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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The voice of Darth Vader, James Earl Jones, narrates this lively and majestic nature documentary that traces a year in the life of our planet by way of some its most enchanting species."
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A- |
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(2007) |
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""Eastern Promises" is an exceptionally well-crafted thriller that draws its audience through a thick narrative maze of complicity and double crosses."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1969) |
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"The film stands up as a profound period piece that continues to reverberate with the despondent hostilities of modern American existence."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Stephan Eliott's Noel Coward adaptation hits a lilting comic gallop in '20s era England."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"The dogs' remarkable acting abilities admirably serve the bulk of the movie..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"Based on Philip Roth's novella "The Dying Animal," "Elegy" an impassioned cinematic adaptation from director Isabel Coixet ("The Secret Life of Worlds")..."
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"The film's message is that all of society is corrupt, so it doesn't matter who gets killed. It's a propaganda movie that shows no empathy for its characters or for its audience."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Here, the Golden Age is converted to pewter."
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Orlando Bloom gives a typically abysmal performance as a man-boy who doesn't know if he's old enough to shave yet."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Anne Hathaway is the cheery spark in this glitzy girl's fantasy story from screenwriters Karen McCullah Lutz and Kirsten Smith ("Legally Blonde")."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2007) |
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""Encounters at the End of the World," is an adventure documentary where our perception of nature's fierce beauty is filtered through Herzog's mad-genius mind."
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D |
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(2006) |
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"A squeaky-clean family of missionaries lives out their fantasy of "saving" a violent tribe of Ecuadorian jungle natives in this virulently wrong-headed movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"This essential documentary skillfully maps out the shady "mark to market" accounting device that the men who called themselves "the smartest guys in the room" used to commit corporate fraud on a colossal scale."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1976) |
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"Time drips like old paint in Lynch's surreal experiment, that revels in all things upsetting, disorienting, dark, and mysterious."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Director/co-writer Rupert Wyatt deconstructs the typical prison escape story form to dramatically successful effect with the help of a strong ensemble cast."
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Michel Gondry tries to channel Fellini and ends up irrigating faulty plumbing."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"The film's naturalistic performances and rough-hewn style carry it into a range of unfettered human emotion and experience appropriate to its evocative title."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Timeless truths about the lives and personalities of dancers, that dancer/choreographer/director Michael Bennett captured in his hugely successful musical "A Chorus Line," comes across with vibrant energy in an entertaining documentary that follows the au"
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"The lamentable influence of Dave Eggers' oh-so-precious post modern literary devices from "A Heartbreaking Work Of Staggering Genius" (2000) are glued all over a bullet proof piece of magical realism..."
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A |
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(1961) |
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"Director Brent MacKenzie's black-and-white documentary/narrative genre blender about urbanized Native Americans in 1961 Los Angeles is a cold glass of cinematic water drawn from the same well as Joseph Strick's "The Savage Eye" (1960)."
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"“The Exorcism Of Emily Rose” must inevitably be compared to “The Exorcist,” and pales drastically in the process."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2000) |
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" I went prepared to be scared, and woke up sleep-walking two nights in a row after I saw it. Isn't that what horror movies are supposed to do?"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Provocative, erotic and unforced Exterminating Angels is a cautionary story about the perils of awakening useless desire."
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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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B- |
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(1996) |
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"...an overly complex narrative puzzle placed amid an atmospheric setting with distracting voice-over narration by Holbrook's town sheriff as he reflects on a tragedy that makes mute a local orphan..."
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