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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"there’s not enough there to escape the nagging feeling that this is simply a thriller with pretensions and uncommonly good actors"
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"a dully presented piece of cinema about a truly worthy group of subjects."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Director Armfield coaxes excellent performances from his performers, almost making up for the thinness of the material"
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4.5/5 |
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(1993) |
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"a tragic, boozy lament"
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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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PopMatters |
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(2006) |
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"Marker brings a light, puckish touch."
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Film Journal International |
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(2008) |
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"Allen's writing here is so lacking in vigor and purpose that much of the film seems to be on nothing more than autopilot, a faded and tissue-paper-thin retread from a filmmaker who should know better."
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Film Journal International |
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1.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"a wretched snooze"
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Now that the Spy Kids trilogy has whiz-banged to an end, Fox saw the need to exploit the film’s kiddie superspy chic and “yay family!” message."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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PopMatters |
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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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PopMatters |
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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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Filmcritic.com |
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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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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The first sign that somebody will be wholly unable to effectively communicate with kids today is when they refer to them as "kids today.""
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This is how humanity ends ... annihilated not all at once, but piecemeal, slowly ground to bits between the codependent ideologies of terror and fascism."
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Film Journal International |
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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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PopMatters |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Christmas with the Kranks wants to toss out the holiday fruitcake but eat it, too."
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"There's no hideous beast or CGI landscape rendered here that can compare with what lurks in the mind of even the dullest, least imaginative child."
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2004) |
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"the result is like Lucas on steroids"
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(2007) |
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"A modest-sized but smart spooker."
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Film Journal International |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"... sharply delineated, as though cutting its images from the chaotic muck of life with a chisel. In short, it's a very clean piece of work."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(1994) |
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"If you want anything more out of a DVD, than there’s just no pleasing you."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1994) |
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"Cheap, touching, and downright nasty, Kevin Smith’s first feature still remains the ultimate cinematic tribute to slackers."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"As the film grinds on, without any actual actors to work against, Jackson starts to look marooned and eventually seems to give up trying."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"What was needed was the Frontline approach; what is provided, sadly, is Brian de Palma Lite."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"dull and lazy"
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The Constant Gardener starts out a routine murder mystery, but like all the best mysteries, turn into something quite a bit more significant before it's done with us."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"thoughtful"
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(2006) |
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"Hardly as thought-provoking as it imagines itself to be, and barely as exciting as the televised convention coverage itself."
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Film Journal International |
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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"
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Film Journal International |
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Lustrous"
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3/4 |
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(1956) |
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"A troubled-youth movie that doesn't waste too much time trying to shock."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1956) |
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"They’re on the road to nowhere, and looking good getting there.
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Slant Magazine |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"some quite serious questions are actually dealt with in admirable fashion"
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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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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"If the world constructed by CSA can seem at times shrill and cheap, however, that may in fact be a good indication of what this world would have been like to live in."
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(2006) |
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"An intriguingly idiosyncratic and highly personal filmed essay on the phenomenon of militarized Orwellian death cultists."
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Film Journal International |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"its natural impulse towards regal spectacle overwhelms practically every other element of the story"
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