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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Cottage-industry independent filmmaker Tyler Perry fumbles with this family drama about Monty (Idris Elba), a salt-of-the-earth car mechanic and father of three girls trying to win a custody battle with his lowlife ex-wife."
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A |
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(1969) |
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"By boldly confronting the psycho-sexual depravity of the Nazi mindset, all the way through to is inevitable incestuous nature, Visconti creates a specific cinematic vernacular for viewing and discussing Hitler's manic ideology."
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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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A- |
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(1999) |
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"Everything about Bjork and Dancer in the Dark is enigmatic in an uncomfortable dissecting way that shows beauty in the crudest way, and crudeness in the complexity of advanced social mores."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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""The Darjeeling Limited" is a dud where even its lame attempts at slapstick comedy fall flat."
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A+ |
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(2008) |
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"The Dark Knight packs in at least two films worth of action, suspense, spectacle, horror, and nuanced social commentary. You’ll want to see it more than twice."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"There's nothing worse than a soft-boiled noir. Dashiell Hammett this is not."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Esteemed Brazilian director Walter Salles ("The Motorcycle Diaries") falls flat on his face on his first Hollywood outing with a horror movie that will bore you to tears."
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A+ |
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(1982) |
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" It is unlike any other war film in that it confines the audience in a confined submarine where we digest the fear and panic of the human beings on screen. In short, "Das Boot" is a religious experience."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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""Day Watch" is like a drone of cinematic House music for the eyes."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Plodding and bereft of suspense, "Dead Silence" is an irredeemable jumble of cliché genre fragments."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"For young, gore-hungry audiences who haven't seen "The Evil Dead" (one and two), Dead Snow could work as a stomach-churning thrill ride, but for more experienced viewers, you're much better off sticking with a master of the genre like Sam Raimi..."
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Clearly inspired by "Andy Warhol's Frankenstein" (1973), "Deadgirl" is dirty little video nasty that doesn't begin to approach Warhol's superior production that was directed by Paul Morrissey."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Director Frank Oz nearly redeems himself after his disastrous "Stepford Wives" remake, with a British black comedy that goes over the top backwards."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Guy Pierce's performance is perhaps the worst researched role of the year, and Catherine Zeta-Jones never connects to her character's lower class milieu."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Beyond the feigned controversy stirred up by neocon zealots, "Death of a President" is nothing more than a high concept political hypothesis film that signals the futility of presidential assassination."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Satire and spectacle are balanced perfectly in this cynical and sexy thrill ride."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"This is a must-see documentary for any film lover."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(1997) |
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"...a sad waste of good talent."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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""December Boys" is a minor ensemble melodrama that succeeds for the heartfelt efforts of its ensemble."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Actor Justin Theroux makes an auspicious directorial debut with a disarmingly funny romantic comedy full of emotional life and witty filmic textures."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Historian Nechama Tec's factual book "Defiance: The Story of the Bielski Partisans" provides the basis for an underwhelming war film done in by miscalculated episodes of violence and inept dialogue."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"For a Valentine's Day romantic comedy Definitely, Maybe hits all the right notes of commitment, honesty and maturity that go into a young father's explanation to his daughter about the women he dated before she was conceived."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"The time machine element of the movie gets hokey, but the visuals are intriguing and director Tony Scott wrenches suspense and tension from every scene."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Sleep-inducing and yet excessively violent, "Delgo" is a highly directive and bloated piece of animated sci-fi set in a fantastical world that never captures the imagination."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"There's enough retro modern social satire here to support the comical efforts of a talented cast adding layers of emotional nuance. Alison Lohman ("White Oleander") remains a rising star with yet another inspired performance that surprises and charms."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"Martin Scorsese is a master director in every sense of the word and with the help of his ensemble has made a masterpiece of modern cinema, complete with a triple climax ending."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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""Departures" is a brilliantly written and performed story that transcends its themes of ritualized catharsis to bring the audience to a fresh understanding of man's need to make peace with the deceased."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Apart from its obvious exploitation element and disjointed second act, the movie achieves a cool momentum by sheer force of the intimate power play that takes place over the course of a slow build-up toward its sex-schock finale."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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""The Descent" succeeds thoroughly as a horror film, based on the filmmakers' diligent attention to fundamental genre elements."
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C |
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(1998) |
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""Desperate Measures" is a drawn-out, and purely disposable, suspense thriller."
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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""Deuce Bigalow: European Gigolo" scrapes the bottom of the barrel and licks all around the sides."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"While the movie is interesting as a curiosity, it ultimately reflects on the people who erroneously believe in the heightened quality of Johnston's overrated music."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2005) |
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"The Devil's Rejects is ultimately unredeemable for its wrongheaded attempt at glamorizing a band of cocky and detestable serial killers."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"For an action spectacle movie held together by five or six over-the-top sequences, "Live Free or Die Hard" pays off handsomely albeit with a surplus of downtime in between."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"There isn't one decent performance to be had from a cast of amateur actors (adult actors included) that couldn't make dialing a phone look believable or funny."
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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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B |
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(2001) |
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"A satellite dish sitting in the middle of an Australian sheep farm might not sound like the most compelling subject to base a story around, but there are hidden charms in this graceful film that add up to something quite out of the ordinary."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"...there isn't much to fall in love with in Robert Zemeckis's visually overpowering motion-capture-animation..."
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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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B |
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(2001) |
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""Divided We Fall" is a vital reminder of the kinds of dramatic choices made by millions of peopled victimized by Nazis and traitors in a war that was fought at all costs."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"With the help of cinematographer Janusz Kaminski, director Julian Schnabel goes so far toward cinematically capturing the claustrophobic condition of his paralyzed and mute protagonist Jean-Dominique Bauby (Mathieu Amalric) that the artifice of his point-"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2002) |
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"Director Ulrich Seidl presents a mean spirited satire of Austrian suburbia in this ugly movie that is quite possibly the worst film (foreign or domestic) of 2003."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"Domino is a steaming pile of green-tinted celluloid."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Apart from an extraordinary scene of attempted reconciliation between Shepard and Lange "Don't Come Knocking" is an inflated drama that lies stagnate on the screen."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"If there's cautionary moral here it's that a girl should never introduce herself to a prospective lover as being "hardcore.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"Roger Ebert put it best, "Doom is like some kid came over and is using your computer and won't let you play.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2008) |
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""The Doorman" is a thinly written indie comedy--it's only 79 minutes long--that will have you kicking yourself for wasting whatever time and money you spent to watch it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2003) |
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"...gut-wrenchingly awful--should be avoided at all cost. Rated R 84 mins. (D-)http://www.colesmith"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1944) |
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" Edward G. Robinson stars as MacMurray's associate, but it's Barbara Stanwyck that rules the roost as one of cinema's most diabolical femme fatals."
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