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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Oh, O'Horten, how wincingly affected you are."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Jody Hill takes Ben Stiller's comedy-of-awkwardness to painfully uncomfortable, extreme realms, offering up unrepentantly disagreeable characters who confront their deep insecurities through psychotic displays of machismo."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Shill doesn't get fancy building tension from his nonsensical male-anxiety mayhem, allowing Knowles's beguiling fierceness and Larter's sexualized cunning to carry much of the prurient load."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Another spectacle of celebrity narcissism and goofing off which can only be commended for not being quite as unbearable as its thoroughly self-satisfied predecessor."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2004) |
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"So insubstantial as to barely register as an actual film."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Nick Nolte's grizzled, alcoholic recluse mentors Trevor Morgan's unhappy teen in Off the Black, a heartwarming tale that's been told a thousand times before, and with considerably more spark."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"A powerful depiction of rebellion, as well as a portrait of communication as a force capable of eradicating personal and cultural barriers."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"So wretched that it should be unceremoniously put down."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Carefully accumulates and juxtaposes details to form an interconnected web of loneliness, regret, and longing for happier times gone by."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"A raunchy and raucous, if decidedly inane, fantasy of college glory days revisited."
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Nitrate Online |
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C+ |
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(2005) |
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"Argues for its own pointlessness."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Technically accomplished and frequently engaging."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Confirm[s] its pointlessness at every available turn."
[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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"Carries on the tradition of curdled sentimentality wrought by idiosyncratic, inspirational, English-flavored comedies like The Full Monty and Waking Ned Devine."
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Slant Magazine |
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A |
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(1951) |
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"One of noir's most soulful and poetic expressions of hope and redemption."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Documentarians by trade, the directors use rough DV cinematography and no score to amplify their tale's sense of lived-in reality."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Makes up for its lack of informational depth with stirring poignancy."
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Cinematical |
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(2002) |
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"What the film does best -- and perhaps the only thing it does right -- is set up an intriguing scenario in which we watch a committed zealot flounder about in emotional and psychological turmoil."
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Nitrate Online |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Once is the David Gray or James Blunt of movie musicals, and amazingly enough, that's not a bad thing."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film is an uncanny reflection of soccer itself: intermittently engaging but generally a dramatically inert bore."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(1984) |
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"Haunting, thematically complex."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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4/4 |
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(1969) |
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"Sergio Leone made a fistful of great films, but none better than 1968's ode to the fading American frontier, Once Upon a Time in the West."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Little more than a CBS Sunday night movie that peddles inspirational fairy tale schmaltz and middling humor by the coffin-full."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Takeshi Miike's original 2003 One Missed Call was second-rate techno-phobic J-horror tripe, meaning that Eric Valette's even lousier American remake is something like the next generation of suck."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A mainstream J-horror flick that dutifully regurgitates the apparitions, aesthetic, and themes of its genre predecessors."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The title eloquently speaks to the film's fractional success."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Just a showcase for Jaa's athletic abilities."
[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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"Sweet themes are shoddily executed in Opal Dreams, another tale from director Peter Cattaneo about outsiders doggedly holding onto their aspirations."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Biers crafts her familiar story with equal doses of austerity and sympathy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"At least Boog's infatuation with using toilets means that Open Season is an ideal film for small tykes still undergoing potty training."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"more teasing than terrifying, failing to achieve the nerve-wracking suspense that his concept (and the movie’s buzz) suggests"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience is an eloquent manifestation of the notion articulated in John Fowles's The Magus that "It is not countries that go to war, but men.""
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Views the sex trade as an infectious societal disease."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2008) |
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"Less a vitriolic critique than a considerate, despairing depiction of the intractable sway exerted by long-held, unpleasant traditions."
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Cinematical |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite director Jaume Collet-Serra's apt use of running children's laughter for jolt scares, the suspense generated from Esther's early lunatic behavior is of a mild, amusing variety."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"A ghost story in which character motivation is haphazard and scares as scarce as narrative logic."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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""Minimalist visual compositions are characterized by a clear-eyed austerity and realism.""
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The title of this nonfiction examination into JFK's assassination implies that its focus is the legacy of Lee Harvey Oswald and his infamous crime, but the truth is far more mundane."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A modest character study of lonely elderly urbanites posing as a Rear Window-esque thriller"
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Slant Magazine |
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(1998) |
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DVD Angle |
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(2000) |
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[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"Second-rate Hitchcock."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1976) |
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Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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(2009) |
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"By letting others do the heavy lifting, the filmmaker comes off as more than a little reticent, a quality in tune with the overall tone of his latest."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For a pure shot of cinematic depression, nothing quite tops opening credits that end with "...and Jason Biggs.""
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Embraces a timid, underdeveloped middle ground between skewering and embracing mass-market consumerism."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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