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"What The Box resembles most, in fact, is a distended episode of "The Simpsons"' annual Halloween special."
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"reptilian, hateful stuff, biologically engineered to disrespect--with maximum efficiency--the precise demographic to which it targets itself."
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"packed to the brim with evil, hunger, and the reasons we used to leap across the dark at the top of the stairs"
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"District 9 is the real deal. Hallelujah."
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"It's not an elderly movie, it just seems that way."
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"It's only a surprise if you haven't seen his other films."
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"Sure, Anderson's making a statement about the human animal, but he proves no Aesop and Fantastic Mr. Fox is, alas, no Animal Farm."
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"a movie about freaks and geeks written by a famous millionaire married to Leslie Mann; is it any wonder that it loses its way?"
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"appalling, hateful, reptilian, inept"
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"A war photographer's journal, taken at ground zero of the essential, inescapable tragedy of being human."
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"An ungainly tween romcom sprinkled arbitrarily with a sudden horde of amphibious zombies; inexplicable cameos from Ursa, Non, and Zod; and silly broomstick rugby."
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(2009) |
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"Beyond pointless."
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(2009) |
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"a war film about war. That's rarer than you think."
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"an exact replica of The Interpreter in every way that counts and is, therefore, completely, immanently, blessedly forgettable."
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(2009) |
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"On the bright side, it's short."
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(2009) |
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"a collection of beautiful pictures as inert as a coffee-table book."
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"A kick-ass soundtrack, sexy imagery, and the ghost of a narrative to string it all together."
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"And unlike the better-than-the-book No Country for Old Men, it's only as good as the book. I guess I'm saying there's enough blame to go around."
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"It's true that Lopez can't cure what ails Ayers--but it sure seems like Grant and Wright have the answer for what ails us."
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"a Luddite picture wary of the future and reliant on something so simple as being human to be the salvation of the human race."
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"the feeling of it when it's over is exhilaration at time spent with real characters placed in real situations."
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(2009) |
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"the worst kind of dreck"
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(2009) |
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"shooting guns at things that aren't harmed by guns... following which there will be cheap philosophizing and the promise of another sequel."
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(2009) |
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"Tokyo Sonata is Kurosawa allowed at last to make a horror film that reveals that, for him, true horror is being content to accept salvation in the life of a sheep."
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(2009) |
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"It's all so last administration."
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(2009) |
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"It's not a smart movie."
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(2009) |
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"The irony in this movie about vampires is that the only thing doing any sucking is the movie itself."
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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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"a movie made by Dr. Manhattan; it should've been made by Rorschach."
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"the rare work of art in any media that actually evokes the experience of sadness, the sensation of melancholy, the mechanism of regret. We're lucky to have it."
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(2009) |
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"The action sequences are bad, the plot is bad... Hugh Jackman? He's fine."
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"...written so deliberately that the zombies aren't the only ones moaning and craving brains by the end."
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(2008) |
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"It's a film that countryman Uwe Boll would have made had he the budget and the cinematographer"
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(2008) |
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"A film that makes Rounders seem like a work of great seriousness and import."
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"there's a desire to see their characters displaced into a better film with more on its mind than to be better than it should be because of its casting director."
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(2008) |
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"Ed Harris' howler of a vanity piece."
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(2008) |
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"Baz Luhrmann's Titanic."
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(2008) |
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"The problem with Blindness is Meirelles' bad habit of making a terrible hash of something already done with more eloquence"
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"Perfectly workmanlike, unimpeachably prestige-y, achingly contemporary, and a near-complete failure as revelation"
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"Let's not underestimate the significance of a workmanlike Disney animation."
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(2008) |
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"the curative to the Hollywood biopic formula"
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(2008) |
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"I love this movie."
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(2008) |
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"bumper stickers as Descartes from a director who, until now, could have been called any number of things, but never patronizing."
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(2008) |
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"Whatever the causes, the effects of The Dark Knight are subtle and powerful. It's rejuvenating, it renews the faith."
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(2008) |
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"Paul W.S. Anderson makes one kind of movie: the shitty kind."
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(2008) |
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"It's finally happened: Red Dawn with Russian Jews. You could go your whole life without conjuring something so perverse."
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(2008) |
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"A pretty well-written acting exercise that has the misfortune of, more often than not, looking as seasick as Battlefield Earth."
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(2008) |
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"Teeters throughout at that juncture between masterpiece and piffle."
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(2008) |
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"The morons going to Eagle Eye are the ones who would most benefit from its message in spoon-fed form."
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(2008) |
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"I wonder if it's unforgivable heresy to say The Cell is badly underestimated and due for revisionism while The Fall, despite its relative obscurity, is badly overestimated."
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