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4/4 |
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(1930) |
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"In Aleksandr Dovzhenko’s orgiastic paean to Soviet collectivism and tractor-ism Earth there is nothing more beautiful than the untainted countryside."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"East of Havana, at its best, extols the Cuban hip-hop artist's sense of community and insistence on being heard through the rhetoric of Castro's revolution."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Eastern Promises is a straighter version of Inland Empire, which is not to say that it isn't totally queer."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film relishes in capturing those fluid days of youthful abandon when everyone's sexual agency was up for grabs."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The only surprise to this by-the-numbers action thriller is that it didn't go straight to video--and that it doesn't star Jon Voight."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Arquette makes for a thoroughly boorish hero, his delirious 'They're here! They're here!' outcry suggestive of the film's failed potential."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Eisenstein lacks considerable brio for a film about one of cinema's directorial giants."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1952) |
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"Released at the pinnacle of his prolific Mexican period, Él (This Strange Passion) remains one of Buñuel's crowning achievements."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1952) |
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"Sure, El Bruto is relatively apolitical but that's because Buñuel is drunk on animal magnetism."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Spanish director gives an almost Wongian expression to the way people seduce one another."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Comic Book Guys can now rejoice."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"A disappointing DVD package and video transfer for one of the best films of 2003."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Just as a series of thunderous clouds threaten the light of a sunny day, the director has a subtle way of encoding the "whys" of the film’s violence in his mise-en-scene."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There's at least a half dozen movies fighting for attention here, none of them particularly appealing."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"It shouldn’t come as a surprise that Ferrell’s insane performance almost saves the show."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The way Elizabeth: The Golden Age tells it, the Spanish Armada's defeat by the British Empire was the orgasm The Virgin Queen never had."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Garden State without the matching clothes and wallpaper."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Cameron Crowe doesn't know how to shoot movies but he knows how to put on musical revues."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Hey, it’s better than the Shrek films."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"McKellen and Unger do a wonderful trudging through the dirt (and, finally, cheese), Emile never quite gets off the ground."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Not only has Emmanuel persevered life's hard knocks but also the film's short-tempered look and sound."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The director mostly plays it straight, turning Leys' fable into a listless climb down the social ladder."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Waodanis await a film that humanely considers their conversion as intensely as this film single-mindedly sanctifies those who turned them away from killing."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Michell’s screenplay retains the pretense of McEwan’s theories on love, biology, and everything in between, but the transplant is trite and messy.
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2002) |
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"There's something trully reprehensible about a film less concerned with the plight of abused women than it is with beating them up for cheap thrills."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Equlibrium could pass for a thirteen-year-old's book report on the totalitarian themes of 1984 and Farenheit 451."
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Slant Magazine |
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71/100 |
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(1981) |
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"This isn't a brazenly colourful futuristic landscape but a grimy portrait of a city not far from the down-and-dirty real New York of the late '70s and early '80s."
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Apollo Guide |
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71/100 |
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(1981) |
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"Comparing Carpenter’s universe to an Orwellian landscape isn’t an overstatement because there is plenty of substance here for a heated exploration of recycled governmental reform."
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Apollo Guide |
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3.5/4 |
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(1981) |
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"The oppressive power of Carpenter’s Scope framing is matched only by his ability to speak to contemporary affairs."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1981) |
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"For fans of John Carpenter’s cult classic, MGM restores the film’s infamous first reel. An A-number-1 DVD package."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Rent The Red Shoe Diaries instead."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Eulogy confuses mean-spiritedness for signs of intelligent life."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Despite the ridiculous shocks to the system and the unbelievable amount of male frontal nudity, Eurotrip is actually rather genteel."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"Eruotrip barely made a blip at the box office, but DreamWorks does right by it on this DVD edition in the supplements department."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Just skip to track 9 and watch as Pierce Brosnon grabs on to the head of a nun and threatens to kill her. The rest is sleepy-time material."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"The story is scarcely grounded in the mechanics of real-world expression."
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Los Angeles Times |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Like Stephen Daldry's The Hours, Evening's pseudo-intellectual tone hardly disguises its presumptions about female identity."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Shot on crummy DV and told via flashbacks, the film largely plays out like a Reagan-era Citizen Kane."
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Village Voice |
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(2007) |
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"The performances in the film are so remarkable it's easy to ignore the implausibilities that surface. But even as its self-aware approximation of the doc format startles, Ever Since the World Ended lacks vigor."
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Village Voice |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Unlike Monster House and The Iron Giant, there's no sense of magic and danger to this bland animation, which illuminates nothing or enriches the possibilities of its genre."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Everything's Cool understands that a pretty face like Jake Gyllenhaal's in The Day After Tomorrow is sometimes necessary to sell an important story."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"not even a film as colossally absurd as Crash dares to completely sum up its entire train of thought in its one-word title, but such is the insult this 2005 Oscar nominee from Sweden commits."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1979) |
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"The Evil Dead still feels like the punchiest horror flick this side of a Dario Argento gialli."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1979) |
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"The disc more than does justice to Raimi's seminal horror film."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Sometimes a fart joke is just a fart joke and sometimes a fart joke manages to transcend mediocrity."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Every history book has a mundane chapter you don't want to study that will still be covered on the final exam."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Johnnie To's Exiled is a flabbergasting spectacle of kaleidoscopic violence that abstractly appraises codes of masculine honor."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"For our information, Fernand Melgar's Exit attempts to dispel misconceptions surrounding euthanasia."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The film pits spirituality against secularism in a court of law, defending each side with such righteous, calculated equal-opportunity."
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Slant Magazine |
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