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(2008) |
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"While U2 3D delivers what it promises to, it doesn't do anything further."
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Cinematical |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Ultimate Gift is so resolutely 'good for you' that watching it is a lot like eating Brussels sprouts."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ultraviolet is nice to gaze at but otherwise simplistic, senseless, and eminently skippable.
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The year is only a week old and already the cinema gods have bestowed upon us a candidate for most awesome catchword of the year: Jumby!"
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1996) |
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"Reinvigorates stale horror clichés via both tongue-in-cheek social commentary and an unironic, unbridled love for blood-and-guts mayhem."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"There’s barely a brainwave in Undead."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Bani Etemad, a well-known filmmaker in her native Iran who alternates between making fictional and documentary films, employs a minimalist aesthetic for Under the Skin of the City that infuses the film with an earthy and sobering realism."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Siega's hackneyed, by-the-books action-comedy exhibits few intelligent thoughts in its dunce cap-deserving head.
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The rich soundscape of natural noises creates a palpable sense of enveloping environment."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"[Beckinsale's] detached, no-nonsense demeanor helps give this chilly adventure an S&M-inspired eroticism."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Devoid of its predecessor's proletariat-aristocracy allegorical undercurrents and beset by more perplexing flashbacks than a Timothy Leary apprentice."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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Click here to see the review!
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DVD Angle |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A prototypical WE channel mushfest."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Proves that, no matter what punches were thrown at him, no one ever wiped that triumphant smile off of Jack Johnson's face."
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Slant Magazine |
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A |
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(1992) |
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"Conveys the power of the Western genre’s myths ... as well as the ugly, unromantic realities that lurk behind them."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Arriving at least two years after the Asian-horror-remake craze subsided, The Uninvited delivers a spooky-stepmom saga free of invention."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Emotionally devastating and yet strangely empty."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A first-person documentary portrait not of rediscovery but of wholesale reinvention."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Unknown Woman begins the same way director Giuseppe Tornatore's last film, Malena, operated throughout: by ogling a fine female form."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Benefits from an unabashedly sentimental heart."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2009) |
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"Though Morgan's non-fiction techniques are only serviceably straightforward, the director engagingly makes clear that Adams' most renowned image haunted him but did not, ultimately, define his work."
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The Screengrab |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An Unreasonable Man's allowance for differing viewpoints becomes a bit of a smokescreen, with the film revealing its true goal of reputation restoration."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The villain may be Untraceable, but it's easy to pin down the influences of Gregory Hoblit's serial killer snoozer."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Exudes a wit and wisdom that elevates it to the animated adventure apex."
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The Screengrab |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Chang gracefully juxtaposes the country and the metropolitan to express the knotted-up mixture of anguish, anger, hope, and trepidation of those in the dammed river's wake."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Jia's empathetic close-ups -- thanks to Yu Lik Wai's masterful HD cinematography -- ground the film's portrait in individual experience."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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