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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Though not the best film version of Bizet's famous opera Carmen, Mark Dornford-May's Berlin Bear-winner from 2005 may be among the most loyal."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Explicitly, the film is pure fluff, a competently detailed catalog of Lennon's political ambitions told in the visual shorthand of the VH1 rock-doc."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Anyone who owns Rattle and Hum knows that U2 is a great live act, but what's the point of U2 3D beyond simulating a front-row view of one of their concerts?"
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2/4 |
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(1995) |
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"Angelopoulos' film is lyrically evocative but painfully self-important."
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4/4 |
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(1929) |
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"Though Un Chien Andalou is a rich composite of symbols, Buñuel refuses to allow his symbols to speak for themselves."
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(1929) |
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"17 minutes that forever changed the face of cinema, Un Chien Andalou finally makes it to DVD on this nice Transflux Films release."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is not nearly as willful or poetic in its abstraction, dangling enough stray bits of context over audiences' heads to help us get by but still leaving both us and itself caught in a confused lull."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film has an excellent pedigree, but when it poops it stinks of a Tim Allen movie."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Unborn in the USA will not change your mind about abortion, but it will make pro-choicers think differently about people who actively work to stop it from happening."
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Dreary though spiritually sound."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Seeing as the film lacks momentum and its position remains mostly undeterminable, the director's experiment is a successful one."
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Though convinced it’s helping people to rediscover their roots, the film succeeds only in planting corn."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is so opulently and noisily aestheticized it gives the illusion of being smarter than it is, though it benefits from some endearing performances."
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A CGI-laden Frankenstein built from spare pop cultural parts, existing only to pander to an ADD-afflicted demographic of teenage boys."
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4/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Rampling continues to reinvent sexual desire."
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"In bombarding Frances with endless coincidences, Wells sweetly celebrates the mysteries of life and those little forks in the road that so many of us ignore or take for granted."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A witty piece of genre deconstruction that's curiously drunk on pomo knowingness for both the mofo mystique of 70s blaxploitation and the mojo bull**** of James Bond."
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4/4 |
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(1995) |
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"Emir Kusturica’s tragic-farce Underground may be the most important film of the last 25 years."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"This 90-minute dud could pass for Mike Tyson's E! True Hollywood Story."
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(2002) |
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"Just in time for Christmas, here's something special to give to that special lady in your life looking to scratch that seven-year itch."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Softcore porn poet Adrian Lyne knows good sex."
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.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Sundance twaddle of the highest degree."
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(2004) |
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"As self-centered as its title, The United States of Leland is—to quote the great Brittany Murphy—“music to cut your wrists” to."
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The cesspool around the Saw franchise has spilled into the Indiewood projects not far from where first-time director Simon Brand fires off this Hollywood calling card."
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(2003) |
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"If you don’t buy this DVD for the lousy video transfer, at least buy it for the critics quoted on the cover (wink, wink)."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Unknown Pleasures, Jia Zhangke's haunting follow-up to Platform, tracks various stages of underdevelopment."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Adam Hootnick's Unsettled will not bring peace to the Middle East, but the documentary's goodwill is a corrective to Morgan Spurlock's repulsive Where in the World is Osama Bin Laden?"
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A more interesting exposé would have elaborated on the dreams of film schoolers and how Singer's ostensibly privileged upbringing gives him an advantage few in his league ever get."
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Yet another soulless adaptation of Choderlos de Laclos's Les Liaisons Dangereuses."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A painful reminder that reparations still need to be made for what whites have done to blacks in this country."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"It's fitting that the film itself is torn between its affections to the shrill Yentl and grim Boys Don't Cry."
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(2005) |
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"Unveil Boys Don't Cry instead.
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(2009) |
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"Disney's decision to make a bunch of additional Up behind-the-scenes goodies available only to Blu-ray owners reeks of cruel elitism, but even if this two-disc DVD feels lightweight, the film itself does not."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Per usual, the nuances of human relationships are conveyed via Pixar's predictably acute attention to detail, coded in a mysterious evocation of mood."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Popov himself emerges as the story's villain, a schmuck with the personality of a TV anchorman and the common sense of Troy Duffy."
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(2004) |
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"A powerful humanist statement that isn’t to be missed."
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(2003) |
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"“Well, I say, Lady Sassaflas, would you like some crème fraiche to go with your darling pastries?”"
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Or maybe the film is so fun because we actually get to see Dakota Fanning slap the living **** out of Brittany Murphy at Coney Island."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The directors compromise a subtle and clever argument with a tacked-on discussion of the collapse of the Twin Towers."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Pity that the story behind the making of Ushpizin is more interesting than the film itself."
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2/4 |
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(1995) |
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"The Usual Suspects has always kind of sat there, hoping that you'll love it for its twist ending."
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(1995) |
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"A top-notch DVD package from the folks at MGM Home Entertainment."
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