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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"When Marcia Gay Harden enters scree, P.S. turns into Desperate Housewives."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"A strong commentary track by Dylan Kidd can’t help this P.S. DVD, which boasts a so-so soundtrack and questionable visual presentation."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Paid in Full is remarkably engaging despite being noticeably derivative of Goodfellas and at least a half dozen other trouble-in-the-ghetto flicks."
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Slant Magazine |
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35/100 |
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(1964) |
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"Even if the sole purpose of your film is this sort of cheap theatrics, you still need some semblance of a plot."
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Apollo Guide |
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.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Solondz fancies himself a spokesman for the socially oppressed but does to celluloid what future serial killers of the world do to butterfly wings."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Unlike The Devil's Backbone, Pan's Labyrinth's allegories are not particularly rich, but the film's fantasy sequences remain seductive pageants of spiritual and cultural nuance."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Something of a step down for Guillermo del Toro as a filmmaker and, lo and behold, he wins three Oscars."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1928) |
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"This is a stirring vision of the world gripped by a sinister moral vice--a nosedive into a carnal abyss of despair lined with visionary chiaroscuro sights and thorny mythological references."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Panic Room may lack depth but it's great eye-candy nonetheless."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film only skims the surface of the Paper Dolls' personal lives, barely tapping into the dreams that motivate them on a daily basis."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Encina's idea-driven artistry belies the quiet integrity and poetry of the script, keeping audiences at a rather clinical distance from the lives of her characters."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Paris, Je T'aime's brimming declaration of love to the City of Lights leaves one breathless but dissatisfied."
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Village Voice |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A me-me-me spectacle of unexamined grief that allows filmmaker Jennifer Elster to condescend to everyone but herself."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"As Alig, Culkin makes a complete embarrassment of himself, but the true horror of his performance is felt most whenever he shares screen time with the incredible Seth Green."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"A high-art snuff film...an unhealthy, inhuman, pornographic, masochistic torture mechanism."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A series of elegiac episodes from the life and mind of the fantabulous rock n' roll chanteuse and poetess."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The shot of Blart quietly crawling into a hostage situation inside the mall's bank and walking through a roped line is a moment of absurd grace, only it's shot with the vulgarity of a Crash Test Dummies commercial."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"It's the complete opposite of Bresson's Mouchette and the Dardennes' Rosetta: a not-so-dense or musky fog that's easily parted and forgotten."
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Slant Magazine |
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0/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Sanctimonious drivel."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Is Affleck in it for the salvation of the world or Uma Thurman's booty?"
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2003) |
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"Second-rate…no wait…third-rate John Woo. Skip this one and pop in that Criterion edition of Hard-Boiled for the real deal."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Jeepers creepers, Victor Salva is at it again. His new film is ostensibly inspired by true events, but whose events exactly?"
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Middlingly racist, humorless, and downright inept, Pearl Harbor is solely for fans of fireworks factories."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"The film may not deserve this much attention, but the work that went into this special DVD edition is evident and it certainly pays off."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Spanish auteur Álex de la Iglesia continues to show absolutely no signs of reconciling his dramatic and comedic impulses."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Stay for the nail-biting conclusion, but only if you can stomach the horror of Queen Latifah and Terrence Howard reaching career lows as manifestations of all that is cheerful and insufferable, respectively, about the holidays."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There's really only one good scene in the film: When Holly attempts to disconnect her mother's phone, her sister Zoe rides her like a horse."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"In the end, everyone learns to do the "right" thing and, essentially, fulfills his or her standardized role in society."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"I think it’s rationally impossible for anyone who scored at least a 500 on the verbal section of the SAT to want to sit though this tripe."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"The film scarcely inspires awe, but the image and sound transfer do."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Tom Tykwer's Perfume stinks."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"At once snotty and quirky, the winning Persepolis is what french fries are to the Republicans in Congress."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A minor work yet there's no denying the potency of Miller's strange, fleeting brew of hopeful perseverance and hopeless closure."
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Slant Magazine |
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40/100 |
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(1989) |
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"Aside from its blatant foreshadowing, the main problem with Pet Sematary is its hit-you-over-the-head approach to characters’ inability to “let sleeping dogs lie.”"
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Apollo Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Bloodless and impersonal."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1944) |
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"Channeling the spirit of the Russians (Eisenstein, Dovshenko, Vertov), the director uses grotesque angles, close-ups, and rhythms to suggest a powerful sense of seduction and torture."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1974) |
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"The aesthetic make-up of The Phantom of Liberty is not only uniquely its own but it's also too cool for words."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"This heady masterwork isn’t particularly easy to decipher, but it’s best approached as the literal comedy of manners Buñuel intends it to be."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Argento's lowest moment."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Phenomena (a.k.a. Creepers) provides what is alternately Argento's most batty and spiritual landscape."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"May have worked better as an 80s parable or with Larry Cohen behind the camera but it gets the juices pumping nonetheless."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"For those into disposable satire and quickie ****-jobs, you can’t do much better than Phone Booth."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"During its last hour, The Pianist achieves something that approaches near transcendence."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Michael Haneke's latest torture mechanism is less funny game than daunting debasement ritual."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1929) |
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"What’s up with the tatas on the DVD’s front cover?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1929) |
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"It’s difficult to imagine a Hollywood production allowing an Asian star to be as commanding as Wong is in Piccadilly."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1959) |
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"Every image in Pickpocket evokes the director's idea of the soul in transition."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1959) |
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"Life in 75 minutes."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Far stranger than the unnecessary air of mystery and constant telegraphing going on here is how Hedges turns disease and race into a running joke."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"While nowhere near as captivating as ABC’s “The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh,” this is a pleasant enough family diversion."
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Slant Magazine |
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