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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film gives a transparent spin to the saying that whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, but Diaz and Kutcher bring a surprising sweetness to their generic roles and the story's contrived situations."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Scratching your head because you don't know why David Duchovny provides narration for Rick Greenwald's Quantum Hoops? Hint: the truth is out there."
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(2008) |
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"Woefully reductive and painful."
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(2006) |
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"Open[s] with the best trying-to-unfasten-a-bra and zombie-finger-as-buttplug gags in movie history, which are closely followed by the most tasteless fisting scene since William Freidkin's Cruising."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Explicit in Frontier(s) is its maker's belief that nothing should be left to the imagination."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's a bumpy film, and though no one may see it, it's impossible to imagine it playing as gracefully, like its effectively open-ended finale, without Janssen's conviction to her role."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Until someone figures out a way of truly subverting what's already been subverted, cartoon stick figures like Austin Powers and Johnny English will never feel fresh, even when they're actually saying funny things."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Shunning logic and compassion, The Fall is a bedtime story impeccably designed to flatter its own maker."
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(2008) |
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"Half of the running time is devoted to clips both expected (The Good Earth) and refreshing (Marion Wong's undiscovered The Curse of Quon Gwon), the other to the musings of politely enraged talking heads."
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Village Voice |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"How do I loathe the soul-crushingly predictable Made of Honor? Let me count the ways."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Adam Hootnick's Unsettled will not bring peace to the Middle East, but the documentary's goodwill is a corrective to Morgan Spurlock's repulsive Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"
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(2007) |
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"If the film is anything, it is a gorgeous eyesore, and the image on the disc does justice to Julian Schnabel's over-direction."
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(2007) |
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"To quote Julia Roberts's character in the film, Charlie Wilson's War is liberal...but not where it counts."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Image, like identity, is always coming into focus throughout Fugitive Pieces."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Rather than imitate the postmodernism chic of Far from Heaven or the parodic silliness of Die, Mommie, Die!, Kalin settles for a nondescript style whose sole function is to stay out of Moore's way."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like Puiu's later The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Stuff and Dough suggests that time, like procedure, is of the essence in Romania, though it lacks Lazarescu's gravitas and poignancy."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An instruction manual of sorts that doesn't illuminate police corruption and violence so much as it revels in it."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dialogue is a blunt-force trauma in Hunt's directorial debut, which behaves like some avant-garde theatre production where all the stage directions are spoken aloud."
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(2008) |
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"If Godzilla was a manifestation of Cold War paranoia, the Cloverield monster is a reflection of the chic nihilism that is the J.J. Abrams brand."
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(2007) |
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"Uno, dos, tres, throw this shamelessly derivative and inhumane freak show in the trash%u2014no matter how intensely its image and sound may deceive."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though not to be confused with Madonna's new single, Four Minutes is similarly built from cliché."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Spurlock gives currency to the stereotype of the self-absorbed, globetrotting Ugly American."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Williams succumbs to one of the most odious habits of the documentary filmmaker by having Western voices translate the words of her talking heads."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Visitor's allusions to our f----up state-of-affairs feel like gratuitous background noise."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ari Libsker's film details how books like I Was Colonel Schultz's Private Bitch luridly conflated sex and violence."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Body of War is a gut-wrenching documentary experience."
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(2008) |
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"[Director Wang Quan] still maintains an emotional remove from his subject, tracing the encroaching will of capitalism—as in the evolution from horses to motorcycles to cars—more clinically than poetically."
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Village Voice |
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(2008) |
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"Well-acted but rife with cliché."
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Village Voice |
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(2008) |
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"This misbegotten psychological portrait eagerly foregrounds Leto's excess blubber and histrionic blather, delivered like bad improv outside the Dakota building."
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Village Voice |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"And you thought Miranda July was twee."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Priceless, Pierre Salvadori's re-imagining (read: vulgarization) of Breakfast at Tiffany's, wears its contempt on its sleeve."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"My Brother Is an Only Child moves so playfully and briskly you may not notice its glibness, which may have been director Daniele Luchetti's intent."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Praise Jesus that Tyler Perry found Angela Bassett."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Lance Hammer's Ballast suggests and suffers from the influence of the Dardenne brothers."
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(2008) |
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"Notoriety and financial reward are hard to come by in the world of b-boying, a reality illuminated by Benson Lee's documentary."
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Village Voice |
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(2007) |
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"Tim Burton's Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street gets a meaty DVD package fit for a cannibal."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Where other films kill you with exposition, Correction delights in providing none, which can be just as shrill."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Teen horniness is not a crime but Southland Tales is."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Excuse me while I wash down the film's nasty aftertaste with some Broken English."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The love affairs of the film's characters aren't merely expressions of fluid sexual desire but an acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of human life."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is not nearly as willful or poetic in its abstraction, dangling enough stray bits of context over audiences' heads to help us get by but still leaving both us and itself caught in a confused lull."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like Young Rebels before it, Slingshot Hip Hop illustrates how hip-hop appeals to the world's oppressed."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If the insult of La Zona is not as significant as Paul Haggis's Crash, that's because director Rodrigo Plá doesn't trivialize a society's racial dynamics, only its class relations."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A dubious mix of suspense and social melodrama."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Respect is what Horton's preaching, and that's a message to be foisted on children guilt-free."
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Village Voice |
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(2008) |
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"Nothing more than a dumb action picture with delusions of Johnnie To–dom."
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Village Voice |
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(2007) |
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"Finally on DVD, Joe Wright's Atonement insipidly rewards those who blush whenever they think about a lady's jewels."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Writer-director Antonio Negret only alludes to the seriousness of his volatile social setting."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Its gripping sense of empathy, parlayed through a Sokurovian fixation on faces and the love and fear transmitted between beaming sets of eyes, practically burns a hole through the screen."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Begins as a dryly limp satire of corporate culture and ends as cruel and unusual punishment."
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