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B- |
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(2005) |
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"The early sequences’ chilling suspense winds up getting hidden amidst its crowded, clumsy allegorical concerns."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Visually and narratively flat."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Hou doing Ozu--what more could a cineaste want?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A languorous rumination on the relationship between the inescapable past, hesitant present, and daunting future."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Redundant, artless, and lacking anything approaching directorial restraint."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"A glossy rehash that's far less interesting and frightening than the classics upon which it's unimaginatively modeled."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"An Australian rendition of Requiem for a Dream in which pretty people live in filth, steal from their relatives, and turn tricks in order to satiate their narcotics cravings."
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(1981) |
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"The most shocking thing about Cannibal Ferox is that it remains a somewhat popular entry in the largely worthless Italian cannibal genre."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D |
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(1980) |
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"The actual savages involved with Cannibal Holocaust are the ones behind the camera."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1962) |
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DVD Angle |
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(1991) |
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DVD Angle |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Redeemed by Hoffman, who magnificently captures the shrill, needy egotism of the legendary author."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1935) |
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"Shiver me timbers, that Flynn's got some pretty hair for a pirate."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1935) |
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"Not nearly as exciting as 1940's The Sea Hawk but a sturdy first swashbuckling foray for Flynn."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"There's a trenchant cultural critique lurking beneath its occasionally cloying melodrama."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Balabanov imbues his uncompromisingly matter-of-fact horror show material with a shrewd politicized consciousness."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Musty, corny, and largely devoid of any enchanting magic, it's also the pioneering Pixar's first effort that, trailblazing technical virtuosity be damned, feels disappointingly regressive."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Nothing short of a complete stylistic and thematic renovation would improve Hallström's tediously conventional treacle.
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"The first Bond film to actually prize three-dimensional characters and moral dilemmas over action-film flash."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Casting About may be a definitive account of the cinematic audition process."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(1990) |
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"A butchered mess of a movie that only superficially resembles the Elmore Leonard novel on which it's based."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If grief were as easily overcome as it is in Catch and Release, Prozac sales would be in dire trouble."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Despite its slightly overblown histrionics, Castellitto's furious performance gives the film a welcome measure of righteous indignation."
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2004) |
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"An avalanche of de-clawed idiocy."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Remember: CPR doesn't properly work on women unless their cleavage is visible."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The friction between her real-life protagonist clan's traditional customs and the outlying modern world remains the backbone of Davaa's ethnographic cinema."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2000) |
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"Mildly scabrous."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It's Ellis’s dedication to providing an unrelenting series of silly B-movie set pieces that makes the ridiculous Cellular ring."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The definition of a missed opportunity."
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"There are three or four movies competing for attention within Changeling, and unfortunately for Clint Eastwood, they're all equally dreadful melodramatic drivel."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Even if Chaos is hampered by a desire to be all things to all people, Serreau's nimble touch bestows this schizophrenic genre pastiche with an infectiously zany verve."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"At one point, Chapman confesses that he doesn't enjoy the movies because they're "so goddamn phony," and with regard to the superficial, ugly-as-dirt Chapter 27, he's right on the money."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"With a surprisingly docile tone that's more peculiar than petrifying, Burton's foray to the famous factory becomes something of a gooey mess.
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Neither [Roberts] nor her illustrious co-stars can compensate for a facile screenplay without many laughs or insights into our government's inner workings."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Bubblegum pop-songstress turned budding thespian Mandy Moore once again transforms a dreadful teen-oriented romance into something moderately watchable."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"A strikingly constructed, handsomely HD-filmed museum display piece."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The only thing more outdated than Cheaper by the Dozen’s soundtrack is its hokey life lessons concerning the importance of family over career."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Concerned with pat platitudes about learning to say goodbye, the importance of family, and the superiority of parental leniency over authoritarian strictness."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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(2008) |
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"A TV movie in disguise."
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Cinematical |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The finale is an extended tour de force equal parts Bruce Lee, Tony Jaa, and Donkey Kong."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Aside from a few choice sequences, Gregg's script largely comes up short on the transgressive or poignant front."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"With Chop Shop, Ramin Bahrani exhibits a restraint not found in his 2005 debut Man Push Cart, focusing more intently on his tale's neorealist particulars than its symbolic potential."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Desperate to be labeled 'Dickensian'"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2007) |
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"A real-life romance to put all those rom-com fairy tales to shame."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"A Christmas Tale's expansive stew of physical and psychological illness, death, betrayal, longing, religion, and ritual ultimately proves invigoratingly lush."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"C.S. Lewis meets Teen Beat."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"To say that it's all more than a bit simplistic and heavy-handed would be a severe understatement."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Eschewing the claustrophobic minimalism of its predecessor Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick is an extravagant orgy of used sci-fi parts."
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Slant Magazine |
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