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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Were the articulate director a less obnoxious presence, he might have just pulled off his audaciously self-conscious endeavor."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Hinges on a rather unbelievable characterization of fascist kindness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Unwise use of CGI is eventually no more debilitating a defect than I Am Legend's wayward third act, which begins with Neville cornily reciting lines from Shrek."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Homophobia in Muslim families and communities is a topic ripe for exploration, but as its eye-rollingly lame titular pun makes clear, I Can't Think Straight isn't the film to do it."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"At times one clamors for a slightly more creative, probing investigation of the consuming forces that drove Wiesenthal."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Maddeningly uneven but mildly amusing."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Underlit and generally shot with an eye toward unattractiveness, Beer in Hell also goes for ugliness in its dialogue."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Righteously infuriating in its comprehensive portrait of a system that values public approval ratings and a high conviction rate above the truth."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Matt Mahurin's I Like Killing Flies utilizes extreme close-ups (sometimes with microphones in clear view) to create an appealingly informal aesthetic of proximity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Ends up feeling like a tossed-off Judd Apatow photocopy."
[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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"When Ricci's dreamgirl, finally fed up with Gray's insanity, chastises him with "You're obvious," it's a sentiment also applicable to the film itself."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2007) |
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"One of the year's most stunningly feeble offerings."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The cerebral horror of Wendigo and The Last Winter is nowhere to be found in Glenn McQuaid's meandering 19th-century supernatural gothic tale."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(1978) |
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"Simply another crudely made, explicitly violent ‘70s-era exploitation flick."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Just because this union of artist and material isn't a complete mind-bender doesn't mean that it works."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Nothing more than the type of casual diversion an agreeable TV star might make with his friends during his primary show's summertime hiatus."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Hodges, working from a bleak Trevor Preston script, is fascinated by the aspirations, desires, and base compulsions that propel society’s murderous fringe population."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The bleak I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead may be the year’s nastiest noir, but its low profile won’t improve via this perfunctory DVD."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An intellectual whirligig lacking depth or soul."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Sundance homilies and truisms are encased in a meta frame in I'm Reed Fish."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Androids may dream of electric sheep, but I, Robot’s multi-million dollar machines are remnants of summer films gone by."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The Ice Harvest proves that modest, workmanlike film noir need not be accompanied by hipster homages and ironic self-consciousness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Even for an ugly-duckling-makes-good fairy tale, Ice Princess seems to stretch believability a tad too far."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2002) |
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"A sizzling, orgiastic celebration of bloodshed and depravity."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2003) |
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"This gimmicky whodunit never convinces us that it would be worth slogging through again."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"An intermittently amusing -- and sometimes lazy -- satire that plays like a so-so episode of Futurama."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A middling musical mishmash that can't keep a beat."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Anthony Leondis peppers his tale with a host of leaden cinematic references children will almost surely miss, which is just as well since virtually every film-related gag directed at adults feels like a pitiful attempt at knowing cleverness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Grace is not the film's strong suit. But trashy -- albeit sporadic -- fun is."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"A handsomely constructed but decidedly minor sleight of hand."
[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 film's conventionality is what makes it simultaneously progressive and a great, big snooze."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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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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(2003) |
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"Superbly evokes the depression, anxiety, joy, misery, and aggravation of family life."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Once the sex stops and the squawking begins ... all is lost."
[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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"Melancholic music and a torpid pace don't make In Bruges profound, but they are symptomatic of this phony, pretentious crime film's schizophrenia."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"the kind of well-intentioned, but wholly unsuccessful, misfire that makes one desperately pine for a thorough documentary on its real-life subject"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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C- |
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(2001) |
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"For all its technical virtuosity, the film is so mired in juvenile and near-xenophobic pedagogy that it's enough to make one pine for the day when Godard can no longer handle the rigors of filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Matinee Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Boasts an endearingly idiosyncratic, unfussy vibe."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Would be trying if not for the confidence, grace and subtlety with which José Luis Guerín handles his deliberately open-ended material."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D |
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(2003) |
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"Like a long-lost relic from an earlier period best forgotten."
[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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"So pillow-soft that its most jarring element is the countenance of Meg Ryan, whose once warm, sunshiny face has been nipped and tucked into a rigid feline Joker grin."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A razor-sharp farce that imparts insights from all directions."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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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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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Only Uwe Boll would assume that the moviegoing public craved a trashy Lord of the Rings rip-off starring Burt Reynolds and Matthew Lillard, and only he could then manage to make such a potentially riotous endeavor so humorless."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Juan Carlos Rulfo's In the Pit is a documentary defined by symbiosis."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"Tackles its Iraq War subject matter with such sledgehammer clumsiness that it risks giving viewers blunt head trauma."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Mildly comical for those familiar with (and fond of) adventurous German auteur Werner Herzog."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Cinematic brussel sprouts."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"No fondness for crummy old television can obscure the general faintheartedness of this saga."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"The year’s foremost animation showstopper."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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