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(1964) |
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"Poetry meets propaganda in Mikhail Kalatozov's delirious tribute to the Cuban revolution."
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MSN.com |
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(1964) |
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"Politics, propaganda and poetry are whipped into an exotic cinematic cocktail in Mikhail Kalatozov's delirious tribute to the Cuban revolution..."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2007) |
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"Will Smith is the sole uninfected human left in New York and he is magnificent in the film, teetering on the edge of sanity as he scavenges the city for food..."
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MSN.com |
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"...two hours-plus of numbing melodramatic nothingness drowned in the sticky, sweet syrup Sam loves so much on his waffles. This has more than even he could choke down."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"Director Tim Fywell, a veteran of British TV drama, executes his work handsomely and self-consciously."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1999) |
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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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(2007) |
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"It's a return to the dreamy style of Tsai's studies in urban alienation and social disconnection, in which feelings often are suppressed and words are rarely spoken..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"[Paul] Rudd, the most valuable player in many an Apatow supporting cast, is likable and funny and brings perfect pitch to the comedy of off-key awkwardness..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"It's kind of like "Tootsie," only without the drag. Or the class. Or the laughs."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1932) |
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"Behind the deft comedy and spirited performances of the two boys is a rather somber engagement with the compromises adults make to the demands of the social order."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Hodges cuts the film like a diamond, but it's just an exercise in cut glass, an impressive surface that only looks tough."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"A minor film with major pleasures from Portuguese master Manoel de Oliviera..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"Haynes delivers a song-cycle of a movie: vivid, exaggerated, contradictory impressions of a man who confounds a culture looking to peg him with a definition."
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MSN.com |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"It's so rich with ideas and visual details and imaginative gestures that you can lose yourself in the cinematic musings."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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9/10 |
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(2000) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"Think of it as "The Jungle Book" with a case of frostbite."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"The exposition is lazy and sloppy and the story has little creative heat."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"... the understated humor is nicely played by Cusack and Thornton..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1997) |
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"Lee's chilly recreation of a stormy Thanksgiving weekend captures a culture in snapshot..."
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MSN.com |
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(1969) |
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"... plays like Jean Vigo's Zero for Conduct reinterpreted by Jean-Luc Godard."
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MSN.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"... a haphazard collection of spare movie parts cobbled together in a pale imitation of better-animated comedies."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2006) |
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"Crafted with a budget-minded luscious sense of period detail to distract from the rudimentary direction and clumsy screenwriting..."
[movie review] |
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GreenCine |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"The questions are more interesting before Harris answers them in all-too- neat explanations that come off as a cheap, painless way to solve problems with much deeper roots."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"The cordial company of the characters and the snappy wit of the script make Ol Parker's British romantic comedy the equivalent of comfort food a pleasant cinematic snack."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2001) |
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"[Murnau] creates great dramatic tension and an ominous mood in the stillness of his compositions and the lugubrious movement of his actors."
[movie review] |
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Parallax View |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"(Giuseppe) Rocca fills the film with his exquisitely crafted images and the dreamlike cinematography of Antonio Grambone, but never connects emotionally with the characters."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"It's a smart, savvy and satisfying Hollywood comedy set in the real world of economic survival, family responsibility and grown-up decisions with real consequences."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... a simultaneously hilariously and terrifyingly convincing model of how modern statesmanship must work."
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Seanax.com |
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10/10 |
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(2001) |
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"In the Mood for Love is a film sketched almost entirely in suggestion, at once Wong's most deftly cinematic work and his most aloof."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"... it doesn't hurt to have Tommy Lee Jones driving the film with a beautifully realized performance."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"Armed with a script informed by the actual experiences of refugees and a production shot on location in Pakistan, Iran, Turkey, Italy, France and Britain with convincing verisimilitude, (Winterbottom) seems to spin raw experience."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"Matt Damon is a constant churn of gee-whiz earnestness, righteous indignation, nervous exasperation and self-aggrandizing swagger..."
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Seanax.com |
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(1977) |
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"The mix of Italian genre violence, antihero cynicism and exploitation twists (they just happen upon a gaggle of skinny-dipping babes toting machine guns?) gives it a punchy energy..."
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MSN.com |
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(1977) |
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"It's a platoon thriller laced with the anti-hero cynicism of spaghetti westerns and the lurid violence of the post-Wild Bunch era..."
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Seanax.com |
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(2009) |
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"Is there another American filmmaker who takes such joy in telling stories and spinning cinematic spells as Quentin Tarantino?"
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"... focused on giving the film a palpable threat of potentially fatal consequences and the characters an emotional foundation."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2006) |
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"If you are willing to lose yourself in Lynch's sensibilities, you'll find a hypnotic and richly textural experience..."
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MSN.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Those willing to give themselves up to Lynch's sensibilities will find a hypnotic and richly textural experience that challenges them to make their own connections through the imagery, echoes of repeated dialogue and metaphor."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"... haunting and hypnotic fairy tale... with a distinctly European sensibility... lovely lingering scenes that cast a spell over the almost abstract story."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Mandoki's most potent film, made with anger and indignation, but his passion is all too often lost in the mix of earnest direction and dramatic familiarity."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Bailey and Barbato draw a convincing line between the social and political atmosphere of the film and the culture wars of today. The issues are still very much alive."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"Nolan bravely treads where few American films dare to delve -- into the world of ambivalence and ambiguity..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"... creates the same world of devils and innocents that grounds so much of Spain's modern, seeped-in-Satanic-evil horror, recast in a secular cinematic vocabulary."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"... better, smarter, more sophisticated than its American counterparts, more clever in its tangle of narratives and less showy in a visual style."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"... for all its impressive set pieces and breathless momentum, it's neither passionate nor urgent."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Pollack becomes so caught up in the machinations of plot that he allows the politics to boil down into simplistic mush."
[movie review] |
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St@tic Multimedia |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"A few scenes crackle with... intensity. The rest of it wallows in glib acrimony and cynicism."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"Sean Penn's adaptation of Jon Krakauer's nonfiction book is a bracing cinematic plunge..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(2007) |
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"Penn throws you headlong into the romance of his journey and the buzzing thrill of his quest..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Director Cherie Nowlan creates vivid personalities for the entire family and exposes the raw nerves of the biting humor."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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