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(2010) |
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"John Travolta breaks the braggadocio meter in the latest tightly wound actioner from Taken’s Pierre Morel."
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(1974) |
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"Sontag’s true talent was for the printed word; behind the camera, her limitations come more harshly to light."
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(2010) |
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"It’s fortunate ... that Besson, the sole credited writer, and director Patrick Alessandrin take their sweet time getting to the plot."
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(2010) |
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"The cast to die for is almost entirely wasted in this machismo-marinated slab of Brit-crime nastiness."
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(1977) |
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"This landmark American documentary is bracing in light of the foggy discourse, both pro and con, that accompanies a good many films with queer subject matter."
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(2010) |
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"There’s more emphasis on bloodlust than grief -- a shame considering the mini’s most powerful moments explored Craven’s deeply conflicted agony."
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(2010) |
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"Cleverly playing on the genre’s propagandistic ties to the Third Reich, the film reflects the tragic arc of National Socialism in each ominous crevasse and in every grandiloquent gesture."
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(2010) |
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"Sadly, “Get out of my lab!” is not the new “Get off my plane!”"
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(2010) |
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"Often resembles a prime John Carpenter thriller -- call it Assault on Manger 13 -- until an overcaffeinated angel-fu climax significantly lowers the intelligence quotient."
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(2010) |
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"Thank the pallid green heavens for Flashdance’s Jennifer Beals, positively ravishing as a sightless kept woman who acts as the story’s oracle."
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(2010) |
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"Arnold deviates into a generic retribution plot that acts as a creaky catalyst to push Mia out into the world at large. The affected realism thus reveals itself to be a hoi polloi–patronizing crock."
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(2010) |
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"It's a kick to see Cera cut loose from his patented befuddled-nerd routine, even if the film's caricatured performances and fish-in-a-barrel scorn are sure to be monotonous for some."
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(2009) |
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"As subcultural anthropology, it's unassailable. Yet the often ugly-looking DV aesthetic dilutes the cumulative effect."
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(2010) |
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"Credit Broderick and the cast for putting across the fey Indiewood bullcrap with committed, nearly convincing effort."
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(2009) |
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"The much-hyped sci-fi actioner Avatar is the perfect showcase for Cameron’s strengths...and his flaws."
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(2009) |
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"Every musical number is edited so haphazardly that any and all expressiveness is lost in a discontinuous swirl of blinding spotlights, bright colors and perspective-obliterating whip-pans."
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(2009) |
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"It’s a film teeming with visual invention (often to the point of exhaustion), yet the big-budget pageantry is always counterbalanced by Gilliam’s deeply felt and thematically potent sympathy for the downtrodden artistes of the world."
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(2009) |
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"It would be risible if Ozon’s hand didn’t remain so steady and confident throughout, all the way up to a complicatedly upbeat conclusion that recreates the Christian Annunciation with the straightest of faces."
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(2009) |
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"Christopher Isherwood’s seminal queer novel deserves a film adaptation that captures both its sense of place and its activist spirit. Cowriter-director Tom Ford settles for the glossy ephemera of a Vanity Fair cover spread."
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(2009) |
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"It’s likely that only Herzog would dare to, and succeed at, resolving this singular cinematic object by contemplating the fate of an abandoned basketball."
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(2009) |
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"What distinguishes this robbery-gone-wrong flick is the authentically blue-collar vibe, as well as its stellar ensemble cast and terrific direction from Vacancy’s Nimrod Antal."
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(2009) |
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"Reitman, who also cowrote the screenplay, feels the constant need to “deepen” his characters, granting them wants and motivations -- especially during the moralistic third act -- that are totally alien to how they’re initially portrayed."
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(2009) |
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"There’s some small pleasure in watching one of the great screen performers play such a recognizably fragile type, though De Niro and writer-director Kirk Jones shamelessly milk the situation for sentiment."
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(1976) |
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"One longs for a less mawkish hand whenever this film slips into didacticism, the prime offender being Stévenin’s climactic speech to his class."
