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(2008) |
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"Oliver wants to defend restorative justice, but his interest in this form of victim-offender mediation registers only as an afterthought."
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Village Voice |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Icíar Bollaín's Goya-winning Take My Eyes approaches the horror of domestic abuse from a uniquely critical angle."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Would that Morel had infused the project with the same variety of style he brought to District B13, but the subtle insights of the script and Neeson's splendiferous range more than pick up the slack."
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(2008) |
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"You may appreciate the ballsy critique of a nation's callous obsession with development and reconstruction."
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Village Voice |
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(2004) |
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"Four not-so-“probing” documentaries highlight this Taking Lives DVD, which should appeal only to fans of Angelina Jolie’s boobies."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"If the Naqoyqatsi-lite score by Philip Glass doesn't exactly make sense of the film's sketchy identity politics, it does complement its utter ridiculousness."
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Village Voice |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Unnervingly conflates fairytale lore with the angst of adolescent sexual development."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"You will never see anything like it in your entire life, but I'm not exactly sure it should ever be seen outside first-time director Andrew Wagner's living room."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Almodovar suggests the need for spiritual invention regardless of the nature of one's crippledom."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"The director never imposes his reading of the film on the spectator, but I can’t imagine a full understanding of the film’s treasure trove of allusions without this commentary."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Oliveira announces A Talking Picture as a journey into aesthetic and philosophical unknowns."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"A fascinating film but Manoel de Oliveira fans may be the only ones up to its challenge."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"A nutty collection of features highlight this tight Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Boby DVD."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"By film's end, the only rape that remains is that of words and memories."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A kaleidoscopic found-art project that looks to redefine the nature of documentary filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"From Bagram to Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo, Gibney cunningly traces links up and down the chain of command, exposing how the White House has given more than tacit support to inhuman methods of detention and interrogation."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"All this helps to shape Pálfi's crudely bombastic but impressive philosophical view of the body as landscape and art, a source of personal discovery, wonder, and annihilation."
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Village Voice |
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(2004) |
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"You saw Brother Bear and Home on the Range in theaters but skipped the truly subversive Teacher’s Pet? Here’s your chance to fix that."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Don't miss the unrated puppet sex scene. It's the ****!
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[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Though good for a few laughs, the one-note Teeth is just another trite rape-revenge fantasy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"If anything, see it for Karen Black, who camps up a storm as a fringe feminist conspiracy theorist named Dirty Dick."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A thriller-chiller that is as shamelessly predictable as it is memorably grim."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The key achievement of this minimalist statement is that Kiarostami conveys these truths with nothing more than a simple two-camera setup and a series of naked emotions."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Ten Canoes is more homily than film, an educational exaltation of Australia's Aboriginal past."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Holy ****alukadingdong, stoners, Tenacious D in the Pick of Destiny makes a very attractive premiere on DVD."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1976) |
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"The Tenant isn’t so much a psychological portrait of grief as it is an unnerving acknowledgement of the ambiguous nature of the world."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1976) |
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"One of Polanski’s greater efforts gets a handsome transfer on this DVD edition, but the lack of supplemental features counts as a major disappointment."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"I suppose it's easy to laugh at some of the film's tragic moments because Departon likens the legal system to a form of human theater."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Despite the fact that one feature on this DVD actually has the nerve to threaten us with termination, this is a pretty un-dorky two-disc set."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film reimagines the Adam and Eve myth but with a post-industrial edge and a distinctly feminist slant."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Scarcely an exposé, Terror's Advocate is more plainly a portrait of a man as a timeline."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Tetsuo and Fetishist's transformation into Iron Man becomes a response to the machinization of the individual in a systematically regimented Japan."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Not only is this useless “revision” ignorant of history, it panders to its modern audience with look-Ma visual brouhaha."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Even if you don’t think the film deserves this Platinum Series package, you have to admit that New Line knows how to cater to its audience."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The cows have it hard in Texas Rangers (a.k.a. Dude, Where's My Cattle?)."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"For him, art was the strangest thing: a studied pose of personal expression and sexual abstinence."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1977) |
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"From Un Chien Andalou to That Obscure Object of Desire, Luis Buñuel spent almost 50 years cataloging the frustrated romantic desires of his characters."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"It's Hemingway meets Kustom Kar Kommandos as Alain Guiraudie sets latent homosexual lust against greasy metallic parts."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Together, filmmaker and subject pave a symbolic path toward healing that is an inspiration to us all."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"The image and sound, like the hearty collection of extras, are fit for an Oscar-winner."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Polar Express's CGI effects are more frightening than endearing, another artificial composite of the film’s “blockbuster” agenda."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Tiger's Tail, like Cassandra's Dream, prominently features a boat that is both symbol of financial attainment and emotional ruin; it also finds a master filmmaker defying the "show, don't tell" principle with almost crippling cynicism."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the least understood movie monsters is the pronoun."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dialogue is a blunt-force trauma in Hunt's directorial debut, which behaves like some avant-garde theatre production where all the stage directions are spoken aloud."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Crammed to its oil-slicked rafters with highly stylized forms of art direction, cinematography, performance, dialogue, and music. All that's missing from it is a sense of humanity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"When pronouns attack."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Maybe the release of Romero's Land of the Dead will bring some needed attention to this avant zombie flick hitting DVD shelves the same week."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A triumph of internal horror."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"With Mother's Day and Father's Day on the horizon, is there a better way of showing the people who brought you into the world how much you hate them with their very own copy of The Thing About My Folks?"
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"From the sweltering, acrobatic sex to the bone-crunching suckings and slayings, Tae-ju's angrily orchestrated mayhem rhymes perfectly with Chan-wook's voracious style."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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