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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"An interesting misstep...the lead performances are superb, but even they can't make up for the hard-to-swallow story."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2007) |
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"The title of this stinker should really be compressed to P....You."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"There's a fine line between the gloriously grotesque and the repulsively grisly, and the picture crosses it too often."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Harmless, though mediocre, live-action family fare...likely to strike even the small fry as covering awfully familiar territory."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Though the influence of Chabrol is apparent in Dercourt's film, it's more than a mere encore; it's an inventive composition 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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"All too familiar...basically the sort of cautionary tale that was old when 'Angels With Dirty Faces' appeared in 1938."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Largely Masterpiece Theatre moviemaking, but of a very high order...an elegantly appointed, intelligently played picture that does Maugham's period piece proud."
[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 mostly uncomfortable experience that doesn't carry a compensating degree of insight or impact."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"An astonishingly inventive portrait of childhood fears and hopes, an eerily beautiful modern fairy tale that truly merits the overused adjective magical."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"So bad it ought to be based on a video game."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"Viewers willing to settle for a refried thriller might be mildly
intrigued...but anyone who's seen its superior models can't
help but be disappointed."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2004) |
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"A crude, violent tale of vigilante justice...[that] panders to the basest instincts of its viewers, and does so in the most coarsely calculating way."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"It's nice, and occasionally affecting, but also fairly pedestrian."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Part documentary, part fictional romcom, and all twee."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"As a purely sensory experience Paprika is a spicy dish, but one that doesn't deliver much nourishment for the mind."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Despite the obvious opportunities to turn this subject into a strident polemic, it follows an entirely different route--one that in the end carries considerably more impact."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Earnest and well-intentioned though it may be, it just never rises above ordinary television-movie quality."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"For those able to tune in to its peculiar wavelength this deceptively simple film will prove another strangely profound [Van Sant] experience."
[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 much more than an extended exercise in horror tropes, but it's a clever one, expertly designed and executed, depending more on pulse-pounding suggestion rather than explicit violence."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Like a souffle overstuffed with ingredients. But it looks great on the plate, and enough of it is succulent to make up for the overcooked portions."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Varied in tone and perspective, but also variable in narrative quality. But Paris je t'aime offers at least as many hits as misses."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2003) |
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"As a human document 'Party Monster' is pretty much a disaster...shapeless and sloppy."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(1975) |
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"Remains, thirty years later, as rambling, flaccid, enigmatically brooding and ultimately tedious as it was back in 1975."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"When a picture asks you to puzzle through a chain of ambiguous clues to a surprise solution, you have a right to expect something better than watered-down Shyamalan."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(1999) |
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"Exhibits little passion and even less mind."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"It definitely makes the viewer suffer--but it's debatable if by itself that's a truly enlightening contribution to one's understanding of Christ's message."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Another graphic novel-y movie that presents its maniacal machismo on a smaller scale than 300 but makes up for it by being even loonier."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2008) |
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"An inordinately sleazy medical thriller operating on the erroneous belief that the combination of hot sex and cold corpses constitutes a real turn-on."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
|
(2000) |
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"A typical Hollywood product that aims to get the adrenaline rushing and tug at the heartstrings, but doesn't much care about how shamelessly it goes about doing so."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Just one long pratfall...an avalanche of really dumb action comedy that aims to be a variant on the Inspector Clouseau formula but fails miserably."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2000) |
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"Despite a ton of good intentions, the picture is numbingly obvious and crushingly sentimental."
[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 flat, derivative pseudo-thriller...certainly the weakest of Woo's American movies. And before you ask, yes, I have seen 'Hard Target' (and rather liked it)."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2001) |
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"Strives to be a sweeping romantic epic, but sinks under the weight of a cliche-ridden script, pedestrian acting and sledgehammer direction."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"May not exactly be the belle of the ball, but this ugly duckling updating is certainly fetching enough to serve as enticing family entertainment."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"A black comedy told in the garish colors of Almodovar...well worth a look."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Will genre fans take this totally artificial, over-the-top serial-killer movie as a straight thriller, or understand it as the parody one hopes it's intended to be?"
[movie review] |
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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 a Christmas perennial, but it wilts badly well before the final credits roll."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"Couldn't the studio have done the decent thing and released it directly to slumber parties?"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2004) |
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"A perfect bore that flunks every cinematic test."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
|
(2000) |
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"Commendably ambitious and genuinely exciting."
[movie review] |
|
One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2007) |
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"Perfectly awful...[a] luridly trashy whodunit that quickly degenerates into an appalling whydidtheydoit."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
|
(2006) |
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"Though it may come across more than a little precious and pretentious, its memory will linger in your mind long after those of other films have faded."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"With its simple but elegant (if not always ideally expressive) images (almost entirely in black-and-white) and its deadpan, self-deprecating tone of spunkiness in the face of woe, Persepolis is an agreeably accessible."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
|
(2002) |
|
"Comes across like an audio book to which photos have been rather unnecessarily added."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Like its cocky young hero, really does take wing...though it never reaches the stage of transcendent enchantment, the picture is still mighty good fun."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
|
(2004) |
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"A rather slight work, but especially for those acquainted with 'The Seagull' it should prove an intriguing exercise in translation."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
|
(2009) |
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"The intentions...are good, and the picture boasts a fine lead performance, but ultimately...it's just a fancy disease-of-the-week movie that comes off confused and overly cute."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
|
(2003) |
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"A thin conceit...slick, hyperkinetic but utterly superficial. You just might want to hang up."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
|
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A- |
|
(2002) |
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"Refined and reserved but still haunting...one of the finer non-documentary films yet made about the deepest stain on twentieth-century history."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
|
(2002) |
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"At once difficult to watch and impossible to ignore, a brilliant and
uncompromising portrait of a character both loathsome and pathetic."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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