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(1959) |
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"... a monster movie horror within a cop crime drama, with detectives investigating a drug ring where all the suspects keeps getting dissolved."
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Seanax.com |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"Sly, inspired material."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"When Plympton's freak flag flies, Hair High delivers the same whacked-out weirdness of his shorts. The rest of the film simply stretches out the simple premise..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"To borrow a phrase from Waters' original movie, it's got a good beat and you can dance to it."
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MSN.com |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"Just to clear up any possible confusion, the title actually refers to Steven Seagal's latest action film, not his gasping-for-air film career."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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8/10 |
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(1998) |
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"H20 returns to an almost slasher film purity: innocent horror movie fun , a lean, sharp thrill ride that delivers scares rather than gore."
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Nitrate Online |
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B+ |
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(2000) |
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"Fresh, vibrant and vital, this interpretation reminds us why Shakespeare is timeless."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"... where [director Peter] Berg makes it work is by refusing to sacrifice the integrity of his characters for an easy ending."
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Seanax.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"The most adult of the new wave of superhero dramas."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Not just a bad film, Hannibal Rising is downright dull, which is a far worse crime."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"All it lacks is wit, character and laughs."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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8/10 |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
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Nitrate Online |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"...for all the black humor of this deliriously bizarre fantasy Happiness is a warmhearted film about sacrifice, support and four generations of family togetherness in face of mounting corpses."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"Anderson is a hopeless romantic in a cynical world, and for a brief moment he makes the case that true love is the only power that can crack time and space."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1992) |
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"The ballet of violence has never been so outrageously or beautifully choreographed."
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MSN.com |
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(1997) |
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"... a grandly realized and skillfully executed melodrama that seems all too familiar."
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Seattle Weekly |
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(2008) |
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"... pure farce, a crazy comic adventure that sends the stoner buddies on a getaway road movie through a raunchy obstacle course..."
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MSN.com |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Just when we thought the stoner comedy was a hazy relic of the past, along comes a new farce that has every hallmark of having been written while under the influence."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"The fifth Harry Potter book is one of the most distinctive in the series, and first-time big-screen director David Yates... makes it a distinctive adaptation."
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MSN.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"... never manages to find a story in the unfocused, rambling piece, merely cautionary lessons and a scared-straight message."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"The special effects display is so lacking in imagination it turns into so much noise, just a flashy distraction from the stiff, stock cliches of the by-the-numbers script."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"... even as the prosaic script gets lost in the intoxicating fantasy of the bloodless revolution, the hot heartbeat of the music drives the film with pure energy."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"Welcome to the tawdry end of paradise, where no melodrama is too obvious and no conflict too contrived."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"This plodding, overlong film is like an awkward first date with an attractive setup whose heart isn't in it: polite, dull and seemingly unending."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"... undeniably inconsistent, but when Rock hits he's dangerously funny."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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6/10 |
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(2001) |
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"It's hard to make a romantic thriller click in the best of circumstances, and this one takes low aim at a young audience weaned on gross-out gags."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"... shapeless, excessively lurid and often unpleasant, with Argento shamelessly vamping the white-trash junkie mother and truck-stop hooker."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2001) |
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"Inspiring without sinking into sentimentality or cliche, "Hearts of Atlantis" is intelligent, heartfelt and genuine, a rare story of childhood for adults.
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1991) |
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"It's a mesmerizing portrait of a production spiraling out of control in the face of personal upheavals and natural disasters, and a filmmaker struggling to hold it together..."
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MSN.com |
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(2008) |
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"It has the look of an ambitious made-for-DVD production inexplicably given a theatrical release."
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Seanax.com |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"... underplayed sense of humor, a few devilishly macabre touches, and memorably inspired use of a glass eye..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Yimou plays his images like a visual symphony, and turns a potential costume pageant into an exhilarating national myth."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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"It's as much of a comic book as ever, with characters ping-ponging from one side to the other and players double crossing each other..."
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Seanax.com |
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(1933) |
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"The schizophrenic tone twists as much as the plot... but Wellman's gritty sensibility makes it simmer."
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Parallax View |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"...delivers few moments of inspiration amid the bland animation and simplistic story."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"... the restrained drama both punctures the mythic ideal of the samurai culture and spins a romantic portrait of one man who values principle over protocol..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"There isn't much of a story holding up the plot, just a few clever ideas that are at best slickly executed set pieces and at worst empty scares."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1952) |
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"... at heart it's a lean, dusty Western classic set to the real time of a ticking clock."
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MSN.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"... this film is satisfied merely to wallow in women in peril, cinematic sadism and the spectacle of violent death and dismemberment."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Alexandre Aja's remake is remarkably faithful, directed with the same stark, stripped-down style as the original (but with considerably more flair..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... the rare self-aware horror by an unabashed fan of the genre that works on its own terms."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(1916) |
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"Less a story than a succession of comic set pieces defined by Fairbanks' athleticism and unbridled joie de vivre..."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2006) |
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"(A) lively and witty contemplation of history, culture, learning, and the meaning of history..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Smith carries it off with his effortless charm and confidence, whether he's chatting up a woman, conspiring with the audience, or instructing a client, and director Andy Tennant gives it a light gloss and an easy lilt."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"It's a pleasure to see and hear so much wit in a big-budget comedy, and the fine British cast of supporting actors makes every bon mot a tasty verbal morsel."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"The hit video game comes to the big screen in the slick, silly action thriller..."
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MSN.com |
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(2007) |
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"Lasse Hallstrom directs with a looseness and a snap that has been absent from his recent Oscar-bait productions, and Gere sells Irving's spiel like a con man caught up in his own pitch."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1954) |
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"Hobson's Choice is a crisply directed comedy of lively and quirky characters in a vivid world of social snobbery and working-class life..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(1987) |
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"Fred Olen Ray designed the film for cult consumption and cast Gunnar Hansen (Leatherface in the original The Texas Chainsaw Massacre) with that in mind."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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9/10 |
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(1999) |
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"To call Winslet’s performance voluptuous makes a nice double entendre to be sure, but it captures the passion and emotional power she invests in the role."
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Nitrate Online |
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