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C |
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(2005) |
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"Issues of gender differrence are employed only to reinforce less original dilemmas -- family dysfunction, dating woes and (eek) meeting the grandparents."
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Mixed Reviews |
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"Rarely has a film exposed the tender, brutal line between love and cruelty so magnificently."
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Essential cinema not because it answers questions about terrorist ideology, but because it discovers those questions are disturbingly similar to those about ourselves."
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Mixed Reviews |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"A raw and unadorned look at child abuse and its idiosyncratic repercussions."
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Effortlessly nailing coquettish mannerisms and employing a hilarious come-hither vocal quality, Murphy is magnetizing, fascinating, and eminently likeable."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"An unusually taut film about misogyny that, for the most part, escapes the clichés that often bog down the battle of the sexes."
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Mixed Reviews |
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(2001) |
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Click here to see the review!
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Mixed Reviews |
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B-- |
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(2005) |
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"Ultimately has little insight into the experience it chronicles. News flash: growing up gay is rough. Who did not know this already?"
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Mixed Reviews |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Darkly rich in character and mood, provocative in intent...but ultimately foiled by inattention to its own story."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"It argues, ironically, that pretty people should only end up with pretty people, and the best we can do is hope that the temp with bad hair will find us equally nerd-hot."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Bombastic, whimsical, and delicious, The Brothers Grimm is really a comic ghost story wrapped in the postmodern folds of Shakespeare In Love."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"You can feel the flopsweat of the screenwriters, laboring to make their jokes work and their scenes interesting."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Meditative and fierce, quiet and pounding, HUSTLE AND FLOW runs the board in a way that few films even attempt."
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Mixed Reviews |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"The man who gave human dimension to the effects of holocaust in Schindler's List has now prostituted human extermination for entertainment. Bread and circuses, indeed."
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Mixed Reviews |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Reaches beyond the cinematic frame as far as it can to catch big air, giving its audience a you-are-there viscerality."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"The straightforward narrative constantly seems at odds with Miyazaki's dreamy landscapes and fanciful flourishes."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"At times the film seems to have nothing more on its mind than the predictable rhythms of soap opera."
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Ultimately, KINGDOM OF HEAVEN can't change actual history. So instead, everyone has to grow a conscience...even the Crusaders have to feel bad about the Crusading."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"An unexpectedly sweet pleasure... a dark and gripping slice of space opera, it successfully avoids the pitfalls of its predecessors."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"As close to a museum-quality work of visual art as Hollywood as ever seen."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"With everything bigger and grander in Chow's singular universe, it's easy to overlook one small detail...that Kung Fu Hustle is less satisfying than its predecessors."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"It's got moments, it's got performances to recommend, but they still haven't figured out how to create the magic of Bollywood in a form for the US market."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"A smart, snappy energy to the dialogue that gives the film a zesty flavor rarely found in the genre."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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A |
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(2001) |
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"Desire, violence, revenge, and obsession play out against a map of sex and love."
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Mixed Reviews |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"You can almost hear the filmmakers exhale with nervous relief, having made it through a film about incest without actually having an opinion on the subject."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Radford has made a grim drama with some incomprehensible moments of failed levity."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Although The Woodsman's subject matter is shocking and disturbing, perhaps the most unsettling quality is its matter-of-fact attitude"
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Love is a delicate thing, and identity even more so. Enduring Love breathtakingly tears both asunder to find them anew...it is, in a word, exquisite."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"A vain attempt not only to restore Darin's place in history, but to improve upon it... Colick's underdeveloped screenplay has trouble placing Darin's life onto a heroic scale."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"A moving, poignant parable of another America, where the dreams aren't quite so rosy."
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"As beautiful, assured, and professional as it is, the film lacks edge and power, ending up being significantly less affecting than it should be."
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(1996) |
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[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Instead of approaching the radical and groundbreaking scientist with an equally innovative spirit, Condon's film opts for the generic trademarks of biopic melodrama."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"It is, in almost every way, less than it could or should be."
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Mixed Reviews |
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A- |
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(2002) |
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"Stripped of pretentions, Last Dance offers up a wholly human, tantalizingly imperfect struggle to create beauty and resonance."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Intertwines imaginative fantasy with real life -- and like Neverland itself, it is a beguiling, intoxicating mix."
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Mixed Reviews |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Even when he's paying homage to other great filmmakers, it still remains an indisputably Almodovar experience."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"There are stumbles in this twisting science fiction tale about the perils of prescience, but even so, Primer is one of the most auspicious debuts in recent memory."
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Mixed Reviews |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Think of it less as a deconstruction of philosophies, and more like an episode of Last Comic Standing where the jokesters are Nietzsche, Heidegger and Kant."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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A+ |
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(2004) |
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"Yimou's explosive imagination threatens to burst the seams of the movie screen...sublime, luscious filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"A purposefully incomplete vision of magic, myth, and love that requires the viewer to fill in the gaps."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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C++ |
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(2004) |
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"Lacks the gravity and the power to transcend its genre roots."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"one can see the potential in the idea of Stage Beauty, as well as the lines that demarcate Eyre's moderately good film from the extraordinary one it could have been."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Even with his film's solid foundation, Leigh seemingly cannot resist the pulpy histrionics."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"If A Room with a View looked inside the repressed passions of its characters, Being Julia seems content to just put a frame around them and call it a day."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Both a throwback and a leap forward, an odd yet satisfying marriage of now and then."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Eloquently and remarkably captures the budding ethical, emotional, and political sensibilities of a legendary man of history."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"Recalls classics like Serpico and The French Connection, but features a contemporary sophistication and of-the-moment vivacity that sets it apart."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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D+ |
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(2002) |
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"Lacks the sophistication it needs to be truly effective, hopelessly lost in its unfunny gags and weak plotting."
[movie review] |
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Mixed Reviews |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Without anything unique to add to the dramatic landscape, Gleeson's film is a fleeting glimpse at a world we already know...it is a film in search of a reason to exist."
[movie review] |
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