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 2/4 |
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"It’s wince-inducing for sure, but then again so is a paper cut"
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 4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There was a sense of drain that I walked out with; put both in Capote’s shoes and reeling from the see-saw examination of wickedness."
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 2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Calling it a borderline lazy effort in the script department would be assuming that the eight credited writers actually put forth an effort beyond just watching Doc Hollywood one night."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The most believable Bond since the days of Connery and for the first time in decades, I left the theater with the distinct reaction that I wanted to be James Bond."
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 4/4 |
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(2000) |
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"A film brimming over-the-top with realism and features one of our most treasured (and likable) actors, Tom Hanks, in an incredible, virtually silent performance as a survivor."
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 2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A 13-year old girl decides to rob a bank to help her father pay for a life-saving operation. Not appropriate for children you think? You have no idea."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(1998) |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Changeling is no escape, but more of a two-hour plus trap that never springs on us; a story of three parts that is thematically as absentee as the child himself."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"An indicting, cynical trip into how crappy our world actually is."
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 0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Will likely make its own mark on history as the single most relentlessly self-conscious vanity project to ever be conceived."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Charlie and the Chocolate Factory will be the film today’s children will be telling their children about when they want to introduce them to the great Willy Wonka."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"You may find better films that deal with the precursors of our present blowback in the Middle East, but you won't find many more entertaining."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 8/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Thanks to a snappy pace, some exciting action and a joy-ridden cast, this film is too much fun to be overanalyzed and scrutinized under the microscope."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"When the film just ends with barely a final act to speak of, we feel cheated on and, ironically, our only refuge is to go look for those old movies from our past."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Special stories like this are rare and so are the films which treat them with the respect they deserve. It may ultimately be a story about death, but I like to think of it as one of forever."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Mixing a wealth of reports devoting news time to the craze, a worthy 80s soundtrack and some fun computer rendering of the game's rules, Chasing Ghosts is a true bit of cinematic time travel."
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Chasing October is not the all-encompassing document on the Cubs that I'm sure even Matt Liston would love to see someday. But it is another chapter in the book racking up more disasters than the Old Testament."
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 2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"If end-credit outtakes are any barometer to your chuckle output, then here is perhaps the most laughless gag reel since I dry-heaved on Bringing Down the House.
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Credit editor Martin Walsh for doing a bang-up job on many of the numbers to keep our attention shifted away from the staginess while still maintaining the viewability of the very thing we came to see in the first place."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Chicken Little should explode into a fury of anarchic hilarity. Instead, like the townfolk, the makers seem to be scurrying around helpless, unaware of which direction to go."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Alfonso Cuaron rides it out to the bitter end, creating a harsh mirror of our future with violence and some of the most purely exhilarating moments of cinema to be found in all of 2006."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Certainly there's a nihilist streak on Palahniuk's sleeve, but as Clark Gregg's adaptation of his 2001 novel shows us, up that sleeve seems to rest the heart of a tortured romantic."
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 0.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Not since the day I read Mein Kampf and rented Shoah have I had an experience so joyless and laugh-free"
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"By the end of Narnia, I felt like I was retaught a lesson I had long since learned instead of living the dream of a new discovery. Suitable in that there are clearly no small metaphors, only small movies about those metaphors."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Tears are likely to be shed at the end of Cinderella Man, but thanks to Crowe and Howard you won’t know how or where the sucker punch will be coming from."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3.5/5 |
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(1998) |
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"Here is a film not interested in the surprise twists of other courtroom movies, but focuses on the strategy of the law."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(1998) |
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"You love everybody you are supposed to love, and hate everybody you are supposed to hate. And Healy flips you back and forth on that for some characters."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(2004) |
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 4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Not just an all-around growth experience for Kevin Smith and his characters but a film that is in several ways actually better than the original."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Instead of high concept turning into comedy gold with a touch of sentiment, we get a childish load of staleness that farts in the face of its Capraesque pursuit."
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 2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"By the end of Clockstoppers, you’ll have felt like you were hypertimed through the good parts and it’s time that you’ll never get back."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"There are signs of immense talent here, but there’s a long road to travel before we know if this is the next George Lucas or the next Paul W.S. Anderson."
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 3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"You're going to see some powerful acting for sure, certainly enough to recommend the film, but one which ultimately just doesn’t add up to much."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Goes from The Thin Blue Line into Cape Fear and then settling into The Ring minus the supernatural element and social commentary. They just brought the well. I only wish I had received a phone call seven days before to warn me."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Minghella, in his long-winded tales of love, has the storytelling prowess of a narcoleptic Ulysses teacher
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Somewhere along the way, the gimmick and suspense had worn out leaving the only real gray matter as the product coloring Cruises’ hair."
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 3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"I don’t feel the least bit ashamed in admitting that my enjoyment came at the expense of seeing justice served, even if it’s a dish that’s best served cold."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 15/100 |
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(1986) |
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Apollo Guide |
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 4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Clooney has everything under control here from the storytelling to the steady hand of a director with an eye of confidence for the cinema."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Confidence missteps in so many ways that you don’t have to be a chess player to see ten moves ahead."
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 3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Places us within the mindset of love lost which then provides us the motives to direct our outrage at the pencil pushers who are responsible."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Constantine waves rotted meat in front of the rabid dogs of both comic books and religion, but mostly just manages to hack off any moviegoer that enters its hallowed doors."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(2000) |
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"You can't just copy the final shot of Shakespeare In Love, especially when the music just reminds us how much we'd like to see Die Hard again."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 0.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Fire. Water. Air. Earth. Whatever. Everyone is so out of their element with The Core that not even Milla Jovovich could save it."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Many of the comic set pieces (or pieces of set pieces), fall dead flat ranking this effort somewhere above “The Ladies Man” but below “Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo”"
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(1999) |
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 3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The best revenge may just be living well because this film, unlike other Dumas adaptations, is far more likened to a treasure than a lengthy jail sentence."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A giant black hole in the center of the comedy universe sucking in the best ideas and situations from other entities into an inescapable ride to nothingness."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Haggis turns the screws on a nation’s anxieties and helps light the way of personal responsibility through conversation and, if need be, a little divine intervention"
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