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"a dashing and bright entertainment that aims to please without scraping the floor for your approval"
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3/5 |
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"...a more real piece of work than one would expect."
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(2009) |
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"...returns the idea of pain, and the threat of bad decisions, to the American film romance."
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(2009) |
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"Mill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative."
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(2009) |
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"As a kind of Rorschach-blot interpretation of cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema contains all kinds of wicked fascinations."
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(2006) |
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"A 21st century naked lunch ... an eye-opener that can actually change the way one views the world"
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(2008) |
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"...equal parts Dickensian grotesquery, Horatio Alger striving, '90s arthouse growl, and Bollywood flair."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A beautiful tissue-paper piece of art that falls to shreds should you so much as blow upon it"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A mob film that's as far from the genre's standard operating procedure as could be imagined"
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(2008) |
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"...an uncomfortable mix of war procedural and unabashed hero worship; ingenious but flawed."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"could have been a perfectly fine B-grade thriller, but Bornedal overestimates his cleverness"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"By the end of these seven episodes, viewers will easily feel that they know and understand each of these very unique men, even if you wouldn't want them within 50 yards of your sister."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"so mild-mannered it only occasionally registers a pulse"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a classic superhero story, with a square-jawed hero who knows how to take a punch and kiss a dame until she's weak in the knees"
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(2008) |
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"...a scrupulously-controlled exercise in humiliation and expurgation, where both Aronofsky and Rourke look to cleanse themselves of past excesses with their tale of transcendent pain."
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(2008) |
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"If there were a way to do a secular passion play, this would be it."
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(2008) |
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"Rod Lurie's crisp take on the Valerie Plame case-with Vera Farmiga standing in for Plame and Kate Beckinsale for Judith Miller-is admirably bluster-free but suffers at times from movie-of-the-week syndrome."
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Film Journal International |
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(2008) |
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"...effectively dark-minded Swedish chiller."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"More often than not, though, Wolf makes her points simply and believably"
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"even with a smart concept and playful humor, JCVD runs out of juice before its conclusion"
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(2008) |
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"There is precious little doubt in Doubt."
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(2008) |
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"Without [Kate] Winslet, The Reader would be just another literary adaptation that got high on its own self-importance."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Though hardly a failure, What Doesn't Kill You is in the final measure definitely not what it could have been."
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Between Jeff Goldblum's wildly over-mannered performance and the schlocky treatment of serious subject matter, it's hard to know whether to simply dismiss the film or be outraged by it."
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(2008) |
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"...this is the Nixon of history."
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(2008) |
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"...the plot is just so much noise in the end, somehow both over- and underdone."
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(2007) |
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"...keeps things moving even when there is actually little going on besides morbid ruminations and deep drifts of sleep."
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(2008) |
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"...plays at times like The Royal Tenenbaums without the twee affectations but nearly all the humor."
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"astoundingly irritating"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a documentary of wrenching pathos"
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(2008) |
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"...digs under the artist's pop veneer and goes all the way to the surface, finding some kind of meaning in simplicity."
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5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"quietly shattering"
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(2008) |
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"...less a greatest-hits package than a reminder of simple joys, like mocking lousy movies."
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(2008) |
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"Kaufman comes closer to creating a kind of cinematic magic realism than any American director has done in living memory. And it's only his first film."
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(2008) |
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"...this is a film that, like [Jolie], could have stood to have its makeup smudged."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"If it hadn't been subtitled, the horrific tales contained in Fear(s) of the Dark might have been what it took to take the genre mainstream"
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While its ending notes may be those of possible catastrophe, Planet Earth can't be anything but hopeful, as really less a nature show than a series of snapshots of reasons to live."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Keeps the fights and jokes coming at a wicked pace."
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Reel.com |
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(2008) |
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"There may be a subtle bone somewhere in Spike Lee, but it would take a team of skilled surgeons to find it."
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(2008) |
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"Watching Mike Leigh's sublimely fresh Happy-Go-Lucky, you could be forgiven for wondering what the rest of humanity is so depressed about, anyway."
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(2008) |
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"...fails because the source material doesn't easily lend itself to cinema, and because the filmmaker is clearly out of his depth."
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(2008) |
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"...a film that could have been a bold feminist statement becomes fodder for those who just loved The Other Boleyn Girl."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In Brad Anderson's film, the scenario is one we've seen before, but it's handled here with an unusual alacrity."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"this is a film that trickles instead of roars."
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(2008) |
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"In The Dark Knight, when mortals tangle in the affairs of the gods, they get burned."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"...a tight and terse thriller."
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2008) |
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"A poor man's City of God that suggests the only answer to the problems of Brazil's slums are blazing guns wielded by a neo-fascist police force."
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Film Journal International |
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(2008) |
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"Just when you start worrying about the state of American movies ... along comes something as vital and jolting as Frozen River."
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(2008) |
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"Diane English's version of "The Women" barely nudges from its Martha Stewart interiors, exchanging insights for platitudes. It's a cup of lukewarm tea, without even a biscuit on the side."
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