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D+ |
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(2002) |
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" "G" is a vacuous movie set in attractive locations."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Amateurish production values and unpolished writing hinder this occasionally touching portrait of Jesus (Joe Arquette), a Hispanic Iraq war vet returning to his wife and daughter."
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Actor Zach Braff (NBC's "Scrubs") makes an impressive if unsatisfying writing and directing debut with a plaintive post-modern drama that relies on unspoken dry wit to entertain its audience (think a cross between "Harold and Maude" and "The Graduate")."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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""Gardens of the Night" is a powerful and provoking film about a disturbing and all too real subject. There's a bitterness here that will not go away."
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Gory sight gags and intestine eating abound in this must-see movie for fans of the horror genre."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Although its chemistry never gels, Get Smart pulls off a sufficient number of goofy action set pieces to earn its entertainment value."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Nicolas Cage wangs it up with a not-so-subtle Elvis impersonation as Johnny Blaze, the comic book hero who transforms into a flaming skeleton bounty hunter for the Devil."
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B |
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(2001) |
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"...satisfying in ways that more than compensate for the film's soft ending."
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"Writer/director Martin Brest ("Scent of a Woman") combines romance, comedy, and crime in a movie that will forever be blamed for bringing together Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez."
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A clever genre-blender from Anne Fontaine, "The Girl From Monaco" is a romantic satire that achieves a delicate balance of motivation and risk reward or punishment on the social stage of its French Riviera town."
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"The writing team of "National Lampoon's Van Wilder" crafted it as a satire about conflicting levels of sexual experience among teens, but fail to connect the significance of erotic pleasure to the emotional demands of budding adults."
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"The film is an intriguing speculative account of the creation of one of Vermeer's most famous and sensual paintings. Every shot in the film looks like it was taken right out of a painting from Delft, Holland circa 1665..."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Ultimately, though "The Girlfriend Experience" is a brief cultural oil check with a dipstick that you can barely read. What the film shows is that Sacha Grey can act, and Soderbergh shoots beautiful compositions."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Rhetoric far outweighs substance in this vaguely satisfying and preachy doc."
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B |
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(2003) |
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"With the Hungarian song "Gloomy Sunday" as its thematic centerpiece, this personalized story of Budapest during World War II becomes a satisfying romantic drama about four divergently different people."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Debut director James Gartner struggles with solidifying the film's socially explosive period aspects against the exacting demands of recreating a season's worth of hair raising basketball games surging toward the 1966 NCAA tournament."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"As part of the New Argentine Cinema, "Glue" is a bold and tasteful film that wears its warts well."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Director Danny Cannon ("I Still Know What You Did Last Summer") captures every bit of Kuno Becker's star quality although the committee-written script remains slack."
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A+ |
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(1972) |
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"Like a favored method of Mafia influence, "The Godfather" is an offer no audience can refuse."
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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""Godsend" suffers from a feeble plot, laughable dialogue, and thriller cliches that barely effect the characteristic jolts of the genre."
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Although the film's conclusion is rushed and unsatisfying, "The Goebbels Experiment" is a priceless document of one of Nazi Germany's cruelest and most effective architects."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Screenwriter/director Chris Weitz's spotty filmic adaptation never locates a throughline to the convoluted narrative."
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A |
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(2009) |
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"You may never want to visit southern Italy after seeing this film."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Strong performances from its ensemble cast can't compensate for undeveloped character-reversals, splashes of exploitation, and a broken storyline that feels like two different narratives stuck together."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"For all of its illumination of one of the most enigmatic figures in American literature, "Gonzo" mistakenly paints Hunter S. Thompson as a writer whose star burned out decades before his long foreshadowed suicide in 2005."
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D |
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(2008) |
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"A distinctly unlikable movie about dislikable people, writer/director/actor Marianna Palka's mumblecore version of dysfunctional romance is the most unromantic picture of the year."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"A beautifully flawed experiment, "The Good German" is an entertaining if unbalanced war drama that places modern cinema mores on a classic style of American film when the Hayes code would never have allowed such overt sexual reality."
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"George Clooney knocks the ball out of the park with his second directorial effort..."
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A- |
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(2006) |
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""The Good Shepherd" is all about tone and the stoic atmosphere of secrets and lies that protects U.S. government agents. It's about a milieu of insidious self-important people in positions of power who took advantage of their autonomy."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Russell Crowe brings to bear his now-familiar acting tics in a not-so-tender romance by director Ridley Scott."
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Ramin Bahrani is a promising filmmaker who needs to work much harder at crafting dialogue and complete stories, and not believe the false praise being bestowed on him by the A.O. Scotts of the world."
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D |
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(2005) |
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""The Gospel" is a cliché-filled movie with low production values that says nothing significant about gospel music or its core values."
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D- |
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(2003) |
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"This shoddy B horror movie doesn't deserve a national theatrical run, much less the capable talent assigned to it."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Screenwriter James C. Strouse makes an able if flat directorial debut with a simple wartime movie that needed more dimension. This is what a movie without subplots looks like."
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B |
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(2008) |
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""Old man Dirty Harry" is one way to describe Clint Eastwood's miserable racist character Walt Kowalski in what the actor and director says will be his last film role."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Although muddled at times from its cross-purpose agendas of trumpeting conservation and establishing a story arc that never quite congeals, "Grand Canyon Adventure: River at Risk" is a lush look at a journey that few people will ever experience except vic"
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Ostensibly about nostalgia for a vaudeville breed of entertainer that was never very good to begin with, "The Great Buck Howard" doesn't know whether to mock or celebrate its tragic protagonist."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"For all of its hermetic dramatic license, "The Great Debators" hits its emotional marks with help from Forest Whitaker and a talented ensemble cast that includes Nate Parker, Jurnee Smollett, and newcomer Denzel Whitaker."
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Undeveloped secondary characters and awkward pacing thwarts the movie from achieving its '60s war film ethos similar to "The Great Escape.""
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A- |
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(2007) |
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""Great World of Sound" is a sleeper independent film destined to become an underground classic."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Dwayne Johnson pushes his emotionally charged performance so hard that you think he might pop a blood vessel."
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A |
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(2007) |
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"The palpable cinematic elation and hip vibe that wafts from the screen is more than contagious; it's stupefying."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Writer/director Ed Burns adds a droopy fourth chapter to his Irish-American working class films..."
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C- |
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(2006) |
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""The Guardian" is a pro-military propaganda movie from Hollywood that attempts to mask its agenda behind the life-saving rhetoric of Coast Guard rescue swimmers."
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Instantly recognizable as a guy you might have gone to college with, co-director and documentary subject, Paul H-O's personal experience, as host for a self-produced cable television art program called "Gallery Beat," speaks volumes about New York's eliti"
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Dito Montiel adapts his autobiographical 2001 novel into a vivid slice-of-life drama from the Jim Carroll school of disaffected coming-of-age New York journalism."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Although much of its archive footage from high school games shows up blurry, pixleated or in an otherwise raw form, it nonetheless clarifies the abilities of thoroughly committed young players executing their most impressive basketball skills."
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