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"Wong might be making a stab at illustrating self-destruction as the only possible aftermath of arriving late at the station to greet the love of your life."
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"Not flawless by any stretch, 24 Hour Party People has an ear to the spirit of a time pitch-perfect and infectious."
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(2003) |
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"When 28 Days Later decides to frighten, which it does often, it manages to do so with a kind of ugly vigor."
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(2007) |
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"The first great surprise of 2007."
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(2005) |
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"Just unbelievably good."
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(2007) |
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"Scarily implies that the bad guys now were playing along all along."
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(2002) |
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"It's dangerous stuff that shouldn't be dismissed lightly."
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(2005) |
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"A comedy about loss, literally and figuratively."
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(2002) |
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"another strong argument for the importance and pervasiveness of digital video in a post-information age"
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(1969) |
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"Plays like how a lot of Eyes Wide Shut probably should have played."
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(2006) |
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"Like the best science-fiction, A Scanner Darkly is about you plus me and the time ticking away on the remainder."
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(2001) |
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"Evokes the long, lonesome noir tableaux of American painter Edward Hopper."
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(2002) |
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"that it'll probably be the best and most mature comedy of the 2002 summer season speaks more of the season than the picture"
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(2002) |
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"About Schmidt is a road film and a character study very much like Five Easy Pieces, and a fable of reconciliation poignant and pointed."
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(2002) |
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"Provides a porthole into that noble, trembling incoherence that defines us all."
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(1984) |
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"The best thing about a movie this wilfully silly is that it never patronizes its audience for loving it and in the end, that might be the best reason for giving it a chance."
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(2004) |
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"Freedom to hope that one person, convicted and articulate, can still make a difference."
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(1973) |
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"It's a testament to the genius of Aguirre: The Wrath of God that its genesis has spawned its own creation mythology."
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(2002) |
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"Spare, unsentimental, moody, and, like many films of this skill and observation, really funny."
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(2003) |
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"Serves as an incisive commentary on the extent to which we, as the modern audience, have learned to accept a certain contrived cleverness as the true evocation of love."
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(1984) |
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"The urge to revisit old successes in an attempt to "improve" upon them is a risky venture at best."
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(2002) |
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"The urge to revisit old successes in an attempt to "improve" upon them is a risky venture at best."
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(2001) |
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"Like most great love songs, however, Amélie is both a touch simple-minded and probably most interesting to the recipient of the serenade."
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(2001) |
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"Something somewhere between Six-String Samurai and Dead Man (but a science-fiction musical)."
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(2007) |
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"Things are only as bad as they ever were and there's no life preserver left that's not taking on a dangerous amount of water."
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(1997) |
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"Voight's performance alone is absurd enough to merit the film a look."
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(2003) |
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"One of the finest, most enjoyable, discussions about film since Richard Rush's The Stunt Man."
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(2003) |
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"The greatest triumph of the film is Riedelsheimer's ability to offer the audience the artist's perspective."
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(2003) |
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"Final Flight of the Osiris"
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(2001) |
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"The Anniversary Party is heartfelt and affected in equal part, the product of actors' occasional desire to be understood as human beings."
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(2001) |
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"Its sprawling, episodic process evokes the history-as-imagistic mosaic employed by T.S. Eliot, whose work is referenced brazenly and repeatedly throughout the film."
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(2006) |
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"What most disappoints about Apocalypto is that it is, ironically, not particularly risible in any way."
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(2004) |
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"One of the most affecting, heartening family dramas in modern television."
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(2005) |
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"The third season is not without the type of moments that make the prior two (especially the second) classic television."
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"An incendiary, deeply thought-provoking look at one of the most peculiar (and peculiarly venomous) bigotries in our increasingly frightening theocracy"
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(2007) |
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"Heroically pretentious."
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(2003) |
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"More a song about living and dying well than a picture that makes much sense in the traditional definition."
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(2005) |
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"Grounded in viscera and spit, it delivers the goods with an uncompromising nastiness."
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(2005) |
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"A gothic fairytale."
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(1939) |
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"exhibits the sort of anarchy that the Marx Bros. once trafficked in with a willful, almost malevolent mayhem."
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(2006) |
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"Infused with a whiff of the outsider's stale regret."
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(2004) |
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"Scorsese the Hollywood outsider wins with The Aviator, and he comments on the cost of that victory in the same breath."
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(2004) |
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"Polarizing and potentially galvanizing."
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(1956) |
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"The movie hasn't aged a day in fifty years."
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(1983) |
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"A peculiarly absorbing and sticky film, Baby, It's You is all the more so for its relative uniqueness in Sayles' oeuvre."
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(2005) |
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"Day-Lewis brings the picture closer, by himself, to the ballad of its title than to the dirge it constantly threatens to be."
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(2007) |
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"The laughter, I think, comes from a recognition of the shape of our own regrets."
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(2004) |
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"Even when it falters, Barbershop 2 is sharp and hilarious."
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(2005) |
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"It's all about fear and loathing, this high profile, big-budget product of a post-millennial United States--and it's about as good as it gets."
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(2001) |
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"A painful portrait of that confused liminal period between childhood and sexual maturity."
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