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A |
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(2008) |
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"... the resolution is neither neat nor expected. True to [director Jonathan] Demme, it's honest and generous and very human."
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(2008) |
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"Blood spurts, limbs fly, and bodies are machine-gunned to pieces and blown into mulch, lots of it aided by gory CGI flourishes, in his brand of gunboat diplomacy."
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MSN.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"(T)his dense, dynamic documentary... takes on the high drama and difficult moral quandaries of Adolf Hitler's campaign to plunder the great artworks of Europe..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"... hearty and tasty, created from fresh ingredients and cooked up with unexpected flavors and dashes of spice, and it leaves a satisfying and inspiring warmth when it's done."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1917) |
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"[Fairbanks] lands in a cauldron of royal cloak-and-dagger intrigue and faces it like a two-fisted American increasingly exasperated by the assassination attempts."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2008) |
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"Truth and guilt and responsibility are not just themes here, they are topics of debate and we keep returning to the seminar and the courtroom to hear those debates."
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Parallax View |
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5/10 |
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(2000) |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1949) |
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"It certainly makes for the purest and most impossible love of [Max] Ophuls' films, and for me, the most emotionally compelling."
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(1955) |
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"The transfer is so vivid that the balloon seems to pop from the screen, glowing luminous red against the gray of Paris streets and skies."
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MSN.com |
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(1965) |
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"The final collaboration between director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese icon Toshiro Mifune is one of Kurosawa's most ambitious, personal, and heartfelt films."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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6/10 |
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(2000) |
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"The smartly engineered story may be enough to satisfy cerebrally starved science-fiction fans, but sadly Red Planet fails to engage on almost every other level."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"A loving tribute to Hong Kong stuntmen by one of their own."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1998) |
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"It's breathtakingly gorgeous and almost comically clichéd, which [Francois] Girard's humorless direction only exacerbates, but the Oscar-winning score by John Corigliano is wonderfully alive."
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MSN.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Redacted is as much a cinematic experiment as a movie, a deconstruction of our ideas of objectivity, subjectivity, and the way we relate to screen characters."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"I sounds crazy when you say it - David Mamet writes and directs a martial arts drama - but it’s a superb match of sensibility and genre."
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"What is revealing here is the heretofore unseen civil-rights movement, small but dedicated, that began in the 1960s behind the Iron Curtain."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"The screenwriters dig themselves in deeper every time they toss logic and science into what is essentially a "Dungeons and Dragons" fantasy with modern military weaponry..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1949) |
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"... the strangest of genre mixes, a costume crime thriller with a continental setting and an American pulp sensibility."
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Seanax.com |
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(1936) |
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"[Alexander Korda's] direction tends to be stiff and stagy but he showcases his magnificent sets and costumes and his detailed period recreations beautifully."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"It's the novel side that fails, a convoluted, futuristic detective thriller."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"... it probably cost less than the catering budget of average Adam Sandler comedy and, in its own hit-and-miss scattershot fashion, it's about as funny. At least when it hits."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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6/10 |
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(2000) |
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"An entertaining game, but strictly minor league."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1965) |
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"Polanski doesn't explain, he just explores with imaginative detail, eerie imagery... and clinical detachment as the fragile girl slips into helpless madness."
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MSN.com |
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(1965) |
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"... a masterfully conducted portrait in madness..."
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Seanax.com |
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(2007) |
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"Herzog doesn't talk politics but they hang over the film... while the escape drama is pure Herzog."
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MSN.com |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"... the latest cinematic proposition that apocalyptic disaster doesn't bring out the worst in people, only the stupidest."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Less a zombie movie than a big-screen gaming experience."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Bonnie Hunt's directorial debut is a flyweight heartwarmer brimming with winning characters."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"Takashi Yamazaki doesn't have style as much as momentum, which keeps the film rolling right through the whiplash changes in tone from giddy cuteness and shameless sentimentality to brutal jabs of indiscriminate murder and mayhem."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"These are performances - and lives - lived in quotation marks."
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(2007) |
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"Revolver looks like a gritty gangster thriller and plays like The Matrix with an incoherent stream of spacey psychobabble."
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MSN.com |
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(1931) |
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"... a mature exploration of personal disappointment and longing for a fantasy that doesn't exist and an adult confrontation of wandering affections and romantic betrayal..."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"... a colorful, bustling recreation of 1906 Moscow and an unexpectedly uneasy view of this people's revolution."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1954) |
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"The resulting film, with its wildly inconsistent acting styles and loopy dialogue , borders on camp classic."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Not extreme enough to skate the edge of tasteless farce and not straight enough to play the material for edgy satire, The Ringer is a cheat right down to the final stretch."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1959) |
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"... one Hawks' greatest films, perhaps his masterpiece, and one of the finest westerns of all time."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(1976) |
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"... a classic door-slamming sex farce with a '70s twist of big, broad, hearty gay stereotypes and Rita Moreno as a flamboyantly talentless singer..."
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MSN.com |
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(1999) |
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"...factual details aside, Ross and Logan make the history live. "RKO 281" is no Citizen Kane... but in its own way it pays homage to Welles and his film..."
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Nitrate Online |
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6/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Road Trip is sure to elicit giggles and hoots from crowds of teenagers with its succession of gross-out gags and sexual humor, but this is one teenage tour that never gets up to speed."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1987) |
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"Behind the black comedy and explicit violence is a sci-fi satire that posits big business running city services like a factory, complete with downsizing and cost cutting."
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MSN.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"The film -- like Green himself -- steps back from the teacher to see the apprentices take center stage and earn their applause."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2001) |
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"...this "Almost Famous" wannabe is as naive and simple as Wahlberg's copycat gone large..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"That sociopolitical history is more interesting than the standard hero-worshipping biopic clichés of Richard's struggles against adversity..."
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MSN.com |
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(2008) |
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"... it is kind fun, in a junk-food crime fantasy sort of way."
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Seanax.com |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"Sharply written and confidentially directed, the feature debut of Dylan Kidd is the kind of character study in romantic cynicism that actors live for. (Campbell) Scott savors every word..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"In this brand of comedy, nothing succeeds like excess, and this film is seriously deficient."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"... a shamelessly familiar concoction of dramatic cliches that recalls everything from Saturday Night Fever to Strictly Ballroom to Bring It On."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"... a silly, stupid, incoherent mess."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"The film doesn't flinch from Polanski abhorrent crimes... But that's only half the story."
[dvd review] |
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Parallax View |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"The film walks a fine line between contempt for Polanski's crimes and sympathy for his trials and his screwed-up psyche, and it manages both..."
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