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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Shakespeare's Othello meets Columbine in this messy little teen drama."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Soderbergh is so cool he can make anything go down like fine wine."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"A DVD package as smooth as the film it preserves. Buy some wine, a nice suit and a ticket to Vegas."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"A deeply moving, orgiastic examination of the contours of memory and a country held under the spell of an Orwellian form of mind control."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Off the Map evokes cave paintings coming to life."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"The only thing bad that can be said about the arrival of Offside to video is its lousy DVD cover art."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Tragedy spectacularly laced with hope."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The suffocating Oldboy’s existentialist angst promises sophisticated returns only to spiral into callous Identity territory."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Oliver Twist isn't the nasty affair Polanski fans might be hoping for."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"The film is a noble failure, but I can't imagine anyone coming to it for the first time wanting to take their eyes off it given the visual splendor of this disc."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"As a genre exercise, it’s a ringing success, but the film lacks subtext."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Features one of the most personable collections of supplemental materials amassed for a major DVD release in quite some time."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Li speaks and acts entirely too much here."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film finds its footing whenever Johnny Coleman, professor of African-American Studies and Fine Arts at Oberlin College in Ohio, speaks openly about Wagner's troublesome images and the appeal those images have for whites."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"While the film's stalker subplot is rote, Williams (typically calling attention to himself) nonetheless makes for a fascinating, albeit second-rate sex-pervert."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One to Another cannot be appreciated without some measure of guilt."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The film's middle stretch is an unmistakable tour de brute force."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"According to the supplemental materials, the French just can't get enough of Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The story's funny familial crisis takes on the dimensions of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"It also helps that Costner doesn’t allow the hurt inflicted against his oppressed free grazers to approach the wearisome political correctness of his Dances With Wolves."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"When Susan wonders if it’s scarier seeing or not seeing the sharks around them, she may as well be talking to the audience."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"A resonating portrait of millennial angst that ultimately amounts to little more than a preposterous guessing game."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1991) |
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"Argento's Opera is a film of rare beauty, a celebration of love's absence and the ferocious force of the gaze."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"These stories of heartache, confusion, and anger combine to form a gallery of art that illuminates the conundrums of warfare and testifies to the philosophical instincts of the American soldier."
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Village Voice |
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(2005) |
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"A flawed work about prostitution and a frayed mother-daughter union in Israel that's at least worth a rental."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"When the director fails to conflate the film's sexual unease with larger social issues, Or (My Treasure's sexual paranoia begins to reek of exploitation."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Good for a Saturday night with friends though not one for the permanent collection."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Jake Kasdan (son of Lawrence) directs Colin Hanks (son of Tom) in Orange County, a Wonder Boys for the teeny-bopper sect."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"The Order preaches that “Sunflowers are a beautiful mistake, like you and me.”"
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Blood in. Blood out. Eye roll."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Half-baked Cuban burlesque that goes heavy on the camp."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Rips off horror classics as far back as The Innocents to as recent as The Devil's Backbone, stripping them of their vibrant emotional connotations."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Uno, dos, tres, throw this shamelessly derivative and inhumane freak show in the trash%u2014no matter how intensely its image and sound may deceive."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"If Pappas's aesthetic is on the rudimentary side, it's more than made up for by his sheer force of will."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"A terrible audio transfer, but check out the film and witness the resurrection of Maria Falconetti in the eyes of Marina Golbahari."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"May seem redundant after Jafar Panahi’s more structurally impressive The Circle or Mohsen Makhmalbaf’s absurdist Kandahar, but it’s no less powerful."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"“Name That Dookie” could be the funniest game to make its way onto a DVD."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Until someone figures out a way of truly subverting what's already been subverted, cartoon stick figures like Austin Powers and Johnny English will never feel fresh, even when they're actually saying funny things."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The Others evokes a hierarchically-informed spirit world where chaos and acceptance is par for course on one's way to supreme enlightenment."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Buena Vista's The Others DVD lacks meat for a two-disc set but who cares when the film looks, sounds and haunts this good?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Our Brand is Crisis looks to remind well-meaning people like Carville and Rosner to put the humanity in brand marketing."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"A lovely ode to women, sexuality, creativity, and New York City."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Benny's Video of documentary films, Our Daily Bread's only point is to have none.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"In Schroeder's careful hands, Colombia becomes a mythic land where the successful delivery of drugs to the US becomes cause for celebration."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"As if conceived during a Dukes of Hazzard shooting hiatus, Out Cold may be retro but it's sans daisy dukes."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Suggests a Folgers Crystals commercial with a body count."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Because Carl Franklin’s clever, slow-to-burn thriller speaks for itself, fans of the film may not care that the supplemental materials collected here are not up to par."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Out of Time is no less inconsequential than Matchstick Men but works hard to make the audience part of its con and not a victim of it."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Outfoxed is effective at undermining the no-news-all-screaming FOX News Channel and giving it a taste of its own medicine."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Outsider doesn't have the edge of a race-conscious James Toback film."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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