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(1949) |
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"Rudolph Maté's seminal thriller rapidly decomposes into a campy, confusing bore."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ron Howard's adaptation of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code is a marriage made in mediocrity."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Daltry Calhoun proves to be as slight as a blade of grass—and, unfortunately, about as intoxicating as the legal kind."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The parallel-tracks structure smoothly reveals cause-effect relationships even as it sometimes feels designed to gussy up the narrative's straightforward rise-and-fall arc."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Steve Carell's pursed-lipped awkwardness and sweet buffoonery are both in fine form, but those endearing qualities aren't nearly enough to salvage Peter Hedges's incorrigibly hackneyed film."
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(1990) |
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"In the spirit of the great Sioux tradition, I dub Dances with Wolves’ Kevin Costner “Directorial One-Hit Wonder.”"
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(1990) |
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"Despite its empathy and respect for Native Americans, the film has very little going for it besides its admittedly majestic trappings."
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B+ |
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(1993) |
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"One of [Ferrara's] most rewardingly challenging works."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2003) |
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"One gets the sneaking suspicion that Batman never would have embarrassed himself like this."
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Nitrate Online |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The ingredients that have increasingly defined Wes Anderson's films seem, with The Darjeeling Limited, to have become something like limitations."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Shelton, working from a script by David Ayer, is eager to use each and every cliché at his disposal."
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Filmcritic.com |
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B+ |
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(1998) |
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"An unsettling depiction of reality as elusive and ephemeral."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(1984) |
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"Plenty of premise but little payoff."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Dark Knight resounds with a throbbing topical undercurrent, its superficially good-versus-evil setup slowly revealed to be a complex examination of the ways in which democracies can, and must, combat zealotry."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Aside from depicting American academia as a cutthroat environment that can inspire deadly resentment, there's not much going on."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(1949) |
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"Another of the era's barely tolerable advertisements for Freudian psychoanalysis."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B- |
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(1974) |
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"Isn't nearly as funny as it once was...but it nonetheless has its amusing moments."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dark Streets may only be a quasi-noir and quasi-musical, but that doesn't stop it from being a wholesale slog."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"About as frightening as a soggy diaper."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A moldy, third-generation retread of The Ring."
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2003) |
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"There’s nothing very frightening about this shallow, stupid spookfest."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film perceptively addresses the intertwining of fantasy and reality, which eventually seems so pronounced that one senses players are acting out their dreams of either being, or striking back against, bullies."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The directorial slackness is ably compensated for by a climactic set from the reunited Fugees."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Nicely amplifies George A. Romero’s 1978 zombies-at-the-mall horror classic."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Mother Nature is a *****, but another Ice Age would at least put sermonizing blockbuster filmmaking like this on deep freeze."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"By taking such a detached perspective on the girl's quest, the entire project is reduced to an exercise in inconsequential imagination."
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Cinematical |
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B- |
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(1985) |
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"The film’s frosty pessimism about mankind’s future does eventually get under your skin."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(1963) |
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"Decidedly short on awe-inspiring moments."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Aside from one stunning image of a sports car skidding along the face of a curved high-rise hotel, Night Watch fails to even equal its forebear's handful of flashy CG moments."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Proves that Hollywood doesn't have a monopoly on ponderous, ersatz-thoughtful war dramas."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This rasping relic of a WWII "message picture" is hackneyed to its noble core."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1978) |
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"A DVD fit for a masterpiece."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1978) |
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"To hell with equivocation or beating around the bush: Terrence Malick's 1978 Days of Heaven is the greatest film ever made."
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"The various tales amount to little on their own and fail to resonate outside of their narrow narrative confines."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"Somehow operates under the assumption that a dumb nursery rhyme, a colorless visual palette punctuated by deep reds, and some creaky dolls will frighten anyone over the age of five."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Unevenly replicates Sam Raimi's whirligig blend of terror and comedy."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"A daft portrait of the U.S. (and its racism and gun-worship) that’s wide of the mark."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"A manipulative, tearjerking thriller that, functioning as a sustained, anguished primal scream, is as emotionally devastating as any film, fiction or non-, released this year."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1995) |
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"Roman Polanski’s underappreciated 1994 thriller Death and the Maiden confronts a litany of moral conundrums regarding guilt, revenge, punishment, justice, and man’s responsibility to himself and society."
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(1995) |
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"Polanski’s gripping Death and the Maiden shows that, long before Sexy Beast, Ben Kingsley had already proved himself adept at playing psychotic madmen."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A strained farce in which lots of one-dimensional Brits converge at the memorial service for their family's patriarch and proceed to act like buffoons."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Range's aesthetic trickery isn't nearly as seamless or as clever as that found in Kevin Millmott's C.S.A.: Confederate States of America."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Possesses a raw, focused outrage that’s difficult to shake."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A serviceable, forgettable genre film marked by leaden performances, even more leaden dialogue, a few sterlingly gruesome images, and a supremely campy performance from Joan Allen."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1975) |
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"The conception and execution are top-notch low-budget trash."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2003) |
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Click here to see the review!
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Nitrate Online |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Trading in shabby trickery, Deception proves painfully incapable of building a better suspense-movie mousetrap."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Nothing says Christmas quite like incompetent slapstick, saccharine sermonizing, and cavernous cleavage."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"An unoriginal romantic comedy that vainly attempts to mask its conventionality with all manner of eccentricities."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A true-life tale of inadvertent self-destruction, Deep Water's generic title belies its haunting incisiveness."
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