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"Pictures like this exist because people are used to lowering their expectations so much that they're actually irked when someone doesn't."
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 1/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Cheapo knock-off trash."
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 4/4 |
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(1991) |
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"At root the most personal mission statement of a vital cinematic voice."
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(2007) |
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"Fleming's Nancy Drew isn't just bad, it's fascinatingly bad."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Often as garish and shrill as it is magical and enchanting."
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 2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Massages a few angry yuks at the expense of its misfit gallery."
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 3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"When Narc works, it works because of the conviction of its leads."
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(1978) |
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"Gonzo made manifest, aided by massive amounts of alcohol and an astringent stupidity too calculated to be stupid."
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 1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"All it is, really, is astonishingly boring, terribly stupid, and, it bears repeating, boring. It's boring. (Also stupid.)"
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(2006) |
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"A thunderously boring film so circumscribed in scope and crippled in execution that it's destined to be a minor hit."
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 3/4 |
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(1921) |
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"Keaton is the great metaphysical existentialist: a modernist in the finest sense of the word."
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 4/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Near Dark remains Kathryn Bigelow's best film, suffused with style and anarchy that has an unerring feel for the irregular pulse of a very particular place and time."
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(1970) |
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"Curiously though, as it so often does, the rare convergence of everything gone wrong makes for pretty compulsive viewing."
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 2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"On-the-sleeve enough to ultimately prove a little embarrassing."
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 3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"What I'm saying is that you don't have to already be a fan."
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 3/4 |
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(1960) |
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"Her earthiness is grounding, the only element keeping the world from spinning off its axis; beware the man, and woe to mankind, for formulating her to a wall."
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(2002) |
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"What begins as a potentially subversive take on the inner-city school problem becomes the unlikely film that would be better with more Eddie Griffin."
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 4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"It's a fascinating conceit, this sticky idea that the complexities of the world are held in the walnut shell of Keats' beauty is truth and truth, beauty."
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(2002) |
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"Not an ignoble thing, certainly, the presentation is predictably free of any real artistic or philosophical importance."
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(2004) |
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"Interesting that the two groups naturally attracted to it are pre-teen girls and dirty old men, and what it does best is teach the one how to be attractive to the other."
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(1992) |
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"If the crick in my neck is any indication, I watched Kenny Ortega's Newsies like a dog hears a new sound. Most probably, my eyebrow was also arched."
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(2001) |
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"Irritatingly cutesy and self-satisfied on top of it all, making the picture something of an endurance test besides being a misfire."
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(1994) |
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"Swank, here demonstrating that for as wooden and exasperating as her performance is in this picture, it's the only performance she's ever contributed to any film."
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(2005) |
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"Somewhere between "Jackass", "Insomniac with Dave Attell", and "MythBusters"."
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 3/4 |
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(1935) |
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"May be the start of the slide, but it's still pretty close to the top."
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(1946) |
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"An undercooked espionage spoof that takes meek aim at Casablanca a time or two but generally just plays like the mercenary piece of garbage that it is."
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(1986) |
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"I remember sort of loving it when I was twelve, meaning only that twelve-year-olds are idiots."
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 4/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Would play well on a double-bill with Huston's The Misfits."
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 4/4 |
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(1968) |
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"A tightly-edited, claustrophobically-framed horror film that retains, along with its relevance, its ability to startle and appall."
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 1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The world's most convoluted (and expensive) game of Calvin-ball."
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"If I hear that Stephen King has a great imagination one more time, I'm finally going to sue on behalf of E.C. Comics and "The Twilight Zone"."
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(2008) |
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"I will say this about Nights in Rodanthe: spoken Nicholas Sparks is preferable to written Nicholas Sparks."
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 3/4 |
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(1994) |
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"Ole Borendal's Nattevagten is a little more than the sum of its parts--and its parts are pretty damned fine."
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(1995) |
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"I suppose a good film could be squeezed from the John Gray school of sexual politics, but not only is Chris Columbus ill-suited to helm it, he is ill-suited to helm any film."
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(2002) |
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"Nine Queens is not only than a frighteningly capable debut and genre piece, but also a snapshot of a dangerous political situation on the verge of coming to a head."
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Film Freak Central |
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 4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A f****** masterpiece."
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(2004) |
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"There's not much comedy in this sex comedy. . . not much sex, either."
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 4/4 |
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(2005) |
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"In Kore-eda's quartet of children is all the hopefulness and courage that we hope we're born with--and hope that we haven't outgrown."
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Film Freak Central |
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 4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A terrific picture crouched in the centre of a blasted Icelandic winter."
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(2007) |
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"It's a thoughtless, cancerous, viral, irresponsible pollution whose existence speaks ill of the society that produced it and of any society that would endorse or defend it."
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Film Freak Central |
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 4/4 |
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(1959) |
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"More than a clearing house for Hitchcock's auteur tendencies."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Presents to you a beautifully-painted, one-dimensional piņata it knocks around for a couple of high-falutin' hours until you're showered in a welter of righteous candy."
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Film Freak Central |
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(2003) |
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"There is a posture of icy remove to the Polish brothers' film that washes everything in the same bleached palette employed in M. David Mullen's faultless cinematography."
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Film Freak Central |
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(1979) |
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"The film's reason for being (it's a shrine to Herzog's favourite German director) is also the end of the conversation."
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Film Freak Central |
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 0/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A willfully bad film that makes fun of inadvertently bad films: the results are predictably unwatchable."
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Film Freak Central |
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 0.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It's not every day that you see a movie based on a Billy Joel song, it just seems like it."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There's nothing really about it that's its own."
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Film Freak Central |
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 1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"It's neither funny nor the slightest bit suspenseful, too jumbled and arbitrary to ever sustain much in the way of tension or interest."
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