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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Films like U.S. Seals 2 are microcosmic explanations of the kind of thinking that drives most big-budgeted Hollywood blockbusters."
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1/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A thinly disguised promotional ploy that targets the demographic that doesn't care to wade through such niceties as plot and character."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Why, and at what point, did Feig choose to ally himself with the bullies of the world and substitute broad stereotype for insight into character?"
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"If at the end we find ourselves as Michael Douglas' character in Falling Down, at least we're there with the knowledge that we were right to be paranoid."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Bani-Etemad's gift is her ability to make immediate the human struggle at the heart of a family caught in a time and place so unmoored from tradition that ritual has become cruelty."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Manages in two minutes what Malcolm Lee's cousin Spike's Bamboozled couldn't in over two hours."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Undertow is good, but the perhaps unfair expectation based on just two pictures is that Green's films be sublime."
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Film Freak Central |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The plot unfolds with the grace of a long fall downstairs."
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Each punch seen through prison bars, the fights become not so much a struggle of man vs. man as Brother-Man vs. The Man."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Makes a fetish of consensual rape and Frenchmen who like Jack London and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayam (one part Gallic stud, one part wilderness grizzle, one part moony teen)."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Speaks clear and forlorn to how a company that backed Pulp Fiction could one day also back Cold Mountain."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Bracingly, it strikes at the heart of how far we've come since 9/11. And how far we haven't."
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Film Freak Central |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Exactly the sort of facile sociology that drives sensitive, intelligent souls like Leland bat****."
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Film Freak Central |
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0.5/4 |
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"If you stay with it, you do so by pretending you don't know how it ends and, moreover, that you care."
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Film Freak Central |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The first happy surprise of 2005."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A sad vanity piece."
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Film Freak Central |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There's still something breathless about Up, but I wonder if the Pixar formula isn't starting to show its seams..."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The point of view of the piece is a little muddy."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"If only Binder had trusted The Upside of Anger as a showcase for two performances by aging actors apparently comfortable about getting older."
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Film Freak Central |
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0/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Between this and I Am Sam, someone should call protective services on behalf of young Fanning."
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Film Freak Central |
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Urbania emerges from this confusion of signifier and sign as a frequently cunning amalgam of After Hours, Memento, and Angels in America"
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