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B |
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(2006) |
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"The Dardennes' eye for detail and feel for character rhythms give it an authenticity, and their compassion and belief in redemption give us a reason to care."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2005) |
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"Tanovic turns the drama of three damaged sisters... into a full-blooded opera with performances to match."
[movie review] |
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GreenCine |
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B |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1937) |
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"... the heady, idealistic days of the French Revolution as seen from the street, through the eyes of an idealistic group of Republicans from Marseilles..."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B+ |
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(1993) |
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"Desire and sexual pleasure within the laws of religion become central to Karin Albou's quiet and moody drama, which tackles touchy issues with a respectful frankness."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1966) |
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"[Roberto] Rossellini directs less like a drama than a pageant, with a largely non-professional cast arranged like figures in a painting..."
[movie review] |
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Parallax View |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Olivier Dahan's sprawling portrait of the life of Edith Piaf is the kind of grand, passionate historical drama that no one seems to be able to pull off any more."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1961) |
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"...it's hard not to be awed by the technological leaps of this production, and at their best his gags delve in to the realm of the surreal last visited by the Marx Brothers."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"... the texture is startling: a past filtered through our most common visual window on the age."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"A sensuous film that runs close to three hours. They are gentle, peaceful hours with the bittersweet taste of a story resigned to the inevitable and hopeful for an impossible romantic fantasy that both lovers hold in their hearts."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1933) |
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"[James] Cagney is at his insolent best as the perpetual-motion wiseguy, always with a ready crack yet resilient enough to laugh at a creative insult lobbed his way."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1938) |
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"Alfred Hitchcock patented the romantic thriller with this bright, breezy confection..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"... leaves the comic-book super-villain melodrama and operatic excess of Old Boy for a conflicted story of righteous vengeance at any cost."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"...a rousing fantasy of bloodless revolution against capricious colonial rulers."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"Joe Mantegna... brings just the right tone of easy gab and tossed-off tales to this actor's showcase."
[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 the rich layering of detail in the cultural collisions and the complexity of the social politics and cultural mix that reverberates through 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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"Only when the lessons end and characters become simply individuals trying to connect and communicate in the desolate landscape of a forgotten America does the film resonate."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... an aimless romp lost in the land of juvenile humor and missed opportunities."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"... a sweet little comedy, as easygoing and warmly innocuous as the benign irony of the title"
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"... it's a pleasure to see mature portraits of adult characters who put their vulnerabilities on the line."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"... Van Sant takes an impressionistic, non-linear approach, which creates a queasy disorientation in this atmosphere of decay and deterioration."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1987) |
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"... the story of a boy raised to believe in his own divinity and a man who learns to become a simple human being against the backdrop of China's volatile history."
[dvd review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"... overlong (it's almost two hours) and unfocused, but thanks to Latifah, at least you're in amiable company."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... there is a certain raw emotion behind the film, even in the face of the minor changes, but what was transgressive then is no longer so startling now..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Iliadis is more visually sophisticated than Craven was in 1972 and works hard to sustain the mood and tension while still hitting the audience with blunt scenes of wincing violence."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2006) |
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"... the film belongs to Forest Whitaker, whose fierce and ferocious performance as Amin earned him the well-deserved Oscar for Best Actor this year."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"Muccino is honest in the emotional damage left by his immature men and passionate in his portraits of twentysomething commitment-phobes struggling against growing up."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"... a dreamy study in stillness broken by suicide fantasies, flashbacks, and the hired killers, but even the violence has a meditative even melancholy quality to it..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"The film incorporates many beliefs and in its concern for the human condition makes a case for the past and present providing lessons the future can learn in a way that is reassuring, humane, thought-provoking and entertaining."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1984) |
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"The simplistic plot and simple story work thanks to the energy and light touch of director Nick Castle."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(2007) |
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"... the marriage of environmentalist and animist themes makes for a resonant (and very timely) horror film."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1961) |
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"... a tantalizing mystery and a work of cinema as intricately faceted as a jewel."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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A- |
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(1970) |
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"Crime cinema has never been so meticulously and coolly executed..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"It has an uneasiness that recalls Rosemary's Baby and The Tenant but with a decidedly pagan bent..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2001) |
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"Witherspoon is a talented comedian who can perk up a scene just by marching in full of pep and drive."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"… wears out its eerie mood with little to justify dragging it out for more than two hours."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1950) |
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"The narration-heavy chamber piece is not a natural fit for Melville, but he finds a visual grace to match the story's perverse poetry."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1935) |
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"... the most respected and revered screen adaptation..."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2008) |
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"Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film / young love horror piece... is grounded in a devoted friendship that bonds two outcasts in a predatory world."
[dvd review] |
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Parallax View |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film is a young love horror piece full of chilly moods and twisted allegiances..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(2008) |
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"... the cinema is at its best when it's invisible and we can get lost in her amazing, funny, serious and moving monologue..."
[movie review] |
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GreenCine |
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B |
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(2001) |
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"... an emotionally restrained vision of harsh, impoverished lives, more thoughtful than affecting, and never less than gorgeous..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"If you can't predict how it all turns out, you've never seen a family sitcom."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... the latest incarnation of the forensic formula... that focus on specialized talents which, inevitably, turn out to be the ONLY tool that can possibly solve the case at hand."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"...a sharp and insightful study of (Jamaica's) foundering island economy."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1983) |
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"Life Is a Fairy Tale is a more accurate translation of the original French title of Alain Resnais' 1983 mix of drama, romance, fantasy and musical."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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7/10 |
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(1998) |
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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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(2007) |
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"... a poignant tribute to the one-time Broadway star best known to the public at large as a game-show wit and Johnny Carson guest."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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"It gets tiresome and the cast too often seems to be parodying rather than incarnating the seventies."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(2005) |
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"The writing is superb, the setting perfect working-class industrial grunge... and the performances refreshingly free of self-conscious affectation or cliché."
[dvd review] |
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Seanax.com |
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