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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For artistic representation, Jack Brooks: Monster Slayer gets a near-perfect score, less so for its restrained sense of fun."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"What with all the vomiting, ****ting and rampant homoeroticism, Jackass: The Movie is the closest thing the average Joe has to a prison-life simulation."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"For fans of MTV's now defunct "Jackass" series, the best thing that can be said about Jackass: The Movie is that it offers more of the same but with an NC-17 twist."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"It should be a snoozer, but the soundtrack makes it impossible to doze off.
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"An abysmally contemptuous and pointless portrait of a drifter's need for a bit of homespun fame."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"For those with a hardcore Asian fetish, Sue Brooks’s multi-culti harlequin romance is now available on home video."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The film should easily appeal to anyone who’s never met an Asian person in their life."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Given how strongly the film insists on striking its testosterone pose, Mendes might say he's too cool for political thought."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Jason X is positively anti-Darwinian: nine sequels and 400 years later, the teens are none the wiser and Jason still kills on auto-pilot."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Smith's homegrown pastiche is compact, sometimes rambling, but always hysterical."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Jeepers Creepers is an old-fashioned horror flick tailor-made for the Fangoria crowd."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Ever wanted to spend a night in Michael Jackson’s bed? Now you can! The teens giggle. Salvo talks about his Steadicam."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Even when the boys in the film do manage to put their clothes back on, it’s only a matter of time before the Creeper takes them off (amongst other things)."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Skip the film but don’t miss the awesome “old, haggard twats” commentary track by Kevin Smith and Ben Affleck.
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Can't decide if you want to remake 400 Blows or The Piano? No prob—recreate both as one film!"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1970) |
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"Recorded one month before Jimi Hendrix's death, Murray Lerner's Blue Wild Angel is a time capsule celebration of one of rock n' rolls most vital figures."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Jonathan Demme's Jimmy Carter Man From Plains, like Neil Young: Heart of Gold and The Agronomist, is a poignant portrait of a great man."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Neutron's relatively conflicted, walking an awkward line between the absurd and the downright lame."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Ripe for repeated viewings, this one is a definite keeper for the young ones."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Joe Nobody becomes Joe Somebody after he gives it to the man."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2002) |
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"It's tough being a black man in America, especially when the Man has taken away your car, your work-hours and denied you health insurance."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Joshua might have been delicious if it weren't so blatantly hateful toward women, queers, and religion."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"John Dahl's Joy Ride is a hick thriller tailor-made for the Scream crowd."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's Capraesque centerpiece is built from a series of fuzzily developed narrative threads and flip pieces of ominous detail."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"One could say Shimizu begrudges historical perspective in favor of pandering to a hip audience’s short-attention spans."
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Slant Magazine |
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65/100 |
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(1992) |
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"A Hitchcockian moment in an elevator is perhaps the film’s signature set piece."
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Apollo Guide |
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(1962) |
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"More than 40 years old, François Truffaut's whirling dervish remains an ageless beauty."
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Village Voice |
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(2008) |
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"A dizzying, camptastic explosion of pulp-realist aesthetics and performance, Julia wins Tilda Swinton another Oscar in my wildest dreams."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"The most humane statement we have about blue-state/red-state tensions."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Junebug is the older, wiser sibling of home-for-the-holidays family melodramas like Pieces of April."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"After last year’s Return to Neverland, Disney continues to hawk its straight-to-video titles on the big screen."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Director Fisher Stevens inexplicably dips key moments from the film in Waking Life water colors."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Brings to mind a sitcom family sitting around the couch reminiscing via a lazy clip montage."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film brings to mind the good and bad of two other courtroom documentaries, 10th District Court and Sisters in Law."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Juwanna Man is rated PG-13 for "Lil' Kim's booty not included.""
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Slant Magazine |
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