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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Determined to remake himself into a mini-Michael Bay (replete with military hardware fetishism!), Caruso shoots primarily in shaky, glossy close-ups that obliterate any sense of spatial proportion, scale or lucidity."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Eagle vs. Shark is nothing more and nothing less than a romantic, New Zealand variant of Napoleon Dynamite."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Fundamentally a condensed trailer for the BBC's portrait of the globe's myriad habitats, the film offers a skimpy but reverential portrait of the intertwined relationship between the environment and its inhabitants."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1955) |
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"A showcase for Dean’s searing, gargantuan, force-of-nature performance."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Its subtextual currents are more compelling than the actual narrative itself, which never wholly coheres into something satisfyingly suspenseful."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2002) |
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Click here to see the review!
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DVD Angle |
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C+ |
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(1976) |
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"[Its] off-the-wall hybridization of Tennessee Williams, Alfred Hitchcock (Psycho, specifically), and Lucio Fulci is more often than not sloppy."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Fails to offer any insight into its main character's motivations."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Only an extraordinarily hubristic film would declare itself "The Most Amazing Story of Survival, Friendship, and Adventure Ever Told.""
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"What ultimately prevents Eldorado from generating any serious comedic energy is absurdity ... that feels unduly strained and limp."
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The Screengrab |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Substituting titillating triumph for tragedy, this adaptation of Marvel Comics’ knife-wielding knockout comes across as hopelessly blunted.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"A morally dubious waiting game."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(1957) |
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"Incapable of spreading Moreau's passion and sadness to its crime-thriller narrative."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"A severely limited affair, one whose appeal will likely be relegated to those already familiar with McCarroll's prior escapades."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"Exudes genuine holiday cheer."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Padilha succumbs to monotonous, hollow flamboyance with his City of God clone."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"An excruciatingly narcissistic nostalgia trip saturated with writer/director Cameron Crowe’s favorite tunes."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Sweet November for the nursing-home set, Elsa and Fred is sentimental mush cooked up with extra syrup."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Frat boys and KKK members will surely love this."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Eventually peddles the same old ass-backwards messages, equating physical beauty with goodness, and positing that a woman's greatest dream is that a hunk will materialize out of thin air and make her a contented homemaker and wife."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Offers an experience that is best summed up by a phrase seen carved in a McMurdo wood banister: "I sink into bliss.""
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"a gay-themed Fatal Attraction in which homosexuality and deranged lunacy are treated as identical sides of the same coin."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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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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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Light on new evidence but impressively comprehensive in scope."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The license plate that reads “Caca King” in Barry Levinson’s Envy nicley sums up this dreadful “money vs. friendship” comedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A Korean ghost story that alternates between being confusing and dim."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Eragon's fantastical milieu may be third-class Lord of the Rings, but its story--in what may constitute the most shameless act of plagiarism known to American cinema--is pure Star Wars."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Neither more nor less than a solid prison-break thriller."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"A unique deconstruction of man’s innate desire to avert heartache."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Evan Almighty simplistically preaches the value of faith, and its overriding belief is that beneficial societal and familial change can stem from "one act of random kindness.""
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Producer Bob Yari returns to the Crash well with Even Money and comes up with a turgid PSA about the dangers of gambling."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"A weepie examination of female and sexual identity whose worth is roughly equal to that of a used Kleenex."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A science-fiction tale shares a deep fascination with the logistical and psychological dilemmas arising from society's breakdown."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"[Sets] up hackneyed relationships, conflicts and resolutions with such a lack of imagination and subtlety that paying attention to narrative particulars quickly becomes a waste of time."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Most of Everything is Illuminated seems to have been dipped in a vat of second-hand Wes Anderson affectation."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Zach Braff is just about the world's most insufferable comedic actor, and The Ex does nothing to diminish that reputation."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"An electric, inventive amalgam of gonzo violence and lyrical sentimentality."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(1961) |
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"While the mood is spot-on, the dubbed dialogue is so persistently lousy that it besmirches the proceedings' otherwise-entrancing beauty."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"A pedantic supernatural hybrid of Inherit the Wind and Audrey Rose."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For a film about American freedom of expression and the necessity for open dialogue, it's hard to imagine Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed being more one-sided, narrow-minded, and intellectually dishonest."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Locating both Claire's loneliness and Jay's anger as partial outgrowths of their detested profession handing out parking meter violation tickets, Expired coasts along on a distinctively odd wavelength."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Mark Weber's Explicit Ills has a tenderness that belies its fiery left-leaning political views about urban poverty and social injustice."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Everything is literally and figuratively black and white in The Express."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"A complex, confessional examination of [Jean-Claude Brisseau's] twisted, thorny and ultimately ambiguous feelings toward women and sex."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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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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2/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It’s disappointing to find the film’s most deliciously terrifying surprise occurs during the film’s opening credits."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"You'd think that a horror story concerned with the unreliability of sight might at least try to generate scares via the use of visual trickery."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The script's flip-flopping between the past and present is so clunky and unfocused that confusion often reigns, thus undermining any clear portrait of its subject."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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