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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Napoleon Dynamite's racism was unmistakable, Nacho Libre's less so, subverted as it is by Jack Black's comic humanism."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Nancy Drew is almost charming when she's out snooping in the boonies, but she doesn't make a whole lot of sense nosing around Hollywood wearing Bree Van De Kamp's hand-me-downs."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Everyone gets a cute nickname, a means for this amateur anthropologist to protect the innocent and maintain some semblance of objectivity while advancing tired stereotypes of what it's like to be made in Manhattan."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"For those who think there'e nothing funnier than yokels acting like idiots for 90 minutes straight."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Reggio and Glass put on an intoxicating show."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Joe Carnahan’s genre pic gets an equally nifty sound and video transfer on this DVD edition."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Like Slackers, Super Troopers and last year's Wet Hot American Summer, Van Wilder is nostalgic for the gross-out yarns of yesteryear."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"National Treasure knows how to keep things moving but I was more entranced by the DVD's interactive menus."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Courtesy of Catherine Hardwicke, The Nativity has become the most boring story ever told."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1958) |
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"While the film itself remains a subtle attack on religious naivete, the director would never be as mindful of the possibilities of spiritual healing as he is here."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Sucks to be Nearing Grace on the same week that Zerophilia also opens."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Think Braveheart Down Under—an impossibly masturbatory, unilateral act of hero worship."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The film isn't very good, but it's refreshing to see a director tell a story without the familiar noise of blinking lights and stringy-haired nymphets."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Do you say "hi" to your lover when you wake up in the morning?"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Never Die Alone might just come to replace Showgirls as the nation's premier midnight-movie howler."
[movie review] |
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"Not only should DMX not be allowed to act but he also shouldn’t be allowed to rap on commentary tracks."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Pure bliss, Malick's incantatory New World suspends us in time--regardless of how long it runs."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The exquisiteness of The New World and how it reveals itself to its audience is flabbergasting...like a heretofore unknown cave painting impeccably preserved except for a few spots here and there eroded by time and nature."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The biggest cinematic human rights violation since Bad Boys II."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"For foot fetishists, the highlight of this New York Minute DVD is the bloopers section that shows Ashley going for Marky-Kate’s foot with her mouth."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"After the sleekly aggressive audio-visual assault of Déjà Vu, Next's B-movie-ness is almost charming."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"This may just be the funniest Dickens film ever mounted for the screen."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Charlie Hunnam’s banal turn as Nicholas Nickleby may be the only disappointment of Douglas McGrath’s sweet and old-fashioned comedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The smoke that powers the film's narrative is a whole lot of hot air."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1955) |
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"Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter is the character actor's now-classic jab at godliness gone awry."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Nothing's at stake, just a twisty double-cross you can smell a mile away--still, the derivative Nine Queens is lots of fun."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"An unfortunately slim DVD package for the best Oscar top-dog since Clint Eastwood's Million Dollar Baby."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Charles Ferguson has designed No End in Sight to sink in."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"No Man's Land may end with an honest blip yet its history is remiss."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A meditation on solace and the promise and beauty familial togetherness.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Noel manages to get considerable mileage out of a series of unpredictable and nutty spiritual flights of fancy."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Andrew Horn compellingly chronicles Ziggy-Stardust-cum-Dieter avant-gardist Klaus Nomi’s ability to tap into a missing link in the New York music scene."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"This may be the best Behind the Music special you'll never see on VH1.
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[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Single-mindedly and calculatedly devoted to conveying a relentless feeling of sexual terror, Caro's crusade of righteous indignation misrepresents the hostility of the world."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Finally, a movie to bring lovers of bad soap opera and aficionados of golden showers and scatting together at last."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Meticulously designed for those who like their movies with turtlenecks and cappuccinos."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A film's always in trouble when it has more screenwriters than cast members."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In the end, it probably doesn't matter if you think Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is in fact a documentary, because the film's psychoanalysis is dull and reductive."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"While it opens a rare window into an unconventional life, this portrait of an artist as an old woman is prone to strange distractions."
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Village Voice |
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(2006) |
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"This smirky ask-nothing account of Bettie Page's life won't give anyone a rise, good or bad."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Gloriously straight from the vagina."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Taking a cue from Memento, Novo positions a flesh-and-blood man’s short-term memory as a kind of moral invisibility cloak."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"About as exciting as dry humping a dentist's chair."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Shows genuine compassion and understanding of faith and culture clash."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Stuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuupid."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Largely coasts on shots of kids being adorable and parents behaving badly, but the film occasionally, if somewhat accidentally, proves illuminating."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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19/100 |
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(1991) |
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"This lacklustre effort is a disappointment even to its B-movie predecessors."
[movie review] |
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Apollo Guide |
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