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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Faat Kiné and Sembene's brilliance is an ability to teach without proselytizing: he allows characters to point fingers without wagging his at them in return"
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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."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There's a masterpiece in here somewhere."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(1966) |
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"What's actually indicted is the human inclination towards the easy."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Shame on Michael Moore for his sloppy, sprawling film. Shame on W. for being such a reprehensible dimwit target that the existence of such a film is possible."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's two things and both of them suck."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"That it is thought provoking is no question; that it offers few epiphanies, likewise without debate."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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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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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The picture is hopeless: hopelessly earnest, hopelessly well-intentioned, hopelessly bad."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A different kind of bad--the kind that's not terribly painful to watch."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"What offends most is the patina of smugness that seeps through every frame."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2004) |
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"Possibly the most consistently appalling program in the history of network television."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2003) |
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"I'm talking H.P. Lovecraft, that which cannot be named, bad."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An absolute freakin' nightmare."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"How fascinating that a film about super-humans was made by a collection of sub-humans; what a topsy-turvy world in which we live."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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(1994) |
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"Life is short: get an apartment, kiss a girl."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Anything more would be cheating the great wide swaths of gibbering no-brow-bia: the baseball-cap-askew-nation, text-messaging their way through the dead spots."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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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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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"It isn't that the picture is unfamiliar, but that it manages to find new avenues of discourse on old problems."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(1995) |
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"Innocuous stuff, lighter than air and as insubstantial."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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(1957) |
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"One of David O. Selznick's many attempts to shape his lady-love Jennifer Jones' largely immutable mug into the face that launched a thousand cinematic ships."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Pretty clearly as product of the drive-in culture while confusing expectation with Cronenberg-ian stretches of meditative silence and extended--clinical scenes of mechanics at work."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The animals' deaths are more exploited (and rendered senseless) by the film itself than they are by the restaurants and meat packers the film does its best to condemn."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Atanarjuat, unfolding on a cold-blasted primeval arctic plain, has the quality of totem."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Not a fun night out at the movies, but it has the weight of the broken wall, the burning roof and tower of personal violation and the rites of womanhood."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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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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Film Freak Central |
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(2004) |
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"The emotions of the piece pulse in and out like submerged things coming to light, or visions in a trance."
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1/4 |
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(1991) |
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"For all its glad-handing of cheer and all-encompassing warmth, has a heart as tiny and cold and calculated as a Grinch's."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(1967) |
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"(Welch), naturally--deserves getting prodded about by a bull while a collection of bad guys poke at her with phallic shunts."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ultimately a picture preaching about the cost of violence that shies away from real, visceral consequence."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Only about as sexy and dangerous as an actress in a role that reminds at every turn of Elizabeth Berkley's flopping dolphin-gasm."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Think of Fever Pitch as the phone booth--though the Kryptonite could be any combination of Ganz & Mandel, Fallon, or Barrymore."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"it doesn't need to have my point of view, but it does need to have *a* point of view."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"That its title isn't something of an ironic warning is mostly the product of the fact that no one in their right mind was ever tempted in the first place."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"A solid movie with a lousy ending."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Everything of minor interest in the piece (and Williams' late career) is crystallized in the lyrics to the maudlin Pink Floyd song that bears this film's name."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The audience in a very direct way becomes that invisible cold wind that announces the arrival of doom--Final Destination 2 is almost interactive."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"You have all the ingredients here of the pernicious id roiling in the secret think-pan of most thoughtful Americans."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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(2001) |
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"The film is hands down the best ever based on a video game."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Just the tonic for people hoping to watch something racially sensitive without actually having to endure anything thought-provoking, observant, or the least bit controversial."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A great film for its timeliness, and a greater film for its timelessness."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Tugs at the heartstrings like a toe-fingered harpist."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A flaccid insurance-company audition to get Ford covered for one more round as Indiana Jones."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2002) |
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"It's also curious to note that this film, like the similarly ill-timed Antitrust, is easily as bad at a fraction the budget."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"I'll have forgotten it completely in a couple of days. If you're a thirteen-year-old girl, it might take you a whole week."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(1982) |
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"Attempts to break through the thin cartilage separating a man from the gods beating inside his chest."
[dvd review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"With a small movie like this, I'll savour what pleasures I can get."
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(1991) |
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"A once or future 'VH1 movie that rocks.'"
[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(1993) |
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"There are few pictures more deserving of critical revisionism.
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[movie review] |
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Something of a lowbrow cheeseball riot."
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