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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Oliver Stone of the 1990s might have found something epic in the strange saga of George W. Bush, but he undoubtedly would not have made W., the contemporary Stone's incomplete rush-job of a portrait of our embattled 43rd president."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's Josh Peck, though, whose performance (as the "most popular of the unpopular") holds the film together amidst all its audio-video mannerisms and increasingly sappy developments."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's racial/class issues are less developed than Gibson's beefy, inked-up arms and its unintentional humor as consistent as its pounding soundtrack beats."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Waiting... serves up a stale dish of dim-witted drivel."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Russell delicately maintains Waitress' mixture of aching drama and bubbly comedy."
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Cinematical |
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(2001) |
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DVD Angle |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film gets some mileage out of mocking fatuous biopic conventions."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Comprised of confused, conflicting recollections, and opinions that lead to no concrete truths, the film proves a case study in unknowability."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Walk the Line missteps by routinely forgoing credible biographical grittiness in favor of glossy Hollywood mythologizing.
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Paul Schrader blends lethargic self-referentiality with anemic political jabs in The Walker."
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Slant Magazine |
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C+ |
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(1973) |
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"A hopelessly melodramatic revenge fantasy."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The miscast Rock never comes close to matching Joe Don Baker’s sweaty, ungainly, force-of-nature hick heroism.
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Bitton's film exists in a contextual vacuum, and without any historical grounding to help one ascertain the reliability of the wall's numerous critics."
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Slant Magazine |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"More impressive than its ecologically minded message is its modestly profound portrait of loneliness, obligation and the desire for reciprocated affection."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Humanistic and droll."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Speaking of bodies, Jolie's is here front and center, her svelte frame slinking across the screen with an alluring animalism magnified by the steamy twinkle in her eyes and sensual gestures as small as a wave of the hand or a shrug of the shoulder."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"War is the Heat of cheesy Ameri-Euro-Asian kung-fu cop-crook movies."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1989) |
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DVD Angle |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"A summer spectacular in which human relationships and emotions refuse to be overwhelmed by (admittedly awesome) computer-generated mayhem."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Obligatory scenes with unhappy girlfriends, wives, and mothers waiting for their loved ones at home don't have the same impact as the film's uniquely personal perspective on American progress (or lack thereof) in Iraq."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A haunting companion piece to Hany Abu-Assad's forthcoming character study of Palestinian suicide bombers Paradise Now."
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2006) |
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"A farcical, 90210 version of The Warriors."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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D |
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(2000) |
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"One of the lamest serial killer thrillers of the post-Silence of the Lambs era."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A reverential photocopy of a superior original, it's often close to perfect, if also, to some extent, perfectly pointless."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The Water Horse's framing device lends just the right measure of nostalgia and fairy-tale wonder."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Water Lilies sees female adolescence as an uncomfortable, embarrassing phase full of painful self-consciousness and frustrated desire."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With empathetic reserve only sullied by occasional lapses into cross-cutting and musical italicizing, The Way We Get By equates the sadness of war and aging."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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""Grief is messy," says McShane's anguished dad. We Are Marshall's disingenuously tidy portrait of it, alas, is not."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"How the dynamic between inspiration and creation operates is a topic that We Are Wizards tantalizingly puts forward but fails to fully examine."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Once again finds Gray breathing gritty, electric life into a conventional tale."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2009) |
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"This collage ... all too frequently succumbs to moralistic clichés, and never coheres into a rousing, affecting whole."
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The Screengrab |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Expresses how globalization has yet to completely change the fact that the world remains an enormous, imposing, largely foreign place."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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DVD Angle |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Disingenuously conveys the fickleness of day-to-day existence via a monsoon of profane, contrived moroseness."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A Maxim-friendly riot that embraces the fact that discussions about sex usually involve terms more risqué than "making love.""
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's not half bad, largely because it places an absolute premium on brash, bawdy humor."
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Slant Magazine |
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"The kind of film that leaves you scratching your head in amazement over the fact that so many talented people could participate in such an ill-advised and poorly executed idea."
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Matinee Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Ray, don’t quit your day job.
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If its nostalgia is a bit creaky, it's nonetheless also delivered with great heart."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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DVD Angle |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Though it doesn't feature Old Joy's Air America radio call-in Greek chorus, Kelly Reichardt's follow-up Wendy and Lucy is nonetheless a somber politicized lament for hardscrabble lives struggling to exist on the economic precipice."
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Slant Magazine |
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"A dumb – and fitfully funny – send-up of an already dumb genre."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"You'd be forgiven for thinking, while watching What Doesn't Kill You, that it was still 2007."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"What Goes Up's point that Americans create icons to fulfill their own screwy needs is made through contrived and nonsensical plotting."
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Slant Magazine |
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B+ |
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(1985) |
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"A somewhat harsh critique of a Spanish culture that dooms women to indentured servitude."
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Despite my general ignorance about quantum physics, it isn’t difficult to sense the hot air emanating from the film."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"By its very existence, Down the Rabbit Hole proves false its contention that focused human thought can manifest both internal and external change."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Infused with ragged unpredictability, What We Do Is Secret's wild concerts are its high points."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Does little except reinforce the notion that Allen's creative well has long since run dry."
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Cinematical |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"A respectful depiction of religious zealotry"
[movie review] |
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Lessons of Darkness |
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