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(1984) |
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"Until MacGyver and Alf season box sets hit stores, Gen Xers will get a nostalgia kick out of this V: The Complete Series DVD."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Va Savoir is a relatively labored offering from Nouvelle Vague auteur Jacques Rivette."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"A fierce little spooker with screwy notions of how to salve a wounded relationship."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film aspires to the splendor of The Living End and Totally F***ed Up, but Verow's passion and talent, unlike Gregg Araki's, is not equal to his ambition."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Valentín sometimes feels less like a film than a really good sitcom that isn’t afraid to leave things a little untidy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"I love the color blue on the DVD cover but were the haloes—not to mention the tagline “Cupid Just Turned Eight”—really necessary?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Valiant is the DVD of the year for parents who hate their children."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1970) |
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"a pyscho-sexadelic celebration of soft-core lesbianism and vampire lore."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The video is good but the audio is spectacular. Beware though: You may need a hearing aide when you’re done."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"More or less superfluous, Bhukya's impeccable dancing skills at least offer a reprieve from the story's amateur show of social inquiry."
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Village Voice |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A masturbatory pop culture thriller that only services Cameron Crowe's fondness for rock n' roll."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Vanilla Sky, Cameron Crowe's trip down pop culture lane, gets the kind of ethereal DVD treatment it so deserves."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Tony Gatlif's Vengo whets the soul with its gypsy moans and lucid imagery."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Venom begins as a promising vision of small-town discontent only to succumb to the worst tendencies of the slasher teen genre."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Like any good Leigh film, Vera Drake is about the nature of family, which is the same thing as the nature of humanity."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Why is Blanchett so red on the DVD cover? Is it because of all the blood on everyone’s hands, or is it because Guerin used to drive a red car? You decide."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The image is gorgeous, the sound is astonishing, and the supplemental materials are solid."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Delivers less insight into the psychology of why young girls turn to prostitution than HBO's Hookers."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Vicky Cristina Barcelona is basically the most arrogant film of the year, an occasion for Allen to feign interest in challenging heteronormic ideals when all he's doing is advancing a simplified view of female sexual agency."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Anyone annoyed by the film’s faux-feminist message should be equally annoyed by the interactive menus straining to give the fluffy, bare-bones features collected here an airport-themed context."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"This blasé hodgepodge can’t decide whether it wants to be a romantic comedy or an absurd send-up of believe-in-yourself inspirational dramas."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Coppola's adaptation of Jeffrey Eugenides's novel is both tender and devastating."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1961) |
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"More than 40 years after its original release, Viridiana remains one of the most shocking films ever made."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1961) |
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"A solid Viridiana package in spite of the fact that The Criterion Collection has yet to get a critic (ahem) to write about Buñuel who is as irreverent as the director himself."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Argues that nearly 60,000 United States armed forces wouldn't have lost their lives in Vietnam had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated. Duh."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Visitor's allusions to our f----up state-of-affairs feel like gratuitous background noise."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film pushes an off-putting message about unchecked privilege that reeks of capitalist pigdom."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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"Anyone who can powerfully evoke the ecstasy of lovemaking with a shot of gently falling snow is a talent to watch."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Coming back to Volver is to be reminded of Pedro Almodóvar's unmistakable genius."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Mildred Pierce won Joan Crawford an Oscar, and Almodóvar's quaint riff on the Michael Curtiz classic may do the same for Penélope Cruz."
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