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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"...a nail-biting horror movie that has audiences alternately covering their eyes in fear during scenes of gory revelation, or guffawing out loud..."
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A |
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(2009) |
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"An old-fashioned minor key drama, "The Cake Eaters" is the exact type of film that is the cornerstone of modern American Independent cinema."
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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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A |
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(2005) |
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"Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a tour de force performance as Truman Capote in a film that matches Hoffman’s authentic representation..."
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D |
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(2007) |
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"What could have at least been a halfway decent house-of-horrors scary movie digresses into a puddle of fake blood in this stale little thriller that peaks when its resident baddie mixes a batch of eyeballs in an electric blender."
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A- |
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(2004) |
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""Carandiru" is a soulful movie that eschews glamour and formula to present a thoughtful meditation on an endemic prison reality that reaches far beyond the confines of the richest city in South America."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Owen Wilson's infectious good-natured energy permeates Pixar's light-hearted animated movie about "Lightning McQueen" a rookie competition race car that discovers there's more to life than winning races."
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D+ |
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(2003) |
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""Casa de los Baby's" is a frustrating and tedious experience to endure."
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A+ |
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(1942) |
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"Although it was made in 1942, "Casablanca" is still the greatest romantic drama ever made."
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"All fears surrounding the future of cinema's longest running franchise are put to rest with Daniel Craig ("Layer Cake") more than capably filling 007's shoes in a Bond film that shatters formula constraints and delivers nail-biting action in a considerabl"
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Nearing the end of his career, Woody Allen has become a hit-or-miss director with considerably more misses."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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""Catch a Fire" is an incendiary movie about an individual's desperate decision to battle a corrupt government system after being mentally and psychically abused."
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Replete with winged undersea cave monsters, unlikely mountain climbing heroics and a mutating microbe that turns its victims into creatures-in-waiting "The Cave" is a paint-by-numbers thriller lacking in pigment."
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B |
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(2001) |
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"...rings with a perfectly hollow pitch that's a digital video punch to the solar plexus."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Apart from a flashing neon light coda, Eastwood's drama made for a respectable competition entry at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival."
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Tim Burton and Johnny Depp collude to subvert the story’s incidental allusions to Michael Jackson and his Neverland Ranch."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"In place of a plot, screenwriter Aaron Sorkin (writer of television's West Wing) supplants a stylistic veneer of dialogue gloss so thick that Tom Hanks and Julia Roberts are like giant fleshy insects encased in transparent amber."
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D- |
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(2003) |
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"Even as a girl fantasy flick, "Full Throttle" fails because the filmmakers are more distracted with bad music video set pieces than telling a story."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Steve Buscemi's invigorating vocal characterization of Templeton the rat is the only high point in this sleep-inducing live action-animated revamp of the 1973 animated classic based on E.B White's 1952 children's book."
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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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"Stephen Frears's adaptation of two combined Colette novels, never takes hold due to a myopic screenplay by Christopher Hampton, and from a severely misjudged performance from Kathy Bates that threatens to sink the film whenever her distinctly non-British"
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Here is an unabashed call to a new age of protests. Is it agit prop propaganda? You bet."
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Tasteful vocal performances, by a talented cast including Zach Braff, Garry Marshall and Steve Zahn, can't relieve Disney's first inhouse all-computer generated animation movie from its music video trappings and inadequate storyline."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Children of Men is an anecdotal vision of the way the future seems to be headed from a 2006 vantagepoint. There is only a tiny glimmer of hope, and it does not extend to the masses."
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A+ |
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(1974) |
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"Like "Casablanca," "Chinatown" represents a perfect storm of enormous cinema talent coming together under an intoxicating noir setting."
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B |
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(2008) |
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""Choke" is the most assertively anti-mainstream film of the year, and to that end it succeeds as a positive form of cinematic/social rebellion."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Director/co-writer Ramin Bahrani ("Man Push Cart") gives a candid window into America's impoverished underbelly via a Queens junkyard neighborhood called the "Iron Triangle," where 12-year-old Latino orphan Ale (Alejandro Polanco) plans for his future"
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"There are no martyrs in this anti-sentimental ironic movie that nevertheless percolates with emotion and accepts its quirky characters for all of their flaws."
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"The Chronicles Of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe is a weighty children's story about how children make the transition into young adults during a time of crisis."
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A |
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(1965) |
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"it's the film's stellar cast, along with a gritty narrative and stylized direction, that makes The Cincinnati Kid the best poker movie ever."
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(2005) |
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"The boxing sequences here are better than those of Martin Scorsese’s bar-setting “Raging Bull.”"
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Scattershot and comically unbalanced, "Cirque du Freak" is a wannabe horror film that feels like it was filmed underwater."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1941) |
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"...an impressive dramatic epic that articulates some of the myths of capitalist America in a personal and human way."
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A+ |
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(2003) |
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"Fernando Meirelles' Brazilian slum epic is a profound, stylistically expansive depiction of three decades of child gang warfare on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro with non-actors playing their poverty-ridden lives for the camera."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Intimately filmed and filled with true-to-life non-actors, City of Men is yet another example of the exciting neo-realistic filmmaking coming out of Brazil today."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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""CJ7" has some moments of sweetness and CGI inflected humor, but comes off as slight compared to the filmmaker's previous efforts."
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A+ |
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(2008) |
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""The Class" ("Entre les murs") proves to be worthy of its recent Palme d'Or win in Cannes, under the rigorous attention of director Laurent Cantet who spent a year of improvisation preparation before adapting it to the film's semi-improvised shoot."
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"Notably dubbed as the "gayest film ever" when it premiered at Cannes, "Clerks II" is nonetheless a slight improvement on Smith's original film."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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""Click" is a one-trick-pony of a comedy."
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A+ |
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(1971) |
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"There's Stanley Kubrick's "A Clockwork Orange," and then there's everything else."
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Mike Nichols teases up a similar level of emotional dysfunction to "Carnal Knowledge" with a filmic rendition of Patrick Marber's stage play about sexual one-ups-man-ship."
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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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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Samuel Jackson returns to form behind a long string of disappointing performances as an ethically minded basketball coach at a tough inner city high school in Richmond, California."
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A |
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(2006) |
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"Documentarian Billy Corben's revealing film exposes the methods and players in South Florida's drug trade that literally built the city of Miami that we know today with billions of dollars in blood cash."
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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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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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D |
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(2004) |
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"Independent filmmaking grandfather Jim Jarmusch conceives the laziest and most tiring movie of his career with a series of vignettes calculated around celebrities talking over coffee and cigarettes."
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"Only Renee Zellweger maintains a Southern accent in this laughable attempt by director Anthony Minghella ("The English Patient") at filming Charles Frazier's love story set amidst the turmoil of the Civil War."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"High on concept, but low on execution writer/director Sophie Barthes' gray comedy of post modern, existential panic never finds its balance before falling off the same kind of narrative wire that "Being John Malkovich" danced effortlessly on."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Chris Smith's fiery and provoking documentary provides a searing platform for police-officer-turned-reporter Michael Ruppert to articulate his gloomy vision and, in his view, doomed fate of the world."
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