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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"As a brief overview of the personal and political experiences of a man whose actions will effect America for generations to come W. is a drop in the bucket. But it's at least a drop that can be tasted a spit out."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Screenwriter/director Jonathan Levine makes a remarkable sophomore film with a deceptively simple story of urban romance set in Manhattan's final pot-friendly days of the mid-'90s before Rudolph Giuliani's Disneyfication took its stranglehold on the city."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1952) |
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""Wages of Fear" is an uncompromising parable about money, greed, and man's jealous desire for that which he can never have. Yves Montand is outstanding in this gritty and unrelentingly suspenseful picture."
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Luis Guzman is especially funny as a sex-crazed head cook obsessed with a staff game that becomes a centerpiece of the film's humor."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Joaquin’s trademark stiff shoulders morph into those of country music legend Johnny Cash even if Cash never carried himself with such defensiveness."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Harrelson's overly pronounced southern accent doesn't come close to its alleged Virginian origin in a slight murder mystery where we care nothing for the victim, the suspect or the identity of the killer."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"Drawing on science fiction epics like 2001: A Space Odyssey and Star Wars, Wall-E may be the first truly dystopian animated movie for kids."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"Tt’s just a really damn cute movie."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"You'll come for the action; you'll enjoy it more because of James McAvoy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"No matter how dark your sense of humor, the Bush Administration’s joke has become a harsh reality. There’s no spark of humor when you’re staring into an abyss."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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""The Warrior" is a timeless and lyrical movie set against the stunning beauty of the Himalayan Mountains."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2006) |
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"Boredom is the loftiest running theme in Larry Clark's films, and "Wassup Rockers" (imagine asking to buy a ticket for that title) takes dullness to a new low."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"For its salivating fans and audiences itching for something completely different from the Hollywood superhero model, there's much ferocity to sample here. Taste the fury Babyface."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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""We Live in Public" is a cautionary look at how surveillance affects individuals. Far from the Wim Wenders's "End of Violence" premise, it could signify the end of the world as we know it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"File this cop family drama movie under films-we-never-need-to-see-again."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"If you've never heard of a "living funeral," this film is an icy introduction."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Vince Vaughn commits rampant acts of comic zeal while the script around him crumbles in a movie that loses its thrust like a cat caught in traffic."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"It's evident by the incremental narrative skids that come with the passing of each of its three acts that Luke Wilson started out with an energized idea that he simply couldn't sustain."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(1998) |
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"Aside from having one of the worst titles in recent film memory, "What Dreams May Come" fails by trying to be all things to all people."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"In the current rut of similarly titled films with aspirations of altitude ("Up," "Away We Go"), "What Goes Up" is an especially loathsome case of entropy."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"This tone-deaf flick from hack screenwriter Dana Fox, is an example of a Hollywood formula romantic comedy where the author never properly learned the recipe."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Filled with inside humor about things like the importance of premiering certain kinds of films at Cannes, Levinson's latest comedy confirmed the first rule of success in the film business; "nobody knows nothing.""
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"The movie does little to elucidate the experiences and suicidal personality of a singer who was more of a poseur than a musician."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Evidence that Woody Allen's return to making films in America--it's his first since 2004 ("Melinda and Melinda")--comes with the loss of his mind."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"Amateurish direction by Simon West ("Laura Croft: Tomb Raider") contributes to the utter failure of this pathetic update of the original film of the same title."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"Egoyan employs a keen sense of mise en scene to capture an atmosphere of '50s and '60s showbiz excess that percolates beneath the story of flawed people making tragic mistakes."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"While not an "instant classic," "Where the Wild Things Are" does what it sets out to achieve as a literal but also embellished translation of a literary classic."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"James Ivory would have done well to take his from "Casablanca" since that similarly themed film achieves everything that this film aspires to but ultimately fails at."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"The film shows how politicians on both sides of the isle conspired with oil companies and car manufacturers to rob our ecology of one of its most promising assets."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"The movie is an enjoyable look into the hypocrisy and prejudices of the art world as experienced by a down-to-earth woman with a heart of gold and a sense of principle to match."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2004) |
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"Proof that most sequels should be avoided, "The Whole Ten Yards" vaporizes the humor of its superior 1999 precursor."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"Entertaining, informative and thought provoking "Why We Fight" clearly exposes the enemy within. Don't miss it."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Nicolas Cage gives the worst performance of his career opposite Kate Beahen in this useless update of Robin Hardy's far creepier 1973 original suspense movie based on Anthony Shaffer's novel."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Obvious plot similarities to Dreamworks animated kid's movie "Madagascar" haunts this superior Disney produced CG animated story about a group of New York Zoo animals that go for an unexpected boat trip to an African jungle."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D- |
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(2007) |
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"This contemptuously formulated comedy, about four middle-age-crisis-suffering men going on cross country motorcycle road trip, isn't worth the film stock it was shot on."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"The film is an exceptional work of vigorous cinematic art filled with dynamic performances by its all-Irish cast. At 70, Ken Loach is as steadfast a filmmaker as ever."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"The Oscar-nominated "Winged Migration" is a virtuosi technical achievement in documentary filmmaking due to its astonishingly intimate photography of the migrations of numerous species of birds across the earth's northern and southern hemispheres."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"The filmmaker's inability to master the form that the film is clearly set up to fulfill, leaves the audience feeling cheated out of a promised warts-and-all payoff."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2000) |
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""Woman On Top" is a chick flick with so much colorfully spicy Brazilian food being passed around as a shared aphrodisiac, that audience couples will be running out the cinema for food and bed."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A+ |
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(1974) |
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"Gena Rowlands gives a career-defining tour de force performance that is a pinnacle of film-acting in an earth-shattering film that is unlike any other ever made."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Piecemeal and earnest to a fault, this remake of George Cukor's 1939 film relies so much on the elite world of humorless, filthy rich New York women that it excludes most of its would-be target fans."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Val Kilmer ("The Salton Sea") fails to manifest the eccentric character of notorious porn legend Johnny "Wadd" Holmes in this artful but unbalanced dramatization of the gruesome 1981 Laurel Canyon murders that Holmes was implicated in committing."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Debut director Nicole Kassell compassionately explores the troubled psyche of a former pedophile struggling with inner demons and external obstacles to lead a normal life."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Patrick Creadon's documentary about the New York Times crossword puzzle's creators and fans is a positively joyful movie that will appeal even to audiences who have little affinity for the mind-bending puzzles."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Oliver Stone has gone against his famous character to make a syrupy and gruelingly flat cinematic ode to two brave policemen (John McLoughlin and William Jimeno)..."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Hopkins transports a simple story about an aging man with an ageless dream into the stuff of legend."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"To call "World's Greatest Dad" a cynical and mean-spirited black comedy would be giving far too much credit to a sad piece of exploitation cinema that barely manages to spit out its theme that most people are idiot leeches attempting to leverage a meaning"
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ColeSmithey.com |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Aronofsky invokes a fierce blue-collar integrity that supports the idiosyncrasies of the story's pro wrestling milieu... "The Wrestler" is an independent gem."
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ColeSmithey.com |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"Boring, morose and uneventful, "Wristcutters: A Love Story" is a stinky little picture that mocks the afflicted while giving them a pat on the back."
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