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(1947) |
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"Subtext is king in Anthony Mann's noirs, with engrossing, underlying social, political, and psychological traumas compensating for caricatural dialogue, monotonous performances, and plodding plot twists."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Oliver's climactic twist merely nullifies any engagement with the characters' prior plights."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Single-minded and suitably rough around the edges."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"Taking Lives won’t kill you, but it will steal precious hours you’ll never have back."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Are Tony Scott's films actually directed by Google Earth?"
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In a post-Ratatouille world, an animated film about rodents and fine cuisine is the exact opposite of original."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lemmons tells her based-on-real-life tale with enough enthusiasm to partially obscure both the clichés lining her plot's path as well as her cursory address of the roiling social unrest gripping the country."
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"An astute cultural satire masquerading as an infectiously stupid-silly lark - or, perhaps, it's the other way around."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Tamara fails to approximate the lascivious sadism or the campy hysteria of its forefathers."
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"A twisted pastiche of pain, suffering, and narcissistic indulgence."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The film’s labored attempts at titillating sexiness is reminiscent of a mediocre Maxim magazine celebrity-skin spread."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The funniest, filthiest, and—as surprising as it may seem—shrewdest politically-minded film of this election year."
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"The film has an atmosphere of hallucinatory unreality as well as some choice parodies of its cowboy ancestors."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Hitchcock's "Wrong Man" scenario gets an invigorating French update in Tell No One, a long-winded but gripping thriller based on American author Harlan Coben's bestseller."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A self-reflexive slice of therapeutic documentary filmmaking."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Ten is, I guess, sacrilegious in the strictest sense of the term, and its interest in investigating the commandments can be skin deep, as they're often used as mere pretext for ribald nonsense."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It's hard to complain too much about this loosey-goosey romp's patchiness when one of the rocking songs features the lyric "You're gonna gargle mayonnaise"...and the reference isn't to Hellman's."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"For a hip-hop icon defined by his own cartoonish gangsta-pimp persona, Snoop Dogg nonetheless turns out to be the most genuine presence in The Tenants."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Serving merely formulaic find-yourself melodrama, the film coasts along lackadaisically."
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(1988) |
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"A project with the ingredients for greatness that nonetheless came out half-baked."
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The Screengrab |
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(2004) |
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"Hanks’ overdone slapstick antics and awful accent ... keep this featherweight farce from taking flight."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2009) |
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"Strives for bleak gravity with misguided fervor."
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The Screengrab |
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(2009) |
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"The director's triumphant return to form."
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B+ |
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(1986) |
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"Irresistibly demented."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Reducing the iconic brute to a victim of childhood neglect and abuse? That's not, as The Beginning's tagline boasts, "The Birth of Fear." It's the death of it."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Tediously subscribes to a cover-your-*** school of social comedy in which everyone and everything prove fair game for ridicule."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Inconsequentiality is a pox upon the proceedings, draining any trace of narrative tension from countless large-scale conflicts that soon overwhelm the screen with stormtroopers, droids, explosions and laser blasts."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Its refusal to offset its solemnity with any measure of lightheartedness eventually leads it to emulate the monotony of Ruben's existence a little too precisely.
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Since Keanu Reeves has all the expressiveness of a toaster, why is he starring in the new The Day the Earth Stood Still as human-looking alien Klaatu rather than giant robot Gort?"
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Well acted and aesthetically attractive, the film remains by and large inert."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This low-budget horror film charts the fallout from a mysterious media transmission that cognitively rewires people into killers, and eventually turns out to be an imbalanced project that delivers increasingly diminishing returns."
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(1991) |
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"MGM’s Thelma and Louise: Special Edition is one of the year’s best discs."
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2.5/4 |
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(1991) |
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"Thelma and Louise’s feminist call to arms winds up sounding woefully simple-minded."
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C |
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(2007) |
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"Mostly an exercise in frustration."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Paul Thomas Anderson's loose adaptation of Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel Oil! finds the director exhibiting newfound maturity and restraint without sacrificing any measure of artistry."
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(2007) |
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"A collector's edition that, on the basis of its skimpy extras, gives 2007's best film the shaft."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Director Tahani Rached's documentary These Girls exudes empathy and respect for its destitute Egyptian teenage subjects' plight."
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(1941) |
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"If Custer's beyond-the-grave wish was to protect the Native Americans from corporate cretins, then I'm Errol Flynn."
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3/4 |
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(1941) |
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"Endures as one of the finest Flynn-de Havilland collaborations."
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(1940) |
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"It’s the hilarious 1940s dialogue like “Aw, you dames are sure screwy” that makes the film so fun to watch."
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3.5/4 |
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(1940) |
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"There's no denying that this overlooked 1940 gem is essentially two films in one."
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(1988) |
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"The loopiest, and coolest, entry in the director’s canon."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(1949) |
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"Ray's plaintive artistry lends this weepy noir a melancholic beauty."
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Slant Magazine |
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0/4 |
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(2006) |
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"So incompetent it should be used by film schools as a manual on how not to make a movie."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1949) |
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"Dassin swathes Thieves' Highway's long-haul boys in claustrophobic compositions and menacing darkness."
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(1949) |
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"As Thieves’ Highway persuasively demonstrates, it’s always a good idea to check your brakes before trucking down twisty, down-sloped hills."
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.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like Peter Falk's trifecta of farts, the movie stinks."
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(1951) |
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"The conflict between Hendry and Carrington is one between Force and Reason, and represents a debate over whether America should cope with its Soviet adversaries through military confrontation or intellectual and diplomatic study."
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(1951) |
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"The Thing From Another World’s titular vegetable creature may not have the cache of a Freddy or Jason, but there’s no denying that this chilling Hawks production is a must-see for science fiction and horror aficionados."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Offers a slice of special education-tinged Southern Gothic minus the evocative eccentricity."
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