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(2004) |
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"If you are buying this DVD for the actual movie and not for Pat Benatar’s “Love is a Battlefield” music video then there’s no hope for you."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"In 13 Going on 30, women are allowed happiness, but only if they choose the right man."
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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 story may be slight but Salazar's sparkling tribute to an alternative lifestyle and unconventional female beauty is liberating."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Manon on the Asphalt is a whimsical evocation of a woman's life flashing before her eyes, but On the Line is the real standout here."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like In the Mood for Love, 2046 is gorgeous through and through, intoxicating even, but not necessarily in a good way."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"21, in which Kevin Spacey lecherously sizes up a line of female strippers at a Vegas casino, now serves as the greatest testament to the man's talent as an actor."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film's images are whorishly cluttered with religious iconography and spiritual rhetoric but González Iñárritu hardly allows these codes to mirror a collective humanity’s existential bewilderment."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Seven Up scene-stealer Neil Hughes becomes the series' tragic figure in 21 Up."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1985) |
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"There’s no place like home, except who wants to come home to this?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Not your average Spike Lee joint but still a sensitive evocation of one man’s moral crisis set amidst a city’s even bigger one."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"A solid audio transfer and a nifty collection of supplemental materials (including three alternative endings) highlight this DVD edition of Danny Boyle’s solid genre spooker."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1984) |
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"The 14 subjects of the “Up” series came together as a group only twice, and by the end of 28 Up, three have dropped out of the project."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"This high profile anthology of shorts by Fruit Chan, Park Chan-wook, and Takashi Miike is related by their chilling structuralist rigor."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Each of these stories is a hissy fit of heinous proportions, one progressively worse than the other: all end on a sickeningly satisfied note of irony, tied together with hectoring narration that suggests a yuletide story."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The attention Kim pays to the spirit world is obsessive and alluring, but his view of flesh-and-blood women and victimhood is still a problem."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"This is crap! Ha-ooh! Ha-ooh! Ha-ooh!"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1993) |
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"The remaining participants grapple with disillusionment, their reconcilement of the past, and their relationship to their own children."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The misunderstandings are all thankfully low on the "Three's Company" scale while Hartnett and Sossamon's chemistry is undeniably potent."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"An underwhelming DVD package though the film's rock-solid look and sound should appeal to anyone hooked on Hartnett's package."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Two subjects acknowledge their conjoined lifeline, become best friends, and as a result a life is forever changed."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"These films affect their subjects not unlike they do their audience, serving not only as reminders of our mortality."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The Farrellys use the grotesque to illuminate human frailty while filmmakers like Peter Segal stoop low in order to validate their characters."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bono need not appear in a film for his massive-sized ego to be felt."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1970) |
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"The flashbacking technique employed throughout the Up series is part of each film's dialectic approach and is alternately compelling and cumbersome."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"The must-own DVD of the year for pop culture junkies and nostalgia wankers."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"As a vanity project, the film is more tolerable than Purple Rain but it's every bit as obvious and redundant."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"But while he reduces them to moving Barbie dolls, Ozon clearly loves his women. Or, as much as a catty drag queen can."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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"Strictly for anyone who ever wanted to know what it would be like if Chris Columbus directed El Topo."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The title of the film refers not only to the Jersey Girls' vigilant demand for truth but to the media's own refusal to push for truth after 9/11 for fear of retribution from higher powers."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A grim reminder that not everybody loves Raymond.
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"A Scanner Darkly looks sweet but it's scarcely penetrating."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A film that is as haunting as it is painfully messy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"This is the meatiest a DVD edition can get sans director's commentary."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"In burying elements of behavioral psychology below a dozen different shades of blue, Gaghan draws attention away from the fact that there's a trick pony at play here."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Certainly not a keeper but the good news is that now you can quickly fast-forward to the best parts in the film: every scene with Melanie Lynskey as Creepy Library Girl."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Its identity posturing is considerably less potent than that of Chutney Popcorn's."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"The documentary never finds the appropriate rhythm to match the severity of its subject matter."
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Village Voice |
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(2001) |
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"A splendid package from First Run Features for a little-seen gem perhaps best savored on a rainy, introspective day."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Paul Krik would prefer if we all compared his feature-length debut to the practically minimalist The Parallax View, but Able Danger is really a hipster version of Soderbergh's inane The Good German."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Schmidt is a credible creation yet Payne's contempt runs synonymous to that of his native son's."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"The film's contempt spills over into the inside of the DVD case, where a Childreach advertisement claims that you can “Meet the REAL Ndugu!” before asking you to donate money to a starving child in Africa."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"For the Wilson newbie, this puff piece will suffice as an introduction."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1951) |
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"Not unlike Fritz Lang’s equally misanthropic Scarlet Street, Ace in the Hole plays the squashing of one man’s human spirit for societal-weary gravitas."
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Slant Magazine |
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25/100 |
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(2000) |
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"Surprisingly low on camp, Active Stealth is mostly hindered by an abysmally slow pace and a virtually non-existent plot."
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Apollo Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Fails to congeal into a heady structural puzzle, or into a particularly affecting exercise in female empathy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Chester cleverly conflates the personal trauma of the titular couple's 18-year-old incontinence nightmare with the national horror of 9/11."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"It’ll take you at least double the crummy film’s running time to get through the DVD’s genuinely cute Dukesberry interactive wonderland."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"A noxious, flippant mix of snark and biblical allegory."
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Village Voice |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Watching Adaptation evolve into something profound, if not entirely complete, is certainly beautiful to behold."
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