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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Style wins out over content in this delectable low-key French thriller by director Denis Dercourt..."
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Director John Curran ("We Don't Live Here Anymore") captures the profound beauty of China's lush countryside where his characters discover the true nature of their relationship."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2005) |
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""Palindromes" is a sloppy and muddy film that uses the shock value of seeing adult men humping numerous underage girls as its recurring visual device inscrutably linked to an unclear abortion issue theme."
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"The childhood desperation that permeates his dramatic sensibility is elevated by del Toro's sincere devotion to imaginary belief systems rooted in cycles of nature."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"Apart from one plot twist too many, "Panic Room" is a seamless suspense-thriller with a top-notch cast."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2004) |
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"It's not a good sign when a director's primary claim to fame is as Mel Gibson's former hair stylist."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"If an animated scattershot clusterfuck tweaking under the influence of a determinedly Japanese mindset sounds like a good way to substitute a cinematic drug experience for the real thing, then go right ahead to Satoshi Kon's overflowing excess."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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""Paranoid Park" may be the best of the director's last four films, but that isn't saying much."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Compared with a precision horror film like Lars von Trier's terrifying upcoming shocker "Antichrist," "Paranormal Activity" is just kid's stuff."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"French auteur Cedric Klapisch achieves a sublime use of the City of Lights as a living and breathing body of humanity."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Just when you thought they didn't make films like "Children of Paradise" anymore, "Paris 36" comes along to rejuvenate the genre."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(1961) |
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"Louis Armstrong lends his legendary horn to great effect in a musical sequence in this classic gem of a movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"I suppose you can take the anthology as a sampling of Parisian atmospheres, but hardly anywhere is a place you'd want to visit for long."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2010) |
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"Filmed over a period of three live performances of Stew's and Heidi Rodewald's popular Broadway musical, director Spike Lee beautifully captures the play's vibrant music and energetic physicality toward a priceless cinematic artifact."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2004) |
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"The film's lack of discretion robs the viewer of his or own conception of Christ's crucifixion. It is an exploitative disservice to "the greatest story ever told," that reduces that illustrious narrative to an extended torture episode."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"The soul of one of rock's true poets is examined in an appropriately abstract way in Steven Sebring's black and white documentary that could have benefited from more of Patti Smith's songs and another pass in the editing room."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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""Paycheck" is a no-brainer action movie with just enough sci-fi thematic input to keep it spicy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2001) |
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""Pearl Harbor" zips through clichés like a chainsaw ripping through a stack of Cliff's Notes."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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""Penelope" is a new twist on an old fairy tale template that succeeds for the heartfelt performances of Ricci and James McAvoy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Thought-provoking, if not wholly satisfying, "Perestroika" is a deconstructionist filmic stew to be savored without expectation in order to enjoy its laissez-faire reality."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Here's a sweetly mannered sports movie with heart, that's ideal for introducing baseball traditions and vocabulary to kids."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"It's a childish kind of filmmaking that Alfred Hitchcock would call irresponsible."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Hollywood cranks out another prosaic teen-girl-romantic-comedy from its bottomless cultural vacuum in this Hilary Duff vehicle that no non-female person over the age of 12 should suffer through."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"Boring suspense thriller made modestly bearable by Halle Berry's measured performance. The "surprise" ending is a cookie-cutter that leaves you cold."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Here is that rare profoundly original film that will open floodgates. It also announces the brazen identity of a fiercely independent female voice in international cinema."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"The only enjoyment of watching inarticulate modern day American love birds Peter (Jason Ritter) and Vandy (Jess Wexler) interacting in Manhattan, comes from deciding which one is more insufferable."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(1997) |
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"When the Torah is explained in mathematical terms, it's enough to make you want to take up second year trig - like the movie, a deeply flawed idea."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2002) |
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"Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" is the director's finest achievement, and elevates Adrien Brody (Oscar win for Best Actor 2002) to eminence in his representation of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew who survived the Nazi occupation of Warsaw."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Pineapple Express draws on stylistic and plot elements from '70s martial arts movies, shock horror films, and Tarantino set pieces to generate a new type of irreverent comic cinema in touch with the candid loyalty of a new generation."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"From the witty franchise that Peter Sellers and director Blake Edwards made famous comes a pale offshoot that lacks sufficient tempo, tone and supporting characters to make it satisfying."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"The only good side effect here is that it can remind audiences of Peter Seller's truly inspired comic films. If you want to see a "Pink Panther" movie, you've still got to watch the originals."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"...there's some great music and a the movie sustains a groovy vibe..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Overblown to the point of monotony, the second installment in the "Pirates of the Caribbean" franchise is a prime example of too much money and not enough story."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"Were it not for Johnny Depp's crassly reassured character creation of scoundrel pirate Captain Jack Sparrow, there would be nothing to relish in this overlong and witless waste of celluloid based on a Disneyland ride."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1981) |
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" "Pixote" is an amazing cinematic social document made with fury and passion by an uncompromising director. There has never been another film that approaches its depiction of Brazil's condemned youth, not even "City of God.""
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Funny, tragic, and informative Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea is an unforgettable portrait of a desert town turned into a sewer."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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""Planet B-Boy" takes a step toward bringing together foreign communities by sharing a communal model of freedom of expression--the freedom of movement."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2000) |
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"In the same way a tap dancer innately understands the percolating syncopation of all jazz music, Ed Harris identifies character rhythms and physical possibilities in drama."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Hemmed in by theatrically bound staging, "Pontypool" is an overly inflated zombie flick that makes overtures to a weighty theme of social consciousness that the screenwriters are ill-prepared to fulfill."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""Ponyo" is an entertaining fantasy movie for little ones where painstaking attention is given to balancing physical reality with magical reality. Already a hit in Japan, it's an instant classic of children's animation."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"From Wolfgang Petersen's majestic 360-degree pan of the enormous modern-day luxury cruise ship that will be capsized by a 150-foot tidal wave to his deliberately caliginous closing shot, "Poseidon" is a nerve-wracking thrill ride."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2008) |
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"Uwe Boll is the epitome of a hack director who thinks that putting an Osama impersonator and a George Bush lookalike together in a scene will automatically make some comic impression. It just made me sleepy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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""A Prairie Home Companion" is a cringe-worthy Robert Altman movie because it lacks all traces of the director's former glory. You could blame Garrison Keillor but that would be giving him too much credit."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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""Precious" is an unforgettable drama whose intrinsic truth outweighs any exploitation or politics that might attend such material. If you want a gritty socially conscious movie, this is it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Ageless beauty Sandra Bullock gives her typical automated performance in a superficial cross between the recent "Deja Vu" and Bullock's own excruciating movie "The Lake House.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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""Pride" mitigates and collapses its subject into a pop mentality afraid of the trouble it aspires to disclose. It is at once a cowardly and cynical movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Pride and Glory works better as an actors' showcase than it does as a well-worn genre thriller."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Director Joe Wright's filmic rendition of Jane Austin's classic novel is sumptuous but never fussy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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""Prime" is an above average romantic comedy that still doesn't quite make the grade."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"The unexpected rewards of director Garry Marshall's ("Beaches") latest spin on the well-worn Pygmalion fairy tale are numerous."
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