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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"...a surprisingly deft little ensemble piece with performance gems, unexpected intimacy and a sneaky sense of humor."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"There's nothing subtle in the symbolism of this operatic melodrama, in which emotion overcomes reason... (but) that runaway passion is also what drives the film."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A- |
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(2001) |
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"Energetic and inventive, it's a satirical, smart, grown-up thriller."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"This grass-roots solution is revolutionary, in the most basic sense of the word, and the filmmakers want to celebrate it as much as they explain it..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... a focused and refreshingly straightforward thriller that forgoes the usual high tech confusion and contrived high-concept twists so often laid in to surprise audiences."
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Seanax.com |
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(2009) |
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"This is surely the calmest and warmest portrait of chaos I've seen on screen..."
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Seanax.com |
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"... one of the best and most haunting of the recent Asian horror films."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Autobiographical or not, the frankness and family hysteria of this rolling therapy session gets awkwardly intimate and at times tough to endure..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1951) |
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"For all the spectacle, it is more abstract than involving and the film never pumps with the blood of romantic passion that flows through so many Powell movies."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Feels like cinema's grand old man is leaving us a legacy with grace and compassion."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"The imagery is joyous, delightfully imaginative, serene and beautiful, and ultimately enchanting."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1976) |
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"Martin Scorsese's searing portrait of loneliness and violence on the mean streets of New York remains one of the quintessential films of 1970s American cinema..."
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MSN.com |
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B+ |
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(2000) |
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"... this pop-art confection both spoofs and celebrates the crazy conventions of movie melodramas and genre cinema with pure affection."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"It's hard to say what is more upsetting: the atrocities of a brutal African dictator's militia against innocent Catholic peasants, or the victims of that genocide becoming background figures in the story of the platoon's moral quandary."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1928) |
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"Director Sam Taylor... guides this gorgeous costume drama like he was a master of the epic form..."
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Seanax.com |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"... a marvelous tension between the formal design and the improvisational style."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"... low-wattage power slide down a yellow-brick road of thrash cliches, stoner skits and music-video parodies"
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"[Raymond] Depardon puts a microscope on human behavior under pressure and comes out with both a social study and the greatest people-watching documentary in ages."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1984) |
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"Gritty, clever, breathlessly paced, and dynamic despite the dark shadow of doom cast over the story, this sci-fi thriller remains one of the defining American films of the 1980s."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"... in a summer of comic book super-operas dense with psychological torment and sprawling well over two hours, the unpretentious efficiency of Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines is refreshing."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"... little more than big machine spectacle with a little lip service paid to humanity, identity and free will, which are not exactly themes so much as plot points."
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Seanax.com |
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(2009) |
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"Even the most deftly executed scenes are smothered in the Oedipal weight of past betrayals while they struggle to support the operatic melodrama that unfolds."
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Seanax.com |
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(1988) |
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"Filled with wild stop motion effects and brilliant conceptual horrors, this is a horror film for the modern technological world."
[movie review] |
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St@tic Multimedia |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"... a sly, smart and very funny caricature of corporate politics and image culture."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1941) |
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"... the most gracefully directed and dramatically engaging film from British film impresario Korda, who generally directed like a producer."
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Seanax.com |
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(1996) |
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"... a bouncy, energetic, affectionate bit of 1960s pop-music nostalgia..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"... less a movie than a marketing event: a feature-length promo for the upcoming TV series and video game tie-in."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"The framing sequence is a bit glib but the camp scenes are vividly realized..."
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MSN.com |
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(1958) |
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"The film shifts tones and rhythms almost uncomfortably..."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(1948) |
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"... one of the great films of innocence lost and a powerful portrait of the powerlessness of children in the adult world, where they are so often ignored or discounted."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(1950) |
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"... a genre hybrid: a psychological Western by way of a gothic melodrama, with a dark, shadowy style right out of [Anthony] Mann's earlier film noirs."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"... another low-budget effort from filmmakers who mistake cleverness for smarts."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1942) |
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"If There Was a Father celebrates obedience as a virtue and duty the highest calling on the surface, there is an ambiguity in Ozu's tone."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2007) |
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"... reworks the American entrepreneurial success story as an elemental frontier myth, roughly hewn out of the landscape that is remade in its wake."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1940) |
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"... an amazing world for the fantastical wonders of flying carpets, mechanical horses and a 50-foot genie with a bellowing laugh."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1974) |
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"(Robert) Altman creates a folk tale populated by characters more oblivious than naive, shot in the bright light of day... with a clear-eyed gaze..."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1998) |
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"... one of the richest and lushest films ever to emerge from Hollywood."
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Seattle Weekly |
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(2007) |
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"... at times morose, but the tale of healing is directed with compassion and a powerful, sometimes discomforting intimacy."
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MSN.com |
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9/10 |
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(1949) |
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"Reed rises to the challenge of Graham Greene's screenplay."
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Seattle Weekly |
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(1949) |
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"... one of the most beloved of movies of all time, a crisp, clever, witty, yet serious international thriller, with a dramatic ambiguity and a satirical edge."
[dvd review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2009) |
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"Park hits all the classic vampire themes in a loose, often meandering narrative..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"... despite the raw gut-punch of its direction, its power lies in compassion, not sensationalism."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1981) |
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"The 1981 documentary begins with awkward recreations of Elvis' early life but soon turns into an excellent introductory portrait of the country boy turned rock and roll phenomenon..."
[movie review] |
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MSN.com |
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(2007) |
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"This portrait of identity in Thatcher's Britain vividly recreates the youth culture of Ben Sherman shirts and Doc Martens boots."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1984) |
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"There had been countless documentary spoofs before This Is Spinal Tap, but this inspired put-on was the first to actually capture the texture and style of real documentary."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C+ |
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(2000) |
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"It's the strangest collision of lessons I've ever seen in a kid's film: Believe in magic but respect the work ethic."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"... the most impressive directorial debut the American cinema has seen in some time, a contemporary western both rough and poetic, laconic and passionate."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"[Nuri Bilge] Ceylan keeps the cascade of mistakes and mishaps... off-screen. His camera stays on the actions and reactions of his characters in the wake of the repercussions..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"The style is pure Hou: richly textured atmosphere, tiptoeing camerawork and long, languorous takes of scenes full of privileged moments of human activity."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1931) |
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"It's a lavish production and it shows in every frame, yet [director G.W.] Pabst is also true to Brecht's political commentary and social satire."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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