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(2002) |
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"It's simply incapable of overcoming its leading man's leaden performance."
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Matinee Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Those interested in learning about the delightful home of Osama bin Laden would be well served checking out Kandahar."
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Slant Magazine |
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 1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In the competition for cinema's worst genre, the Quirky British Comedy About Eccentric Countryfolk Learning Valuable Lessons In Outrageous Circumstances truly has no rival."
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Slant Magazine |
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 B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Captures the elusive, entrancing sway that the finest movies hold over our lives."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1995) |
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"The best of Chris Eigman's mid-1990s efforts, an outcome due more to Baumbach's poised direction than to the actor's typically irritating gloomy-sarcastic shtick."
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Slant Magazine |
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 2.5/4 |
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(1995) |
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"Charts the aimlessness and ennui of four insufferable, maturation-adverse college grads with relaxed realism."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Soulless."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 B+ |
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(1956) |
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"Plays out like some sort of slow-motion fever dream."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 A |
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(1977) |
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"A tale so smoothly and effortlessly constructed that the boundaries between the staged and the authentic seemingly cease to exist."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1956) |
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"Stanley Kubrick's masterful manipulation of chronology brings an excruciating sense of doom to The Killing, a classical noir about a carefully threaded heist unraveled by the scheming of a fiendish femme."
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Slant Magazine |
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 1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Arranges its easy targets like a gunman lining up beer cans to shoot."
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Slant Magazine |
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 2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Antoine Fuqua’s unremarkably competent direction never elevates the material above second-rate Braveheart schlock."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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 C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Fitfully extraordinary yet largely lackluster."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"King of California proves light on its feet but often less funny or wise than it purports to be, its air of self-satisfaction partially interfering with its genuine insights."
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Slant Magazine |
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 B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Benefits immeasurably from a cast of colorful supporting players, as well as a taut narrative that builds to a surprisingly tense climax."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 B+ |
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(1990) |
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"Deliciously indecent."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 .5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Take some notes, Dubya: Jamie Foxx has the anti-terrorism tactics you've been craving."
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Slant Magazine |
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 2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A film about holiness beset by a pedestrian spirit."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Both leisurely and breathtakingly immediate."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2004) |
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"Captures authentic truth by refusing to lionize its far-from-perfect subject."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A silly, self-reflexive lark oozing spitfire sarcasm and nonchalant cool."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1955) |
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"Never was Mike Hammer's name more fitting than in Kiss Me Deadly, Robert Aldrich's blisteringly nihilistic noir."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1947) |
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"Superior to the 1995 Nicolas Cage remake, but only because of the wild-eyed Widmark's cackling jackal."
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Slant Magazine |
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 2/4 |
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(1947) |
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"A jumbled piece of cinematic crime fiction that's visually elegant but regularly confused about its own point of view."
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Slant Magazine |
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 C- |
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(2007) |
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"The type of film one would expect from Marc Forster -- banal, trite and apt to ramrod simplistic symbolism down viewers' throats."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 B- |
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(1981) |
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"Harris embodies his character with such conviction that the character's struggle to retain the integrity of his dream ultimately exudes a modest poignancy."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Relatability is certainly a key component of Knocked Up's inherent appeal."
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Slant Magazine |
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 2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The promise that Alex Proyas showed with 1998's Dark City is only very sporadically evident in Knowing, the director's second sci-fi saga."
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Slant Magazine |
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 3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"succeeds largely on the basis of its mesmerizing surface"
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Filmcritic.com |
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(1979) |
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DVD Angle |
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 C |
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(1983) |
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"The only real fun comes from guessing which cinematic predecessor it’ll rip off next."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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 4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Absurd insanity that would make even Jackie Chan gasp"
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Filmcritic.com |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Kung Fu Panda is generally content to simply coast along on a few Zen platitudes and regularly scheduled Po pratfalls."
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Slant Magazine |
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