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 B- |
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(2004) |
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"It has a good deal of energy and a splashy visual style, but its mixture of dramatic recreation, interviews and social commentary succeeds only sporadically."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B |
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(2009) |
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"Merely lets the facts of forty years ago speak for themselves, and one can't deny that its dramatization of them has enormous energy and urgency."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2006) |
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"Like its scriptural model, an impressive structure, but one that doesn't reach the intended emotional heights."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2001) |
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"Intermittently strong, often darkly humorous but ultimately uneven."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D- |
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(2008) |
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"So bad it will make you nostalgic for The Pacifier."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2000) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D- |
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(2003) |
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"'Bad Boys II,' which is nothing more than tired formula, pure and simple, feels longer than 'Pearl Harbor.' And it's got a lot more explosions and violence than that World War II picture, too."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D+ |
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(2002) |
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"Everything in it seems recycled from earlier movies....Any movie in which
a bomb plays so prominent part has no business being such a dud."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 A- |
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(2004) |
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"A revelation, combining the colorful flash of the writer-director's previous work with a richer, deeper emotional vein than ever before."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Outrageously enjoyable...turns the genre conventions on their head to often uproarious effect."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2005) |
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"Not so much a terrible movie as an unnecessary one...a sense of redundancy plagues the movie."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D+ |
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(2003) |
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"A one-joke conceit that can't sustain itself over feature length, a good idea drowned in a sea of crudity and ineptitude. You'll leave it feeling more hung over than Willie."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"Very uneven super-low-budget exercise...the sort of thing that's usually referred to as 'showing promise.'"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D |
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(2000) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2005) |
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"A dreary dirge of a movie that's less about real human beings than characters who are little more than literary contrivances, though well acted ones."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Not only consistently engrossing but genuinely engaging, if technically conventional....Bravo!"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D- |
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(2002) |
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"A shambles of a movie--visually unattractive, unbearably loud and utterly silly...its hilarity is completely unintentional."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 F |
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(2007) |
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"This awful slapstick martial-arts tournament send-up is all bad ideas and worse execution."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Skillfully done...but the broader historical context may make one just a tad queasy reveling in its visual and emotional excesses."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D+ |
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(2000) |
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"The fault lies with Lee, of course: he remains an exceptionally gifted filmmaker, but his writing and helming here demonstrate no penchant for satire."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 A- |
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(2007) |
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"Charming and touching...gentle and soft-spoken, but it speaks volumes about the possibility of reconciliation in one of the most politically volatile regions of the world."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B |
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(2001) |
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"A somewhat predictable but quite enjoyable lark, a traditional
buddy-heist movie that offers genuine humor instead of the gross-out stuff we usually see nowadays."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't going to win any awards, but it's a distinct step up from most striving-against-the-odds high school movies."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B |
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(2004) |
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"This Thai 'Alamo' story is superior to any of the Hollywood versions of the Texas battle and an exciting, effective film in its own right."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2002) |
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"A totally synthetic, artificial movie...like a two-hour sitcom in desperate need of a laughtrack."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 D- |
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(2008) |
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"All it proves is that on their home turf the Pangs can make an international hit-man tale every bit as trashy and dull as the ones made in Hollywood or Europe."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2001) |
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"A succession of set-pieces, each of them individually impressive but
adding up to very little because there's nothing between them to move
us."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2002) |
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"An implausible, manipulative but moderately enjoyable crowd-pleaser."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"Just isn't clever or surprising enough: it's complicated but conventional, strikes no sparks...[and] fails to juggle its myriad tones successfully."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2003) |
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"Visually 'The Barbarian Invasions' has a nice surface, but the more one listens to it the more ephemeral and inconsequential it becomes."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2002) |
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"More vaudeville show than well-constructed narrative, but on those terms it's inoffensive and actually rather sweet."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2004) |
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"Earns a visit, if only by a hair...if the business isn't quite so brisk this time around, there's an amiable familiarity that warrants your continued patronage."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2000) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C- |
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(2006) |
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"Gary Larson did more with this idea in a single Far Side panel than Steve Oedekerk and his army of animators can muster over eighty minutes in this tepid computer-generated kidflick."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B |
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(2002) |
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"As satisfyingly odd and intriguing a tale as it was a century and a half ago...has a delightfully dour, deadpan tone and stylistic consistency."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C- |
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(2003) |
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"Pretty much DOA...a thoroughly artificial contraption in which the seams show and the revelations lack the sense of inevitability that would have made them satisfying."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 F |
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(2006) |
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"There's simple trash and enjoyable trash; this movie wants to be the latter, but alas it falls into the first category."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C- |
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(1999) |
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"Clearly well-intentioned but wildly overplotted and, curiously enough, emotionally underdeveloped."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B |
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(2005) |
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"Until the overblown, chaotic finale obligatory in Hollywood action movies nowadays, it's an abundantly moody, amply exciting exercise in cinematic resuscitation."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2009) |
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"A pretty pallid, pedestrian affair, a very mild outer-space adventure with an ecological message that, in the age of Pixar, is unlikely to keep kids, or their parents, rooted to their seats."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 A- |
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(1966) |
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"Staged with almost newsreel precision but presented with the punch of a great political thriller..despite being half a century old, still has a powerful and pertinent message."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B- |
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(2003) |
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"Though slight and rather frail, it's still modestly entertaining...and LaBeouf is well worth watching throughout."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 F |
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(2000) |
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"And you thought Dune was bad."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C- |
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(2005) |
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"Perhaps it's only just that a movie about a loser should be a loser itself."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 F |
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(2005) |
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"Ultra-smooth ex-gangster Chili Palmer returns to the screen after a decade's absence and the audience gets whacked...an unmitigated disaster."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 F |
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(2008) |
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"The level of foolishness here is simply too high, and the execution so slapdash that the result doesn't seem so much a parody of amateurishness as an example of it."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 C |
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(2000) |
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"Very handsome to look at...but it's equally apparent that as a narrative the film is extremely silly and disjointed."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B |
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(2004) |
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"A pleasurable amble down a well-worn cinematic street."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Succeeds as both a homage to its quirky model and as an engrossing film in its own right."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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 F |
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(2000) |
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[movie review] |
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