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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Although "L'Enfant" won the coveted Palme d' Or at the 2005 Cannes Film Festival, it is a grossly disappointing movie."
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A+ |
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(1960) |
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"The satire on display is so simultaneously subtle yet blatant that the movie itself is intoxicating."
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D |
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(2009) |
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"There's only so much rah-rah-sis-boom-ba you can take about a President elected on the premise of ending the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, who has merely followed in his predecessor's footsteps of starving the U.S. into dirt."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"Apologists for the categorically inadequate M. Night Shyamalan have their work cut out defending yet another cinematic killjoy from the 'auteur' whose high box office receipts do not reflect the ineptitude of his filmmaking skills."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Park Chanwook works his Grand Guignol sense of humor against Korean social conditions to effect a call-and-response logic to the metaphoric and literal things that happen onscreen."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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""Lake City" is a throwaway film with a cast it doesn't deserve."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"While the movie isn't as bad as its dubious trailer portends, it suffers terribly from a truncated narrative puzzle device that connects two lovers from different eras via an old-fashioned mailbox at a lake house."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Strong performances from its talented ensemble cast don't compensate for its narrative flaws."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Will Ferrell is a buzz kill to this innuendo-laced comedy that's unrelated to the television series it's ostensibly based on."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Writer/director Charles Sturridge adapts the heart-warming story with strict attention to its modest emotional underpinnings of family, devotion, and a beautiful collie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"The nightingale of mature romance sings a haiku tune for Dustin Hoffman and Emma Thompson in a good-spirited romantic comedy that worthy of their naturalistic performances."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"Boring, self-indulgent and punctuated by Van Sant's trademark homosexual kissing scene, "Last Days" will make you wish that this were Van Sant's last movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"As an exploitation B-horror movie, this latest addition to the genre is heads and shoulders above anything Rob Zombie has ever done."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"a distinctly white bread romantic comedy sprinkled with brief flashes of modern-day American existentialist dread."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Lumpy and misshapen like a dilapidated stuffed animal, The Last Mimzy is a kids movie that wants to be this generation's E.T. but doesn't know how to get there."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Lush cinematic compositions, locations, and costumes compensate for some of the story's lacking impact, but not enough to recommend it as anything more than a guilty pleasure."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"More than anything else, "The Last Samurai" is the current Tom Cruise vehicle, and the actor's capacity to wrestle the story to his own demands is an impressive testament to his multifaceted perfectionist skills."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Fessenden's best film to date is a horror movie built on eerie atmosphere and unspoken terror. Director of photography Magni Agustsson achieves beautiful visual textures and distances that allow hidden meanings to saturate the audience."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Gerard Butler's scene-chewing performance holds interest even as the story alternately melts and congeals like a mobile bowl of poorly mixed Jell-O."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Pitched as a homage to George Cukor's 1949 classic romantic comedy "Adam's Rib" (with Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy), "Laws of Attraction" is far separated from that film's exceptional timing and sincere comic exploration of a competitive couple of"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2005) |
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""Layer Cake" is a stylized British noir full of clever twists, biting dialogue, and plenty of ironic violence."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"The rarely done genre of the French policier is alive and well in director Xavier Beauvois' dynamic movie"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1945) |
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"Mental illness never looked so seductive or bit with such a ferocious over-bite as from Gene Tierney's demented character."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2001) |
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""Legally Blonde" is a career misstep for a talented actress capable of creating much more complex characters."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Catherine Zeta Jones' eminent allure and Antonio Banderas' leading man charm are reduced to mere furnishings for an ostensibly child-friendly adventure movie filled with tedious stunt sequences, endless sword fights and too many brutal murders."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is refracted through a condensing narrative prism in director Eran Riklis ("The Syrian Bride") restrained multinational drama."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(1994) |
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""Leon The Professional" is a consummate hit man movie from the early '90s era in cinema when every young filmmaker wanted to be the next Tarantino. Luc Besson just had to be himself."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Filmmaker Lian Lunson uses a 2005 Sydney tribute concert to Leonard Cohen as a home base for her relatively shallow examination of the best folk singer to slit your wrists to."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Novelist/screenwriter John Ajvide Lindqvist's script is a study in connecting the inner lives of emotionally bound characters to a suspenseful vampire plot in a cold foreign setting."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(1998) |
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"Like the saying goes, "those who talk most about sex, usually have it the least.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2006) |
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"Clint Eastwood performed the year's most ambitious and original cinematic feat in making a pair of companion films about the significance of the battle at Iwo Jima and the ways in which the Japanese and American governments treated that pivotal engagement"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Based on Stephen Jeffreys' play, about 17th century iconoclastic poet the 2nd Earl of Rochester (Johnny Depp), "The Libertine" fails to pay off on its promises of taboo sex."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(1944) |
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"Hitchcock's answer to the perpetual film school dilemma of making a movie on a boat as one of a filmmaker's biggest challenges, is a textbook example of how it's done right."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Watching "The Limits of Control" is like looking at an art instillation that dares you to lower your expectations to its level. The game is fixed."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"For a film attempting to grapple with the seething anger of an American populace left hung out to dry by the Bush administration, "Lions for Lambs" is far to muted and meek to achieve its perceived goals of inciting social activism."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"This kitchy movie arrives as a quirky and funny footnote to "Million Dollar Baby," and dispels any notion that these brawny pin-up women were ever anything more or less than a batch of tough broads."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"Bereft of a protagonist, the movie breaks down under the weight of absurd voice-over narration and an exploitative ending that is as indefensibly wrongheaded as it is cheap."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"In spite of the admirable effort that the Wayans brothers went to in digitally transplanting Marlon Wayans head and facial expressions onto the two-foot-six-inch body of a nine-year-old actor, "Little Man" is a bawdy and violent comedy that rankles more t"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"...mediocre black comedy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"This overlong story of a Ethiopian boy's experiences attempting to pass himself off as Jewish in order to enter Israel, gets bogged down with a meandering script that fails to gain momentum."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Donnersmarck's confident direction suggests a fundamental question about why governmental wiretapping seems fascistic when performed in other countries, but permissible here."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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""Lonesome Jim" is an earnest and modest 'little independent' movie that charms by way of its understated underachieving characters."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Peter Segal ("Anger Management") successfully helms his third Adam Sandler project in this funny modernized retooling of Robert Aldrich's 1974 original ."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Directed by Fred Durst (of the band "Limp Bizkit"), "The Longshots" is a cookie-cutter feel-good kid's movie that seems like it was made by some faulty gadget stuck on auto-pilot."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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""Look at Me" is a wholesome work of fully rounded dramaturgy that spins on a gyroscope of sustained emotional momentum."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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""The Lookout" as that rare character-driven movie that screenwriters dream of creating, and then rush to copy after seeing it. It is a gem of a movie that beckons repeated viewing."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2003) |
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"All hail to the King."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"(The way you feel about Nicholas Cage’s character is exactly how you might feel about the leaders of all governments. They are indeed cut from the same bloody cloth)."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"As the three friends separate via commercial successes afforded them, "Lords Of Dogtown" becomes a distinctly youthful American anecdote about the nature of friendship and success."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""My fiction beats the hell out of my truth." That suggestive line from first-time filmmaker Chris Fuller's dead-end portrait of suburban American dystopia cuts like a knife across the dramatic heart of an original and gutsy drama captured on 16mm film."
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