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B |
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(2005) |
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"There's something oddly satisfying about seeing a notoriously disobedient wild animal like a zebra racing alongside horses."
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A- |
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(1980) |
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"Robert De Niro's metamorphosis into boxing legend Jake La Motta (AKA the Bronx Bull) is one of the most impressive acting transformations on celluloid."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Alison Eastwood has a good eye for composition but misses out completely on bringing some much-needed rhythmic variety and humor to the maudlin source material."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2007) |
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""Ratatouille" may just be the most fully expressed animated family movie to come around since "101 Dalmatians" (1961)."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"A flawed mix of a kind of German "Summer of '42" with a theatrically bound courtroom drama and aftermath, "The Reader's" lopsided before-and-after structure defeats part of its dramatic impact."
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D- |
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(2007) |
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"In a movie with no purpose beyond small-scale grotesque spectacle, I can only imagine its purpose as a cinematic waiting room for the end of the world where the guy in charge isn't capable of counting to ten."
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Even the teenaged misfit audiences to whom "Rebound" is targeted will lose patience with the film's uninspired gags and lazy writing."
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"Digitally filmed on a shoestring budget, "The Reception" is an ugly-looking movie occupied by artificial characters going through the motions of familial unrest and gay attraction."
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"John Woo fulfills on "Red Cliff's" reputation as the most expensive Chinese-language film ever made with a mesmerizing war epic that concentrates on ancient techniques of war strategy as played out on a grand stage."
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D |
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(2005) |
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"If you've seen its theatrical trailer then you've seen "Red Eye.""
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Stereotyped characters, tame attempts at shock, and amateur actors doom "Redacted" as an unpolished movie about an important subject."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"It may be just another Mamet experiment in the limits of dramaturgy, but "Redbelt" keeps the audience guessing."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2008) |
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""Religulous" (rhymes with ridiculous) is a funny, debate-provoking movie that dares to question fundamental beliefs that have been foisted on societies in order to enable brutality and prejudice in the name of a higher power. It's a call for humanity to g"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"More than merely a resource for art historians and students, "Rembrandt's J'Accuse" is a gift from an underestimated genius of cinema. You might just might want to see it a second time."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"After overblown stories of mass walkouts by critics during its Toronto debut, Rendition proves to have enough substance, momentum and surprise to validate its entertainment value as a politically charged thriller."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"The comedy gang from the popular television series takes their highly polished improvised comedic stylings to the big screen for bawdier and more explosive laughs."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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""Rent" is a wet blanket musical compared to the likes of "West Side Story" or "Cabaret.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(1998) |
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"The John Woo school of the ballet of bullets gets a full dose of Sam Peckinpah under the steady hand of director Antoine Fuqua's finely framed tale of revenge."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Norwegian auteur Joachim Trier isn't a close relative of Lars von Trier, but his debut feature film bares the characteristics of an ambitious if overreaching young filmmaker taunting his elders to scold him for his audacity."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1965) |
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"Roman Polanski's1965 psychological thriller uncoils like a primordial poisonous snake disguised by unfathomable beauty that conceals its deadly feminine bite"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2000) |
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""Requiem For A Dream" is a movie about drug addiction, but that's only where the plot resides so the thoroughly drawn characters can work toward their imperfect dreams. Cinema history has been made with this"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Werner Herzog's sensational narrative version of the story he told in his acclaimed 1997 documentary "Little Dieter Needs To Fly," about former real-life Navy pilot Dieter Dengler," is a wartime escape movie to top all others."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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". A long overdue showdown between the distraught father and his son's killer set the climax, leaving the movie an overlong and threadbare exercise in stagnate motivations of should, would and can't."
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A+ |
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(1992) |
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"In 1992 Quentin Tarantino did something that hadn't been done since 1986 with David Lynch's "Blue Velvet;" he reinvented cinema."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Hartnett and Jackson deliver finely tuned performances that bristle with the sting of life lessons learned the hard way."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2008) |
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"There will be tears."
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A+ |
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(1982) |
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"There will always only ever be one Richard Pryor, and his profoundly inspired performance shows exactly why."
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"The movie is a dog from start to finish, with enough genre inconsistencies and plot holes to make it a textbook example of borrowing from too many divergent horror films to get anything right."
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C- |
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(2005) |
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""The Ring Two" is a horror movie with very few surprises and hit-or-miss moments of suspense that don't lead anywhere on a narrative or emotional level."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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""The Road" is like the proverbial tree that falls in the forest when no human or animal is around. Whether or not it makes a sound is a moot point."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"Director Michael Winterbottom brings us face-to-face with the national humiliation of Guantanamo prison where the Geneva Convention and legal protocol have been disposed of like the now-filthy rivers of our country."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"The movie's admirable theme, that there are things more important than profit, comes across under the virtuoso visuals that peak when endless falling dominos turn into a veritable ocean of the little black blocks being surfed by a robot."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"For all of his questionable methods, Paul Green gets results that are revealed when he takes a group of students to perform the difficult music of Frank Zappa at a Zappa festival in Bad Doberon, East Germany."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"There's enough innocent charm and dumb optimism here to pad the movie's lighthearted pokes at humor."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Positively winning coming-of-age drama/comedy stacks the deck with newcomer Reece Daniel Thompson as Hal Hefner, a stuttering New Jersey High School student."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"For all of its cool '60s garage rock and Clash song soundtrack, writer/director Guy Ritchie's latest ode to John Mackenzie "The Long Good Friday" (1979) is a discombobulated and sluggish succession of action set pieces with vaguely interesting characters."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"Stallone wrote and directed this cinematic ride down memory lane that puts a final grace note on his indelible creation."
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A- |
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(1975) |
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"Like the hugely successful B-Movie that inspired it, Harry Novak's 1965 sexploitation classic "Kiss Me Quick!" "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" is an exploitation film that draws on a grab-bag of social identifiers to expand on conventional hypocrisies wit"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"The film's by-committee script is to blame for a cringe-worthy movie that could have worked much better had the younger characters been just a few years older."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Claude Lelouch's ode to the 'train station novel' is a perfectly balanced genre blend of romance and suspense thriller that shifts gears like an Aston Martin on Route One."
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(2000) |
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"Compare Romeo Must Die to Li's brilliant Fist of Legend, and it'll break your heart."
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A |
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(2006) |
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"The interaction of two amazing NASA roving robots, named "Spirit" and "Opportunity," with the mysterious terrain of Mars is authentically captured by writer/director George Butler on IMAX cameras."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1939) |
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"Banned by the Nazis, and destroyed before being discovered and restored, "The Rules of the Game" influenced iconic directors like Orson Welles, Bernardo Bertolucci, and Robert Altman. It is one of best films ever made."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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""Run, Fat Boy, Run" is a cut-and-dried formula comedy slightly elevated by its more than competent cast."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Based on Augusten Burrough's memoir, "Running With Scissors" traverses the '70's American zeitgeist in eccentric personal terms when the American dream plummeted into horror with the aid of prescription drugs."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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""Rush Hour 3" represents a final hour that has already passed."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Robin Williams hasn't been this funny in many moons."
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