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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The further Bower journeys into the spacecraft's bowels, with Payton providing navigation tips from back in their original sleep chamber, the less Pandorum unnerves."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Neither blue teeth nor virgins make appearances, but Russell Brown’s torpid indie does deliver plenty of ponderous chitchat about truth, deception, criticism and artists’ motivations."
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Time Out New York |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With rugged reverence, Sweetgrass depicts the final sheepherder drive into Montana's Beartooth mountains."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Old-hat tropes under a superficially stunning veneer."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Underlit and generally shot with an eye toward unattractiveness, Beer in Hell also goes for ugliness in its dialogue."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Fontaine dramatizes Coco's struggles respectfully if mundanely, crafting believable period detail for her procession of key-life-moment scenes, all of which employ serviceable but far from groundbreaking psychologizing."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Narratively and grammatically dim redemption pap."
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Time Out New York |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It may not have the heart or subtle artistry of Up, but then again, Pixar’s 3-D outing didn’t feature a mustache-tearing monkey, a manchild encased in a giant cooked chicken, or a beefy, bounding cop voiced by Mr. T."
[movie review] |
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Time Out New York |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A period piece typified by restraint, delicacy and the romantic spirit of its renowned subject."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Klapisch's "It's a small world" plotting is sunk by both bland artistry and dull insights into his milieu."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Another fervent call-to-arms from one side of the aisle."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Depicts everyday details and conveys overarching emotional upheavals with a compassion and gentleness that's quietly devastating."
[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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"It's a wonder Whiteout isn't in 3D, what with its initial onslaught of in-your-face flying propellers, crashing planes, and a lingering close-up of Kate Beckinsale stripping to her skivvies."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For his remake of Fritz Lang's last American film, Peter Hyams retains the German Expressionist's narrative conceit but otherwise ratchets up the sleek car-commercial flashiness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Casting its south-of-the-border setting as a dingy, nightmarish hellhole of hookers and red neon lights, Not Forgotten is a feature-length anti-tourism campaign for Mexico."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Beautifully designed but short on depth or novelty."
[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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"Gamer is a laborious bit of sci-fi grimness that dully updates The Running Man for the 21st century."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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0/0 |
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(2009) |
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"The only laughs elicited by All About Steve are those of incredulity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Manages to be pleasant without ever eliciting much in the way of laughter."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Without a new path for its central trio, Halloween II merely rehashes in quick, distracted swipes."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A feeble follow-up punch to Japan after The Cove."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It acutely illustrates how excessive sports fanaticism functions as a strain of insanity that, as posited by the "happy" coda, recommences with every new season."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Its sincere consideration of its characters' longing for acceptance and approval rings true."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Narrated with overblown rhetoric by Emile Hirsch, Steve Lawrence's feature-length commercial only feigns interest in the backstories and motivations of its chosen subjects"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Something close to an ideal Tarantino flick, an impertinent and often tasteless epic that rewrites WII history as a fairy tale for gonzo genre kicks."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"More dull calamity than stirring triumph."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A wretched dramedy about the depths of twentysomething careerist self-absorption."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"In its home stretch, Funny People's action drags so unnecessarily that it ... drains any impact from its refreshingly pragmatic view of second chances."
[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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"To a greater extent than Sleeping Dogs Lie, it clumsily straddles the line between comedy and drama, its story neither outrageous enough to be funny nor substantial enough to be moving."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"To swoon over the lovely Rachel McAdams or hunky Eric Bana is easy, but doing so during The Time Traveler's Wife requires willful blindness to the sloppy nonsensicality of their across-the-years love story."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Myriad obvious ancestors prevent the film from feeling as revolutionary as some have claimed, though there's nonetheless vitality to Blomkamp's expert implementation."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Basically Team America: World Police played straight and minus the political edge."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The cerebral horror of Wendigo and The Last Winter is nowhere to be found in Glenn McQuaid's meandering 19th-century supernatural gothic tale."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Its shallowness is nonetheless in tune with its subject: the gory, violent, sex-crazed Australian exploitation films of the '70s and '80s."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"A quite stirring call to arms against the senseless, copious murder of animals."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Dreams figure prominently in You, the Living, which posits reveries as articulations of--or refuges from--deep-seated fears."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Its prime directive is to inculcate young viewers with the gee-whiz tropes of producer Jerry Bruckheimer's teen-oriented fare."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite director Jaume Collet-Serra's apt use of running children's laughter for jolt scares, the suspense generated from Esther's early lunatic behavior is of a mild, amusing variety."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A penetrating, deceptively sly interior portrait."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A razor-sharp farce that imparts insights from all directions."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As with Marsh, the state of Ukrainian medicine, and his topic's underlying issues of morality and mercy, director Smith merely presents them in all their heartrending complexity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A dreary tale spun out of bland cliches and so many coincidences that one begins to believe its titular guru perhaps does have a direct line to the Almighty."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Often feels fruitful thanks to diligent concentration on the romantic plights of its three pubescent protagonists."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With empathetic reserve only sullied by occasional lapses into cross-cutting and musical italicizing, The Way We Get By equates the sadness of war and aging."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Ultimately devoid of anything much to say about sexuality or friendship."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Blood is borderline incomprehensible."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Brüno is like Milk, but with a talking penis."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Public Enemies fizzles at the moment of detonation."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"No giant robots urinate on humans in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Harrowing and horrifying, The Hurt Locker delivers the visceral, heart-in-throat action goods, and in doing so, gets at more truths about Iraq than its preachy ... brethren."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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