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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...spry and spiky satire..."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...uncharacteristically revolutionary among today's issue documentaries, and all the more refreshing for its bluntness."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's like a treehouse for grownups..."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...crafts a crackling thriller out of the tangle of crafty maneuvering that ended apartheid."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Those who enjoy virtual roller-coaster rides and long falls from high places are encouraged to attend."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The portrait may be accurate but Schmid's overly muted take on the story hardly does justice to the stark terror and injustice that lies at its core."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"it's all pose, with hardly a laugh in sight"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"one more cultural artifact lost in translation"
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9/10 |
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(1991) |
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"In Homicide's electric pop of language, Mamet provides a grand kind of stage for the ugly catalyst of jealousy and racial hatred that curdles in just about every character's mind."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A generally superb model of how to make a pop documentary"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"purrs along like a finely-calibrated machine for its first two thirds"
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7/10 |
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(1978) |
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"...an addlebrained and occasionally droning but nevertheless vital window onto a revolt while it's in progress."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"often inscrutable but still fresh and surprising"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Krasinski stitches these raw blasts of the subconscious with interludes that exude a pleasing, Woody Allen-esque tone, all fall colors and potent theorizing over white wine"
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(2009) |
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"This straightforward history lesson casts Daniel Ellsberg and his leaked Pentagon Papers as the first shot in the war that brought down the Nixon regime."
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"What with all the fatal accidents, deadly diseases, bar fights, and virtual stalking going on, this could almost be an American film."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...isn't just some vanity piece for boomer rock fans...It asks how music gets made, and occasionally why."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"9 is a grey and grim thrill ride packed full of kiddie morality lessons and creepy frightenings, as though Steven Spielberg had induced the Brothers Quay to create a summer blockbuster."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"while Berlinger allows the film to get a little too star-struck, spending less time with the winningly humble patchwork alliance doing the lawsuit's hard work, Crude at least acknowledges the reason behind this shift"
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"seems already dated"
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(2009) |
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"...rough-cut but fascinating."
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(2009) |
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"Tarantino seems to have gotten high on the fumes of his own (admittedly addictive) creation here and just not known when to quit."
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PopMatters |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film threads enough thoughtful commentary into its whirligig media-fractured action plot to mostly make up for its lapses into cliché."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a so utterly disposable comic-book film that one forgets it before it ends"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"even with all the script's moralizing about the killing of innocents, Madsen still loads up his climax with truckloads of Nazi soldiers and a hail of bullets and grenades"
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(2009) |
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"Glenn McQuaid's microbudgeted debut is a jauntily gothic period spook story."
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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(2009) |
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"Aron Gaudet's film rages with quiet dignity against the dying of the light."
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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(2009) |
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"At what point did the Harry Potter film franchise become a race against repetition?"
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PopMatters |
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(2009) |
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"Although sadly rife with gut-clenching moments as those, Afghan Star is most thrilling when depicting the show's delicately balanced effort to bring Afghans together despite their fractious ethnic and clan boundaries."
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"at a time when kids are being pushed to grow up instantly and adults are encouraged to cultivate their arrested development, it makes perfect sense that Michael Bay is waiting for them right in the middle, Happy Meal in hand."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Were it not for the jangly screwball energy ... The Proposal would be just another desperate attempt to jam as many winning formula elements into one graceless package as possible."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A finely pedigreed comic road film that, when all is said and done, is too finely-tooled for the NPR set to have much life left in it."
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(2009) |
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"...sometimes feels like just another link in a chain to nowhere."
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(2009) |
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"A sad but clever science-fiction exercise about a man working alone on the Moon, with nothing but a talking computer and tape-recorded calls back to Earth to keep him sane."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"burns bright with brilliance before sputtering out in the end"
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(2009) |
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"And just think, they haven't gotten to the Klingons yet..."
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5/10 |
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(1982) |
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"Like some half-thought-out Japanese gutter-trash take on one of Celine's midnight-express rides to hell..."
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(2009) |
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"The soul shivers at the film's cold beauty."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"both leads are at the top of their game in a story that normally brings out the worst in actors of this caliber"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Il Divo is as showy as Gomorrah was spare, sometimes taking your breath away with its gutsy leaps of brilliance and sometimes acting like a bratty child desperate for attention."
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(2008) |
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"...never makes a strong case for its necessity."
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PopMatters |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"essentially the story of people auditioning for a show about auditions"
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(2009) |
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"A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat..."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a greatly satisfying parable of happenstance"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"it's hard not to feel by the end of this film that one is looking into the giggling face of evil."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Enough is enough"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"the tale of an unlikely friendship, one that reaches across generational and cultural barriers"
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(2009) |
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"A beautifully shot, would-be-penetrating drama about a closeted teacher in a small Czech village falls victim to a wandering plot and muffled characterizatio"
[movie review] |
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Film Journal International |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A polarizing family secrets drama whose moment of revelation is continually diverted in favor of enticing new fragments of the truth..."
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a dashing and bright entertainment that aims to please without scraping the floor for your approval"
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Filmcritic.com |
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