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(1995) |
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"Its seemingly effortless synthesis of humor and pathos [is] almost as wonderful as is its ability to capture the sense of awe and fear that attends youth's initial exposure to the big wide world."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"There isn't a second when Iñárritu's film feels as if it's replicating life's coincidental nature."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"That the film also features SNL's Amy Poehler makes the proceedings' crushing mediocrity that much more frustrating."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Seems simply like the aftermath of an artistic apocalypse."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Daddies, don't let your daughters grow up to be babysitters, because according to The Babysitters, it's a gateway to whoredom."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Depicting the thorny relationship shared by pop star and fan, Backstage radiates not the nostalgic sentimentality of Almost Famous but raw, pathetic, obsessive desperation."
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3.5/4 |
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(1954) |
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"Sturges laces his allegory with mounting tension."
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(1954) |
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"Title be damned, Sturges's classic isn't a bad way to spend a day."
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"pulses with florid passion... it may be the best film of the year."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Realism isn’t the focal point of Bad Guy—misogynistic male power fantasies masquerading as dark, dreamlike treatises on fate and love are."
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Slant Magazine |
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A |
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(1992) |
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"[Ferrara's] crowning achievement."
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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."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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A- |
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(1976) |
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"Remains the best film ever made about kids and sports."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Appreciably funnier and more profane than its '70s-era ancestor."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"An uproarious all-out assault on propriety."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(1960) |
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"A freestyle homage to Hamlet that does away with the costumed faithfulness of Kurosawa's other Shakespeare adaptations."
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(1960) |
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"A sterling Shakespearean noir, Kurosawa's critique of unchecked corporate power functions as an uncharacteristically despondent counterpoint to his trademark humanism."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"The Duplass Brothers...get some decent mileage from their Cassavetes-lite, semi-improvisatory filmmaking approach, capturing authenticity in their cast's fumbling gestures, half-spoken lines, and stumbling advances."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1959) |
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DVD Angle |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Intriguing and disquietingly bizarre."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"To put this miscalculation in terms the filmmakers will understand, they don't Armageddon it."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"There's something mildly seductive about its linking of passion with the wild, untamable jungle that envelops its characters."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Jitnukul’s film canonizes sacrificial plight and serves as a stirring act of national self-definition."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"A middling, overly predictable comedy."
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Matinee Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Doesn't make much of a lasting impression except as a case study in the dreariness of style-over-substance filmmaking when said style is the height of derivativeness."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As they did with their original, the Pangs steal liberally from John Woo without ever replicating his shootout-choreography inventiveness or proficiency."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"I give in. Regardless of his limited acting range and penchant for choosing the goofiest projects available, Jason Statham is pretty awesome."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"It may be an easy swipe to take, but this Barbershop just doesn't make the cut."
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Matinee Magazine |
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(1994) |
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DVD Angle |
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(1987) |
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DVD Angle |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Harjo poeticizes the open road with increasing redundancy, yet his identical scenic panoramas remain preferable to his dramaturgy, which mistakes silence for pensiveness."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(1982) |
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"A thing of modest B-movie beauty."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1997) |
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DVD Angle |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"But there's no auteurist signature, no idiosyncratic imprint, on the film that distinctly marks it as a work of Nolan's, and thus it feels vaguely impersonal and remote."
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(2000) |
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DVD Angle |
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(1998) |
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DVD Angle |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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(2007) |
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"As unsophisticated as ... Brian DePalma's Redacted, although at least Broomfield forgoes spurious aesthetic shenanigans."
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Cinematical |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A bizarre, preachy pro-peace animated adventure."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Reygadas proves that rare filmmaker interested in tackling both the personal and the political through expressly confrontational means."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Fictionalized drama frustrates, rather than facilitates, understanding about the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) protests in Battle to Seattle."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2000) |
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"Races along with the swift, brutal precision of a samurai sword cutting through cotton."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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F |
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(2003) |
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"A film in which the heroes are al Qaeda surrogates."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Chooses to embrace, rather than transcend via zany bawdiness, the schmaltzy genre within which it's operating."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"This bumbling exercise in redundant replication is as disagreeably lukewarm as a heavily trafficked municipal baby pool.
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In Michel Gondry's estimation, we're defined by our dreams, our art, and our histories, a conviction he once again expresses with whimsical, lyrical inventiveness."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A miniscule budget is probably at least somewhat to blame for Be My Oswald's dull sets, audio in which voices are drowned out by reverb, and digital video that frequently looks worse than my MiniDV-shot home movies."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The optimistic flip-side to James Tobak's Harvey Keitel-headlined Fingers."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Moland's humanistic story about xenophobia, man's persevering spirit, and life's bitter ironies only stumbles during its final act."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2000) |
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DVD Angle |
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