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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Richard Linklater sticks to the narrative flow of Philip K. Dick's novel without embellishing it with current sociopolitical realities that the book foreshadowed."
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Josh Gilbert's curt documentary about the arrest and conviction of comedian and former bong-maker Tommy Chong reveals the federal sting operation that put Tommy Chong in a state penitentiary for nine months for shipping glass bongs to Pennsylvania."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2002) |
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""About Schmidt" is a hostility-provoking film for the same reason that American citizens have lost their civil rights. The picture endorses, nay lionizes, complacency, inaction and the privilege of the greedy to steal whatever they covet simply because th"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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""Accepted" falls short of mining "National Lampoon's Animal House" brand of humor because it doesn't relate the relationships of its characters to their kooky behaviors."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"...sanitized romantic comedy never cracks the surface of its delicate and complex subject."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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""Slaughter House Five" meets "The Night Porter" in director Paul Schrader's energetic adaptation of Yoran Kaniuk's 1968 novel about former cabaret star Adam Stein (brilliantly played by Jeff Goldblum)."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"As with all of Egoyan's films, "Adoration" is a forward-thinking exploratory work of cinema meant to invigorate audiences into social discussions beyond its narrative structure."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Like the confused social period of the Reagan era that the story inhabits, "Adventureland" is an awkward comedy that makes you wish it were a lot better."
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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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C |
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(2005) |
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"Robert Rodriquez continues in the vein of his "Spy Kids" films with another visually frenetic kiddie crowd-pleaser that will leave adult chaperons exiting the cinema nursing headaches."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Even Theron's sexy catsuit acrobatics can't prevent boredom from setting in as the film's unimaginative production design and dull dialogue take precedence."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1951) |
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"Bogart and Hepburn are truly amazing together."
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Antonio Campos's character study of a prep school social misfit named Robert (Ezra Miller) is an intimate psychological journey into a coded juvenile mindset."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Educational and inventive, the documentary speaks with a strong editorial voice from a backward-looking vantage point. It's a narrative device that proves most effective."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Put aside all of your preconceptions of air guitar as a hobby of shamelessly untalented wanna-be guitar players, and step into the world of competitive air guitar."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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""Akeelah And The Bee" is a movie that parents should be happy to let their kids go see on their own; they just might start reading the dictionary."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"This dog of a movie confirms that in 1836 Texas was stolen from Mexico by a bunch of opportunistic bastards whose descendants went on to use similarly underhanded methods to steal the office of the White House in 2000."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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""Alex & Emma" has a light tone of modernized '20s inflected comedy that Woody Allen would love to still be able to capture in his movies."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Stone doesn't present characters that the audience can believe in, even for one moment, as representative of their historic roles."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Even Michael Caine's career would have gone nowhere if he had made this version of "Alfie.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1979) |
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"Science fiction horror doesn't get any better than this."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"What starts out as a promising retro comic spoof of '50s era sci-fi movies (think "It Came From Outer Space") digresses into a flat imitation of the mores and social ignorance it initially promises to skewer."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"This spectacle-fueled Sci-Fi thriller is all bark and no bite."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2006) |
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""All the King's Men" is a grand scale embarrassment."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2000) |
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"If a documentary about the pathetic men who define themselves by their ability to feign resemblance to Elvis Presley during his later, and fatter, Las Vegas phase appeals to you, then you know who you are."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2000) |
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"Cameron Crowe has a knack for making contagious movies that pull audiences into a whirlpool of situations that make you feel impossibly cool because his characters aren't near as cool as their surroundings imply."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"For a movie with a theme of living life without deferring to fear of the risks involved, the filmmakers don't take chances in breaking the mold of run-of-the-mill romantic comedies."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"With a dream cast of the youngest and brightest actors of the day, Cassavetes creates a movie that feels like you're watching an apathetic group of kids riding down a progressively steeper incline in an unmanned vehicle."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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""America: Freedom To Fascism" captures America's current gloom and doom zeitgeist with plenty of controversial ideas to send any dinner party into a shouting match."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"Even the famous M Street stairs from "The Exorcist" are out of place in the climax of this lightweight movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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""American Cannibal" is a fast-paced satire about the state reality television that builds its humor on its depiction of the limits our current reality TV craze."
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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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D |
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(2006) |
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"Writer/Director Paul Wietz ("In Good Company") tries his hand at creating a topical satire of our current American social-political crisis and comes up far short of capturing the brutal climate of a country running on the fumes of its dismembered civil ri"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Perfectly entertaining and suspenseful."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"For a documentary ostensibly about the history of the hardcore punk music movement that reigned in America during the '80s, director Paul Rachman and writer Steven Blush indefensibly omit the genre's most talented and high-profile band (The Dead Kennedys)"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"The frights are few and the moment of horrific revelation is a big letdown in writer/director Courtney Solomon's cinematic treatment of Brent Monahan's novel "The Bell Witch: An American Haunting.""
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B- |
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(1951) |
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"George Guetary's singing scenes should have been left on the cutting room floor, but Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron are mesmerizing, and Oscar Levant is amusing as Jerry's piano playing buddy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2001) |
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"In spite of the movie's inflated title, writer/director Eva Gardos tells an emotionally charged story of Hungarian immigration that is touching and historically accurate."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"An essential document to the rich history of New York, "American Swing" is too short sighted for the vision of its controversial subject."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"The "American Pie" franchise throws in another kitchen sink of gross-out sight gags by screenwriter Adam Herz ("American Pie" 1 and 2) in this third, and hopefully final installment, of percolating testosterone commotion."
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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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A |
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(2009) |
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"...an absorbing character study and an evocative exploration of womanhood as embodied by the finest young actress [Carey Mulligan] to come along this year."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"Fans of musical theater will work themselves into a lather over Joel Schumacher's by-the-book film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber's monotonous play, but most audiences will either fall asleep or hit the cinema doors running."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"For all of the Catholic Church hullabaloo over Dan Brown's novels, Ron Howard's "Da Vinci Code" sequel is an exuberant cinematic adaptation that combines elements of horror, religious tradition, and high-tech suspense to give audiences a non-stop thrill r"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2000) |
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""Animal Factory" shows in unflinching scenes of stabbings, race riots, drug use, attempted rape, and constantly boiling chaotic violence, how hardened criminals are formed by incessant molding inside American penitentiaries."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"You come away from the documentary impressed by a fiercely individualistic and beautiful woman who lived by her own rules with a fluid mastery of music that few musicians ever attain."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"Character development and narrative substance are absent in this wispy movie about beefcake and getting a knack for teamwork in an oppressive atmosphere."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"As part of the current season's spate of philosophical lifestyle pap movies like "Away We Go" and "$9.99," first-time-director (oh how I rue those words) John Hindman trips at every step."
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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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"You don't have to give two cents about Heavy Metal music to appreciate Sacha Gervasi's joyous and touching documentary about charismatic Canadian musicians Steve "Lips" Kudlow and Robb Reiner..."
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