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C- |
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(2006) |
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"As a dance movie "Take The Lead" is downright incompetent, and as a feel-good teen drama/comedy it has no pathos or humor. It's a throwaway movie."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Leave your brain at the door to enjoy this smash-and-grab spree of fast-twitch carnage."
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"...a moderately effective small-scale courtroom drama set in the immediate years after Germany's surrender and shortly after the trials at Nuremberg."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"There are flashes of inspiration here, but nothing to sustain a feature film's worth of narrative import."
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"In spite of Cheadle's forceful performance, the watered down script fails to capture the rawness and polemic logic of a groundbreaking social commentator who spoke truth power on a daily basis."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"The outsized talents of Don Cheadle, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Taraji Henson go a long way in compensating for the undernourished script about real-life ex-con-turned-Washington D.C. radio and TV personality Ralph Waldo "Petey" Green Jr. (Cheadle), who became"
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"The movie takes a piecemeal approach that allows for several guffaw-inducing comic bits, but doesn't hold together enough for a sustained comic experience."
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"The torture abuses at Bagram Air Force Base, Abu Ghraib, and Guantanamo are linked directly to Pentagon and White House officials in a scathing documentary that uses the murder of an innocent Afghan cab driver as a talking point to expand on the wider iss"
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Visionary Hungarian director Gyorgy Palfi ("Hukkle") creates a grotesque satire that dissects Hungary's nationalist self identity with a pitch black sense of humor and extended gross-out sequences..."
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A+ |
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(2004) |
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"Geniuses of satire Matt Stone and Trey Parker bring more laughs to the big screen after their wildly funny 1999 movie "South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut" with a cast of square-jawed marionettes fighting terror by way of North Korea's Kim Jong II in a re"
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Writer/director Mitchell Lichtenstein tosses in thematic elements of incest and pedophilia as so much narrative hamburger helper, but by then the movie has already worn out its welcome."
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"In spite of its shortcomings, "The Ten" is an inspired and imaginative bellwether for where modern American comic sensibilities lay at the moment. It pushes the envelope in all of the right ways."
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B- |
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(2006) |
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""Tenacious D" is a movie for fans of the hilarious spoof-rocking duo. You know who you are."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"There is a wellspring of potential in the franchise for the right filmmaker to generate a "Starship Troopers" kind of frisky movie that goes beyond the constraints of spectacle-generated entertainment toward sophisticated sci-fi satire. Until that time co"
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Terror's Advocate elucidates the character and defense mechanisms of a man much more complex and radical than the George Bushes of the world."
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Stylistically, "Tetro" has its strengths, but it fails to connect with an emotional core before its overwrought third act comes crashing down."
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Reitman's inability to pay off on any of the film's skeletal sub-plots leaves Aaron Eckhart holding the narrative bag even if the capable actor carries the movie on his brawny shoulders like an obsolete Atlas."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Based on actual events, this is a dramatic war movie that shows the inner conflict at work in a group of prisoners stuck in an ethical quandary over how the cost of their survival might cause the deaths of many others."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"In an awkward semi-retro remake of the 1951 sci-fi B-movie classic, director Scott Derrickson confirms the law of diminishing returns for remakes."
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A+ |
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(1948) |
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"Visconti used real Sicilian fishermen as non-actors expressing their circumstances and beliefs. The effect is a powerful portrait of graceful human dignity caught between the cruelty of the sea and opportunistic greed."
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"Even when you look past the unnecessary dangers that the dehumanized child characters in "The Polar Express" experience, you're left with a hammered-home theme that says you must believe in a lie to be satisfied on a personal level."
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F |
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(2007) |
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"An early contender for the worst movie of 2008, this apocalyptic schlock-fest refuses to admit that it's just another zombie slasher pic."
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A+ |
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(2007) |
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"Anachronistic and phantasmagoric, America's early race for oil is brought into personal terms that resonate with the withering decay of greed."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Del Toro pulls off a tight-wire dramatic performance that keeps the film afloat, but can't obscure the constant hiss of pop psychology that pierces nearly every scene."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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""Thirst" lacks an appropriate atmosphere and tempo to compete with last year's great deconstructionist vampire movie "Let the Right One In.""
