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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"This u-boat doesn't have a captain."
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1/4 |
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(2002) |
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"If you're really renting this you're not interested in discretion in your entertainment choices, you're interested in Anne Geddes, John Grisham, and Thomas Kincaid."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"When Prot engages the Powell family dog in conversation, it explains the inevitable success of K-Pax: idiots speaking to simpletons in their native tongue"
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"An animated film without a hint of anima."
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A collection of malformed ideas, ineffectual performances, and, perhaps unfortunately, the occasional blinding, incandescent image."
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0/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A formula film that seeks to entice horny teenagers and animal-loving children with the sort of predatory calculation generally attributed to child molesters and serial killers."
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3.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"Morita's work in The Karate Kid is iconographic."
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2/4 |
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(1986) |
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"The first chinks in the armour start appearing once you can't even honour your own lore."
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1/4 |
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(1989) |
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"A performance from Macchio so irritating that the goodwill left over from the The Karate Kid is gone in a finger-snap."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"It's a stupid film but not a malicious one."
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It's in that breathtaking humanism, its illustration of the way we connect to one another, and how brittle that social fabric can be, that the film touches on sublimity."
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0.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"An insufferable British dark comedy in the tradition of other happy-horseshit classics"
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3/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Marked by a delicious bittersweet quality as the story moves from parents losing a child to adolescence through to that child finding--and losing--first love in a strange city."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"See the film if you love the movies--it's the old iron for a new day."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The reason a lot of us started to go to movies in the first place."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(1956) |
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"A chronicle of colonialism that poses itself as an easy-to-dismiss artifact, yet reveals itself to be an enduring statement about why people can't get along."
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Boasts as its main selling points a beautiful young starlet with about twenty minutes of screentime and the steadfast promise of an absence of myth and magic."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Darker than pitch and unusually effective in showcasing the brutality and ugliness of murder."
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"For as simple-minded and shamelessly overacted as it is, the film is somewhat redeemed by an overall genial goodwill."
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Film Freak Central |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The world's longest and most inscrutable luxury car commercial."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Great filmmaking and, as does not always follow, a great film."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Opens the conversation again on the infinite varieties of human sexuality."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Nihilistic, misanthropic, and it just might hate its audience a little, but damn if it doesn't wash out as something exhilarating."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The whole film plays a great deal like an extended episode of "Iron Chef": lots of edged weapons, dead frogs, and campy dialogue."
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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's desire to be liked sometimes undermines the possibility for an exploration of the thornier aspects of the nature/nurture argument in regards to homosexuality."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The picture is currently in limited release--no tragedy if it stayed that way."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Demonstrates what it could be when Noonan struts on-screen with his careful reptilian gait."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As observational satire, it lacks the outcast verve that comes with real outrage."
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Film Freak Central |
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4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"It's a great science-fiction piece, a razor-sharp satire, and an impressive calling card for an emerging Hungarian cinema."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A delirious-verging-on-surreal send-up of Kung Fu attitudes and traditions mutated with a Tex Avery cartoon."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A collection of mildly interesting vignettes about legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa that lacks cohesion in a way the master's films never did."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2002) |
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"the songbird is more or less the incarnation of Olivia Newton John's final metastasis in Grease--done up in Tijuana hump me hump me gear but still June Cleaver from Down Under in all her creepy, asexual sexuality."
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