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C |
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(2009) |
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"Intriguing as a flawed experiment in animation, "nine dollars ninety-nine" suffers from a lack of thematic continuity that leaves the audience wanting both more and less--more story and less metaphor."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Egos, etiquette, and envy go a long way in this atypical comedy of manners."
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"While Freeman and Vega are mildly entertaining, the story is too safe and precious to elicit anything more than a passing sense of amusement."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"This global-warming documentary culls information from over 50 experts of many divergent backgrounds to succinctly verbalize the dire crisis of the Earth's ecosystem, and also provide thought-out solutions."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Jennifer Garner breaks character by forgetting that she's playing an awkward 13-year-old girl in a 30-year-old woman's body in this girly comedy"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Room 1408 presents a psychological, paranormal and physical juggernaut that will curl your insides in knots."
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D+ |
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(2001) |
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""15 Minutes" is a cops-and-killers action movie naively intent on telling you things you already know about the societal pitfalls of tabloid media."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Mos Def doesn't so much steal scenes as palm them away from the action around him to create an oasis of naturalism."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1977) |
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""1900" (made in 1976) is Bernardo Bertolucci's crowning achievement of collectivist socio-political cinema."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"French actress/writer/director Julie Delpy ("Before Sunset") fails miserably with this Paris-set romantic farce where American girly-man Jack (Adam Goldberg) learns to loathe his slutty bipolar girlfriend Marion (Delpy)."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Sure the blu-ray DVD will look great on your home theater as ambient background for your next house party, but that's about it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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""21" relies too heavily on music video montages to connect its cardboard characters."
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A- |
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(2003) |
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""21 Grams" commands a running discourse that runs as a constant thematic thread through all of humanity. The movie delivers life as a floating mysterious entity that we all share. It's very few films that achieve anything remotely close."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2008) |
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"Agonizing, flaccid, and about as romantic as bottle of flat champagne 27 Dresses is a perfect example of the stereotypical Hollywood romantic comedies that Judd Apatow's 40 Year Old Virgin and Knocked Up successfully disemboweled."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"This "Dawn of the Dead" inspired chiller is strong on concept, style and brutally violent action, but suffers from poor musical scoring, and a digital video format that helped keep its budget at 10 million dollars."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"This isn't just a bad movie. It's a cut-and-paste example of how movie sequels are predictably inferior to their ancestors."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"You can't have horror without suspense. Don't they teach the films of Alfred Hitchcock anymore in film school?"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Apart from its pro-war propaganda, that comes in the form of unrelenting voice-over narration, "300" is a dog of a movie where cookie-cutter CGI battle scenes show thirty actors pretending to fight to the death."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Director James Mangold's update of the Elmore Leonard short story that spawned the original 1957 Western, is a gritty action-packed movie that trades on the talents of its headstrong leading men."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"The stark drama is a consummate cinematic example of a socially charged parable told from a deeply personal perspective."
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A+ |
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(1959) |
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"Francois Truffaut's debut film not only galvanized the Nouvelle Vague (New Wave) movement of French cinema, but also generated a personal language of cinema that Truffaut would elaborate on for the rest of his career."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"There should not be an adult in the western world who isn't at least tacitly familiar with Michael Apted's groundbreaking documentary series based on the idea that a person's personality is formed by the age of seven."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"...has an unexpected emotional undertow and enough hard-won laughs to make it succeed."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Joseph Gordon-Levitt is great as a hopeless romantic, and Zooey Deshanel embodies a cold-fish charmer whose mod girl styling is but a clever disguise for a person looking for a better deal."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"As unlikely as an insightful and riveting film about a poor white Detroit kid succeeding beyond his surroundings through Rap music might be, "8 Mile" is that gloriously gritty movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2008) |
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"Okay, so Al went slumming and all he got was a paycheck and movie for his fans to ignore. All is forgiven. Just don't do it again Al. Please don't do it again."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Tim Burton and Russian visionary Timur Bekmambetov take producing credits for a movie your kids won't get and you won't enjoy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2005) |
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""9 Songs" is high-art pornography that doesn't neglect its compulsory gooey payoff scene."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"You won't get a bellyache, but you just might get a headache."
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