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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Tokyo Sonata is Kurosawa allowed at last to make a horror film that reveals that, for him, true horror is being content to accept salvation in the life of a sheep."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"the feeling of it when it's over is exhilaration at time spent with real characters placed in real situations."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"appalling, hateful, reptilian, inept"
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The action sequences are bad, the plot is bad... Hugh Jackman? He's fine."
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1/4 |
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(1997) |
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"You look at Event Horizon as you would something that fell out of someone's nose."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's true that Lopez can't cure what ails Ayers--but it sure seems like Grant and Wright have the answer for what ails us."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"On the bright side, it's short."
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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"its heroes only heroes because they believe in order and not because they're capable of order's championing or restoration."
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0.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Only a screenplay by Akiva Goldsman could make things worse--and lo and behold, speak of the devil and Old Scratch appears."
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0.5/4 |
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(1993) |
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"If only The Pelican Brief were purposefully controversial."
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2.5/4 |
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(1975) |
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"The last ten minutes are the best thing about it (that final shot is one of the best of the '70s), and it's no coincidence that in this ten minutes Frankenheimer returns to his technician passions."
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"More fruitful by far to take the auteurist view and say that for Frankenheimer, Ronin is surrender."
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4/4 |
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(1965) |
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"A landmark picture in terms of its breakneck, antic, physical ambition--the marriage of that hell to the heaven of its gravitas something that marks Frankenheimer's best films."
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4/4 |
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(1962) |
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"a benchmark of the United States' coming of age in the 1960s"
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2/4 |
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(1961) |
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"quaint to the point of incoherence and inconsequence"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's not an elderly movie, it just seems that way."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A creature made of gingerbread and hugs."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The only real surprise is that someone doesn't break into "Burning Down the House" at the rehearsal dinner."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Failure couldn't happen to a nicer guy."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a movie made by Dr. Manhattan; it should've been made by Rorschach."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(1982) |
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"Spielberg clockwork: great suburbs, great special effects, great abuse of an expositive score, great overuse of the slow push-in, great hot mom, great irrelevant dad, great plucky little kids."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(1982) |
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"Spielberg clockwork."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like every non-nutritious piffle hastily-consumed, the guilty reflection will come in the long hours after."
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A war photographer's journal, taken at ground zero of the essential, inescapable tragedy of being human."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"After this, after "Movin' Out" (based on the deplorable songbook of one Willliam Joel), it's not even satire to suggest that the next big thing will be a musical inspired by the oeuvre of Howard Jones"
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Then there's ADD megatard Timur Bekmabetov's deeply stupid Wanted, coming along to confirm that his deeply stupid Night Watch and Day Watch were no accident"
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"obviously the low-grade stuff: users will get their fix but recognize it's been cut too thin, no matter how many bells and whistles were crammed into the mainframe."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an exact replica of The Interpreter in every way that counts and is, therefore, completely, immanently, blessedly forgettable."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"packed to the brim with evil, hunger, and the reasons we used to leap across the dark at the top of the stairs"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A kick-ass soundtrack, sexy imagery, and the ghost of a narrative to string it all together."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Swing Vote suggests that a few hours of cramming is enough--our brief run-in with Palin confirms that it's not."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The only possible response to the benighted thing is pity."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Fans of disembowelment and tits--and c'mon, who isn't?--have reason to check out this "Uncut" version."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Actually retards attempts to understand what it is that transforms some men into symbols and others into sheep."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"the curative to the Hollywood biopic formula"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Jesus, this is a stupid movie."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's finally happened: Red Dawn with Russian Jews. You could go your whole life without conjuring something so perverse."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A pretty well-written acting exercise that has the misfortune of, more often than not, looking as seasick as Battlefield Earth."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"you outgrow these arguments--you only hope that the entertainments intended to illuminate as you get more curious have the decency to mature at the same pace"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Very much a film of this era, its director returning after a ten-year absence from the cinema with a peculiar little masterpiece about things unrecoverable in time."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Time is better spent, perhaps, trying to pull out of it some sort of insight into why no one called "shenanigans" on this abortion at any point."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"bumper stickers as Descartes from a director who, until now, could have been called any number of things, but never patronizing."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Part painting, part tango, the picture is meticulous depravity and rapture, from its Mod-fab tableaux vivant opening credits through to its escalating abomination."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(1986) |
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"exceptional pulp"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It makes sense with the notable films of 2008 (the Synecdoches and Wrestlers), it just has the misfortune of sucking."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(1958) |
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"After it, Psycho and the rest of the '60s are only a bitter précis of this thesis of sexual disassociation and identity politics."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"A lovely, hopelessly romantic little bauble that catches the light no matter how you turn it."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"more tantalizing than satisfying"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"grim to the point of tedium"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Let's not underestimate the significance of a workmanlike Disney animation."
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