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2.5/4 |
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(2010) |
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"A stylized, scattershot inquiry into Italy's TV-dominated culture, Videocracy is a portrait of 21st-century media fascism."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2010) |
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"The fight-the-power scenario operates as a rebel fantasy of empowered French multicultural youth, yet it's one that never rises above cartoonishness."
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Slant Magazine |
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0/4 |
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(2010) |
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"A romantic comedy of such staggering ineptness that it actually makes one wish the filmmaker would redirect his attention back to the superhero genre he sullied."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2010) |
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"This limp psychodrama proves woefully short on character development or narrative structure."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A tone-deaf odyssey of personal discovery striving to echo Dante's Inferno."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2010) |
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"Legion has the good sense to mimic a classic but otherwise makes no sense at all."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2010) |
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"Jon Amiel's portrait of Darwin's efforts to accept and acclimate to a new reality is mucked up by all manner of directorial flim-flam."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2010) |
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"Eli is nothing less than a prophet-superman on a divine mission, and while he naturally saves the word of God and, thus, humanity at large, he's powerless to salvage the film from its derivativeness."
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Slant Magazine |
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0/4 |
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(2010) |
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"Following in Mr. Nanny and The Pacifier's turgid footsteps, Brian Levant's film mushifies Chan into a comedic parody of his rock-'em-sock-'em big-screen persona."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2010) |
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"Ben is such a stock type, and his circumstances are so doggedly implausible, that his ultimate transformation and happily-ever-after are a preordained conclusion that one must dutifully await while enduring squishy dramedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2010) |
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"The Spierigs' latest doesn't do much to carve out a unique identity."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"The pessimism of Na's slick debut rings false."
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Village Voice |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Whiplash quick and twice as exciting."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Unsuccessfully attempts to fashion an actual story out of slapdash, seemingly improvised sequences awash in uneven CG effects."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In Meyers’s milquetoast hands, the way the scenario plays out isn’t so much tricky as treacly, with sporadic bursts of sitcom goofiness."
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Time Out New York |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This is simply a showcase for Jeff Bridges, and a reasonably decent one at that even when the script thrusts Bad down tediously hackneyed roads."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With Avatar, a cinematic revolution doesn't begin so much as proceed into its next phase."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"An unbearably taut, slow-simmering noir transposed to the vast countryside and its patient, drawn-out rhythms."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Requires more than incessant slow-motion and escalating orchestral music to pass as serious drama."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Gray-haired Gless grouches with embarrassing abandon while chatting with the young ghost of her soulmate and befriending a mysterious girl (Jackson)."
[movie review] |
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Time Out New York |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Finds beauty, madness and outright bizarreness in the sight of a lost, slightly freakish man attempting to understand his altering reality."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Clint Eastwood's films are often termed "classical," a term that, with regard to Invictus, also suggests something close to stale."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film isn't any uglier than its antecedents, but it is more lethargic."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Begins as merely intolerable and ends up borderline-reprehensible."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Eimbcke's Jarmusch-ian comedy is laced with something stronger."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"An oppressive sense of brutality, loneliness and ennui remains visceral."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Pleasant enough in the moment but maintains considerable distance from actually plumbing the raw emotions of its central subject."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Michael Hoffman’s biopic of Leo Tolstoy’s final year filters its historical drama through a turgid coming-of-age experience."
[movie review] |
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Time Out New York |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It not only crucially fails to address the cultural forces that might have spawned the country's prime musical export but it also neglects to include more than cursory snippets of the tunes themselves."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's the socio-cultural suggestions of this storytelling choice that's ultimately most troublesome."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s just an excuse for classic-cinema shout-outs and roller-coaster-like commotion."
[movie review] |
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Time Out New York |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"So wretched that it should be unceremoniously put down."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A cinematic adaptation at once faithful and superior to its source material."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"May not result in a coherent whole but nonetheless delivers bursts of random, inspired madness."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Staten Island has the stench of meat left on the counter for too long."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film's shortcomings have less to do with Woo's orchestration of his ambitious tale and more to do with the Frankenstein hatchet job enacted against it."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ruspoli's scenic cross-section L.A. travelogue conveys a strong sense of milieu even as his wannabe-Strung aesthetics reveal the project's underlying style-over-substance concerns."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"The defining entrant in, and the nadir of, the disaster porn genre."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't drawn in one-to-one cause-effect lines, its obliqueness lending suspense and interpretative depth to the Job-like suffering of Larry."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Another of the Funny Games auteur's unpersuasively rigid portraits of man's venality."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Anderson prizes the funny over the profound to an extent that keeps the proceedings a tad too light and jovial to register as anything more than a lightweight aside to his more acute, earnest work."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"The same old thing dressed up in very slightly different clothes."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Moverman's scripting is subdued and emotionally authentic."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock n' roll as the average great-grandmother, so it's no surprise that Pirate Radio, his ode to the irrepressible spirit of '60s classic rock, has all the electricity of a knitted sweater."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Content to occupy that middle ground where insights are authentic but far from revelatory and comedy is more amiable than riotous."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Though his narrative's morality-play suspense and Bernard Herrmann-esque score recall Hitchcock, Kelly seems to have selected the '70s so that he can fully channel early-years Steven Spielberg."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A clear step in the right direction for Zemeckis and his pet techno-project, the film nonetheless ultimately sabotages itself by prizing the hectic over the heartfelt."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite positioning itself as a Napoleon Dynamite-style comedy about a spazzy social retard, Splinterheads seems to have misplaced most of its jokes."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Smith's subject Michael Ruppert never registers as much more than an eloquent but largely untrustworthy quack."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"A teen-targeted public service announcement."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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