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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There are many good actresses unsuited for romantic comedies, and Hilary Swank, despite her considerable talents, is one of them."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Has quite a bit going for it, which makes its eventual reliance on inane genre gimmicks that much more disappointing."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Before parodying your action superstar image, don’t you first have to be an action superstar?"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I've seen Claude Chabrol's films, and Denis Dercourt's The Page Turner is no Merci Pour Le Chocolat."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Lack[s] an essential, gripping spark of self-destructiveness and ardor."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Has a sumptuous visual creepiness that contributes to its affecting portrait of shattered childhood innocence."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The further Bower journeys into the spacecraft's bowels, with Payton providing navigation tips from back in their original sleep chamber, the less Pandorum unnerves."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Becomes far more enthralling ... the more one simply surrenders to the awe-inspiring beauty of Kon's images of flesh, metal and unhinged mental delusions."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Not unlike Downfall in its attempts to comprehend the motivations behind those who would commit atrocities against innocents in the name of politics or piety."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Paranoid Park's triumph ... is its aesthetic design."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"The same old thing dressed up in very slightly different clothes."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Klapisch's "It's a small world" plotting is sunk by both bland artistry and dull insights into his milieu."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A superficial, clichéd jumble that illustrates what might happen if you threw Moulin Rouge and Amélie into the same high-speed blender."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Typical of such compilations, results tend to vary wildly."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(1968) |
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"Plays like leftovers from the Panther films."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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4/4 |
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(1975) |
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"A fatalistic tale of identity, destiny, coincidence, existential malaise, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Solely predicated on its twist ending."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(2004) |
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"Sick."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Strives to be a latter-day Conan the Barbarian."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Paul Blart tepidly goes through its motions, but that doesn't mean you have to."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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D+ |
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(1998) |
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"A transparent, laugh-free parable about Waters’ own rise to fame."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Mark Palansky goes for Tim Burton-by-Jean-Pierre Jeunot whimsicality with Penelope, a storybook fable that never overplays its cutesiness but also fails to figure out what it wants to be."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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D |
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(1991) |
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"Perhaps the most staggeringly incompetent movie in the director’s uneven canon."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C+ |
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(1980) |
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"Annoyingly amateurish."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(1997) |
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"Quite enthralling."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(1985) |
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"Delivers off-kilter thrills."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1993) |
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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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(2006) |
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"[Its] off-the-charts screwiness obscures virtually all shortcomings."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As with Art Spiegelman's gold-standard graphic novel Maus, Iranian author Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed series Persepolis directly confronts the political via the personal."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(1978) |
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"Benefits from repeated viewings"
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(1988) |
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"There’s little to enjoy about this second outing save for Scrimm’s deliciously menacing specter of death."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C- |
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(1994) |
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"Falls back on mystery-sapping exposition."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D |
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(1999) |
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"A stinker of the first order."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1955) |
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"Its borderline-obscene wallop is derived from its brusque brutality."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Snow globe visions and gnarly mouth nightmares swirl together in this darkly lyrical fantasia."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(1953) |
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"80 minutes of breathless genre fun infused with pure, uninhibited passion."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This recounting of Pierrepoint's rise and fall proves mostly a schematic message movie."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Never makes more than a surface impression, albeit a fitfully amusing one."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Jessica Yu's film, a 180-degree tonal shift from her previous Protagonist, diligently retreads Adam Sandler and Napoleon Dynamite territory."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(1972) |
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"Still succeeds as an all-out assault on good taste."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B- |
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(1964) |
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"Sellers is at the top of his game."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A work of slapsticky, accent-y gar-bage, The Pink Panther 2 is so brainlessly uninventive that it actually seems determined to sully the legacy of Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers's original series."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1978) |
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"Of all the late '70s-early '80s Jaws knockoffs, none balanced tongue-in-cheek humor with out-and-out gore as deftly as Joe Dante's Piranha."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Writer-director Richard Curtis is about as rock n' roll as the average great-grandmother, so it's no surprise that Pirate Radio, his ode to the irrepressible spirit of '60s classic rock, has all the electricity of a knitted sweater."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Given its origins as a theme park ride, it's apt that Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy has experienced a trajectory not unlike that of a rollercoaster: an initial high, followed by repeated plummets to nauseating lows."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Even for a sequel, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest takes the practice of double-dipping to extreme depths."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Shiver me timbers, the only hex that burdens Disney’s Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl is its unwieldy title."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"If Pizza were an actual pizza, it would be half-pineapple, half-broccoli. At times, this coming-of-age comedy is quirkily saccharine, at others good-for-you sophistic."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s just an excuse for classic-cinema shout-outs and roller-coaster-like commotion."
[movie review] |
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Time Out New York |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Benson Lee makes sure to serve up his topic's key points, but only in easy-to-digest bites that eschew any real investigation into the movement's history, pioneers, influences, and multicultural variations."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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