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"The cast is simply terrific and they help roll this storyline to its intended completion. Stanford brings an inquisitive richness to his role as the Benjamin Braddock-ish Oscar, a compelling study of boy-to-manhood and all its uneasy discoveries."
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"Hysterically potent, thought-provoking and deliciously nostalgic. Overall, the proposed chatter is warranted in the movingly impish Talk to Me."
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"Bottom line: folks, save your cab fare because the frightfully foolish and formulaic Taxi is one extremely banal and bumpy ride."
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"Utterly engrossing and captivating in its inquisitive scope. Provocative and polarizing, Taxi invites us to eavesdrop on a movement of mistrust and mischievous mayhem"
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"Armed with an offbeat intelligence...Team America: World Police is a diabolically spunky punch to the political groin that takes no prisoners... doesn’t miss a naughty beat"
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"...very smooth and on course...has the appropriate touch of sentimentality and reflection to make this spirited vehicle the suitable one for takeoff"
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"This juiced-up futuristic fable is delightfully on maximum overdrive and Arnold S. does what he does best—deliver his brand of robotic ribaldry with the precision of an extremely well-oiled machine."
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"As for Nispel’s polished but run-of-the-mill hedonistic remake of Chainsaw, this blood-stained offering is about as fun and adventurous as counting roadkill along a dark country pathway."
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"Liebesman's woefully rancid and riddled prequel of the same name is basically a horrendously harried yet uneventful hollow shell of its former bloodied self."
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"Texas Rangers is a generic, gun-toting fable -- a dull, laughable cactus costume drama that has no significant appeal to it other than to boast the empty machismo antics of its leads."
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"With its hint of an awkward Hitchcockian theme in tact, Harmon's daunting narrative promotes a reasonable landscape of conflict and pathos to support the scattershot terrorizing tone"
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"Surprisingly, this insightful tearjerker is padded with expressive layers well beyond the average made-for-television sentiments because of the penetrating performances."
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World Voice News |
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 3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Thoroughly charming and visually spry, Corpse Bride has the stylish impishness that made The Nightmare Before Christmas such a devilish treat to behold."
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"Time Changer may not be the most memorable cinema session but its profound self-evaluation message about our fragile existence and the absence of spiritual guidance should at least invade an abundance of mindsets"
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"Time of Favor could have given audiences the time of day by concentrating on the elements of a revealing alienation among a culture of people who sadly are at hostile odds with one another through recklessness and retaliation."
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(2003) |
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"...a cocky and contrived contraption which gingerly dances around its Medieval-themed mediocrity...[an] overwrought costume drama"
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"What Cameron does is essentially give us a history lesson in an empowering, emphatic, entertaining way. This extraordinary flick feels like a big event with a litany of emblematic scope and impressive visual vitality."
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"Munroe's TMNT fails to properly ignite this glorified video game into the pop cultural diversion it was during the very first Bush administration."
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"...[A] shocking and subversive coming-of-age melodrama. Perceptively blunt and incendiary, Towelhead is one of the most challenging cinematic efforts of the year."
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(2001) |
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"...an obsequious vehicle where Washington can strut his dastardly stuff in an otherwise penetrating but arbitrary streetwise adventure. Personally, this undercover movie reviewing narc finds Training Day a kind of tough pill to swallow."
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(2002) |
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"The film's biggest asset, surprisingly enough, is Jason Statham, who shows terrific potential as an action hero, and could easily match wits with actors like Vin Diesel or Jean Claude Van Damme."
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"This jittery junk is palatable in some doses but for the most part the adrenaline surge teeters off to the point that The Transporter in theory is just another bombastic excuse for targeting the testosterone-driven masses with its showy banality."
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(2005) |
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"..if it had the gumption to elevate its marketable value and challenge the notion of not being just another brainless and bombastic entry into the “crash and bash” sweepstakes"
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Movie Eye |
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(2002) |
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"There’s one thing that you can say about the generic suspense thriller Trapped in that the title aptly captures the claustrophobic feeling one will get in viewing this uneventful kidnapping yarn."
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TheWorldJournal.com |
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 3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"...absorbing, mysterious, lyrical and distinctively titillating...a moody masterpiece that is thrillingly alarming...[a] tale of wandering hedonism and anguish"
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World Voice News |
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 3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Thunder is ambitiously blunt and blasphemous in its bombastic barbs of treasured absurdity...[a] calculated comedy drenched in volumes of manufactured viciousness and succulent screwball vibrancy."
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(2002) |
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"An awkwardly garish showcase that diverges from anything remotely probing or penetrating."
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"As physically stimulating as Troy purports to be in content, the mental aspect of this film has all the charge of a defective catapult.
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"...[a] reflective and raw South African gangland melodrama. Deeply poignant, frightening and absorbing...a wonderment of emotions and redemptive solitude."
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"Overall, The Tuxedo is not a custom-made fit. This is one action comedy that is extremely exhausting and doesn't exhibit one ounce of creative moxie to propel this product beyond its anemic aspirations."
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(2008) |
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"Twilight sparkles for its intended audience of indiscriminate adolescent females. However, it will only be deemed as a softened, hackneyed horror show of synthetic affection for the rest of us."
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 1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...generic and hysterical hackwork...utterly tepid and inconsequential...an unoriginal and flavorless suspense piece that’s shunning more than shocking"
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 2/4 |
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"...[a] stylish yet anemic gambling drama. In short, Money is about as bankable as a defective slot machine in search for its own payoff."
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(2008) |
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"Overstuffed and self-indulgent...The Family That Preys is nothing more than a busy-minded, shifty soap opera propelled by its empty-minded sense of indignation."
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"Lyrical and reflective, Married is an entertaining inquiry into that everlasting hunt for elusive marital bliss and the empty-hearted casualties that are all too familiar with its unpredictability."
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