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A- |
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(2009) |
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"This may be the all-time best party film next to "Animal House." If this movie doesn't make you laugh, call a doctor."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"...von Trier creates a tense and provocative horror film bound up in terms of psycho-therapy, sexual desire, and the shocking brutality of Mother Nature."
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Since making "Fahrenheit 9/11" and "Sicko," Moore has polished his humanist vehicle of cinematic political agitprop to a glossy reflecting sheen with an entertaining, touching, and informative movie that's worth repeated viewings."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Further evidence that Henry Jaglom's filmmaking career is on its last gasp, "Irene In Time" is an all too prosaic story..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Disgrace" is an infuriating allegory about a sacrificial victim. Becoming a martyr never looked so pathetic."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Punctuated by gory episodes, but lacking in suspense and surprise, "Jennifer's Body" works more as a teen sex endorsement ad for hormone-raging audiences to copy their on-screen peers."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Writer/director/actor Ari Gold has made a competent student film that would graduate him from any film school with flying colors--that's to say, here is an example of a filmmaker who hasn't yet begun to find his own voice."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"As a theatrical filmic exercise, "Blind Date" is a fair experiment. Just don't go expecting to see a movie."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"For as much as the camera loves Audrey Tautou--and it loves her a lot--director Anne Fontaine never shows the particular zing of je ne c'est quoi that rocketed Gabrielle "Coco" Chanel from gifted hat-maker to pioneering feminist fashion designer of the 20"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""Chelsea on the Rocks" is a precious cinematic document of a unique global community that gravitated around the Chelsea hotel."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Oddly, director Steven Soderbergh seems to believe that casting Matt Damon as habitual corporate liar and thief Mark Whitacre constitutes an empathetic protagonist."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Documentarian R.J. Cutler manages the impossible--revealing the notoriously aloof Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour's personality behind the ice queen facade."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2009) |
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"It's seldom that a film captures something as fragile as a transformation of the human soul, but this documentary of a family's journey to help their autistic child accomplishes just that."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Stagy to a fault, and painfully uneventful, "The Other Man" suffocates from the pitiable writing at hand."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Worse even that its insipid script (co-written by Josh Stolberg and Peter Goldfinger) is Elliot Greenberg's editing of a meandering slasher pic notable only for the number of nubile bare breasts that it manages to fit into nearly every other scene."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Blonde-haired white women are omens of doom in screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga's arduous directorial debut."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"a rare pleasure of unrequited love that never dips the poet's ink into the syrup of sentimentality, but rather allows its characters to invest passion from their gently articulated imaginations."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Writer/director Cherien Dabis's Sundance Festival entry digresses from a gritty West Bank drama to a stagy middle-American melodrama."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Essential viewing for understanding how banks systematically targeted low income groups in over-leveraged mortgage lending practices that led to a catastrophic economic collapse, "American Casino" is still a far from perfect documentary."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2009) |
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"...Michael Sheen solidifies his status as this generation's Laurence Olivier..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Tim Burton and Russian visionary Timur Bekmambetov take producing credits for a movie your kids won't get and you won't enjoy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"Ostensibly about Holocaust guilt, writer/director Jeremy Davidson's poorly scripted, filmed, and executed drama plays out like an unfinished low budget soap opera."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1996) |
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"Much more than just a touching story of the ties that bind humanity and the way we reveal ourselves, "Secrets and Lies" (1996) is a staggering work of cinematic genius. It is truly a perfect film."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(1972) |
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""Cocksucker Blues" is interesting from a time capsule point of view, but doesn't hold up as much of a movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1996) |
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"Here is a film that makes you feel like you've read the novel, seen the movie, and lived the life of a protagonist more empathetic than any other. You just might need a stiff drink afterward."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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""Stranger Than Fiction" is a sterile and pedantic comedy that tells much more than it shows."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"It's as if the studio (Dimension) let some testosterone-boiling 15-year-old boy with a case of Red Bull in his belly make a slapdash gore fest where a woman in white with a white horse is meant to represent the psychological underpinning of a mute killer"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Rowdy 12-year-old British girls might get some modicum of narcissistic pleasure from "St. Trinian's" (loosely based on Ronald Searle's WWII era cartoons), but no one else will."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(1981) |
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"...a campy B-horror movie with some very funny moments."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Legendary director Bernardo Bertolucci ("1900") crafts a return to social revolt in the form of sexual pursuits by a trio of late '60s teenaged students in this engaging yet insufficient movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"...has an unexpected emotional undertow and enough hard-won laughs to make it succeed."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2004) |
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"The film's lack of discretion robs the viewer of his or own conception of Christ's crucifixion. It is an exploitative disservice to "the greatest story ever told," that reduces that illustrious narrative to an extended torture episode."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2009) |
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"This is the kind of movie that really does separate the wheat from the chaff among film critics. It isn't just bad, it's gawdawful."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"Todd Solondz is a white Spike Lee."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2002) |
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"There are enough well layered performances in director/co-writer Jez Butterworth's "Birthday Girl" to all but compensate for the film's inept noir flirtations between romantic farce and theft thriller."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""We Live in Public" is a cautionary look at how surveillance affects individuals. Far from the Wim Wenders's "End of Violence" premise, it could signify the end of the world as we know it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"Black Hawk Down" is a precise vision of how little war has changed in spite of America's high-tech equipment and extensive vocabulary of modern tactics."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2009) |
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""Crude" is a knock-your-socks-off documentary that will leave you speechless. It's the best documentary of the year."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2001) |
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"Slick suits, hip urban nightspots, and an over the top performance by Vince Vaughn make this rambunctious farce an enjoyable and unpredictable movie with some obligatory fist fighting."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...a watery historic stew crammed with too many events and not enough context or character development to fill out what could have been a compelling film."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"You get the sense that if only Mike Judge made more pictures, he'd hit his stride alongside the likes of Apatow pretty quick."
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Daily Radar |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Professedly intended to reflect an Errol Morris "Fast, Cheap and Out of Control" type of documentary, Pray misses the mark by leaving his own editorial voice out to dry."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"As much a sociological study, of the way a modern urban couple relate and negotiate for individual priorities, as a practical experiment of living a sustainable lifestyle, "No Impact Man" is a thought provoking documentary that's as entertaining as it is"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2001) |
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""Legally Blonde" is a career misstep for a talented actress capable of creating much more complex characters."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"Sure it's a guilty pleasure watching stunt drivers put flashy state-of-the-art streetcars through impossibly daring maneuvers, but it's a happy indulgence nonetheless."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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""The Headless Woman" might have gained unworthy praise at film festivals, but it isn't worthy of market approval."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Robert Siegel (screenwriter of "The Wrestler") makes an gloomy but respectable debut with a dark drama that revels in a particular New York character type living within clearly drawn societal lines."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Unrelated to its misleading title of imaginary bliss is an overriding theme about old age offering no surefire recipe for wisdom, or even for much common sense. How's that for depressing?"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"In spite of its waning efforts toward fulfilling a challenging allegory about the treatment of immigrant aliens--in this case with interplanetary aliens--"District 9" settles into a gritty, spectacle filled, sci-fi movie that borrows liberally from films"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"McAdams and Bana are easy enough on the eyes to distract from the script's Grand Canyon-sized plot holes, but not enough to keep your mind off the insipid storytelling. Even from its gooey sentimental standpoint, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is two pints sh"
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