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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Very much like the drug which inhabits it; splitting its own persona from paranoid druggie comedy to the sharp spiral of the addictive effects and the hopeless, misguided attempts to end it all."
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Because audiences are so predisposed to a 1-2-3 style of storytelling, one viewing may do an injustice to convince someone of its power."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Abandon is such a schizophrenic picture (or is that giving away too much?) that you’ll either appreciate what Gaghan was trying to do or scoff at how silly its earnestness is."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"One of the true pleasures of About Schmidt is the way in which all of the characters are revealed to be as real as you or I and not just atypical caricatures created for our snickers."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In-between the lines there are some truly funny bits in a film that is somewhat as confused as the students who inhabit it."
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"You could make the same movie using the music of Huey Lewis. And most likely a less embarrassing one."
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Any writer, whether novelist, screenwriter, or short essayist worth their salt will kneel at the sharp edges of the script, both the paper itself and what’s printed on it."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The only real nostaglia on display (much like the overplayed rock soundtrack of the park's speakers) is the feeling that you've just seen and heard this story all before."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Rodriguez would be advised to take a step back from the chintzy, plastic red-and-blue eyewear since what’s on the screen is already more than enough."
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"To paraphrase a far greater expert in the heist genre, David Mamet, After The Sunset is like having Elmore Leonard puke and then that puke wrote the script."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's the kind of warm-hearted surprise that transcends its trappings and winds up being more Bobby Fischer than Tyler Perry."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Franken is a master and we need someone like him to both laugh at and pound his fist at the other side for their own God-like attitudes that what they say is the spoken, written and final word on the subject."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Did we learn nothing from John Sayles when he closed Lone Star with the line, “Forget the Alamo?”"
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0.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"As if Stone was trying to one-up the legendary Great himself by going all over the map, he reaches for so much and dies so early."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Alfie plays more like a Republican cautionary tale from the 80s warning against illegitimate parenting, abortion and diseases that infect your penis."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"When an 158-min. film fails to provide less insight into the legend than the barber shop arguments in Coming to America, then its not worthy of our attention"
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1/4 |
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"A documentary that tells you precisely what its about in the first five minutes and then tells you the same thing for the next 85 minutes straight over and over again."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I suspect that this is a film that speaks to those who believe Every Breath You Take is a love song."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"May have an indie budget but equally evokes the rich landscapes of early Terrence Malick and the grimy grindhouse tales of the '70s, converging poetically into its heartmashing climax."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film arrives much like its anti-hero Willie Stark with a lot of passionate arm-flailing and a populace destined to be disappointed in what he ultimately delivers."
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Where Kiss the Girls fell apart in the last ten minutes, Along Came a Spider unweaves in the entire third act.
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Amateurs turns out to be a mini-classic of sweet vulgarity, much in the vicinity if not the exact class of the recent spate of the Judd Apatow canon."
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"In a year when so many films dealt with the darker side of "dreams vs. reality" – we're finally offered a cinematic dream that we'd rather not wake from."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"It’s entertaining and funny enough, but like your average quote whore, shows you what you’d like to see, even if it’s not entirely what is deserved."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"If its opening scenes are like an asthma attack within an iron lung, Weitz stabilizes the material and begins massaging the satire with the brand of human interest that made his other works so distinctive."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"More like a whitewashed blaxploitation effort in the hopes of classing it up without the necessary respect paid to its origin; biography without context, but still an interesting and mostly entertaining one."
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4/5 |
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(1998) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"It is a fable, albeit a dark and twisted one destined to be praised by some, abhorred by others and turned into a cult classic by even more."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Thankfully, in a summer full of theatrical gimmicks the American Wedding audience is not asked to participate in Taste-O-Vision."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Byler was just warming up with Charlotte Sometimes and somewhere deep down not only gets people - but how filmmaking can translate to those who don't."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"When we hear mom uttering 'he tortured Indians on my land' like an Irish Frontierswoman from the 1800s, its time to wrap things up as quickly as possible"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The first two acts are the best with the radiance of Mulligan's performance putting all eyes on her and subsequently seducing us into her discoveries."
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The humor of Anchorman is planted deep within a surreal 70s landscape where the jokes zing by so fast, you have zero time to ponder how out there they really are."
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0.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"One of the worst filmed musicals I’ve ever seen, and that includes Cop Rock"
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The tagline of the film reads: “The deeper you look, the more you will find,” but I’ve always found it pointless to search for treasure at the bottom of a dry well."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Angels & Demons only exemplifies the problems with both movies and, thanks in part to a headsmacker of a third act, winds up being worse than its predecessor."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Audiences finally have something this year with which they can use the standard “a fun night at the movies”"
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Achieves many surprising pleasures during its run, with its splendid animation bursting with a crispness of imagery that puts most of the stylings this year to shame."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The structure the film takes may find Matt Damon and Ben Affleck once again looking for residuals as this officially completes a Good Will Hunting trilogy that was never planned."
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5/5 |
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(1998) |
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"Truly one of the most extraordinary visual achievements in film history."
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"If life is truly like “anything else” as a wise cab driver says in the movie, then surely there has to be more to life than sitting through another disappointing Woody Allen vehicle."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"What's truly challenging about it is the ironic displacement of anyone's God as the all-knowing presence in the face of our fellow man constantly preaching the myths as the key to survival."
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5/5 |
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(1995) |
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"The depiction of the rocket launch remains one of the most exhilarating sequences ever captured on film; so realistic that NASA wondered where the filmmakers got the footage."
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"This is IMAX and Ron Howard’s epic retelling of NASA’s heroic near-tragedy has been blown up to wonderous proportions to behold even while the film itself has been chopped down just as much."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The bullets may not be comparable to the Yuma remake or Kevin Costner's underrated Open Range, but the men holding the guns are still the same. So what if they're just a little bit different?"
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5/5 |
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(1998) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I don't expect those coming in to a feature version of their adventures to understand why I was laughing so hard at times. But I did expect to laugh far more than I actually did."
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4/5 |
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(1999) |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"I suppose Kirk Douglas wasn’t available after It Runs In The Family and Diamonds, or just realized he couldn’t do another film along the same lines as bad as those again."
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4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Its final shot is a beautiful masterstroke of the separation and desire involved in personally connecting with a piece of art and is the kind of frame-worthy moment that more students should be learning about."
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