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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Ultimately seems just as calculated and mechanical a pose as Dumont's previous efforts."
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Though colorful, cheery and energetic, there's something missing from this song-and-dance routine."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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A- |
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(1988) |
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"The defining moment in the auteur’s career-long dedication to lionizing Baltimore’s misfit population."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"More nuanced than your average Sundance character study, Ryan Fleck's carefully observed Half Nelson still doesn't overcome its origins as a padded-out expansion of the filmmaker's 2002 short Gowanus, Brooklyn."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Rob Zombie's gut understanding of what makes '70s horror so great is unfortunately glimpsed in only short, sporadic bursts in Halloween."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Without a new path for its central trio, Halloween II merely rehashes in quick, distracted swipes."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Might have been brilliantly funny had the film found a way to suitably lay the groundwork for its premise."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Remaking Rocky Balboa as a comedy isn't a half-bad idea; remaking it as a comedy starring Adam Carolla, the dreadfully unfunny former host of Loveline and The Man Show, most certainly is a terrible one."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Sheds essential exposition in a mad, foolish dash to the finish line."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Phillips wrings his scenario for consistent semi-dark humor, letting his odd-couple leads go for broke and wielding mystery as a comedic spur that keeps the proceedings from dragging."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The nicest thing one can say about the film is that at least it's not The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: The Movie."
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Cinematical |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"At what cost, naturalism?"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Shyamalan is far better at setup than payoff, and the Sixth Sense director's latest once and for all cements that reputation."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Bereft of the meta elements that characterized the filmmaker’s previous My Wife Is An Actress."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1998) |
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"Exhibits an almost pitch-perfect balance between condescension and compassion."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(1980) |
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"A camp-tastic footnote to the late-'70s, early-'80s slasher flick craze."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Even more irritating than the film's third act triumphs is its lack of faith in moviegoers' intelligence."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Stands at the very top of the 2006 animated kid's film class."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"[Leigh's] legitimately uplifting film benefits from its own refusal to unduly sentimentalize or moralize."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Hard Candy's calculated intimations of bloodshed are, like everything else about this faux-grrrl power fiasco, just phony posturing."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Writer/director Scott Roberts builds his off-kilter caper with spare parts from every crime film made by the Tarantinos and Guy Richies of the world."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A mumblecore-ish debut feature from writer-director Bob Byington that's far less interested in oblique conversational navel-gazing than in dry humor."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An amplification of scale and subject matter that isn't, alas, accompanied by an upgrade in humor."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"As unsatisfying as its titular fast food chain’s repulsive mini-burgers, Leiner’s film shoots only for scatological silliness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1976) |
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Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"So bloated and joyless that it makes one pine for the bland mediocrity of Chris Columbus."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Often feels fruitful thanks to diligent concentration on the romantic plights of its three pubescent protagonists."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Now that Harry has ditched childhood, it seems high time the franchise also dispatches with its immature and draggy literal-mindedness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Visually marvelous."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The only thing holding together the loopily overwrought Harsh Times is its unintentional humor."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"A pensive, potent remembrance of collectivism past."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Marina Razbezhkina's Harvest Time uses nostalgia as more of an emotional than intellectual device."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Quaint and slight."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Haunting of Connecticut doesn't have to worry about line-straddling, its crummy scares and laughable stabs at a faith-restored narrative granting it permanent residence in the realm of C-grade cheese."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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0/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For those who find bloody noses and whispered voices bone-chilling, heeeeeeere's The Haunting of Molly Hartley."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Structurally indebted to Pulp Fiction but lacking Quentin Tarantino's sense of humor and knack for dramatic rhythm."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Very little fun, and, even at ninety minutes, is easily thirty minutes too long."
[movie review] |
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Nitrate Online |
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(1948) |
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"The credits indicate Alfred L. Werker only, but this thriller is of a piece with the noir circle of T-Men and Raw Deal, courtesy of an uncredited Anthony Mann."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"[Rock] seems to think that expanding his critiques to feature-length form requires a cookie-cutter white southern governor as the enemy and lots of "bling bling" style as a positive counterpoint."
[movie review] |
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Nitrate Online |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Ultimately more provocative than insightful."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Preoccupied with people's longing for unattainable mastery over forces beyond their control and the facades they assume as a means of compensating for their powerlessness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"So affected and emotionally inaccessible as to be borderline intolerable."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Ultimately sabotaged by Argento's own deliriously uncontrollable hysterics."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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(2003) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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Nitrate Online |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Uses its copious basketball footage and revealing player interviews to deftly chart Darnellia's trials and tribulations as well as the squad's eventual embrace of a selfless, teamwork-first ethos."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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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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(1995) |
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"De Niro delivers a frightening vision of frosty criminal efficiency."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Fox's writing makes up for its occasional obviousness with a rigorous interest in character and general avoidance of long-winded homilies."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The second wave of fawning Tarantino imitators commences with Hell Ride, a wannabe badass biker flick that plays like a Kill Bill-Death Proof hybrid minus the genre-deconstruction angle."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(1973) |
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"Lacks nearly everything that made its predecessor so groovy."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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