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2.5/4 |
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(2010) |
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"Xavier Dolan is definitely a promising filmmaker. But his debut remains too uneven to be entirely satisfying, as far as I'm concerned."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Easily Simon Boisvert's best film to date."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An exquisitely crafted visual experience."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Judd Apatow's funniest, best film so far."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Not particulary good, but at times, the mayhem gets so over the top that it's hard not to have a big grin on your face."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Hysterically fun and gloriously excessive, Quentin Tarantino's latest is right up there with Pulp Fiction and Kill Bill."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An Elmore Leonard adaptation starring Mickey Rourke as a contract killer. And this barely got released? Goddamn Weinstein Company..."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This pitch black comedy has more in common with Taxi Driver or Oldboy than with a Judd Apatow flick."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is honestly better than all the big Hollywood blockbusters that have been released so far this summer."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Almost from beginning to end, we're filled with dread and, I must say, a morbid sense of anticipation."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A gigantic bore for more than half its running time, but it eventually grows surprisingly involving, thanks mostly to its great cast."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"While the post-apocalyptic environment and the action sequences put together by director McG are effective, they lack a sense of fun."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The FX are still awesome, but they've lost their novelty factor. As for everything else, it still pretty much sucks."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"More interested in mythology, philosophy and genre deconstruction than in cheap thrills."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I truly hope I never turn into the kind of person who isn't able to enjoy a movie like this."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is like the Todd Solondz or Alexander Payne version of a Robin Williams father-son comedy."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This feels like a movie put together by studio execs who think that stupid fanboys will eat up any random string of flashy, noisy action scenes."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Baz' latest might differ from his Red Curtain Trilogy by doing away with the overt theatricality, madcap visuals and musical numbers, but it's still driven by his infectious love of every aspect of filmmaking."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Coen brothers' funniest movie since The Big Lebowski."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An ambitious, complex, unpredictable and uncompromising morality tale."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Jason Segel lets it all hang out, and we love him for it!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Haneke not only manipulates the audience, he goes as far as to openly mock it!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If Joel Schumacher had directed this, there might still be people enjoying it as the B-movie that it is, but no one would be calling it great."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Minor Shyamalan, but still well worth seeing."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Sharp satire, d--- and fart jokes... and Neil Patrick Harris!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Guillermo del Toro makes this sequel fully his own, firmly planting it in his unbridled imagination."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A major piece of crap. It shamelessly steals from J.R.R. Tolkien/Peter Jackson, but with none of the intelligence, heart and artistry."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Spielberg proves once again that no one can direct an old-fashioned rollicking ride like he can."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Mike Myers is so spirited, good-natured and clearly having a blast being a goofball that it's almost impossible not to be won over."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"David Gordon Green's hilarious stoner comedy is to action movies what The Big Lebowski was to film noir."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"MelGibsonly violent, with a higher bodycount than the other three flicks - put together!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Holds little of the charm and unexpected emotional heft of its predecessor, which mostly avoided the kind of empty girly crap that abounds here."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Close in spirit to George Washington and All the Real Girls, with quirky characters, a bittersweet tone and an effortless sense of time and place."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This is a kids movie through and through, for better or worse. One thing's for sure: Chim-Chim rocks!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ferrell and John C. Reilly further prove that they're a perfectly matched comic pairing."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"There's honestly not a single laugh in the film, unless the mere mention or sight of shit, piss and puke is hilarious to you."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Even between the great gags, the movie kept me involved because, against all odds, it actually almost works as a straight war film."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This love story moved me more than any other in years."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Manages not to make this washed up wrestler a joke, just an "old broken down piece of meat" for whom we feel tremendous empathy."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It still packs enough laughs to be worth checking out."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Superfly vs. Serpico!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A visually arresting odd-couple comedy that reveals itself to be, quite literally, It's a Wonderful Life with a bimbo!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It'll make you cry a lot, for sure, but with much beauty and brightness through the sadness."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Innocuous, self-centered and disconnected from any parcel of meaningful human experience."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Zemeckis, you magnificent bastard! This is one of the best times I've ever had at the movies."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If blues is an exorcism (as Muddy Waters once said), Black Snake Moan is pretty much The Exorcist."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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57/100 |
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(2007) |
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"You gotta give it to Lars, clever bastard, he makes it almost impossible to hold his perceived failings against him!"
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Montreal Film Journal |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Matt Damon gets his Bourne on again in this relentlessly smart and thrilling action masterpiece."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Chris Cooper is amazing as always: amusingly grumpy, increasingly creepy and, ultimately, oddly affecting."
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Montreal Film Journal |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The action scenes do a better job than the exposition when it comes to turning us off of violence as entertainment, just by being so lousy."
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