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9/100 |
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(1979) |
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"Think Animal House meets the Revenge of the Nerds and you have the essence of H.O.T.S.’ plot."
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Apollo Guide |
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(2007) |
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"An origin story that, sadly, has less in common with Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs than it does with Hannibal and Red Dragon."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Firode's drones aren't so much victims to fate than they are passive believers in chance."
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(2005) |
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"It's French, it's sexy, and Johnny Deep makes a cameo. Your female roommate will love it. Mine did!"
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Happily N'Ever After exists to reward anyone who's delighted in the destruction the Shrek franchise has waged against our fairy-tale memories."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Though uneven, this genre-defying creation's spectacle is still never less than awesome to behold."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"George Miller, who hasn't made a movie since the brilliant Babe: Pig and the City, allows the behaviors of emperor penguins in deepest Antarctica to reflect our contemporary political anxieties."
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(2006) |
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"The disc's extras are, umm, featherweight, but the film remains darling."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This is the kind of tripe that wouldn’t get past a junior editor at a publishing house."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This gangly brunette is bananas, and the music on the soundtrack is perfectly in sync with her kooky mode of social expression, so that she suggests Mary Pickford as well as Polly Jean Harvey."
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4/4 |
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(1992) |
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"A master stylist, Woo is similarly brilliant at examining the moral and social hierarchies of his patriarchal crime worlds."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Goes from being appropriately child-like to simply childish."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Proves that wise-*** minority kids are far cooler than potty-mouthed white kids."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Since Hardball will play better with younger audiences, the disc's meaty extras might go unsung by their little ears."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Harry's latest adventure has enough snakes, mandrakes, phoenix tears, Cornish pixies, climaxes and denouements to scare the J.R.R. Tolkien out of you."
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(2002) |
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"It’s an elegant package that should keep creepy Potterheads busy for hours."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"This is a must-own for keepers of J.K. Rowling's flame."
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(2004) |
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"The shortest Harry Potter film to date, Prisoner of Azkaban is noticeably slim in the extras department."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Anxiously paced and happily embellished, The Prisoner of Azkaban trades in conflict of the internal variety. It's also the first Harry Potter film worth a damn."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"As far as stuffy Oxford dramas go, Harry Potter has them all beat."
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The only thing missing is Roberto Benigni doing his best Sammy Davis Jr. impersonation: "Here comes the judge!""
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"After she walks off, Daddy tells his son, “Whack your own spider!”"
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(2003) |
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"Who would have thought that Buena Vista Home Entertainment would do right by The Haunted Mansion but not Kill Bill: Volume 1?"
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Fidel Castro's revolution didn’t break the backbone of a naïve Cuban population—it merely put an end to interracial shagging."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The pointlessness of this exercise is surpassed only by its rank misogyny."
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Head of State is only concerned with false election results which, in the end, makes it that much more useless."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like the film’s alterna-pop soundtrack and pop cultural references, Head-On is self-consciously badass."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"What is the purpose of Headspace and for whom has it been designed?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Sentimental without being mawkish."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Begins as a dryly limp satire of corporate culture and ends as cruel and unusual punishment."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Noble yet vague, Hearts in Atlantis is slight yet beautiful to look at."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Heaven is a haunting dramatization of a couple's moral ascension."
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68/100 |
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(1973) |
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"Ralph Bakshi's cartoon Heavy Traffic ferociously mixes in live-action elements, tracing the schizophrenic journey of a struggling cartoonist through a crippling 70s New York City."
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Apollo Guide |
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68/100 |
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(1973) |
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"The merit of this film is debatable, in light of its ferociously schizophrenic amalgam of live-action and cartoon elements set within the context of a rather inconsistent storyline."
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Apollo Guide |
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3/4 |
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(1973) |
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"...deliriously perverted..."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A liberating response to the problem of transsexual shame."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"David Mamet's films regurgitate every clever quip he's collected on bar napkins throughout the years."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"HellBent is a gay slasher film with gorgeous bodies on display, but it lets us know that it has a brain as well."
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(2005) |
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"An inadequate image and audio presentation of the one of the finer horror films to ever come out of the closet."
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(2004) |
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"Hellboy has a little bit for everyone, from comic book aficionados and muscle queens to fans of Gerald McBoing Boing and Selma Blair’s icy glare."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"I’ve never laid an eye on Mignola’s comic, but I know a good del Toro film when I see it."
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(2008) |
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"Give me the first Hellboy any day, but it's always fun to see the new creatures Del Toro comes up with for his netherworlds."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Helvetica makes a game attempt to understand how typefaces have been applied to contemporary modes of information and how battle lines have been drawn about their usage."
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(2005) |
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"It's easy to imagine a better Herbie: Fully Loaded had Grace Jones's "Sex Drive" blared during the film's racing sequences."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Better than the film's soap-operatic flashbacks, familiar slogs through Cautiva terrain, are the story's playful, unpretentious observations of culture-clash and assimilation."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Hero is elliptical, radically disjointed and female-empowering. Everything a wu xia should be...and then some."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The extras are scarce but Quentin Tarantino’s, err, Zhang Yimou’s Hero gets the video/audio treatment it finally deserves."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The Hero is unassuming and confidently directed for a first feature."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Hey, Happy! is great for stoners, queens, ravers and, yes, parties."
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(2000) |
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"Imagine a queer live-action version of Super Mario Bros. with Sean Hayes as Bowser and you’re not even close to approximating the delirium of Noam Gonick’s Hey, Happy!."
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