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(1960) |
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DVD Angle |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"A rigorously austere masterpiece infused with intense humanism."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Marion Cotillard is the only reason to sit through La Vie En Rose, a biopic that compounds its basic tediousness by fracturing its narrative in a vain effort to mask a stale rise-and-fall arc."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A promotional film best suited for broadcast in an office lobby."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1986) |
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"The MPAA was more lenient during the 80s, but that’s still no explanation for how David Bowie’s crotch-hugging Labyrinth pants made it into a PG-rated children’s fable."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(1986) |
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"For all its visual inventiveness, there’s something inert about the late Jim Henson’s 1986 fantasy adventure Labyrinth."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"One. Of. The. Most. Sluggish. Erotic-Lit. Movies. Ever."
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Cinematical |
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(1941) |
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D |
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(2006) |
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"A case study of an increasingly defensive filmmaker falling off the auteurist deep end."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2004) |
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"A lukewarm live-action Loony Tunes cartoon."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(1955) |
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"Most of the slapstick set pieces warrant a polite smile rather than a hearty guffaw."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2001) |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Provides gruesome, incontrovertible images to complement its deliberations about morality."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Are we really supposed to stomach a thriller in which the root of all evil is intelligent black men in power who can't stomach, to the point of going full-on psychotic, the sight of a white man married to a black woman?"
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Slant Magazine |
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A |
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(1971) |
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"Speaks volumes about the intrinsic human desire for empathetic communion."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A sour satirical cocktail blended with ingredients oft-used in the recipes of Terry Gilliam and Paul Verhoeven."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Land of the Lost is halfway toward amusing, which means it's just as close to awful."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lars and the Real Girl is an SNL sketch reconfigured as quirky-corny Sundance pap."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(1991) |
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"The apotheosis of the modern interracial-buddy action film genre."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2001) |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Feigns serious interest in the trickiness of later-in-life love while indulging in corny humor and even worse bathos."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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4.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"embraces an avant-garde aesthetic concerned with finding truth through non-linear storytelling and a focus on environmental tone and texture"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Gone is the original's early campiness, here replaced by eye-of-the-storm calm that portends tragedy, as well as its later over-the-top grindhouse gore, now swapped for taut suspense punctuated by visceral brutality."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"A stinging rebuke to both do-gooder white-man's-burden fantasies and the disingenuous, Africa-exoticizing movies that promote them."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"Repackages messy human dilemmas into something neat, tidy and oh-so-manipulatively inspiring."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2008) |
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"The Last Mistress' fervent energy is derived from its titular mistress' explode-at-any-second volatility."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A squishy, serious-minded lesson about embracing one’s heritage and cherishing the virtues of valor and respect."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Seemingly developed at the David Mamet Institute for Twist-Laden Salesmen Dramas."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"What with his interest in using B movies as vehicles for intelligent political and psychological inquiries, Larry Fessenden is the type of genre craftsman easy to champion."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A serio-comic look at marriage that treats issues of love, passion and familial obligations and expectations as more than just excuses for moronic sitcom hijinks."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/5 |
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(1944) |
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"Nothing says romance like a few smokes, a bottle of liquor, and some quality alone time with the mesmerizing painting of a recently murdered dame."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1944) |
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"A masterfully complex -- and frequently campy -- portrait of all-consuming romantic self-delusion."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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Nitrate Online |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"So blatantly nonsensical that the action quickly tips over into campiness."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(1987) |
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"Almodóvar’s affection for his characters ... makes his engagingly loopy narrative more than a simple Telemundo-on-acid joke."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2002) |
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Nitrate Online |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Matthew Vaughn's confident debut's reserved pace and composed nastiness lends the action a matter-of-fact menace."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(1970) |
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"The epitome of neo-noir stylishness."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(1962) |
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"Le Doulos roots itself in traditional noir themes of providence, of loyalty and betrayal, of male codes of honor, and ultimately of man's inability to escape his lot in life."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1962) |
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"Le Doulos proves it: No one rocks the trenchcoat and fedora (or beats a snitching woman cuffed to a radiator) quite like Jean-Paul Belmondo."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"[A] respectable portrait of inhibiting zealotry."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1967) |
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"A poised tiger navigating an urban jungle, Delon's samouraï is the epitome of noir cool."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1967) |
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"Achieves an atmosphere of mesmerizing, otherworldly beauty and grace."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Captures the way in which unassuming, workmanlike skill increasingly has no place in a sports-entertainment culture driven by short attention span-grabbing shock tactics.
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Slant Magazine |
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D+ |
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(1989) |
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"A failed attempt by New Line to reinvent the titular chainsawer into a Freddy Krueger-style villain."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"A 1920s football saga that blends rusty screwball comedy and perfunctory romance under a period piece veneer."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2004) |
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"A phantasmagoric family film with both bite and heart."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(1971) |
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"One of Herzog's earliest - and most evocative - cinematic essays on the uneasy relationships between man and Earth, unaffected reality and orchestrated drama."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"[Melds] genres with a haunting poignancy that's mildly undercut by a script that, during its last act, bounces around like a jeep on a dirt road."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In spite of its cases of explanatory handholding, there remains a stirring potency to Letters' exploration of loyalty, responsibility, and nobility."
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Slant Magazine |
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