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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       2.5/4      P.S. (2004)      "Provides a sort of middlebrow mainstream rom-com conventions-satisfied satisfaction." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      The Pagemaster (1994)      "a nice starting point for an important conversation with your child about why so many cartoons think children are stupid." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      The Painted Veil (2006)      "A lovely trifle not unlike other well-done bits of instantly-forgotten prestige." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Palindromes (2005)      "Solondz's first spiritual film." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       4/4      Pan's Labyrinth (2006)      "The kind of familiar that astonishes with our inability to imagine it better than the way del Toro has." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Panic Room (2002)      "Not even the expansion of Psycho's peephole into a bank of video monitors can convince of Panic Room's purported heritage." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0/4      Paparazzi (2004)      "Loathsome doesn't begin to describe it. How about "toxic"?" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       4/4      Paprika (2007)      "This is how post-modernism should always behave: like an acid trip narrated by Derrida." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Paradise Now (2005)      "Doesn't ascribe morality so much as paint a picture of confusion, anger, and desperation." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Paradise Road (1997)      "With a lack of tension in the resiliency of the women, there is little in the way of overall tension nor, ultimately, point in their endless suffering." [dvd review]      Film Freak Central       4/4      Passion Fish (1992)      "The picture is sure-footed and accomplished and, to this point, the auteur's most satisfying marriage of head and heart." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      The Passion of the Christ (2004)      "Preaching to the choir and doing so in shorthand." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Passionada (2003)      "It's a shame that more care wasn't taken in the handling of the characters or the multiple plot threads." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      Pauly Shore is Dead (2004)      "Key revelation is that Shore is a bitter, unpleasant, petty, humourless little man--and that his stoned weasel song and dance isn't doing that great a job of hiding it." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      Paycheck (2003)      "At the end of John Woo's latest Hollywood misstep, Ben Affleck hefts two bags of manure on his back and stumbles around, effectively defusing anything cogent I could say." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0.5/4      The Pelican Brief (1993)      "If only The Pelican Brief were purposefully controversial." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      The Pennsylvania Miners' Story (2003)      "Tweaking emotions is a fragile pastime, and there's a thin line between "tribute" and "mawkish."" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      The Perez Family (1995)      "Sensuous and lush with a hint of Allende's magical realism in the bleeding of a man's broken heart and a string of rose petals trailing a line along the belly of a new lover." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      The Perfect Score (2004)      "I've seen the future, and all I can say is...go back." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Performance (1970)      "We were always building monuments to our power and we always will be--performance is just one avenue to that same old immortality." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Permanent Record (1988)      "Somehow balances the silliness of being seventeen with the beauty and the horror of it." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Persepolis (2007)      "Illustrates that the extent to which fundamentalism has tightened its band around our artistic selves is leading both countries (ours and hers) into that old danse macabre." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Personal Velocity (2002)      "Confuses its message with an ultimate desire to please, and contorting itself into an idea of expectation is the last thing any of these three actresses, nor their characters, deserve." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Peter Pan (2003)      "It's not a good movie, but it's almost a great one." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      La Petite Lili (2004)      "Drenched in a golden sadness." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Phone Booth (2003)      "High-concept hokum invested equally in the Catholic and the apocalyptic." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      The Pianist (2002)      "It is in essence irrefutable, brutal evidence of a coven, and even we doubt poor Rosemary." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006)      "Beyond that? Not much." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       4/4      Pickpocket (1959)      "Bresson's films are the most sublime expression of the powerful, illicit sexuality of the movement of moving pictures against a subjective audience." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Pieces of April (2003)      "A white fantasy of helpful, unflaggingly one-dimensional minorities." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Pineapple Express (2008)      "Tied together by a performance from Franco that has the misfortune of being familiar and human in the middle of a lot of low-aspiring blarney." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Piņero (2001)      "Pinero is a disingenuous huck about a disingenuous huckster." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Pinky (1949)      "Pinky is 1949's Patch Adams, doing for half-breeds what that film did for assclowns." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End (2007)      "And so it goes." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006)      "Yo ho-hum." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3.5/4      Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)      "One foot of the film is in Terry Gilliam's ethics of the stratum surreal, with the other in Spielbergian theme park attraction." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Planet of the Apes (2001)      "In a film at least tangentially about evolution it strikes me as poignant that in 31 years, this Planet of the Apes is actually a good deal dumber than the original." [movie review]      Film Freak Central            Planet of the Apes (2001)      "A failure of sense, a failure of cohesion, and, most remarkably for director Tim Burton, a failure of atmosphere." [dvd review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Point Break (1991)      "Keanu Reeves is Johnny Utah. F*** yeah!" [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Poltergeist (1982)      "Spielberg clockwork." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      Poltergeist (1982)      "Spielberg clockwork: great suburbs, great special effects, great abuse of an expositive score, great overuse of the slow push-in, great hot mom, great irrelevant dad, great plucky little kids." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1.5/4      Pom Poko (1994)      "Comes a point where cultural specificity is such that there's really no point in defending something that just doesn't translate." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Poolhall Junkies (2003)      "A poster of The Color of Money in one poolhall is less homage than ironic." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0/4      Poseidon (2006)      "A waste of life, a waste of cash, and a step backwards somehow from the original waste of life upon which it's based." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       1/4      Possession (2002)      "A miserable bit of landscape pornography bound to a somehow more miserable pair of sweaty romances." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2/4      The Powerpuff Girls Movie (2002)      "A really funny fifteen-minute short stretched beyond its limits to fill an almost feature-length film." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       0/4      Premonition (2007)      "I like that they use crows, because the stink of this carrion has flushed out a few guilty jackdaws." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       4/4      The President's Last Bang (2005)      "An alchemical brew of balls and technical brilliance." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       3/4      The Prestige (2006)      "It lodges itself as not much more than a (perhaps shockingly) bitter little pill." [movie review]      Film Freak Central       2.5/4      Presumed Guilty (1991)      "It occurs to me that the feeling of ordinariness suffusing Presumed Guilty perhaps speaks more to the state of our post-O.J. savvy than to any real shortcoming in the film's approach." [movie review]      Film Freak Central

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