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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"More amusing in theory than in practice."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Naming Number Two peddles familial reconciliation while making one pine for familial annihilation."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Functions like an excruciating episode of Jerry Springer."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Viva la anti-feminism!"
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A cornucopia of ridiculously over-the-top action, humor, and romance conceived in the Bruckheimer tradition."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Since Book of Secrets doesn't take its faux-intricate story seriously, there's no reason this review should either."
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(1987) |
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(2006) |
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"Vividly captures Young's greatness by simply letting him do his thing."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Avenge But One of My Two Eyes trades in irony with a capital I."
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Like a torturously long, slapdash joke delivered by a snarky Sunday school student determined to piss off his devout elders."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Never Die Alone discards logic and reason for a farcically overblown orgy of uninhibited sex, drugs and gaudy materialism."
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0/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Like the odious stepchild of Fargo, New in Town gleefully offers up citizens of rural, snowbound New Ulm, Minnesota as a collection of funny-speaking, Jesus-loving, tapioca-making misfits deserving of nothing less than outright mockery."
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B |
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(1999) |
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"Masterfully constructed and yet eventually rather wearisome."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"An unqualified masterwork...[that] feels less like a manipulative man-made construction than like a piece of organically produced art."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Poves that Mormonism and makeup-adorned punk rock aren't oil and water entities."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"It's debatable whether Cage's supernatural ability is any more interesting than his strange coiffure."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2002) |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"[Crafts] a portrait that's at once highly specific and yet effortlessly attuned to life's inherent disorder."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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4/4 |
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(1950) |
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"The archetypal film noir."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1950) |
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"Night and the City’s desolate vision of city life is enough to make any aspiring crook head straight for the ‘burbs."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Night at the Museum fails to hit a completely comfortable stride."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It falls flat trying to muster up any mirth or suspense as it barrels from one set piece to the next."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"As far as topicality goes, The Night Listener's account of authorial deception certainly benefits from its parallels to the recent outing of JT Leroy as a fraud."
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The preponderance of elaborate mumbo jumbo becomes an unbearable drag."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1993) |
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"The Nightmare Before Christmas is a veritable bounty of visual delights."
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(1984) |
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"Oh, Freddy, you're so fine, you're so fine%u2026you make me wish The Dream Child had never happened."
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3/4 |
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(1984) |
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"A Nightmare on Elm Street is a movie defined by its dual legacies."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"There's little room for genuine emotion in this turgid romantic fantasy adapted from a novel by slop-meister Nicholas Sparks."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The only wonder eventually elicited by Nim's Island is of a mystified variety."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The path to the grave is often a bumpy fusion of the serene and the shrill."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Ryan Reynolds may not be a demigod (much less a full-fledged deity), but he plays one to sterling effect in The Nines."
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A- |
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(1995) |
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"The filmmaker's deftness at evoking theme and sentiment through editorial montages within individual dramatic scenes reaches an apotheosis here."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Coens' first film since their leaden remake of The Ladykillers is an exceptional return to their Blood Simple roots, offering up a crime saga in which money is almost as irresistible as bad choices are inevitable."
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"A thorough, level-headed examination of the Bush administration's failure to properly prepare for, and execute, the war."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A cinematic culinary treat for those without a discerning palate."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An absolutely abysmal crime flick."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"A Dali-esque dreamscape where visual inventiveness and narrative incoherence combine to form a result that’s both entrancing and sleep-inducing."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Casting its south-of-the-border setting as a dingy, nightmarish hellhole of hookers and red neon lights, Not Forgotten is a feature-length anti-tourism campaign for Mexico."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Its shallowness is nonetheless in tune with its subject: the gory, violent, sex-crazed Australian exploitation films of the '70s and '80s."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Could ... have turned out to be a guilty pleasure were it more uninhibited and less rushed."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Nothing Like the Holidays may be less repulsive than The Family Stone, but that's simply because it wields its strikingly similar story with slightly more subtlety."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If there's something praiseworthy about Notorious, it's that it pulls off the remarkable, ignominious feat of making its deceased subject less likeable than one remembers."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The film proves that Harrison's insufferable Groove was no fluke.
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This review's opening sentence, the really dull, pointless one that you are reading at this very moment, is comprised of exactly 23 words."
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