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B |
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(2002) |
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"More sophisticated and literate than such pictures usually are...an amusing little catch."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2001) |
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"Refashioned only imperfectly from the book, it ends up neither fish nor fowl, an amalgam of drama, satire and farce which never comes together into a satisfying whole."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Another tale of an unusual program to help disadvantaged school kids turned into a formulaic, sappily uplifting Hollywood product."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Better than [Besson's] usual product, but still pretty thin, formulaic gruel."
[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 serial-killer-tracked-by-female-detective movie so preposterously contrived that by rights it should star Ashley Judd...more likely to evoke snickers than gasps."
[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 reasonably interesting but curiously routine heist movie that will be appreciated more by new riders than those familiar with the superior 1974 incarnation."
[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 provocative premise that never achieves its full dramatic and intellectual potential...noise is allowed to overwhelm argument and--more importantly--understanding."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"The scruffiness is hardly accidental, but it gives the picture a gentle warmth and easy charm that make it as pleasant, if as passing, as a warm summer breeze."
[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 nice-looking, respectable but oddly unsatisfying family fable."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Pretty much a stunt, and not an entirely successful one...on balance the nuggets are embedded in just too much dross."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"Certainly warm-hearted and well-intentioned...but its eagerness to
be uplifting is ultimately more calculated than inspiring, and its
message is more than a little muddled."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"If you've cared for Almodovar's previous work, you should like it; if not, it may strike you as equally contrived and vaguely unpleasant."
[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 there's tension between the two halves of Talk to Me, both of them are quite good."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Its celebration of infantilism on the speedway runs out of gas long before the last lap."
[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 really dumb, derivative rip-off, slovenly constructed and played with the sort of ludicrous earnestness that just misses being bad enough to qualify as high camp."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2000) |
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"Though employing an utterly conventional romantic design, it tweaks the formula sufficiently...to come across as charmingly distinctive rather than tiredly imitative."
[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 pedestrian filmization of a three-character play that comes
across like a watered-down combination of Sam Shepard and
David Mamet."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Both enlightening and creepy in almost equal measure, but it's more than a stunt: it's a cry of anguish you're not likely to forget."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
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(2001) |
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"A genial yet insightful comedy-drama, a film of rare grace and
honest humor."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
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(2004) |
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"An action comedy in which the action is negligible and the comedy nonexistent."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"A moving piece of work...at once sobering and infuriating."
[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 weird, off-the-wall bit of surrealistic nonsense that should keep the kiddies transfixed with its colorful characters and slapstick mayhem while amusing adults."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Though it has moments of inspiration...at best the picture is only fitfully amusing, certainly not up to the standard set by the 'South Park' 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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"The overwhelming reaction must be one of distaste at seeing so real a human tragedy turned into so false a combination of gung-ho theatrics, pious pontificating and mawkish melodrama."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Actually too clever by half, but also so skillfully played that it carries you breathlessly along for the duration."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Apart from an occasional bright line and amusing throwaway bits of business, the humor here is juvenile and flat...The Ten is at best a five."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"Makes Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure look like a model of cerebral wit...there's a difference between genuine satire and Three Stooges-style stupidity."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks serve up a heaping helping of Capracorn...and in their hands it's a reasonably palatable, though hardly gourmet, dish."
[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 superfluous sequel...while the movie is as smooth and efficient as one of the cyborgs that populate the series, it's also just as soulless."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Does pretty much what you'd expect but little more, and its sullen efficiency doesn't make up for its lack of imagination."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Old-fashioned melodramatic claptrap, served up in ridiculously overblown style...another deeply embarrassing misfire from a man once considered a major American filmmaker."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"If this sort of thing is to your taste, it's a better-than-average example; but it will never achieve the cult status of Hooper's grotesque, unforgettable version."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2006) |
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"Given that this is a prequel...there's no suspense, only ninety minutes of lip-smacking sadism. This is entertainment?"
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D |
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(2001) |
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"As far as horse operas go, it's a broken-down old nag
infested with fleas and well past the point of being saddle-
worthy."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Though it soft-pedals the venom and comes across more as adolescently smart-*** rather than truly abrasive, it's still amusing."
[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 very minor, instantly forgettable footnote to one of the most popular cinematic series of all time."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"It survives its melodramatic excesses because of the inherent fascination of its subject and an outstanding lead performance."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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F |
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(2008) |
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"'Klaatu barada crappo'...turns an intelligent and thoughtful film into what might be called a boys' adventure yarn if that weren't an insult to both boys and yarn."
[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 remote and chilly exercise, more museum piece than movie."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"A singularly charmless technical exercise desperately trying to become a holiday classic."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Has a certain gritty punch...but in the end it doesn't amount to much but the usual genre static."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Genuinely clever and amusing...may itself be hard to find, but it's worth a search."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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A- |
|
(2007) |
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"[An] engrossing epic of misanthropy, capitalist monomania and religious quackery...at once savagely bleak from an emotional perspective and incredibly beautiful visually."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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D- |
|
(2002) |
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"When you find yourself rooting for the monsters in a horror movie, you know the picture is in trouble."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"The fact that it provides one with an opportunity to bask in Falk's almost uninterrupted glow for ninety minutes doesn't make it a good movie."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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C |
|
(2007) |
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"Bier's skill in rising above melodramatic convention appears to have abandoned her on the trip to America."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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B |
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(1999) |
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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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(2009) |
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"Leaves your hope for something not just unusual but tasty unquenched."
[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 very good piece of rather easy didacticism, but it doesn't go much beyond that."
[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 small film, but one whose modest grace provides greater satisfaction than most Hollywood blockbusters."
[movie review] |
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One Guy's Opinion |
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