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"Kaufman's script is wildly imaginative but only intermittently entertaining, dredging up troubling questions about artistic responsibility that he ultimately doesn't answer."
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(1999) |
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"Both an expansion of Almodovar's famous candy-colored vision and a maturation of his ingenious directorial style."
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"Part elegy, part romance, and part myth, it's a sweeping paean to the lost West, a dreamy chronicling of the end of an age."
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(2005) |
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"The rites of passage into adulthood have rarely been so textured."
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B- |
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(2000) |
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"Succeeds in entertaining the audience, but diminishes the overall power of the social critique Ellis had in mind."
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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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(2008) |
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"A wildly enjoyable experience, reconstituting some of the great traditions of the art form in engaging, unexpected ways."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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(2004) |
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"While Mario Van Peebles' gauzy adoration for his father causes BAADASSSSS! to be less defined than it should be, the obvious affection makes the uneven film heartfelt."
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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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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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A |
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(2003) |
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"One feels awestruck by Arcand's accomplishment: starkly aware of life's beauty, its fragility, and the undeniable truth that friends, lovers, and family are what makes us who we are."
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(2004) |
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"A complex, finely woven tale of nontraditional family. Such enjoyments are far too rare."
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A |
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(2000) |
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"Un cri de coeur...Julian Schnabel's latest work can only be described as one of those soul-stirring cries."
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Before Sunset has an immediacy that makes other movies feel comatose."
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(2007) |
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"The real kudos should go to screenwriter Kelly Masterson, who provocatively mixed a crime drama premise into a film exploring the legacy of damage family members impose upon one another."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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A |
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(2001) |
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"Dramatically taught, crisply shot and vibrantly visualized, this film deserves a place in the war film pantheon."
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(2000) |
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"The New York Stock Exchange gets a healthy dose of Gen-X amorality, but in the end, the more things change, the more things stay the same."
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(2004) |
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"Posh, stylish, and with very little going on in its head, Bon Voyage is neither as dizzying nor as entertaining as it could be."
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(2002) |
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"Aspires to be both a whammo action blockbuster and an intelligent think piece...a delicate balance for any film to pull off."
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"A buffed-up, kick-a** version of our modern collective consciousness."
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A+ |
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(2002) |
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"The film's strength isn't in its details, but in the larger picture it paints - of a culture in conflict with itself, with the thin veneer of nationalism that covers our deepest, media-soaked fears."
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(2007) |
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"Brocka leaps into the small circle of leading queer filmmakers of our time, sculpting an unpredictable romance that is complex, sophisticated and thoughtful."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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(1999) |
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"Hilary Swank is the find of the year!"
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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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(1999) |
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"A scalding-hot reminder of Scorsese's talent, and his adoration of Manhattan's otherworldly cosmicity."
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"The Marlboro Man has reawakened as an archetype fully realized, brimming with ambivalence and complexity."
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(2004) |
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"May just be the most sophisticated and compelling movie about the lives of black gay men ever made."
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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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(2003) |
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"Won't leave you disappointed, but it may leave you hungry for something more substantial."
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"A frothy, quicksilver entertainment desperate to be liked."
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A+ |
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(2002) |
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"Dazzling and sugar-sweet, a blast of shallow magnificence that only sex, scandal, and a chorus line of dangerous damsels can deliver."
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(2000) |
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"Excellent visuals, a tenderly told tale, laughs aplenty, and a positive social message to boot."
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(2006) |
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"Whatever else may or may not work, Children of Men at least has this: a great idea. It is too bad, then, that the movie surrounding the idea is not equally great."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"On one level it's a science fiction story about cloning...but on another level, it's a complex discussion of authoritarianism in a global economy."
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(2004) |
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"The short films in this collection are dreamily affecting curiosities, stilted and just enough off-kilter to keep the viewer attentive."
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"First and foremost, about the ravages of wartime...but framed to an intimate scale, tracing the devastating consequences such violence takes upon individuals."
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(2004) |
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"From its classy, crisp opening moments, Collateral bombards the viewer with bold imagery and sounds...we are in Mann country."
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(2004) |
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"Reveals the humanity of the opponents on both sides...and government's attempt to deny that humanity at all costs."
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(2003) |
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"The performances without exception are top-notch, and in truth, better than the film probably deserves."
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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."
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(1999) |
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"Our new century isn't very old yet, but the remaining 98 years will be hard pressed to find a more rapturous movie than Ang Lee's sumptuous new triumph."
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(2008) |
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"The most important word in the title of The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is "curious.""
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Modern Fabulousity |
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(2004) |
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"Emmerich's escapist fantasy is a global catastrophe as thrillingly scary as it is tremendously entertaining."
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(2004) |
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"Delightful, and delicious, and probably for most mass audiences, de-irritating. As Cole might have said, however...there's no accounting for taste."
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(2008) |
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"Undercuts its own dramatic concerns by alternating heavy-handed moralism with the style of contemporary action franchises, dulling and smoothing out the horrifying edges of murder."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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(2006) |
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"If fashion is indeed a special brand of terrorism, then Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep), editrix of the fictional magazine Runway, is the Osama bin Laden of Fifth Avenue."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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(2002) |
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"The kick in the pants the Bond franchise so desperately needs."
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(2007) |
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"In this fourth film, John McClane becomes a retrofitted icon; unadorned and simple, brutally back-to-basic, he's an action hero for an America uncomfortable with the rapid changes of the new millennium."
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Modern Fabulousity |
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(2003) |
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"Part tribute, yes, and part genderf**k too, but DIE MOMMIE DIE! is first a surprisingly smart, encyclopedic reimagining of the conventions, themes (and yes, clichés) of cinema's most golden age."
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(2001) |
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"Shares the heady, dizzying atmosphere that turns great meals into memorable events."
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