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(2008) |
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"A sprightly collection of Gallic short subjects that sprints from romantic froth to earnest documentation (almost) without skipping a beat."
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Film Journal International |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...spry and spiky satire..."
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Filmcritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"a film that wraps its message around a hurled brick."
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"With his modestly impressive young actors and moody lens, Cuesta finds the normal in the extreme."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"It's like the cops say: Move along, nothing to see here."
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2007) |
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"Fortunately for all parties involved, Delpy goes beyond the mere comedy of embarrassment, though to be sure there is plenty of that as well."
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Film Journal International |
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5/5 |
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(1968) |
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"2001 certainly is a colossal bore, unless you're on its wavelength, in which case it's one of the greatest films of all time."
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Filmcritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"the ultimate expression of Wong's sinuous vision and perhaps a goodbye to it"
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"like a Valentine’s Day present from Adam Sandler – if he hated us, each and every one"
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Filmcritic.com |
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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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PopMatters |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"may really just have been about screwing around, both physically and artistically – otherwise, would it really have been necessary to make the running time exactly 69 minutes?"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"if it doesn't give you at least a nightmare or two, then it's hard to imagine what exactly would frighten you"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"...a meditative response to unthinkable violence."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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9/10 |
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(2006) |
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"...like Cubism in human form, woozy and kaleidoscopic."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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(2001) |
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"A lesser film might have taken a darker and more obvious route with Adam's uncanny ability to be whoever people want him to be, but About Adam plays it with a warm and knowing wink of the eye."
[movie review] |
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Citysearch |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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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..."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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2.5/5 |
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(1957) |
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"surprisingly tedious"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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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."
[movie review] |
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The Hollywood Reporter |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"the grotty details of the political and legal muck miring the entire process are nowhere to be found"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Broomfield is mostly just shooting from the hip and missing as much as he scores"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1979) |
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"Narcissistic and self-indulgent to a fault, it’s also like nothing you’ve ever seen before and probably never will again."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"exudes the overall uncomfortable air of watching a depraved home movie"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2001) |
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"Tautou's sublime performance and the film's unshakable devotion to her make for a deeply satisfying experience."
[movie review] |
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Citysearch |
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1.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"a sputtering, wet firecracker"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2006) |
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"A raised-fist documentary on black voter disenfranchisement which loses some, but definitely not all, its punch by morphing into a paid ad for Cynthia McKinney."
[movie review] |
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Film Journal International |
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"It's not really a cynical or outrageous point of view, but just a really lazy one, and offensively, exploitatively so."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"takes what should have been a mesmerizing slice of urban historical grit and grinds it into roughly two hours of standard issue cinema"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2006) |
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"...more like talking points for a film than a finished product. The effects of violence and the gun trade are examined, but little light is shed."
[movie review] |
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Film Journal International |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"tells you everything you need to know about how vital this music was"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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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"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(1956) |
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"This is one historical mystery that is often not mysterious and too unconcerned with history."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/5 |
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(2004) |
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"a font of faux profundity"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2007) |
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"Ultimately too slight a work on which to end a directorial career."
[movie review] |
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Heavily (and correctly) lauded, but possibly quickly forgotten"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"surprisingly relaxed"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1979) |
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"It's the journey, not the destination."
[movie review] |
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"sapped by sluggish direction"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The kind of thing that would be playing nonstop if there were a Lifetime Network for Men"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"The primary problem with "The Assassination of Richard Nixon" comes in its attempts to make drama out of a minor man's minor stab at infamy."
[movie review] |
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Film Threat |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a number of elements in Asylum strain credulity"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"...an aggressive, overwhelming piece of cinema that raises the year's cinematic G.P.A. all by itself."
[movie review] |
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Film Threat |
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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."
[movie review] |
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PopMatters |
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"succeeds only in making noise."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"a strange and semi-disturbing post-9/11 paramilitary fantasy"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2000) |
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"The most daring Hollywood film of the year."
[movie review] |
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Citysearch |
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2.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"promising, quite funny, but ultimately underwhelming"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2008) |
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"Although the film is mindful of Milestone and Irvin's epics of squandered lives, its focus is tighter and less battle-charged, more Samuel Beckett than Oliver Stone."
[movie review] |
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Film Journal International |
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4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Fortunately, lightning has struck twice..."
[dvd review] |
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Elites TV |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"a family saga told with all the muscle of the best Sergio Leone western."
[movie review] |
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Film Threat |
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