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B- |
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(2003) |
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"An agreeable throwback...an action movie that, despite its modern sheen, has an almost charmingly old-fashioned feel."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"Demonstrates that a one-joke movie can work just fine if the joke's a good one and is well delivered...a delicious takeoff on the culture of celebrity."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Moves very slowly and tends to be repetitive, but it has a simmering intensity beneath its deceptively placid surface...quietly devastating."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Infuriatingly obscure...a bit of rarefied madness that proves that Maddin's films are an acquired taste most of us are unlikely ever to acquire."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"There's an excellent 90-minute film here; unfortunately, it runs for 170."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"The episodes seem strained, the characters sketchy and underdeveloped, and the connections among them contrived."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Brainless...but it's also breathless. If the content is negligible and even puerile, the packaging is choice."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Pushes itself as strenuously as its young protagonist, but ultimately collapses in a welter of sentiment, cuteness and whimsy."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Like a rerun of a television show you didn't much care for in the first place."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"In its scuzzy, bleary way it's perversely enjoyable--an instant
classic among guilty pleasures."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"Like its predecessor, it's no classic, but it provides a reasonably attractive holiday contraption, one that families looking for a clean, kid-friendly outing should investigate."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"A gaudy but bland lump of coal in this year's cinematic holiday stocking."
[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 poignant, powerful valedictory from one of the true masters of cinema."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"It takes you somewhere you're not likely to have seen before, but beneath the exotic surface (and exotic dancing) it's surprisingly old-fashioned."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"The decor and costumes are authentic, but there's barely a moment in the picture that feels genuine in human terms."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Both a delicious exercise in great acting and a richly refined comedy-drama--tangy and touching in equal measure."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Like a series of Problem-of-the-Week TV movies crammed into a single two-hour span."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Comes nowhere near scoring a satirical bull's-eye--a pity, given that its target is such an inviting one."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Though fundamentally a warmhearted crowd-pleaser, the dash of piquancy keeps it from becoming cloying."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2000) |
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"A pleasant little comedy with the soul of one of those old, much loved Ealing pictures of the forties and fifties but overlayed with a coating of Hollywood glitz."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2001) |
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"It's actually the audience that needs rescuing."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Messy and rather revolting, but carrying an undeniable visceral impact. On that level, Saw works. It just happens to be a very low level."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"With 'Saw II,' to misquote Sherlock Holmes, the game's a-flat...Despite the makers' almost desperate efforts to shock and surprise, proves a curiously dull blade."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2007) |
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"If it ever had a prime, the Saw franchise is well past it...a mess...and an ugly mess at that."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2008) |
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"There's really nothing new here, and what's old is not good."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"The tawdry use of important real-life social issues in the service of what amounts to nothing more than another exercise in malignant sadism makes this picture even worse than earlier episodes."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2001) |
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"It isn't so hot."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2000) |
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"Does its spoofing with a blunt instrument instead of a scalpel, and it's engineered to appeal to the lowest instincts of its targeted adolescent audiences."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2001) |
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"Dull, obvious and unremittingly vulgar."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2003) |
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"To call the humor sophomoric would be an insult to second-year students everywhere...far too stale and puerile to generate much besides groans."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"The exotic setting and the starkness with which the young man's story is told--along with Nusuppaev's muted charisma--help it transcend the narrative commonplaces."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Mildly engaging...in an age of appallingly coarse comedies, its relative restraint is definitely welcome."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"One of the happiest surprises of the fall season--a full-throated, energetic comedy...smart yet also slightly demented."
[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 charming oddity...a gently rib-tickling, genuinely warm-hearted jewel."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Really nothing more than a phantasmagorical reworking of The Secret Life of Walter Mitty using lots of tacky effects and goofy imagery."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"However well done, it's still nothing more than a live-action version of a mediocre old cartoon; and while affectionate and nicely tooled, it's no more than tolerable."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D+ |
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(2002) |
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"Unless you're a fanatic, the best advice is: 'Scooby' don't."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"A relatively feeble, lackadaisical piece, mildly amusing but far too reminiscent of superior movies [Allen] made years ago and with too many dead spots."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2001) |
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"Let down by a tepid script, plodding direction and--amazingly, in view
of the talent involved--indifferent acting; this isn't a winning 'Score.'"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"Just a silly, amusingly retrograde, compilation of old genre cliches...
Yet it's professionally stitched together and moves along reasonably
well."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"One of those movies that one can appreciate more for the
idea behind it than for the way in which it's been executed."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"A nifty portrait of a minor, but intriguing, element of popular culture."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2000) |
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"What sort of filmmakers could possibly think it a good idea to title their picture Screwed?"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"Grows more and more ludicrous, like some compendium episode of 'Dallas' or 'Dynasty,' but with snow."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Far from being a standard-issue tearjerker...the picture rises above its generic roots to emerge as a powerful human drama."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"A well-groomed example of middlebrow kitsch...what might have been an exuberant tale of the Sport of Kings is instead a hokey ode to the resiliency of the common man. Neigh...I mean nay."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2001) |
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"An uncommonly engaging tale of tradition, change and growth in a strangely haunting locale...its stylishness carries the film over most of the rough spots."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"A crowd-pleaser of the most old-fashioned sort, and who cares about calculation when it's served up with so abundant a desire to please and blessed with a cast like this one?"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"If you're willing to surrender to its languid, indirect style and its offbeat comic sense, you may find it a rich and rewarding little film."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"A fable of black and female liberation in the sixties south so drenched in sugar that watching it may make your teeth hurt."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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