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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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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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(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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(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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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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(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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(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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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(2004) |
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"...has an unexpected emotional undertow and enough hard-won laughs to make it succeed."
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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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(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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(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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(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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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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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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(2006) |
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"Richard Linklater sticks to the narrative flow of Philip K. Dick's novel without embellishing it with current sociopolitical realities that the book foreshadowed."
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(2005) |
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"Josh Gilbert's curt documentary about the arrest and conviction of comedian and former bong-maker Tommy Chong reveals the federal sting operation that put Tommy Chong in a state penitentiary for nine months for shipping glass bongs to Pennsylvania."
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(2002) |
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""About Schmidt" is a hostility-provoking film for the same reason that American citizens have lost their civil rights. The picture endorses, nay lionizes, complacency, inaction and the privilege of the greedy to steal whatever they covet simply because th"
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(2006) |
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""Accepted" falls short of mining "National Lampoon's Animal House" brand of humor because it doesn't relate the relationships of its characters to their kooky behaviors."
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(2009) |
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"...sanitized romantic comedy never cracks the surface of its delicate and complex subject."
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(2008) |
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""Slaughter House Five" meets "The Night Porter" in director Paul Schrader's energetic adaptation of Yoran Kaniuk's 1968 novel about former cabaret star Adam Stein (brilliantly played by Jeff Goldblum)."
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(2009) |
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"As with all of Egoyan's films, "Adoration" is a forward-thinking exploratory work of cinema meant to invigorate audiences into social discussions beyond its narrative structure."
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Like the confused social period of the Reagan era that the story inhabits, "Adventureland" is an awkward comedy that makes you wish it were a lot better."
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(2009) |
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"Writer/director/actor Ari Gold has made a competent student film that would graduate him from any film school with flying colors--that's to say, here is an example of a filmmaker who hasn't yet begun to find his own voice."
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(2005) |
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"Robert Rodriquez continues in the vein of his "Spy Kids" films with another visually frenetic kiddie crowd-pleaser that will leave adult chaperons exiting the cinema nursing headaches."
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(2005) |
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"Even Theron's sexy catsuit acrobatics can't prevent boredom from setting in as the film's unimaginative production design and dull dialogue take precedence."
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A |
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(1951) |
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"Bogart and Hepburn are truly amazing together."
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(2009) |
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"Antonio Campos's character study of a prep school social misfit named Robert (Ezra Miller) is an intimate psychological journey into a coded juvenile mindset."
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(2009) |
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"Educational and inventive, the documentary speaks with a strong editorial voice from a backward-looking vantage point. It's a narrative device that proves most effective."
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(2007) |
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"Put aside all of your preconceptions of air guitar as a hobby of shamelessly untalented wanna-be guitar players, and step into the world of competitive air guitar."
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(2006) |
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""Akeelah And The Bee" is a movie that parents should be happy to let their kids go see on their own; they just might start reading the dictionary."
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(2004) |
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"This dog of a movie confirms that in 1836 Texas was stolen from Mexico by a bunch of opportunistic bastards whose descendants went on to use similarly underhanded methods to steal the office of the White House in 2000."
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(2003) |
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""Alex & Emma" has a light tone of modernized '20s inflected comedy that Woody Allen would love to still be able to capture in his movies."
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(2004) |
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"Stone doesn't present characters that the audience can believe in, even for one moment, as representative of their historic roles."
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(2004) |
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"Even Michael Caine's career would have gone nowhere if he had made this version of "Alfie.""
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A+ |
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(1979) |
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"Science fiction horror doesn't get any better than this."
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