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"The irony in this movie about vampires is that the only thing doing any sucking is the movie itself."
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(2009) |
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"And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around."
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(2009) |
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"Sure, Anderson's making a statement about the human animal, but he proves no Aesop and Fantastic Mr. Fox is, alas, no Animal Farm."
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"They should've called it "The Cell 2: Poor Frank Whaley.""
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(1986) |
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"I remember sort of loving it when I was twelve, meaning only that twelve-year-olds are idiots."
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 1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's not a smart movie."
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(2009) |
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"What The Box resembles most, in fact, is a distended episode of "The Simpsons"' annual Halloween special."
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(1946) |
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"Lewton had something to say. Perhaps inevitably, he found less interesting ways of saying it over the course of nine films in a short four years."
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(1945) |
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"quite bad"
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 3.5/4 |
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(1945) |
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"there's a fascination with the ultimate futility of ever being something beyond opportunistic and solipsistic."
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(1943) |
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"It's almost noir in its pitting of an individual against a closed society."
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 4/4 |
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(1943) |
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"the gauziest, maybe the most influential, surely the most underestimated, Lewton production."
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(1943) |
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"Sultry, claustrophobic, the guilt repressed here is the spectre of slavery stencilled over another abandonment of another wife..."
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 4/4 |
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(1944) |
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"Lewton's masterpiece"
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(1942) |
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"In its complexity, it functions as a sharp, canny blueprint for the rest of Lewton's pictures."
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 4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"the rare work of art in any media that actually evokes the experience of sadness, the sensation of melancholy, the mechanism of regret. We're lucky to have it."
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(1986) |
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"It takes a lot in order for Jim Belushi to be the best actor in something."
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(1985) |
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"there's a perceptive, brilliant essay buried somewhere in St. Elmo's Fire on the dangers of deeply, tragically stupid people trying to write the great American novel."
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(1993) |
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"Yes, it's true: in this astonishingly distasteful bit of dreck, there is at the bottom a sappy little romance."
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(1987) |
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"has the makings of a serious examination of adult relationships and interactions under duress, only to end as a seriocomic slasher film dictated by popular taste."
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(2009) |
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"...written so deliberately that the zombies aren't the only ones moaning and craving brains by the end."
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Film Freak Central |
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 3.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"It's fantastic stuff."
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 4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a war film about war. That's rarer than you think."
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(2007) |
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"It requires a light touch; I admire Branagh a great deal, but not for his light touch."
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 4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"District 9 is the real deal. Hallelujah."
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(2009) |
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"a movie about freaks and geeks written by a famous millionaire married to Leslie Mann; is it any wonder that it loses its way?"
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(2007) |
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"It's the sort of experience you feel embarrassed about even though you had nothing to do with it, because it's not just a mess, it's a pretentious mess"
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(2008) |
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"It's the perfect film for our age of reassessment and ambiguity."
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(2008) |
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"If it could happen to these kids, smart and beautiful, then it sure as shit is going to happen to me."
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(2009) |
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"An ungainly tween romcom sprinkled arbitrarily with a sudden horde of amphibious zombies; inexplicable cameos from Ursa, Non, and Zod; and silly broomstick rugby."
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(2009) |
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"It's only a surprise if you haven't seen his other films."
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(1995) |
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"actually pretty good"
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(2007) |
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"Inaugurates an entirely new demographic into the formula machination of the chick-flick (marital edition)."
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(2008) |
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"there's a desire to see their characters displaced into a better film with more on its mind than to be better than it should be because of its casting director."
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(2008) |
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"a funny movie about the sexes that doesn't diminish either gender in its execution--a tougher task, obviously, than one would presume."
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(2007) |
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"...harbours a secret crush on Gray but, hey, so does everybody, since Gray has fairies and butterflies flying out of her vagina."
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(2009) |
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"reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself."
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(2009) |
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"Beyond pointless."
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 2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a collection of beautiful pictures as inert as a coffee-table book."
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(1987) |
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"for all the things this movie is, it's probably Martin's fault."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2009) |
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"It's all so last administration."
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(1991) |
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"The popularity of over-scored, "let's hug" bullshit like Robin Hood predicts the certainty of a one-term George H.W. presidency better than any number of Gallup polls."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2009) |
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"the worst kind of dreck"
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(2008) |
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"It's just like us to be arrogant enough to believe, like Marvell's coy mistress, that our cherry is the ripest for busting of the lot."
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(2008) |
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"I wonder if it's unforgivable heresy to say The Cell is badly underestimated and due for revisionism while The Fall, despite its relative obscurity, is badly overestimated."
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(1984) |
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"What is 2010 but a conservative Cold War "message" flick."
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 3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There's still something breathless about Up, but I wonder if the Pixar formula isn't starting to show its seams..."
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(1979) |
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"a product not of Ashby's essential modesty but of Kosinski's essential egoism."
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(2009) |
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"shooting guns at things that aren't harmed by guns... following which there will be cheap philosophizing and the promise of another sequel."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a Luddite picture wary of the future and reliant on something so simple as being human to be the salvation of the human race."
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