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(2008) |
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"... a modest but well-observed respite from the clichés."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Beneath the desperate bad behavior of Squires' aging hippie and Luke's tentative steps to connection is a story that rings with the authenticity of lived experience and earned life lessons."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1950) |
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"It's as gentle and warm a film as [John Ford] ever made and it follows a classic Ford theme: the creation of a community in the west..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"... don't watch this film unless you have a high tolerance and an undemanding appreciation for penis jokes..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"... a tartly enjoyable slice of romantic comedy served up with a dramatic bite."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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""Waking Life" is "Slacker" remade as a navel-gazing series of monologues, structured like a Bunuel dream farce and run through a computer paint program."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"... built on the premise that middle-class Arkansas consists of monster truck-loving good ol' boys and peroxide blond honeys whose worldly knowledge comes from TV reruns and supermarket tabloids."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"... it's more silly than clever, quoting Ray and Walk the Line (among other biopics) as Dewey morphs through country, R&B, rock, folk and other musical genres."
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MSN.com |
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(2007) |
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"[Woody] Harrelson is marvelous as the cultured Carter, playing a vain man without a trace of actorly vanity, but the murder mystery and conspiratorial complications are clumsy..."
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MSN.com |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"WALL*E, an animated robot love story with an environmental message and a slapstick delivery, is a charmer of a film and a delightful piece of storytelling."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1972) |
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"It's a minor but fun piece of seventies genre cinema filled with loud suits, melodramatic complications and a camera that zooms in to hardened faces..."
[movie review] |
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Parallax View |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"ou either go with the fantasy and enjoy the impossible acts of kinetic creativity or get stuck in the preposterousness of the premise and the flippant execution."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"No distractions, no theatrics, no colorful personalities, just an efficiently produced documentary with a simple, direct and compelling argument."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"Wasabi does its job colorfully and entertainingly, as long as you don't lean too hard on such niggling details as logic, legality and the laws of physics."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2009) |
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"Watching the film again, this time less wedded to the original graphic novel and more open to the temporal storytelling of the film, I found it a more satisfying experience."
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Seanax.com |
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(2009) |
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"The fans have gotten the adaptation they deserve. Is it the one they want?"
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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8/10 |
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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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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Kilner's light touch keeps the romantic pair dancing around their romance without tripping, but as the film reaches the inevitable happy ending, the steps look all too familiar."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Though he's foggy on the specifics, Angelopoulos makes the tides of history felt through each painterly frame."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"You can feel the restlessness in the repressed emotions and unspoken passions of the characters, but exactly what they yearn for is not always clear."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Malcolm D. Lee directs in the semaphore approach to comic performance: playing every gesture big enough to be seen from miles away."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"... tender, tough and uncompromising, photographed with a disarming directness and seeming simplicity..."
[dvd review] |
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Parallax View |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"This is survival, revealed in all the blunt details of a documentary portrait and the simple power of [Michelle] Williams' unadorned, Oscar-worthy performance."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"... harmless, amiably entertaining and completely pointless."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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F |
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(2007) |
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"A shrill cacophony of puerile clichés about men and women and sex, delivered in adrenaline-driven harangues and arrogant lectures. When the stage clears, all that's left is the unpleasant odor of all that hot air."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"It's like a "Big Chill" reunion of the Baader-Meinhof Gang, only these guys are more harmless pranksters than political activists."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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7/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Each story climaxes in inevitable clashes and shrill shouting matches."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2001) |
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"It simply isn't that funny or clever. For a comedy, that's about the worst that could happen."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1919) |
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"Based on a scenario written by Fairbanks himself, it's a strange and surreal comedy..."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(2009) |
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"It's as honest a tale of being a child as you'll find on screen..."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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(2009) |
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"[Drew] Barrymore... embraces the self-expression of this riot grrrl-style roller derby tale and fills the film with team spirit and high energy."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"... feels like a feature-length sketch: Some Like It Hot with a white-face twist."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"The leaping story line, shaped by director Peter Kosminsky into sharp slivers and cutting impressions, shows all the signs of rich detail condensed into a few evocative images and striking character traits."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1979) |
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"... a scrappy, vibrant musical portrait painted in the bold colors of rock itself: impassioned lyrics, power chords, crashing drums and smashing guitars."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"(A) misfired exercise in recycled crime movie clichés..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"It may sound like a downer, but Paine turns it into a call for action."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1989) |
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"... one of the most physically beautiful films ever made, sumptuous and sensuous, full of delicate and quiet imagery."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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(1939) |
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"Running a brisk 75 minutes, the lightweight comedy is a silly little distraction with charming moments."
[movie review] |
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Director Steve Spaz Williams, a former visual-effects artist, misses the exaggerated body language and visual quirks, let alone distinctive and unique features, that is animation's essential element."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1966) |
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"Roger Corman's The Wild Angels took the outlaw culture of the biker movie into nervy, nihilistic territory."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"... as gorgeous and conceptually curious a misfire as you'll ever see."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1933) |
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"It's a cinematic blast of anger and outrage and exasperation sprung from the immediacy of the depression."
[movie review] |
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Parallax View |
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(1969) |
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"... a spurting blast of pulp and poetry choreographed into a ballet of violence."
[movie review] |
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"... low octane comedy running on fumes."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1995) |
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"... shows great sensitivity toward the difficult ages of adolescence and creates a subdued, elegiac portrait of both the pleasures and the pains of growing up."
[dvd review] |
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MSN.com |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"... has the modesty of a savvy, smart drive-in movie with Hollywood studio polish and a movie buff's loving care."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"... resembles a romantic comedy the same way freeze-dried rations resemble food. It has the same ingredients, but lacks the taste and texture of the real thing."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"It's unmistakably the work of aging cinema activist Ken Loach, who wears his social-justice heart on his sleeve..."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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10/10 |
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(1999) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"There isn't a spark in the familiar emotional situation or a reason to care how these amiably bland characters end up."
[movie review] |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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