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"An unusual blend of well-balanced comedy and drama, writer/director Preston A. Whitmore II's Christmastime movie effortlessly weaves multiple storylines of family members reuniting for the first time in four years."
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Even if you've never given a second thought to who bestows ratings on movies or how those ranks are given, Kirby Dick's enlightening documentary will catch you up in its infectious spin of curiosity."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"This sparsely-told story speaks volumes with the kind of cinematic poetry that you would expect to find at the Cannes Film Festival."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Tedious pacing contributes to the confusing nature of the movie, but George Lucas' restored "THX-1138" is essential viewing to distinguish his artistic vision before he transformed Hollywood."
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D- |
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(2009) |
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"Ostensibly about Holocaust guilt, writer/director Jeremy Davidson's poorly scripted, filmed, and executed drama plays out like an unfinished low budget soap opera."
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F |
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(2006) |
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"It seems, from the flat-out filmic disaster of "Tideland," that director Terry Gilliam is intent on ensuring a decisive end to his checkered filmmaking career."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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""Better Off Dead" would have been a better title choice for Tim Burton's self-indulgently macabre attempt at creating an animated underworld of gleeful singing corpses."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"McAdams and Bana are easy enough on the eyes to distract from the script's Grand Canyon-sized plot holes, but not enough to keep your mind off the insipid storytelling. Even from its gooey sentimental standpoint, "The Time Traveler's Wife" is two pints sh"
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"A competent cast keeps this eccentric time travel movie (based on a Michael Crichton novel) amusing if far from successful."
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A+ |
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(1979) |
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"The Tin Drum encompasses a wing of Polish/German wartime history with an explosive cinematic nerve that contributed to a revitalization of German cinema in 1979 shared by Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders and Rainer Werner Fassbinder."
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"A throughline of organized violence permeates "TMNT" as a baby step toward preparing youngsters to become soldiers in America's never-ending war on humanity."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""Tokyo Sonata" is an engaging family drama that brings out the universality of modern existence through a prism of Japanese life."
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"More of a curiosity than a cohesive sampling of cinematic visions, "Tokyo!" fails to impress."
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Although frequently taken for granted, Tom Petty has had more hits than Bruce Springsteen and stands as one of America's finest rock 'n' roll stars. This movie is like ice cream; you just can't get enough."
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"Benoit Jacquot ("School of Flesh") directs this stylistically challenging cinematic rendering of Giacomo Puccini's famous 1899 opera with an appropriately powerful performance by opera diva Angela Gheorgiu."
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A+ |
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(2004) |
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""Touching the Void" stands as a definitive textbook example of the rarest of feature film genres; the docudrama."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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F |
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(2008) |
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""Towelhead" is the most disgusting, ethically reprehensible, and irresponsible film to come out of the 21st century's first decade."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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""Traitor" is an intense and highly politicized film that dares to look at more than a few sides of an ideological battle that rages throughout the world."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"It's a sickening force-feeding commercial frenzy to sell cars, toys and war in the same breath that it pawns itself off as "cinema." This is not cinema. This is acid kool-aid for children. Don't drink it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"You might make it out of the movie with your soul barely intact, but the actors in the film don't fare so well."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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" It's thanks to the Transporter series that there is an international super-action genre outside of James Bond. That's a good thing."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"This is an animated movie to fall in love with."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"A heady blend of outrageous Grand Guignol comic set pieces and fast-twitch dialogue, "Tropic Thunder" walks a fine line of dangerous satire that straddles gallows humor and bawdy pop-culture inflected slapstick."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(2008) |
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"Gut-wrenching, infuriating, hopeful and unlike any other documentary ever made, "Trouble the Water" is a very specific view of two powerful human beings whose humble heroism and instincts for survival put to shame that of the authorities purported to prov"
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Blacklisted screenwriter and freedom-fighter Dalton Trumbo is revealed in this touching documentary that utilizes talking-head interviews along with Trumbo's letters to flesh out the man responsible for such film classics as "Johnny Got His Gun," "Spartac"
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