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"If you have ever been tempted to swipe a dead man's train ticket and identity to see where it all might lead, this movie will cure you in a hurry."
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(2008) |
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"If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question."
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(2005) |
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"With a puffy-eyed, buck-toothed oval face and a long-limbed body built for love, she looks a bit like a cross between Roger and Jessica Rabbit."
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(2007) |
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"...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza..."
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(2005) |
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"Aeon Flux is gaudily glamorous and riotously witless. At the same time, it's kind of fun."
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(2007) |
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"One of the more interesting themes of this movie is the question of which is more important to a cause, the man or the money."
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(2000) |
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"There's not much sex, but what there is is intense and beautiful."
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(2007) |
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"If the artist is an elusive target, the art is as sharp as a razor blade. The portraits are extraordinary."
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(2006) |
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"One of the more serious failings of this new adaptation... is that it builds no roads and bridges. We never know what connects things."
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(2009) |
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" The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down."
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(2007) |
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"How much truth we get in the movie version is hard to say...nobody much cares if it's gospel, as long as it's riveting. Here, alas, it is not."
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(2003) |
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"The filmmakers have done a remarkable job of integrating the profusion of elements that come into this story and make the movie unique."
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(2009) |
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" The centerpiece of An Education is the breakout performance of young Carey Mulligan. She is enchanting, and almost convincing as the teenage Jenny, though she can't completely obscure the (justified) suspicion that she's in her twenties and old enough f"
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(2007) |
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"Familiar situations and trite dialogue give this movie the feel of something freeze-dried and reconstituted."
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(2009) |
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"Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it."
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(2005) |
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"Nobody expects farce to be credible, but somehow the tone here skirts just too close to realism to justify the lunacy of the choices Antoine makes."
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(2005) |
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"So how can a joke that everybody knows, that has been told and retold at least since vaudeville was young, still get laughs? The secret is in the telling."
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(1969) |
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"It's one of those movies that alter your perspective on your world when you emerge, blinking in the bright sunlight.
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(2005) |
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"It hammers its characters into situations, rather than letting the situations flow from the characters. It can't seem to get comfortable."
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(2005) |
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"Curiously, though, for a movie about psychiatrists and their patients and families, it fails conspicuously at getting inside the heads of its characters."
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(2006) |
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"Dread hovers over this movie like a chaperone at a parochial school dance."
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(2004) |
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"It is also the first movie from this noted celebrator of women in which the only girls are boys."
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(2007) |
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"The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny."
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(2001) |
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"Bangkok Dangerous mixes mindless violence, sappy romance, and philosophical pretentiousness. On the whole, it does the first better than the other two."
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(2006) |
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"Accuracy be damned. It's a very entertaining movie."
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(2008) |
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"It makes an urgent case for the futility of most wars, which serve immediate political goals that afterward don't seem terribly important."
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(2006) |
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""The first impulse is to dismiss the whole venture as ludicrous. But a closer look gives pause.""
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(2007) |
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"As the Shadow used to say, the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, and Lumet has made a delicious pie out of it."
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(2001) |
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"There are good characters, smart dialogue, lively action, great scenery, and a compelling story in Behind Enemy Lines, a patriotic adventure set in the Bosnian conflict, but they’re sabotaged and sunk by an eager director caught somewhere between a"
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"Despite an unmistakable animus against the Hammer, the movie makes it clear that to be a committed Republican is not to be a crook or a DeLay apologist."
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(2009) |
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" Writer-director Robert D. Siegel grew up listening to callers like Paul on The FAN, New York City's all-sports radio, and he gives us a bizarrely sympathetic portrait of a guy who is as devout and as obsessive as any religious fanatic."
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(2002) |
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"Just when I thought it couldn't get any worse, something wonderful happened. At the screening I attended, a reel malfunctioned."
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(2007) |
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"Paul Verhoeven's WWII drama stars the lovely Dutch actress Carice van Houten as a Jewish Resistance worker, and costars her breasts. All three deserve awards consideration."
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"It's a rousing adventure story, a searing indictment of the international diamond trade, a bloodbath, and it even offers a little romance."
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"If passionate intensity were enough, this movie would be an Oscar contender. As it is, his reach exceeds his grasp, and we're left with Ship of Fools as done on Love Boat."
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(2008) |
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"Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on."
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(2006) |
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"It's a bit of a shaggy dog story, with threads that go nowhere, but nobody's in a hurry, and it's easy to go along for the ride."
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(2008) |
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"Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics."
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(2007) |
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"Watching The Bourne Ultimatum is like being strapped to a vibrating bed set on high for two hours in a cheap motel."
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(2005) |
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"Ceili is traditional Irish live dance music, the doodley-doo sound that divides the world into those who find it infectious and those who find it irritating past endurance."
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(2007) |
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"(Chris Cooper)is the principal reason why this unspectacular, low-key study of the Hanssen national security fiasco is so effective."
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(2005) |
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"There is a degree of critical judgment that must be surrendered to embrace this Bollywood musical extravaganza adaptation of Jane Austen..."
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(1981) |
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"A movie deserves to stand or fall on the basis of what it brings to the screen, not on the baggage brought to it by memories of a book or another adaptation. By this yardstick, Julian Jarrold's film does admirably."
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(2009) |
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"Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form."
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(2005) |
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"Brokeback Mountain is about men and women, and how different they are from each other, and the ways in which they are different."
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(2005) |
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"With their world-weary mantles of minimalism, Jim Jarmusch and Bill Murray are a match made in one of the bleaker neighborhoods of heaven."
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(2007) |
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"You get the performances you expect from these two great stars, which lift this story mercifully but marginally above its meager content."
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(2009) |
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"In traditional terms, this is hardly a film at all. It's more like a bootlegged YouTube video."
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(2005) |
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"Capote is a tale of two monsters."
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(2005) |
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"Here is a Casanova true to the spirit of the legendary original %u2013 gorgeous, witty, flamboyant, seductive, and delightful company for an evening of pure enjoyment."
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