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(2009) |
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"The performers manage to overcome Meier’s schematic framework—too “modern-day fairy tale” for its own good—though the director clearly knows which collaborators and elements to enlist for game-raising purposes."
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(2009) |
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"Cage is not quite Aguirre or Fitzcarraldo in the Big Easy. But his performance hits all the right mythopoetic beats, rising above the thin script and late-night-cable aesthetic."
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(2009) |
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"At last, Anderson has made a film that is nothing but a succession of autumn-gold shoebox dioramas."
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(2009) |
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"Bobby and Kate are puppets on strings, both pulled roundabout through McGehee-Siegel’s phony proving ground toward a howler of a final exchange."
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(2010) |
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"The film slowly loses the sobering toughness of its initial inquiry, and finally comes off as bloodline-biased hagiography."
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(2009) |
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"Given the months-long hype, what’s most bewildering about Sundance sensation Precious is its overall shrug-worthiness."
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(2009) |
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"Wiseman’s films are as much living organisms as they are subjective portraits."
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(2009) |
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"The biggest surprise of Carol is that this frustrating auteur, so often in thrall to his digital palette, here uses it to freshly illuminate a time-honored text."
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(2009) |
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"When the Karo syrup finally hits the fan, the film loses its footing some, but only because no concrete explanations could possibly do justice to West’s expert buildup."
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(2009) |
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"Duffy orchestrates the resulting carnage like an inebriate spinning fourth-rate Peckinpah tales."
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(2009) |
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"Told in final-flight flashback (naturally) with cumulus cloud scene wipes (of course!), Earhart’s life is reduced to a series of solemnized wide-screen tableaux populated by locale-specific extras acting as starstruck filler."
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(2009) |
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"Which of the protagonist’s interactions are real and which are artist’s fancy? Hong never lets on, preferring to set character and audience adrift within his motion-picture Rorschach test."
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(2009) |
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"There’s an incessant disconnect between what we hear and what we see; the true soulfulness of Sendak’s parable never emerges."
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(2009) |
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"As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!"
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(2009) |
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"It’s too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out."
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(2009) |
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"Alix knows how to frame a shot to emphasize his character’s ever-shifting emotional states, but there’s something missing, an elemental sense of space that would better complement the heroine’s figure-in-a-landscape distress."
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(2009) |
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"It doesn’t matter if Rock is in a Harlem barbershop or an Indian hair-weave factory -- there’s always a punch line or a snooty eye-roll to be had."
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(2009) |
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"Lone Scherfig directs it all as if it were a breezy lark, so a third-act tonal shift makes for an incongruous, excessively moralistic fit with everything that’s preceded."
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(2009) |
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"Visual Acoustics goes out of its way to remain as kindly and pleasing as Shulman himself."
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(2009) |
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"As the credit “Produced by Paul W.S. Anderson” attests, this is hackwork of the highest order, lacking in all poetry and barely comprehensible aurally or visually."
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(2009) |
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"It makes sense that, within his own act of remembrance, Ferrara would include a hotel tenant’s home-movie footage of the September 11 attacks. The underlying message, in both cases, is the same: Never forget."
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(2009) |
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"There are enough hoary soap-operatic plottings for a thousand Gossip Girls (emotionally distant parents, almost-rapes, suicide attempts), yet Tancharoen individualizes each crisis so that no one character comes off as a mock-universal surrogate."
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(2009) |
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"Surrogates is an A-list blockbuster that would fit, damn proudly, on the lower half of a double bill."
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(2009) |
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"Owen brings insight and honesty to this otherwise by-the-numbers adaptation of Simon Carr’s memoir, which director Scott Hicks bathes in shimmering golden tones as if the characters lived at the end of the rainbow."
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(2009) |
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"Kate Beckinsale is about as convincing a U.S. Marshal as Joan Crawford is a loving mother."
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(2009) |
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"Writer-director Jane Campion approaches the tale with an artiste’s respectful solemnity, but it too often comes off like Twilight transplanted across oceans and centuries."
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