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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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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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(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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(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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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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(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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(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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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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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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(2007) |
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"This is crap! Ha-ooh! Ha-ooh! Ha-ooh!"
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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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(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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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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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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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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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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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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(2006) |
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"A Scanner Darkly looks sweet but it's scarcely penetrating."
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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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(2001) |
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"This is the meatiest a DVD edition can get sans director's commentary."
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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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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance."
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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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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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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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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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(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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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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(2009) |
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"It's no Superbad, but Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart's sterling chemistry make Adventureland worthwhile."
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(2005) |
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"It fluxes all right%u2014from bad to the total pits."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Even if you refuse to play Belvaux’s Choose Your Own Adventure, do not ignore these performances."
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(2004) |
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"Kudos to Brett Ratner for at least acknowledging that the film’s gay jokes are cheap—doesn’t make him any less of a ****, but still."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The wunderkind Jensen's scripts are all schematic and prone to stock characters, but they are soap operas after all, and After the Wedding is beautifully performed by its eager cast."
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(2004) |
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"Anyone looking for a “woodwind buddy”? Look no further than Agent Cody Banks, who can’t play the clarinet but is only to happy to learn."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A multi-layered demonstration of living in almost perfect harmony."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The only reality here is that truth is slippery, and that’s something Broomfield understands more than most documentary filmmakers working today."
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88/100 |
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(1980) |
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Click here to see the review!
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(1992) |
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"If you’re addicted to crack, you don’t want to miss Robin William’s shrill performance in this 1992 Disney monstrosity. It’s a great deterrent."
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(2004) |
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"“I remember…the Alamo,” says Pee-Wee in Tim Burton’s Big Adventure. Now Comes Hancock’s The Alamo to destroy the man-child’s memory."
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(2004) |
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"Strictly for women who complain about being treated badly by men but don’t care if they’re as cute as Jude Law."
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(2001) |
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"A flawed film about boxing's greatest heavyweight gets a lightweight DVD treatment."
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4/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Ali’s terse speaking matter is ripe with aphorisms, but it’s also another way for Fassbinder to evoke the suspended animation of his character’s lives."
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3.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Possibly the closet American relation to an Italian giallo."
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(1979) |
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"Unless David Fincher ever decides to talk about Alien³, this 9-disc set is pretty definitive. Mostly."
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2.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"The much-maligned last part in the Alien quadrilogy should be approached as the comic book actioneer that it is."
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(1986) |
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"The Director’s Cut of the film hauntingly amplifies Ripley’s disconnect from her dead daughter and her relationship to the young Newt."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"She's all-powerful, a voice for a pop-cyber culture that feeds on her Bjorkness."
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4/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Pedro Almodóvar's best film to date, a heart-breaking paean to femininity, the maternal instinct and the thirst for drama."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Thanks to Ice Cube, Benjamins feels an awful lot like Friday in Miami."
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(2003) |
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"Too bad the disc’s video transfer doesn’t do Tim Orr’s cinematography justice."
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