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"Raymond De Felitta makes amends for 2005's intolerable The Thing About My Folks with this involving inquiry into the career of the late jazz crooner Jackie Paris."
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(2006) |
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"10 Items or Less is a hybrid of Nacho Libre and Spanglish directed by Moonlight Mile's Brad Silberling, and yes, it's as unbearably cloying and uplifting as that description sounds."
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(2008) |
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"Roland Emmerich is partial to cutting-edge special effects and stone-age storytelling, meaning that 10,000 B.C., a dim-witted CG extravaganza set in prehistoric times, is something like his ideal project."
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(2006) |
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"A listless Godfather-meets-Donnie Brasco tale of undercover surveillance, blood allegiances, and wrenching betrayal.
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(2007) |
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"May be a kindred spirit to An Inconvenient Truth, but in terms of style, tone, and scope, this Leonardo DiCaprio-produced and narrated documentary on climate change is a wholly different beast."
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(2007) |
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"Nikita Mikhalkov's 12 reconfigures Reginald Rose's 12 Angry Men for contemporary Russia, adopting the basic premise of the legendary source material while thoroughly grounding it in his homeland's current condition."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A deadpan comedy that evolves into a wry, politicized examination of truth."
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(2004) |
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"Hypocritically smears the very mascara it wears."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Aspires to the heights of a Jean-Pierre Melville or Fritz Lang but proves to be more along the mediocre lines of an M. Night Shyamalan."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"1408's mixture of supernatural hullabaloo and spiritual awakening is sturdily propped up by Cusack, whose performance is equal parts caustic cynicism and empathetic turmoil."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film kicks and lurches like a dying jalopy, undermining the otherwise lean efficiency with which Donner steers his metropolitan odyssey."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Makes one wonder if Delpy isn't unconsciously working through some residual, latent anger at Before Sunset co-star Ethan Hawke."
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(2003) |
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"This unabashedly meaningless affair wholeheartedly subscribes to the more-is-better recipe for cinematic second installments."
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(2009) |
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"The defining entrant in, and the nadir of, the disaster porn genre."
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(2005) |
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"A letdown."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"21 is a mini-Ocean's Eleven about, and for, people who are the age of its title."
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(2003) |
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"The performances, by and large, outweigh the film's unnecessary metaphorical gunk."
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(2009) |
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"The complexity of [Zhangke's] postmodernist formal gambit nonetheless gets at something pressing."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Its supposed feminism never gets past advocating a woman's right to literally chase after her dreamboat to ensure the attainment of her own perfect moment at the altar."
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(2007) |
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"Confirms that a Fox Atomic-produced horror sequel need not be technically clumsy, stupid, crass and fright-free."
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(2005) |
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"Unevenness is the strongest facet of Three… Extremes, a diverse and successfully chilling horror triptych."
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(1977) |
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"An incisive portrait of psychological alienation."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Pushes things into violent, hardcore territory all too similar to Danny Boyle's zombie-outbreak flick 28 Days Later and its 2007 sequel."
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(2007) |
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"It's like Fight Club without the tongue-in-cheek satire, cribbing from Gladiator, Braveheart, and every videogame that ever concluded a level with a giant boss battle."
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(2009) |
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"Depicts everyday details and conveys overarching emotional upheavals with a compassion and gentleness that's quietly devastating."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A cursory sketch rather than a full-bodied portrait."
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(1957) |
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"No amount of climactic train smoke can mask the fact that the finale is fancifully optimistic gibberish."
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(2007) |
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"Mangold never makes his dusty landscape an omnipresent force, but his direction is crisp and the script's good additions more or less counterbalance the awful."
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(2006) |
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"Exhilarating, infuriating, mesmerizing, baffling, and out-and-out crazy, 4 certainly doesn't lack for ambition and outrageousness."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Mungiu's fascination with modes (and codes) of behavior gives his period piece a resonant universality."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Apatow's big-screen directorial debut repeatedly nails the lewd comedic G-spot thanks to Carell."
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(2004) |
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"This dopey film has virtually nothing going for it but its genial stars."
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"a mature portrait of a relationship's thorny complexity"
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Exhibits a familiar trace of the Dardennes' observational astringency."
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C |
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(1994) |
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"Segues between its various pawns before coldly, cruelly sending them to their execution."
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(2002) |
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"Beautifully constructed, unexpectedly touching, and gorgeous to behold, it's a swirling kaleidoscope of murder, intrigue, and musical numbers that cinematic bon vivants will eagerly devour."
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(2008) |
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"For sheer silliness, nothing in 88 Minutes tops the fact that Witt's English ex-con husband boasts the ridiculously fanciful name Guy LaForge, presumably because "Fakey McMake-Believe" was already taken."
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Beautifully designed but short on depth or novelty."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"9 Star Hotel is an empathetic portrait of a particular human circumstance, but without greater context, it ultimately feels like only half the story."
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Would be significantly more wearisome...were it not for Linklater's ability to tap into his source material's atmosphere of unsettling paranoia."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Its dramatic thinness doesn't dilute its simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying portrait of federal prosecution run amok."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Abduction pushes its poignant buttons while casting Megumi's kidnapping as a heinous crime, yet to its credit, it consistently does so with a deftly understated, devastating touch."
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C |
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(1997) |
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"Dunderheaded fantasy about noble thieves and corrupt commander-in-chiefs."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It takes approximately 15 seconds for Accepted to begin showcasing Mac products, a somewhat foregone conclusion given star Justin Long's stint as the face of Apple computers' recent ad campaign."
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(2008) |
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"Beleaguered by a general dearth of energy."
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Lessons of Darkness |
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(2007) |
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"Go-to screenwriter for the Dogma 95 collective, Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen hits a decidedly sour note with Adam's Apples."
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(2009) |
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"If Egoyan's elliptical narrative flirts with pretentiousness, the director nonetheless encases his action in an affecting mood of regret and longing."
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(2009) |
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"Content to occupy that middle ground where insights are authentic but far from revelatory and comedy is more amiable than riotous."
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(2002) |
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"A dreadfully unfunny hybrid of recycled science fiction and Eddie Murphy mugging."
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(2005) |
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"Sharkboy offers up a piece of sage advice when he remarks, "You snooze, you win.""
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