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• Cinematical
• DVD Angle
• Filmcritic.com
• Lessons of Darkness
• Matinee Magazine
• MovieWeb
• Nitrate Online
• PopMatters
• Slant Magazine
• The Screengrab
• Time Out New York
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Nick Schager
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2/4 |
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"Narrated with overblown rhetoric by Emile Hirsch, Steve Lawrence's feature-length commercial only feigns interest in the backstories and motivations of its chosen subjects"
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Slant Magazine |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"[Carter's] reasonably firm grasp of thriller mechanics can't enliven a tale that amounts to simply a mundane, overlong one of the show's stand-alone, mythology-free episodes."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With the exception of an adequate helicopter attack, the action is perfunctory and forgettable, albeit no more so than the script's range of cliches"
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A dreary species of empty pomp and circumstance, far too similar to many of its summer movie brethren and disappointingly dissimilar from its superior predecessors."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Chick's self-effacing screenplay and the conviction of his actors' performances can't overcome the lack of chemistry between Ruffalo and Stange."
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Filmcritic.com |
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1.5/4 |
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"Despite its title, XXX: State of the Union is neither pornographic nor political."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"There's a secret at the heart of XXY, but the real mystery is why writer-director Lucía Puenzo insists on unnecessary symbolic gestures for a story otherwise told with delicacy, restraint, and maturity."
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Slant Magazine |
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