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D |
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(2003) |
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"Is there an actual character in S.W.A.T.? A plot? A single intelligent or exciting sequence?"
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Its failed bid for originality takes the form of an unreasonably high quirkiness quotient."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"As dry and lifeless as its sun-burnt locale."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Not quite as raunchy, but twice as offensive, as The Aristocrats."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Tim Skousen was first assistant director on Napoleon Dynamite, and he does little other than mimic its slightly off-kilter comedic tone and bizarre misfit characters."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Julianne Moore is some kind of great in Savage Grace, but the film? Not so much."
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Cinematical |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Savages naturally invites comparisons to Away From Her--all of them unflattering."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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(2004) |
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"Saw’s overly elaborate, sporadically effective do-or-die games ultimately don’t make the cut."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Unable to deliver the single novel concept or unexpected surprise that might justify its existence."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Peddles gruesomeness of a disgusting rather than frightening order."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An excessively convoluted rehash of its predecessors."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Deadly traps may remain the bread and butter of the Saw series, but the real trick has become keeping these fetid sequels moderately fresh."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.0/4.0 |
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(2009) |
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"Saw VI plays like the last gasp for relevance of a heavy-metal series that has not only gone regurgitation-rusty but seems lacking much of a will to live."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1983) |
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"A slyly ironic vision of America’s still-thriving meritocracy."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B |
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(2000) |
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"The cinematic equivalent of scabies ... and I mean that as a compliment."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The entire film is predicated on turgid slapstick bits that simply congratulate viewers for having seen a handful of recent studio blockbusters."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A stark and stylistic hybrid of the Dardennes’ formal austerity and Terrence Malick’s lyricism."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Asked only to regurgitate prior performances, Heder dutifully performs his bumbling Napoleon Dynamite shtick and Thornton berates people with caustic Bad Santa/Bad News Bears nastiness."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"School of Rock tackles its familiar formula with a welcome mixture of reverence, intelligence, and cliché moderation."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Instinctively and ecstatically captures the freeflowing, stream-of-association nature of the cluttered unconscious mind."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"Appear[s] to have been slapped together without any consideration for jovial, snappy rhythm."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1994) |
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[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film becomes, in part, another Michael Moore-ish conspiracy theory endeavor in which damning, wholly unsubstantiated accusations are bandied about as fact."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It's hard not to feel that this frosty ground has been tilled before, and with significantly less narrative dilly-dallying."
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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A- |
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(2000) |
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"Its portrait of spiritual estrangement generates profound unease."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An atmospheric investigation into the inspirational mixture of religiosity and criminality that hangs like a pall over the rural communities of the country's lower half."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1966) |
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[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"There's a whole lotta healing in The Secret Life of Bees. Big Racial Issues too. And down-home heartwarming platitudes set to acoustic guitar ballads by female singers."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Depp's ... wonderfully frazzled portrait of seething resentment almost makes this minor thriller seem fresh."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"As shallow as a toilet bowl and twice as rank as its usual contents."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Perhaps the feeblest entry in the Will Ferrell Sports Comedy canon."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Working with DP Gabriel Beristain, Johnson shoots the go-nowhere action with an underlit, smudgy color scheme that feels like a poor photocopy of Alejandro González Iñárritu and Fernando Meirelles's signature cinematographic styles."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a somewhat stuffy British production whose boilerplate melodrama leaves little room for a revelatory examination of selfishness, sneakiness, self-preservation, and sacrifice"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If not nearly as multi-layered and lyrical as last year's The Proposition, Seraphim Falls still proves to be something in short supply these days: a sturdy, straight-ahead, less-talk, more-action Western."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"A scraggly, messy, often aimless, and yet consistently amusing and engaging work of black comedy-cum-social-realism."
[movie review] |
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The Screengrab |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"Has a simultaneously sprawling yet intimate quality."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Isn't drawn in one-to-one cause-effect lines, its obliqueness lending suspense and interpretative depth to the Job-like suffering of Larry."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C |
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(1987) |
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"A lame documentary-flavored horror story."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1949) |
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"Its boilerplate fatalism undone by overbearing moralizing and the fact that Ryan's boxer is too one-dimensionally good to register as tragic."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"A deliberately muddled bit of inspirational pap."
[movie review] |
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Cinematical |
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C+ |
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(1989) |
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"Confirms -- through its narrow portrait of life as unrelentingly bleak -- its own gloomy cynicism."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Severance's lame jokes are fully formed, something that can't be said about its political critique"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's nice to see The Facts of Life's Mindy Cohen working again, but crawling along in clunky, directionless fashion, Waters's pseudo-rom-com ultimately dies a slow death."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"As a randy film about sexy people in gorgeous places being pushed and pulled (literally and figuratively) by desire ... [Sex and Lucía] makes for an arousing good time."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Even if you can’t make heads or tails of Sex and Lucía’s story, there’s no dearth of naked pleasures to keep one’s, ahem, mind at attention."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(1959) |
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"The film’s underlying strength is its wrenching portrait of resigned despair over the world’s inescapable prejudice."
[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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"PETA members may take to The Shaggy Dog. Everyone else over the age of 10, however, will likely prefer a night of sniffing butts to this latest Tim Allen stinker."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1994) |
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Click here to see the review!
[dvd review] |
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DVD Angle |
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C+ |
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(1950) |
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"Sluggish and not nearly sordid enough."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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