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"A charmer in the truest sense of the term by getting to watch Freeman break out and have a lot of fun alongside one of the most beautiful and exciting actresses hopefully starting to get her due in America."
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"God knows, a thirteen-year-old would have more sense. But that age is too sophisticated for dreck like this."
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(1999) |
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"Here was a film with a scope far beyond the reaches of a mediocre director like Crichton."
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(2007) |
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"While 1408 is no Shining, it's a solid and welcome entry to the kind of begotten supernatural tales all too sparse in contemporary cinema."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Donner could have put up a large ticking red timer in the top right corner of the screen and the only tension derived would still be waiting for the cigarette burns to appear."
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"When you long for the fantasy of what Hal Needham could have brought to the material, you get the picture."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"You have a director so inept that he doesn't even understand what genre he's working within and he's helped destroy potentially one of the most riveting and important social statements about Las Vegas the movies could have seen."
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Deserves all the praise that’s been spread out over Lee’s career into a collective achievement that is both stunningly powerful and delivers the message that has been lacking of late in so many “message” movies."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Mixing it up between outright action and blinding sequences of terror, it's precisely the type of pace a sequel of this sort needs to satisfy fans"
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"So the remaining survivors huddle together. A few get bitten and turn. Some splatter kills in-between. Remind me again of what exactly is 'groundbreaking' about this."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Every piercing, slashing and beheading is front and center forming the kind of orgiastic tango of bloodletting that would have Peckinpah offering Zack Snyder a cigar."
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"It really is true how when you make a copy of a copy of a copy, the most recent one doesn’t pack the most quality."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"It honors both the genre and the original film without doing harm to either while containing enough of its own virtues to allow it to stand alone as its own entity."
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"It’s just a shame that someone wasted their fluids creating a number of the people responsible for this absolute mess."
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(2005) |
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"Wedding Crashers will gross close to $200 million by run's end. If that’s the playing field comedy fans want to set, then The 40-Year Old Virgin deserves to outgross Titanic."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"There’s a very sad romance at the heart of 50 First Dates. It keeps peeking its head through only to be smacked back down."
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Probably the closest this generation has come to having their own Annie Hall."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"If this movie had been directed by someone other than Curtis Hanson; I’m talking some nobody shmoe or some flashy music video director, critics would have dismissed this as just another singer-turned-actor star vehicle with no more depth than a shot glass"
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"At times it's almost like Pacino has been lured into a Bobby Bowfinger production except the best blackmail material around to get his permission for release is 88 Minutes itself."
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3/5 |
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(1998) |
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"A return to form for director Joel Schumacher."
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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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(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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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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