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(2008) |
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"One of the more exciting indie releases of the year."
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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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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The dreadful silence that has followed much of the debate, and the general lack of interest in such necessary films like Taxi to the Dark Side, doesn't give much reason for hope."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"never comes to grips with its standard-issue plot mechanics, delivering neither the icy thriller that its cool detachment edges towards, nor the pulse-quickening potboiler that its story would seem to demand."
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"...a good try from a first-time director that never quite hits the mark."
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(2009) |
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"...sometimes feels like just another link in a chain to nowhere."
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5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A bloody-fanged, no-prisoners take on Manifest Destiny greed ... In short: an all-American tale."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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7/10 |
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(1940) |
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"...like a Bollywood take on 1001 Arabian Nights."
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4/5 |
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(1974) |
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"a daffy mix of purposefully bad jokes and often aimless ponderings"
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4/5 |
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(1949) |
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"functions equally well as revenge drama, moral fable, and no-holds-barred condemnation of dog-eat-dog capitalism"
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3/5 |
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(1944) |
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"More in keeping with a classic British mystery"
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"its scattered moments of clearly-realized adolescent angst are scuttled by a wandering and frequently juvenile approach"
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"gonzo filmmaking ... detracts from the film's more serious charges"
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(2007) |
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"Meadows has a fighters' way with his camera, but an increasingly mature way with story."
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Film Journal International |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"One imagines that Almereyda thought he could simply act as a fly on the wall ... and have a compelling document on the creation of live theater."
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(2006) |
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"While he's never received the same adulation in the West as Wong Kar-Wai ... Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-Hsien is his equal when it comes to mapping desire and loss."
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PopMatters |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"these skills and cast would have been better served in a story of just slightly more import"
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5/5 |
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(1971) |
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"an instant classic of dystopic angst"
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5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"an instant classic of dystopic angst"
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1/5 |
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(2006) |
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"if there was ever a film to end a career, Tideland is it."
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1.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"like a plus-size episode of Sliders."
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4/5 |
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(1942) |
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"simultaneously hilarious and chilling"
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"amidst the campy twists and unbelievable outbursts there can also be felt an indefinable honesty; something in far shorter supply these days than mere outrage."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A jarring mess of a movie, one that ends up seeming like no more than a particularly heavy episode of the CBS kidnapping drama Without a Trace."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a crushingly dull film which practically hides Huffman's breakthrough performance behind a wall of Indie Screenwriting 101 clichés."
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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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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"...a tight and terse thriller."
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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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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"layered absurdist humor abounds within its wonderfully loose format"
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(2008) |
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"Say what you will about Apocalypse Now and Platoon, the two films that Tropic Thunder primarily plays off of, but they were not so "safe"."
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(2000) |
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"Even the soundtrack ... sounds like leftovers."
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Citysearch |
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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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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"When de Sève tries to rope in a wider context, the film flounders to an extent that will keep it from reaching much of a wider audience"
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(2006) |
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"A muscular Korean thriller that hearkens back to the monolithic Hollywood blockbusters of a decade or so ago-but not in a good way."
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Film Journal International |
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