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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Geoffrey Wright's Macbeth imagines the Bard's tale of power, greed, and madness as an ultra-violent gangster opus populated by pretty faces who'd be right at home on The CW."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"A gimmick with no real payoff."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"To and Ka-fai's widescreen lensing is both elegant and sharp, its distorted angles and flaring white lights generating a sense of unease that complements Bun's instability and Chi-Wai's fractured self."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"[Its] heart shines through during conversational scenes with the candid children."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1979) |
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DVD Angle |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Mad Money opens with the sight of an enormous pile of hundred dollar bills, and that's roughly what it would take to make me once again sit through this dim-witted caper."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Modestly improving upon the wretched DreamWorks animation template, Madagascar still fails to approximate Pixar's trademark mix of hilarity and poignancy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Directors Darnell and McGrath's follow-up would undoubtedly have benefited from more innovation or daring, but its vibrant animation and innocuously rollicking comedy remains endearing"
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Slant Magazine |
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--
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(2003) |
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[movie review] |
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Nitrate Online |
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B+ |
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(1962) |
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"Lattuada ... crisply addresses relevant issues of national and personal identity while never neglecting his film's underlying humor."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Saavedra's performance has an unwavering intensity that serves the film well."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Analogous to an overly long episode of Punk’d in which the moviegoing audience is the punkee."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film is cast in the SNL film mold -- taking an uninspired one-note joke and tirelessly running it into the ground for an hour and a half."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1993) |
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DVD Angle |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A decidedly limited, functional aesthetic affair."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"There's nothing about Man of the Year that's quite as fantastic as its depiction of moribund Saturday Night Live as culturally and politically relevant."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Its callous fixation on violence is merely a lame pose meant to distract us from its soggy redemptive core."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"So static and predictably schematic as to lull viewers into a comfortable slumber."
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Nitrate Online |
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(2008) |
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"What ultimately reverberates is [the film's] potent central association between Petit's endeavor and the Twin Towers' erection."
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Cinematical |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Like that daily grind, his story of salvation sought and never attained is one of listless, bloodless tedium."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The weirdness employed by Stephen Belber's amorous fairy tale is of a decidedly limp, half-hearted sort."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"An exhilarating, if politically wishy-washy, modern-day reimagining of Frankenheimer’s gem."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(1980) |
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"An unapologetically twisted study in pathological murderousness."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(1988) |
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"A sturdy slasher flick that laces its splattery slayings with some anti-establishment undertones."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Manna from Heaven is a creakily old-fashioned screed about Christian selflessness and charity, staged and shot like a Lifetime movie-of-the-week."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1976) |
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DVD Angle |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"A loving ode to the life-altering (and at times life-threatening) dedication and devotion of parents"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"The odiousness of [Baumbach's] protagonists ... isn't as problematic a factor as is the redundancy (and occasional mean-spiritedness) of his psychological portraits."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Belongs to Moreno."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"At its best when unabashedly celebrating its milieu's decadence"
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bollywood For Beginners."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1972) |
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"A portrait of interior disconnect between authentic faith and cynical disillusionment."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Hell is Marley & Me."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"[Ghobadi's] directorial maturation is reflected not only by Marooned in Iraq's balanced temperament, but also by its more traditional visual approach."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Doesn't have much to say about marriage other than that it's complex, and often fraught with disappointment, deception and conflicting urges."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The primary obstacle to enjoying any moment of Martian Child is Dennis, a little creature whose habits never feel like anything other than groan-worthy screenwriter contrivances aimed at cheaply eliciting audience waterworks."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(1978) |
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"Romero's finest achievement may have been...[this] 1977 character study about a young, lonely man living in Pittsburgh who may or may not be a vampire."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(1964) |
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"Price ... is at his most deliriously malevolent."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"A quite sturdy and enjoyably romp through the ferocious Pacific high seas."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Its visceral and gruesome images of female-directed violence ... linger long after the credits have rolled."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A painful morass of Odd Couple bickering and Elmore Leonard-style criminal kookiness."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"A dreary regurgitation of prior (better) Allen efforts dressed up in a stolid British suit."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"A lot more fun than most of the director’s pompously inflated output."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"Zzzzzz."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A skimpy Cliff's Notes for both the eponymous Vaseline-loving sculptor-filmmaker's career and, specifically, his most recent act of cinematic self-infatuation, Drawing Restraint 9."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This action saga is driven into unintentionally self-parodic territory only a seven-year-old boy could reasonably stomach."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Benefits from bursts of gory black humor as well as Bettis' riveting performance."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1971) |
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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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(2005) |
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"Generally maintains a lovely humanism."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2004) |
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"Nails the “survival of the fittest” mentality that permeates high school social life."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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