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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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(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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"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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(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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(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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(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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In the Dark |
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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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(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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""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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"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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" 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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"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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(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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"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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(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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(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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(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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(1987) |
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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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"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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"Craig is the workingman's Bond, a roughneck with a body like a clenched fist. And it is Bond's body, not those of the curvaceous Bond girls, that is most on display here."
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(2008) |
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"There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy."
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"These two wonderful actors are capable of great chemistry. The lack of it between them here must be intentional."
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"Nichols and Sorkin have made a Cadillac of a movie, a handsome, beautifully designed chassis with a powerful motor and luxurious attention to detail."
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"The joy is in the playing, and Ron Howard pulls out all the stops like the organist at the old Madison Square Garden."
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(1983) |
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" Director Laurent Cantet has pulled together a story that feels startlingly authentic, using Mike Leigh-like methods of extensive improvisation with a cast of real inner-city kids and a real teacher. To paraphrase the Buck Owens/Beatles hit, all they had"
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(2008) |
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"But ultimately it's a fascinating, sometimes exhilarating movie that seems to make a genuine contact with the classroom, and shows us an educational system struggling, and managing, to survive."
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"Keeps the story hopping, and funny, even through the dark material."
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(2009) |
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"The Cove is guerrilla journalism at its best. Structured and paced by director Louie Psihoyos as a thriller/caper movie, it brings audience-grabbing cinematic conventions to work in telling its story of dolphin genocide"
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"Cure is intriguing, frustrating, and sometimes annoying. It’s also hypnotic."
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(2007) |
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"Thoughtful, sobering, hopeful, despairing, inspirational, depressing, and just in time for the holidays comes Darfur Now, a documentary about genocide in the Sudan."
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(2006) |
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"Instead of guys named Danny and Polack and Sol and Brooklyn, you've got guys named Said and Yassir and Messaoud and Abdelkader. But it's the same deal. Prick them, do they not bleed? Blow them up, do their limbs not scatter and their guts not spill?"
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(1995) |
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"Don't go unadvised, and don't plan anything too frivolous for right afterwards. But do go."
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(2007) |
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"DiCillo's themes are loyalty and friendship and betrayal and redemption."
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"There's a Biblical quality here, both in the epic and sometimes blurred struggle of good versus evil, and in the Cain-against-Abel aspect..."
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(2007) |
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"Movie characters like McClane are the Paul Bunyans and John Henrys and Pecos Bills of our age, the stuff of tall tales spun with the technology of an age whose campfires are found in multiplexes with stadium seating."
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"[Frears] delivers atmosphere, tension, and substantial fodder for thought, and does it with a mastery that loses nothing in the suspense department for being low key."
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(1976) |
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"Edvard Munch is one of the best expressions on screen of the elusive, indefinable mystery of artistic expression.
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"Ms. Xiang has made the kind of movie that her movie is about. It defies sophistication."
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