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B |
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(2008) |
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"[Nacer] Khemir, a poet and a painter as well as a filmmaker... uses the endless, timeless desert landscape to create an existence in which past and present coexist."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"... an attempt to confront and challenge the legacy of cultural images based on killers, gang-bangers, and womanizing studs..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Writer/director Michael McCullers... pacing is poor and he doesn't know how to showcase the small-screen chemistry of Fey and Poehler on the big screen."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"Straczynski is a better writer than director... and despite the fine visual effects it all feels constrained by the low budget."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1956) |
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"... John Farrow's 1956 aviation disaster thriller turned jungle survival drama is in fact a faithful remake of the director's own 1939 Five Came Back."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Backseat satisfies itself with small observations and minor breakthroughs of self-awareness."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"Uncompromising, unpleasant and emotionally brutal, this twisted love story of emotional bondage is oddly compelling."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"... there's a sly wit to the way the filmmakers mix and match and upend genres."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Fetishizes the very actions it pretends to decry."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"With his patter kept in low gear and his dramatic scenes played with flat sincerity, [Foxx is] simply not compelling enough to center the film."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1959) |
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"... a simple, poetic tale where the sentimental streak and patriotic idealism common to the Soviet formula is humanized with vivid characters and tender direction."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"... the cinematic equivalent of a miniature, a piece carved out of the stories of three troubled and damaged souls..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"The story would qualify as your basic spy opera... if there was any feeling to it, but the film has no more engagement than a big-screen video game"
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"... an unusual angle on the era, and a passionate paean to the power of books, ideas and art."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"... the sometimes awkward, sometimes easy interactions of former national enemies who don't speak the same language but manage to find common ground nonetheless."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"The thuddingly blunt epic is obvious and intermittently clumsy... yet winning in its own charmingly naive right."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"... a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Roger Donaldson... juggles a complicated story with oodles of peripheral characters without dropping a subplot."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2006) |
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"... transforms the drama of a young man caught between revenge and inaction into a dynamic tale of naked ambition and bold conspiracies in the chaos of China's Tang Dynasty."
[dvd review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"The faces of its inarticulate characters tell the story, and Majidi has put some amazing faces on the screen."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"For all of the snappy verbal sparring and romantic complications that embellish the film, it is ultimately about community..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"A funny, spirited film driven by the band's sense of humor and energetic performances."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"[T]he culture of juvenile pranks and misdemeanors and a nightly hoedown that combines a Vegas casino and a cattle-town country bar is more appropriate for older kids..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(1999) |
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""The Basket" is woven from such promising threads that you wish it was better."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Some audiences will find it an endurance test and Reygadas doesn't make it easy with his confrontational imagery, but he provokes emotions not often explored on screen."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1959) |
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"... a visually splendid and narratively pedestrian space opera, short on character and plot but full of great miniatures and dramatic effects in a film packed with spectacle."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(2008) |
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"[Director Stuart] Townsend believes in the politics and the passion of the protesters; he makes their concerns heard over the media noise focused on the spectacle of conflict."
[movie review] |
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GreenCine |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Townsend's efforts to be honest to the spirit of the event carry the film through its sloganeering and familiar backstage dramas."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"If there is a delicate story of forgiveness, friendship and family buried somewhere in Erica Beeney's script, Potelle and Rankin haven't managed to find it under the throes of empty rebellion and painless triumph."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Part martial-arts revenge parody and part faux zombie spectacle on a field of nightmares, and directed in the overripe, hysterical style of Japan's anime farces..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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5/10 |
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(2000) |
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"The plot depends on the most ludicrous decisions and senseless actions ever made by a thinking race."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1925) |
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"Eisenstein orchestrates the film like a visual symphony, enhancing the movement of the action on-screen through the rhythm of the editing..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"He's a sweet guy, sure, but he has all the romance and personality of a hot-water bottle, and so does the film..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"It's less a story than a slice of life cut out of an ordinary afternoon and Gholam Reza Ramezani captures the obstinacy and ego and self-absorption of childhood without sentimentality."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Director F. Gary Gray makes good on the characters... but he misses the lilt and attitude of the original film and never really finds his own rhythm."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"For Michel Gondry, [the film] becomes a kind of folk art spin on Hollywood gloss and a tribute to his own preferred style of filmmaking..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"... a kind of communal folk art spin on industrialized moviemaking and an affectionate tribute to our relationship to the movies of our lives."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1939) |
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"This is the great romantic adventure of hard men, loyal comrades and the fraternal love and sacrifice of brother who risk everything to protect each other..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"[It's] trying to add a feminist twist to the spate of Britain's bloody gangster thrillers and never quite succeeding."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"The cookie-cutter plot is little more than a frame for the chemistry created by personalities tossed together in the cozy shop."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1964) |
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"... what seemed majestic and theatrically impressive back then feels plodding and stodgy today..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1998) |
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"(A) genial, funny, but far too flippant little comedy."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Weekly |
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(1951) |
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"... you might be surprised to discover that the modest little comedy is actually an enjoyable piece of light entertainment."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"This well-meaning mistake gets lost in the metaphors."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"... guys in lederhosen and Tyrolean hats with mincing mock-German accents, American can-do spirit in the face of overwhelming beer consumption, and gratuitous sight gags."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Paints Arenas as little more than an abstract, idealized vision."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Romantic, real and as generous as it is vulnerable, the art of conversation has rarely been so acute, honest and revealing."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"Director Sidney Lumet digs deep into the tawdry souls, peeling back the layers of arrogance and anger and self-delusion until all that's left is fury and fear and hate."
[movie review] |
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MSN.com |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"... the coming-of-age military drama is... the same old drill driven by brutal master race fervor."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"[Santosh] Sivan makes it all quite beautiful with verdant imagery and tastefully melodramatic direction, but at the cost of emotional and social ambiguities"
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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