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(2006) |
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"A Scanner Darkly looks sweet but it's scarcely penetrating."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A film that is as haunting as it is painfully messy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"This is the meatiest a DVD edition can get sans director's commentary."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Certainly not a keeper but the good news is that now you can quickly fast-forward to the best parts in the film: every scene with Melanie Lynskey as Creepy Library Girl."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"In burying elements of behavioral psychology below a dozen different shades of blue, Gaghan draws attention away from the fact that there's a trick pony at play here."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Its identity posturing is considerably less potent than that of Chutney Popcorn's."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"The documentary never finds the appropriate rhythm to match the severity of its subject matter."
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Village Voice |
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(2001) |
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"A splendid package from First Run Features for a little-seen gem perhaps best savored on a rainy, introspective day."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Paul Krik would prefer if we all compared his feature-length debut to the practically minimalist The Parallax View, but Able Danger is really a hipster version of Soderbergh's inane The Good German."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"The film's contempt spills over into the inside of the DVD case, where a Childreach advertisement claims that you can “Meet the REAL Ndugu!” before asking you to donate money to a starving child in Africa."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Schmidt is a credible creation yet Payne's contempt runs synonymous to that of his native son's."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"For the Wilson newbie, this puff piece will suffice as an introduction."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1951) |
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"Not unlike Fritz Lang’s equally misanthropic Scarlet Street, Ace in the Hole plays the squashing of one man’s human spirit for societal-weary gravitas."
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Slant Magazine |
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25/100 |
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(2000) |
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"Surprisingly low on camp, Active Stealth is mostly hindered by an abysmally slow pace and a virtually non-existent plot."
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Apollo Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Fails to congeal into a heady structural puzzle, or into a particularly affecting exercise in female empathy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Chester cleverly conflates the personal trauma of the titular couple's 18-year-old incontinence nightmare with the national horror of 9/11."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"It’ll take you at least double the crummy film’s running time to get through the DVD’s genuinely cute Dukesberry interactive wonderland."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"A noxious, flippant mix of snark and biblical allegory."
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Village Voice |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Watching Adaptation evolve into something profound, if not entirely complete, is certainly beautiful to behold."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"It's no Superbad, but Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's sterling chemistry make Adventureland worthwhile."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"It fluxes all right%u2014from bad to the total pits."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Overwrought metaphors abound in Paul Schrader's ham-fisted Affliction."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Even if you refuse to play Belvaux’s Choose Your Own Adventure, do not ignore these performances."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"After the Sunset has the audacity to con audiences with a script seen a million times before."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Kudos to Brett Ratner for at least acknowledging that the film’s gay jokes are cheap—doesn’t make him any less of a ****, but still."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The wunderkind Jensen's scripts are all schematic and prone to stock characters, but they are soap operas after all, and After the Wedding is beautifully performed by its eager cast."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This ain't Elephant, even if it looks like one."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Agent Cody Banks reimagines your average James Bond flick as kiddie porn."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"That the perpetually leering thugs look like child pornographers is almost beside the point; more problematic is the rampant racism."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"Anyone looking for a “woodwind buddy”? Look no further than Agent Cody Banks, who can’t play the clarinet but is only to happy to learn."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Just as the characters are underthought, the storylines are incongruently pieced together."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A multi-layered demonstration of living in almost perfect harmony."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The only reality here is that truth is slippery, and that’s something Broomfield understands more than most documentary filmmakers working today."
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Slant Magazine |
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50/100 |
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(1982) |
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"The only significant difference between the storyline of this film and the original is that this one takes place upon a spaceship headed toward the moon."
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Apollo Guide |
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88/100 |
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(1980) |
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Click here to see the review!
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Apollo Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A better, less passé film about Al Franken's wife Franni forming the backbone of her husband's career lies dormant here, as does the man's rebel spirit."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Its ethnic "white" noise is really just an excuse for Robin Williams to put on the most elaborate, narcissistic circus act in the history of cinema."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1992) |
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"If you’re addicted to crack, you don’t want to miss Robin William’s shrill performance in this 1992 Disney monstrosity. It’s a great deterrent."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"“I remember…the Alamo,” says Pee-Wee in Tim Burton’s Big Adventure. Now Comes Hancock’s The Alamo to destroy the man-child’s memory."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Director Rob Reiner describes the film’s past as a “rich kind of Gatsby world.” Yeah, riiiiiiiiight."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The overall effect is not unlike watching a film with the DVD commentary track already incorporated into the script."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This half-cocked creation is ostensibly about the Macedonian king but doubles as an allegory for both George W. Bush’s political career and Stone’s own struggle with history."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"I Spit on Your Grave gets to the nitty gritty. The equally problematic Alexandra’s Project is simply glib."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Strictly for women who complain about being treated badly by men but don’t care if they’re as cute as Jude Law."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Ali is an avant-garde Pay-Per-View boxing match, but where's the soul?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"A flawed film about boxing's greatest heavyweight gets a lightweight DVD treatment."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Ali’s terse speaking matter is ripe with aphorisms, but it’s also another way for Fassbinder to evoke the suspended animation of his character’s lives."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The sense of realism Chico Teixeira brings to his first feature-length fiction is fussy and unilluminative of character when it should be spontaneous."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Possibly the closet American relation to an Italian giallo."
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Slant Magazine |
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