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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An extravagant, pathetic pageant."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's like an animatronic reproduction of a Jewish mom relationship erected at the world's most racist amusement park."
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2.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"serves as a devastating, nihilistic attack on the failures--and fascinatingly, the successes--of Argento's oeuvre to this point."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Listen, I have a family."
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4/4 |
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(1961) |
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"Eddie's true modern progeny is There Will Be Blood's Daniel Plainview, drinking bitter milkshakes since 1961."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Garden-variety pop heroism/wish-fulfillment marinated in Robert Downey Jr.'s effortless insouciant sauce."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Stripped-down and mean, it honors its character and his artistry."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"I was really looking forward to this one."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A quiet variety of disaster--the type that attracts no cults and appears as a curiosity on a few talented folks' résumés for people to try to place in a year or so. Maybe less."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"I love James Ellroy--his L.A. Confidential is a work of real genius--but I wonder if he's not something of a one-trick pony. And I wonder if that pony isn't the proverbial dead horse"
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Austen wrote six novels and The Jane Austen Book Club is about six people who meet to discuss them over the course of six months. 666. Coincidence? I think not."
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2/4 |
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(1988) |
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"A gaudy chimera with no other reason for its existence than to be flamboyant to no great end."
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3/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Boys of my generation memorize the Monty Python repertoire as a buttress against the terror of losing their virginity."
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's a film that countryman Uwe Boll would have made had he the budget and the cinematographer"
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A sly, pitch-black domestic manifesto that's scabrous enough to suggest that if you design your own cage, you'll forget that you're trapped."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"inert"
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Teeters throughout at that juncture between masterpiece and piffle."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A film that makes Rounders seem like a work of great seriousness and import."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"[A] populist anti-war polemic."
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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"It predicts the way the world would change in 2001--and how our films would reflect that change."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An alien anthropologist identifying humans as insects in man-clothing."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Plays like a trivia game for folks pleased to recognize a severed-head-in-a-vise gag from one of the most storied independent success stories of all time."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I'm going to be really f****** depressed if Charlie Bartlett isn't the worst, most irresponsible movie I see this year."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(1955) |
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"A collection of VistaVision postcards."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A Sergio Leone epic about the foundation of a specific aspect of the American character."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Too good for action, its action is flaccid; too good for hip, its hipsterism is tired."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The laughter, I think, comes from a recognition of the shape of our own regrets."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Illustrates that the extent to which fundamentalism has tightened its band around our artistic selves is leading both countries (ours and hers) into that old danse macabre."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(1957) |
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"In declaring it ripe for the MST3K treatment, I'm really saying that if you don't like movies, you might have a good time going after this one."
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3/4 |
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(1956) |
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"Its most interesting moments are mired in human frailty--in sex, death, betrayal, jealousy, and intoxication."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Burton has made some great pictures--Sweeney Todd is the culmination of them."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One great big stinking pile of missed opportunity."
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3.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"deals with Reagan's mad vision of a bellicose, secretive consumer wonderland as the City on the Hill."
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The worst crime of a film like this is that not only is it retarded, it expects its audience to be retarded as well."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"You can't spend this much time being too cool for school and earn a sentimental rimshot--it's the boy who cried "human.""
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4/4 |
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(1972) |
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"As coffin nails for the sixties go, this negation of all ideological idealism is a pretty final one."
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A Dorothy Parker poem come to life."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A fine middlebrow addition to the end-of-year sweepstakes, as good as expected, as bad as feared, and gone without a ripple."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A f****** masterpiece."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Things are only as bad as they ever were and there's no life preserver left that's not taking on a dangerous amount of water."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Robert Redford's smug, self-satisfied liberal weltschmerz anthem."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Never funny, never meaningful, never coherent, never animated."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Heartfelt pap."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"Garbage of the finest vintage."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The old maxim about the road to Hell literalized in this exceptional procedural."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If you hear the music, you'll recognize that beneath Anderson's hipster veneer is the low keen of loss and wounds that never close."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A naive, poorly-thought out, badly-reasoned left-wing(nut) manifesto that gives the Right all the ammunition it needs."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Maudlin, mawkish, unintentionally hilarious, and utterly devoid of human emotion. The word I'm searching for, I guess, is "alien.""
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(1967) |
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"Rather a shame it's so often mistaken for a statement about something beyond the milk-fed adolescent blues."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Doomed to have its best scenes mistakenly remembered as parts of better movies."
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