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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"De Matteo ... boasts enough intelligence, attitude and ferocity to ignite even the most mundane of moments."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Genuinely understands and tenderly expresses how messy, complicated, troubled and compassionate familial relationships can be."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Crass exploitation of a serious issue, yes, and also the type of comic-book cartoonishness that the series has always peddled, regardless of the grim aesthetic and tone employed throughout this installment."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As the directors cogently and captivatingly illustrate, the Americans' acts of preservation and the Nazis' destructiveness and inquisitiveness both, ultimately, confirm art's status as an intrinsic, defining facet of national identity."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1950) |
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DVD Angle |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A boisterous ode to culinary delights, artistic inspiration, egalitarianism, camaraderie, family, and Paris."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1948) |
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"The apex of noir style, offering up electric visions of sin, salvation, and sexual mania."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Foxx's mannered performance fails to convey the complexities beneath Charles's trademark twitches.
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2002) |
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"May be the finest thriller/romance hybrid of the new century."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Stephen Daldry and screenwriter David Hare exhibit a continued inability to thrillingly translate literary forms to the screen."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Lawrence hogs the spotlight more greedily than Dennis Rodman in his wedding dress-wearing heyday."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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2.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Reconstruction ends the way it begins, with the narrator uttering, “It is all a film. It is all a construction. It still hurts.” He’s right on all counts."
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film's climax ultimately seems less an example of its protagonist's irrational fury than of cockeyed storytelling."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1965) |
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DVD Angle |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film's shortcomings have less to do with Woo's orchestration of his ambitious tale and more to do with the Frankenstein hatchet job enacted against it."
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"A tepid mishmash of directorial blandness, bad casting, and hoary serial killer clichés that exudes neither the clinical creepiness of Jonathan Demme’s original Lecter masterpiece nor the lurid camp of Ridley Scott’s disastrous sequel."
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Matinee Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"That all-too-rare Hollywood creation: a tightly wound, intelligent, and gimmick-free suspense film."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Shines."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"By limiting our entry into Jackie's headspace, Red Road feels disingenuously committed to sympathetically portraying her situation, partly using her circumstances as pretense for narrative suspense."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Feels like the work of a director so righteously angry and so pleased with his formal experimentation that he doesn't realize how painfully, inelegantly obvious he's being."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"David Mamet may not be the visual stylist that Jean-Pierre Melville was, but in most other respects, his Redbelt is faithfully cast in the tradition of the great French auteur's Le Samouraï."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Employs a debilitating brand of smug disingenuousness, feigning interest in discussion while arrogantly and speciously preaching in the very same manner that its subjects are ridiculed for."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The superfluous story is so muddled that it becomes a pesky distraction from the proceedings' graphical virtuosity."
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Slant Magazine |
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D+ |
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(2007) |
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"Laughably melodramatic and agonizingly inert."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Constantly dragged down into mediocrity by Chris Columbus' dreary, rhythm-challenged direction."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Rips off heavy metal and horror aesthetics to absolutely dismal effect."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"That rare debut in which self-conscious formal daring proves exhilarating rather than excruciating."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Rescue Dawn's baseline narrative is stirring but its offhand touches are what elevate it to near-greatness."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2007) |
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"In the Bedroom redux, but squishier and stupider."
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Cinematical |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Alexander Witt's campy Resident Evil: Apocalypse. may be brain dead, but it’s nonetheless also heartily, feverishly alive."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"A Western-tinged adventure whose innovations are so scant that the only things keeping the enterprise afloat are clumsy references to its predecessors."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Sarah Michelle Gellar may have ditched the Grudge franchise, but her predilection for illogical horror continues with The Return."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"A Big Chill-ish enterprise whose serious intentions aren't enough to compensate for the two-dimensionality of its stock archetypes."
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The Screengrab |
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0.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A bargain-basement independent which so abysmally examines the cathartic act of confronting personal demons that it inadvertently argues in favor of suppression and denial."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Dutifully reproduces incidents and particulars while only rarely glancing at the underlying element of self-deception, of acting a part, that defines said moments."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"While it's unclear if this nonsense is propaganda for Madonna's Kabbalah dogma, there's absolutely no doubt that Revolver achieves a higher plane of badness."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Right at Your Door finds itself somewhat adrift."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1983) |
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"In this dynamic three-hour history lesson, the larger-than-life pursuits of timeless glory and technological advancement are inextricably allied with the day-to-day quests for familial stability and personal fulfillment."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1983) |
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"Unjustly labeled a failure after its disappointing box office run, The Right Stuff’s tarnished reputation can only benefit from Warner’s sparkling new 2-disc special edition."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"At this saggy point in their illustrious careers, De Niro and Pacino seem less like Beatles and more like Monkeys."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Just as the director’s creepy gliding camera endlessly haloes his distraught characters, The Ring franchise now appears content to simply go around in circles.
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"A cinematic adaptation at once faithful and superior to its source material."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Miring itself in both the sound and troubling aspects of Blecker's views, as well as the honesty and hypocrisy of his actions, Schillinger's portrait unobtrusively allows its zealous, self-reflective subject to speak for himself."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1987) |
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[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a frequently hilarious, sometimes galling portrait of one man’s attempts to uphold the flamboyant, ferocious, innovative spirit of classic rock"
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A wealth of creative talent can't alter the fact that Rocker is merely a passable goof-off, and one less challenging or fun than a night spent playing Rock Band."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Quirky, quirky, quirky goes Rocket Science. Round, round, round roll my eyes."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Alas, Guy Ritchie seems to have lost even what little touch he once had, his latest a typically convoluted saga about strangely named big- and little-time crooks that's fatally deficient in verve."
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Slant Magazine |
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