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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"the director seems all too cognizant of her pedestrian script’s inability to express more than superficial pathos"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2004) |
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"Fair and balanced, as Fox News might say, this is not."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Meanders forward with little apparent direction and virtually no interesting drama."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A rank slice of Christmas cheese.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Merely an extended high-five to those already in the Skywalker-adoring club."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A wasted opportunity to breathe fresh life into the Marvel universe's long-stodgy elder statesmen.
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As far as minor triumphs go, at least Story's disposable film is shrewd enough to understand, embrace, and then stay true to its iconic comic book source material's lighthearted spirit."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Anderson prizes the funny over the profound to an extent that keeps the proceedings a tad too light and jovial to register as anything more than a lightweight aside to his more acute, earnest work."
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(1993) |
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"Sweeping, self-important and only moderately stirring."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Removing the "the" from its predecessors' title not once but twice, Fast & Furious's abbreviated moniker harkens back to the series's 2001 original while simultaneously expressing a tough curtness that marks it as its own model."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Fat Girls' portrait of its small town high school milieu feels immediate and authentic even when the story's perfunctory machinations don't."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"a unique, striking, poetic expression of the tumultuous emotions shared by a man and his boy at the crossroads of their lives.
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[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(1998) |
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Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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B |
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(1984) |
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"Has a bitterness and cynicism that's grimily, perversely romantic."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A collection of superbly wrought black-and-white animated vignettes."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The protagonist's message rings true and its battle sequences prove gripping, but Jet Li's Fearless is both slightly ham-fisted in its efforts to have its individual and political narratives mirror one another."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Rather than catching Feast during its limited midnight-movie theatrical release, one can enjoy comparable B-movie goofiness via any Saturday-night Sci-Fi Channel offering."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Moviegoers beware: nausea is a prime side effect of consuming Feast of Love, an extraordinarily inane multi-character saga about the complexities of love from Robert Benton"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Felon flounders in convincingly resolving its protagonist's plight."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Festival Express only delivers, at its best, a mild contact high."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"An amusing and affecting ode to professional sports fandom."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Fido never goes anywhere interesting or particularly funny with its sketch-comedy premise."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Fighting evocatively captures the texture of New York City"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Chabrol's familiar critique of the bourgeoisie is dispiritingly lethargic and simple."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2008) |
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"[The film's] finest attribute is its scraggly, empathetic portrait of close-knit Londoners trying to make a go of things in haphazard, messy, always true-to-themselves ways."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"Vapid, pointless and wholly predictable."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"In The Final Season, high school baseball gives a small town its pride and identity. And quells teenage rebellion. And helps foster two separate romances. And cures cancer."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Actively tries to replicate what it must have felt like to endure 600-plus days of jury duty."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A clumsy mash of Leaving Las Vegas and Hardcore."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The cumbersome Finding Neverland never gets off the ground.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(1978) |
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"A penetrating portrait of tortured, impotent masculinity and the foolishness of attempting to be something you’re not."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If its critique sometimes lacks grace, it's nonetheless bolstered by a shrewd understanding of the way pop culture exploits minority differences for entertainment purposes."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Fired Up plays like a direct-to-video American Pie sequel."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(1982) |
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"As a spy adventure, the movie is close to abysmal."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Had it been made shortly after 9/11, Firehouse Dog might have seemed like a shameless attempt to marry the country's reverence for the New York Fire Department with Air Bud."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1968) |
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Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Having once vehemently ordered Russian hijackers to "Get off my plane!," Harrison Ford can't even get a few techie terrorists out of his living room in Firewall."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"The burden of keeping this schematically plotted tale's pulse lively falls on Pearce, who instills Jimmy with a brand of cheery, motormouthed deceitfulness and egotism that even a mother would loathe."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"On the basis of First Sunday, it would seem writer-director David E. Talbert has been keeping close tabs on the creative recipe for success concocted by Tyler Perry."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Fascinating (and oft-times infuriating)."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ruspoli's scenic cross-section L.A. travelogue conveys a strong sense of milieu even as his wannabe-Strung aesthetics reveal the project's underlying style-over-substance concerns."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A creaky history-class lecture."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(2006) |
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"[A] stilted, affected term-paper treatise on the human condition."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A series of scenes from a love affair whose insightfulness slightly outweighs its sluggishness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"What little tension exists in Flash of Genius stems not from its ho-hum narrative, but from its attempts to fashion a heartwarming tale from a true-life story that, in many respects, wasn't all that heartwarming."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Like the mixed martial arts it showcases, Flash Point espouses the belief that there's nothing quite as entertaining as uninhibited brutality."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It may not be as insensitive as Blood Diamond's inane examination of the diamond industry and its accompanying slave trade, but Flawless's utilization of the issue as a mere diversionary plot point is nonetheless plenty distasteful."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1965) |
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"Gets exciting mileage out of examining male codes of honor and behavior."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Hou Hsiao-hsien's trademark long takes call attention to the passage of time, and as such they're intimately attuned to his ongoing thematic interest in the bonds between the past, present, and future."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"A disposable B-movie without much excitement or ingenuity."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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