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A |
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(1982) |
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"Unquestionably a classic."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"A very juvenile copy of its Hitchcock-Kubrick models, efficiently made in the overwrought mold of contemporary action-adventure movies but a painfully loud--and silly--knockoff of the originals."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Wants to be charmingly off-kilter but comes across as insufferably grating."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(1999) |
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"Exceptionally funny and quite affecting."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(1999) |
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"The horrifying historical background has been transformed into a conventional melodrama, and much of it has a bogus feel."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"A riveting drama...it's only by comparison to Cronenberg's best that it comes up slightly short."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"While everyone won't agree with the approach...it does result in the sort of mildly amusing, feel-good period piece with an easy-to-swallow message that appeals to today's older audiences."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"The treatment is so meandering and flaccid that what might have been a spicy study of service capitalism instead proves a decidedly bland dish."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Presumably it was the fact that the DVD release schedule for the week was already filled that explains the escape of this picture to theatres--it really belongs on a video store shelf or a late-night slot on a non-premium cable network."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2005) |
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"Though the 'religious' overtones are a new touch, ends up seeming like one of those amusingly cheesy semi-supernatural thrillers broadcast as 'originals' on the SciFi Network."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Intricate emotionally as well as in narrative terms, poignant but not mawkish, and told in an austerely compelling style, this is a wise and absorbing drama."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"The picture's combination of stylistic splash and pretentious turgidity makes for a long slog. It may be accurate, but by the time it drags to an end, you won't really care."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Opts for a bland middle road...a mixture that comes across as rather a cop-out."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"It's difficult not to find the dogs strong and sympathetic creatures, but, alas, the human side lets them down in more ways than one."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2002) |
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"So crummy that you might feel like squishing it underfoot when it's over."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2000) |
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"Unhappily it lacks a sense of style distinctive enough to overcome its derivative quality."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"A mature, small-scaled drama that's both insightful and affecting."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"Laughably bad...a tepid, torpid comic-book movie that could accurately be described as this year's Catwoman."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"The mixture of the mundane and the poetic in 'Elephant' creates a mesmerizing mood...reinforces Van Sant's position as one of the minimalist magicians of contemporary cinema."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"A cheerfully inoffensive cinematic bauble that may be no more durable than a tree ornament but should charm the parents and kids who will flock to it."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Stilted and juvenile, more Classics Illustrated than classic....the dialogue is pocked with banalities and howlers."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"None of it seems remotely real. Elizabethtown may be an actual place, but 'Elizabethtown' seems like nowhere on earth, because Crowe's script is so disjointed and tone-deaf."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Note well that Ella is enchanted, not enchanting...any charm it might have possessed is buried under reams of cuteness and silly anachronism."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"By maintaining a modest stance and a gentle, affectionate tone it emerges as winning rather than wearying."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"Despite its virtues, the picture comes across rather like something that has itself been disinterred from the fairly remote past."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"Both ploddingly earnest and curiously phony...the surface gloss can't disguise the emptiness of what lies within."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"A historical re-imagining of grace, wit and surprising poignancy, combining gentle humor, charm and a touch of whimsical melancholy in a remarkably enjoyable whole."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2000) |
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"Uneven, especially in the first half, but it gains momentum as it goes and ends on a rousing high."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"Just a piece of flashy trash, disheartening in terms of both its empty cinematic pizzazz and its calculated amorality."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"Before his transformation for the love of Amy, hero Zack's motto was 'Why bother trying?' That seems to have been the filmmakers' mantra, too...a bland, formulaic rehash."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Smart, sassy and sweet but...never vulgar or mean, it's a knowing but not condescending modern family-friendly fairy tale."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"At once haunting and surprisingly engaging, a unique vision of a unique place and of the people crazy or dedicated enough (or both) to devote themselves to it."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"Very much the sort of thing that one finds--and enjoys--on
PBS all the time."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"For all its sheen and suggestion of profundity, it winds up seeming a slasher movie with intellectual pretensions."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Has impressive moments, but they're buried in a rubble of melodramatic excess that would have seemed corny in a film made while the war was actually being waged."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"A highly polished but contrived and strangely staid spy story...the
picture offers an ounce of historical truth and a pound of dramatic
license."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"Grossly sensationalistic....Though it has a certain cheap visceral power, you'll probably
leave it feeling about as abused as its battered but
determined heroine."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"At times comes off as a bit too smart itself, almost smug in its often jokey post-mortem of the company's excesses, but on the whole it acquits itself remarkably well."
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2004) |
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"Where's that can of Vapoorizer when you need it? Just aim it at the screen and push."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2007) |
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"One of those throw-everything-at-the-screen-and-see-if-anything-sticks movies...In this case, nothing does...All terrible--puerile, vulgar and unfunny."
[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 flaccid sci-fi opus slavishly modeled on 'Fahrenheit 451'...flat and antiseptic."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Essentially a repeat of the first episode of Star Wars dropped into a Lord of the Rings context...comes across as plodding and rather dull."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2000) |
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"Erin Brockovich is pretty pat and predictable stuff."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"An ambitious, serious film that manages to do virtually everything wrong; sitting through it is something akin to an act of cinematic penance."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"This oddball mixture of bloodsucking horror and soft-core porn is both objectively terrible and perversely fascinating."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Another unpleasantly glib, shallow demonstration of Kaufman's self-satisfied cleverness, further marred by failed pretensions to profundity about romantic destiny."
[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 film of quiet intensity, employing simple techniques to build, gradually but inexorably, considerable impact."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2004) |
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"'Eurotrash' is more like it--even the opening animated credits are repulsive."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"A soggy mess...To think it's any good would require a supreme act of faith."
[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 formula family tearjerker told with a heavy Irish brogue...accentuating, rather than muting, the plot's saccharine thrust."
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