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(2003) |
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"Coasts on the kind of moxie that hazards a reference to Dragonslayer in the middle of its Guignal horrorshow."
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 4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The quality of pointed inquiry is not completely in vain, whatever ugliness scatters before the shining of that light."
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 2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The Calling offers more than its share of delicious The Good Son fromage. You honestly couldn't expect any more, and shouldn't."
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 1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"like nothing so much as a William Asher beach blanket bomb-o"
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 3.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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"One of the best of the end-of-the-eighties/start-of-the-nineties body mortification films."
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 2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Sexy in a ghoulish way when it fails to be sexy in a revelatory way."
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 4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"It's dangerous, incandescent, and essential, a picture that exhausts and stimulates."
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 1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A prosaic slog."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"What most disappoints, then, is the film's aggressive ordinariness."
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 3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The whole shebang feels a lot like a super-extended preview of subsequent seasons of the show."
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 2/4 |
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(1956) |
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"Carousel on screen is something less, alas."
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 1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Pixar's corporate merging with Disney makes more sense now."
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 1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"dramatically inert"
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 3/4 |
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(1942) |
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"Wars come and go, but that sense of cascading entropy is eternal."
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 1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A shrivelled little romantic comedy."
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 3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Call it "caveman vérité.""
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 0.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Answers the never-asked questions of "whatever happened to: Shelley Duvall, poor, unrecognizable Teri Garr, Cathy Moriarty, George Hamilton, Vincent Schiavelli, Alan Thicke, and Pauly Shore?""
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(1997) |
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"Taking place in a scary netherworld where up is down, black is white, and Steve Guttenberg, Rodney Dangerfield, Lori Loughlin, Pauly Shore, and Richard Moll still have careers."
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(1986) |
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"Interesting for the Miyazaki scholar for sure but still feeling its way in terms of the connectivity and brilliance of Miyazaki's later plots."
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(1979) |
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"Missing is a sense of completion and the deeper examination of themes that one will come to associate with the director's work."
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 1.5/4 |
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(1968) |
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"Almost all padding, with a few cheap racial stereotypes to spice up the stew."
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 2.5/4 |
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(1971) |
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"Nicknamed "The Italian Hitchcock," I would be more comfortable classifying Dario Argento as "The Italian DePalma:""
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 4/4 |
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(1958) |
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"A mousetrap with teeth that grip and a musky atmosphere of frustrated sex and milky desperation that serves as poisoned bait."
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 4/4 |
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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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(2002) |
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"With the frantic, infernal energy (and cats) and even a little of the barbed social satire of Mikhail Bulgakov's Master and Margarita."
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(2002) |
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"Welles groupie/scholar Peter Bogdanovich took a long time to do it, but he's finally provided his own broadside at publishing giant William Randolph Hearst."
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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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 4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Fascinatingly, Catch Me If You Can resembles Hitchcock's self-mocking self-awareness - a canny satire of American culture and cinema, and, shockingly, a slyly autobiographical auto-critique."
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(2004) |
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"The only surprise is that it doesn't wear out its welcome before it's over."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2004) |
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"It's bad enough that not only are careers over, but somebody should be slapped."
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Film Freak Central |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"If you gotta rip something off, might as well be a classic."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A fine and a courageous film, crazy enough to suggest that the yammering of an idiot is the truest paladin of order in the chaos of Eliot's rat's alley."
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Film Freak Central |
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"They should've called it "The Cell 2: Poor Frank Whaley.""
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 1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"At last, a film for all the yahoos with a cell phone soldered onto their ears."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Its sub-theme of unrequited passions is the overriding irony in that the picture itself suffers from a bit of the ol' interruptus at the decisive point of climax."
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(2002) |
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"A story and character-driven reminder of the classic paranoia cinema of Arthur Penn and Alan Pakula; if only it ultimately displayed the courage of the same."
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(2003) |
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"A hash of a diatribe, parading its hypocrite champions, trading in misanthropy, with a puzzling sense of self satisfaction."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A plastic patina of thin freakshow-ism that, at times, seems perverse merely for the sake of it."
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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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(2004) |
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"The annual edition of Bad Judgment Theater featuring everyone's favourite holier-than-thou teen Mandy Moore."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2002) |
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"A celluloid chlamydeous test and a complete waste of precious life."
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Film Freak Central |
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 2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Given too much time to consider the looseness of the piece, the picture begins to resemble the shapeless, grasping actors' workshop that it is."
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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"
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Film Freak Central |
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 0.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Another one of those movies where everything the evil characters say is absolutely true."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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 0/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Martin's soul is for sale, dirt cheap."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"One half a fantastic film tied to one half a terrible film."
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Film Freak Central |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The film is more promising as a continuation of a welcome trend than an unqualified success."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Disney eradicated their hand-drawn animation department for this?"
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Film Freak Central |
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 4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The miracle of Cuarón's films is that he presents the sanctity of our feelings for our children in ways as rugged, terrifying, and unsentimental as childhood."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Dimwitted, obvious, subpar in every way."
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