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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"What makes it so different from the usual horror knock-off (apart from the assured way Roth builds tension and tightens the frame around his alienated "heroes") is the way he plays with cinematic imagery of psycho-killer and psychobilly thrillers."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1947) |
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"The most startling aspect of the production is the extreme poverty and squalor that he captures with his camera."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2005) |
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"... more than simply a love letter to the stylized artificiality of silent expressionist horror... the most faithful screen translation of the author's work to date."
[movie review] |
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GreenCine |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"Lacks history, background and cultural roots, but it's undeniably infectious."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"... doesn't have anything new to say. But it takes a quieter, more intently observed approach to the usual stereotypes and the texture of their experience.""
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1973) |
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"... a forgotten classic of cynical drive-in noir, a perfectly nasty seventies exploitation film with a vicious sense of doom."
[movie review] |
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St@tic Multimedia |
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(1980) |
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"... specious commentary on the manipulation of violence in news and documentary footage and the exploitation of sordid spectacle for entertainment."
[movie review] |
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St@tic Multimedia |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"... there's a temptation to call Cape a South African Crash, but it lacks both complexity and compromised characters."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1962) |
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"Unleashes Hammer's trademark Gothic style on a dynamic genre mix: part pirate film, part smuggler thriller, part shadowy small-town crime conspiracy."
[movie review] |
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St@tic Multimedia |
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A |
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(2003) |
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"This is no portrait of outrage, but of ambiguity and uncertainty."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1971) |
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"... an acerbic and, in many ways, dispiriting portrait of masculinity and male sexuality in the post-World War II culture."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2008) |
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"Allen reworks themes explored more satisfyingly in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and his writing seems lazy... yet he can still spin a compelling web from it."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(2008) |
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"Allen reworks themes explored more satisfyingly in Crimes and Misdemeanors and Match Point, and his writing seems lazy... yet he can still spin a compelling web from it."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"The film never quite shakes itself free of the tired cliché that street people are quirky, sometimes cute, and somehow privy to a spiritual purity lost to us social folk."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"... indifferent direction douses whatever conviction gave the novel its ardent following."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2001) |
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"Wayne Wang has tossed in a little technology and a lot of sex, but he hasn't anything new to bring to the conversation."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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5/10 |
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(2000) |
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[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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9/10 |
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(1998) |
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"Central Station tugs the heartstrings with the best of them."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Weekly |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"[The filmmakers'] best intentions are better realized than their filmmaking ambitions."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2002) |
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"A rare Hollywood film that deals with both the violence and the turmoil and the regret these men face when they slow to catch their breath..."
[dvd review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"... one might expect a little runaway energy or a dash of wild spirit under the antics, but there's little punchy anarchy in this controlled experiment."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1965) |
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"... a funny and tender and joyous celebration of the holiday spirit and still one of the most beloved Christmas specials..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(2007) |
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"... director Mike Nichols brings a light touch to this breezy take on "the outrageous true story" scripted by Aaron Sorkin."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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5/10 |
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(2000) |
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"The most expensive cheesecake movie ever made."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"... it resembles a movie so much that soon it demands something resembling motivation, character, a plot, anything to explain the seemingly arbitrary connections between the stunts and the skits."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2001) |
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"The politics are confused and the atmosphere is a muddy mess, a haphazard mix of continental accents and inconsistent languages..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"... a little thin for the two-hour running time, but likable enough for its schoolgirl audience and painless enough for the adults doomed to be dragged along."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"... a fluffy, flaky croissant of a culture clash comedy, barely substantial enough for a feature but just light and tasty enough to satisfy."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"... two films and a unified work with each half mirroring, complementing and informing the other."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"An overstuffed, undernourished Brady Bunch episode, only not as funny."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"... feels cobbled together by a committee fresh from a marathon of family reunion and summer camp comedies."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"(T)he chemistry of these performers makes it not just believable but almost inevitable: emotionally guarded beauties who inadvertently allow affection into their relationship."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"Finn Taylor's lark of a movie feels like two unfinished films awkwardly fused together and ever threatening to snap apart."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"... zippy and harried and bursting with whimsical images in place of story."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1997) |
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"Majidi... captures the immediacy and essence of kids: proud, emotional, spirited, and disarmingly sincere."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Weekly |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"... an affecting portrait and a strong story with a compelling backdrop, and Chinese cinematographer Xiaoding Zhao makes the gorgeous locations look magnificent."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1974) |
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"Simply put, Chinatown is one of the great films of the 1970s."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(2009) |
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"... delivers the "Oooh, that's gotta hurt" brand of Hong Kong stunts that can still make you wince."
[dvd review] |
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Parallax View |
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(2009) |
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"... the fights are terrific, tightly choreographed with a good sense of ensemble movement and shot in long takes that preserve the fluidity of the action..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"It's funny, in a twisted sort of way, but for all the perverse turns of the plot, it's a strangely familiar journey of a good guy in bad-boy clothing."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"... pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality."
[movie review] |
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Parallax View |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"The most emotionally rich and cinematically thrilling film I've seen all year, a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Arie Poser's overworked satire of social alienation is a... sour portrait of suburban hypocrisy."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2001) |
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""La Cienaga" literally means the swamp, and the film feels it: a hothouse atmosphere of heat waves and rainstorms and the mired feeling of life stuck in a social bog."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"Panahi's sensitivity to moment-by-moment sensations and the more subtle realities of the status of Iranian women that brings the film to life."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"For all the shadows and nocturnal imagery there is no darkness to the story, no fear of loss of life or soul..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Dillon directs at a lazy lope, but what he lacks in narrative expediency, he makes up for in the atmosphere of exotic squalor."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2000) |
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"...unleashes more creative imagery, cinematic mayhem and stylistic energy in that opening half hour than most films can muster in an entire feature..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Civic Duty is ultimately less psychological thriller than polemic..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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