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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"There's a great deal of opportunity in this film for scholarly approaches: the choices that the picture makes are that worthy of note."
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Courageous and extremely well performed."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Unusually wise about its visual vocabulary."
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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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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"An embarrassing bit of housewife Orientalism erotica... that easily could be summarized by Monty Python's "I Like Chinese" song.
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A voice-over'd, meticulously- bleached and postured still-life."
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1/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Plays like one of those conversations that Comic Book Guy on "The Simpsons" has."
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(2001) |
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"Though it's every bit as dialogue intensive as Smith's other films, it lacks any pretence of relevance or intelligence that make his self-indulgent rambling occasionally bearable."
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(2001) |
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"It is stylish and atmospheric; despite some problems with motivation, its main character duo is sympathetic and credible."
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Not consistent enough in its lore to merit much conversation, not gory enough to appall, not titillating, not scary, not exciting, a little too long. . ."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A Kevin Smith movie in all its over-written, half-baked smugness, now with a thin shellac of honey-glaze."
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0.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"So painful and misguided in its conception that purple hearts should be dispensed in the lobby for anyone who toughs it out for more than fifteen minutes."
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0/4 |
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(1996) |
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"The practice of buying indulgences didn't die with the Middle Ages, it just sort of metastasized into something black and malignant at the heart of our society."
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0/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Joe Somebody isn't as bad as Glitter, but it's harder to watch--and that's pretty much as bad as mainstream movies get."
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The most disturbing thing about an aggressively tame production is the suspicion that John Carpenter has been taken over by one of his own mindless zombie Martians."
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0/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A working class "us vs. them" opera that leaves no heartstring untugged and no liberal cause unplundered."
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0/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Reflects the mentality of great swaths of artless, ignorant slobs."
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"I suspect that supporters of this film are also fond of watching ice melt--which, long about the middle of the second hour, you'll either believe is what you're doing, or wish you were doing instead."
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Dreyfuss' voice is like a weasel rubbed against a blackboard."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Probably the best case for Christianity since Chesterton and Lewis."
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0.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"In its own way, Joshua is as blasphemous and nonsensical as a Luis Buñuel film without the latter's attendant intelligence, poetry, passion, and genius."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Broad, sweeping melodrama in the Michael Cimino mold."
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"One hopes Rusty Nail just slaughters our trio of bathetic anti-heroes."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Lifeless, lumbering, and mindless--good for a monster, not so good for a monster movie."
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3/4 |
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(1961) |
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"An eloquent snapshot of the way that the ground was shifting--in both the Nuremberg of 1948 and the Tinsel Town of 1961."
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Harmony Korine joins Keats' use of "song" in the telling of Biblical Ruth's sanctuary in a foreign and hostile land with Pearl's desire for sanctuary."
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(2001) |
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"I loved Jump Tomorrow ... for a heart that beats with wisdom and warmth and nary a trace of contrivance or sticky manipulation."
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3/4 |
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(1972) |
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"There's something essential about boys playing men in front of the women they love."
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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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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Doesn't work very well because it thinks it's smarter than it is."
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0/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Just Like Heaven is just awful. It's gonna do great business."
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0.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The sort of eighties teensploitation falderal that wasn't good to begin with and is somewhere just north of repugnant now."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Presents a good case while failing to provide a reason for us to care beyond the very basic dictums of human decency."
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