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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Bottom line the movie fails Movie Plot 101 by trying too hard. Too hard to appease its fans, too hard to color within the lines and too hard to prove that love conquers all."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The relentless stream of exaggerated action is as taxing as the punchline-laden script."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Predictable losers-are-people-too jesting raised a notch by the quality work of consummate professionals."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Revealing when it needs to be and unpredictable when you least expect it."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Jim Sturgess turns up the heat as an untapped genius who takes a walk on the wild side."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Rests so heavily on tenterhooks of guilt that an apology is in order for admiring it."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Ira Sachs plays it wistful not wayward, sticking to essential melodrama and tidy infidelities while dropping narrative cherry bombs for calculated effect."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Plays the concentration camp drama to dynamic effect."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"What a difference a day makes in this cheeky comedy of manners."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Paulo Morelli mines old territory in yet another ode to Rio's vivid favelas."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"In turns tender and awkward yet always with an eye towards the universal language of hope."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Only crazy rubber-faced Jack Black could pull off such a spoofy, overly-eager slapdash of a project."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Smart escapist thrillers are a dying breed but this is one of the good ones."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A lightweight outing heavy on convention."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Utilizes its draconian politics to underscore the desperate determination and nerve-racking fear of stepping outside the box."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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" Life is too short for long-term exposure to relentless agony and distress, even in the guise of entertainment."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Frilly testament to the romantic secondary and homage to the nice girls who don't always finish last."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Even the one-two punch of A-list heavyweights Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman can't save this terminal tearjerker from itself."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Saturated in anxiety and dripping with dread."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Visceral, volatile and epic."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Turns out Denzel Washington makes magic on both sides of the camera."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Affecting and dangerously close to home."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Revenge is a dish best served cold, exactly how I was left after watching Helena Bonham Carter butcher a cheeky star turn in Tim Burton's cutthroat musical."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Sweet, sassy, and satisfying."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Magnifies its inescapable destiny with dazzling bravura."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Performances lend heft and humanity to the overriding whimsy."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Genuine if not exactly inspiring."
[movie review] |
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A rag-tag pastiche of genius, wit and irony."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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" a cornucopia of cine-cheer and familydysfunction."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Noah Baumbach knows his way around an honest exploration of family and friendship and Margot serves to reinforce the point."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Brian De Palma has achieved a fresh level of perspective; the psychological wounds of war as seen through the eyes of the damaged and eternally damned."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Coens return to form, creating their most idiosyncratic characters since Steve Buscemi's Carl Showalter faced down the wood chipper in Fargo."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"John Cusack is the only bright spot in an otherwise sentimentally sloppy drama that telegraphs its plot points with a blinding laser beam."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Sharkwater has a message or two or three; its intentions are nothing if not noble."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Ridley Scott pumps up the volume with a gritty, glitzy valentine to the anarchic American drug wars."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Tender, thoughtful and distinctive."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A semi-absorbing but ultimately tiresome waiting game."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Overwrought indies aren't typically my thing and this achingly angsty melodrama does little to alter my thinking."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A semi-satisfying game, set and match."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A gritty expose of the shady shards of right and wrong."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Maddening and more than a little thought-provoking."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Ang Lee has gone back to his roots and the results are undeniably intriguing."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A resonant throwback with deep roots to the political thrillers of the 1970s; slick, smart and saturated in dramatic paranoia."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Capricious, meditative and absorbing."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I shudder at the term chick flick but Jane Austen Book Club is a shining example of the genre, resplendent with feminine energy yet gently tweaking its masculine side."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"To say these guys still have the Right Stuff is an overwhelming understatement."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Julie Taymor's wildly ambitious ode to the Fab Four is a flawed but occasionally fabulous change of pace."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Sean Penn steps behind the camera to craft one of the most powerful films of the year."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Viggo Mortensen chews it up and spits it out as the corrupt centerpiece of maverick director David Cronenberg's searing mob thriller."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A tangle of turbulent seas and emotions."
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Palo Alto Weekly |
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