
|
(2001) |
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"Yet despite .. a general good heartedness, "Hit and Runway" is another cliched movie about first time filmmakers whose script
ends up mirroring their life."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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 C |
|
(2007) |
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"...it will make the 1986 edition, a film marginally well-received in its day, seem like a classic in retrospect."
[movie review] |
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Reeling Reviews |
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