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3/5 |
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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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Time Out New York |
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(2008) |
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"An extended navel gaze."
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UGO |
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1.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Bandits' most intriguing plot line, the three-way love story, merely hints at the complexity of a two-man/one-woman relationship and never moves past the initial stages of cuteness and adolescent eroticism."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(1950) |
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"The Baron of Arizona (1950) is all thumbs, as much a forgery as the one perpetrated by its protagonist James Addison Reavis (Vincent Price)."
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The House Next Door |
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(2009) |
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"A feather-light trifle."
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UGO |
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(2007) |
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"Character psychology is as specious as in the Schwarzenegger canon."
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The House Next Door |
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2/6 |
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(2009) |
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"Doe-eyed earnestness dulls every edge, and Eden-like naďveté reigns supreme."
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Time Out New York |
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(2008) |
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"[Jacques] Nolot writes, directs, and stars as Pierre Pruez, an HIV-positive bottom boy-no-longer who navigates his ruined life and beauty with aplomb."
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The House Next Door |
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(2006) |
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"Drains all the mystery out of a masterpiece."
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The House Next Door |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This version of Nyreröd's efforts tends to focus on the more familiar touchstones of Bergman's career, though it does go significantly in-depth on the guilt he feels over his many failures as a husband and a father."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1983) |
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"For its first 13 episodes, Rainer Werner Fassbinder's adaptation of Alfred Döblin's 1929 novel Berlin Alexanderplatz is most decidedly a masterpiece."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1922) |
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"It goes without saying that the discovery and restoration of the 1922 Gloria Swanson/Rudolph Valentino melodrama Beyond the Rocks is a cause for celebration"
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This show-offy biopic of the late, great singer/songwriter Bobby Darin reveals Spacey as a shameless, slogan-reliant historical reductionist."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Ultimately a failed actor's piece..."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(2009) |
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"From deadpan to Ultraman."
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UGO |
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.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The funniest thing about Big Momma's House 2 is what I believe to be a grammar error in its press notes."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"One longs for Nomi Malone to enliven the proceedings with her ketchup bottle of doom."
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The House Next Door |
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(2006) |
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"Ghost World: Keith Uhlich on The Black Dahlia for Reverse Shot's Brian de Palma symposium."
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Reverse Shot |
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(2006) |
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"Tell the Dahlia you think that it's beautiful."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The tragedy of Black Dahlia is that there is no finality for anyone--solving the "mystery," so to speak, counts for next-to-nothing."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"As the theme song declares, this cat is dy-no-mite!"
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Time Out New York |
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(2007) |
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"Black Sheep takes one of nature's most decidedly non-threatening creatures and arms 'em, deliriously and deliciously, with ravenous, razor-edged teeth."
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The House Next Door |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This live-action adaptation of Hiroyuki Kitakubo’s popular anime one-off from 2000 appears to have been made by a company of finches tweeting, 'Cheap…cheap.'"
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Time Out New York |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Blossoming of Maximo Oliveros is a lo-fi Technicolor ode to this memorable protagonist, a neorealist homo noir."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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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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Time Out New York |
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(2008) |
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"In light of all its swooping and swishing helicopter shots of the sun-dappled Napa Valley, [it] might as well have been photographed from the bridge of the Starship Enterprise."
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UGO |
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2/5 |
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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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Time Out New York |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An odd, at times off-putting mixture of camp inflection and earnest insight."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Make your way toward Pluto and don't forget your bottle of Chanel No. 5!"
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Certainly there's no denying the effectiveness of some of the material here, but The Bridge never earns its parallel to Brueghel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus.""
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Slant Magazine |
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2/5 |
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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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Time Out New York |
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3/5 |
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(1947) |
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"The future Lord Dickie’s sinister stylings are what linger, especially the vitriolic audio recording he makes for his betrothed, done as if damnation were the most casual of enterprises."
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Time Out New York |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"I suspect the film's frank, at times glorious rendering of queer sexuality will inspire more than a few closeted youths to brave life out in the open."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Oozes an anonymous contempt sadly appropriate to director Steven Soderbergh's post-Limey artistic downward spiral."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"It's surely old-hat by now to note the writer/directors' pervasive condescension and smugness, a criticism I don't think always holds true, especially when the Brothers more fully explore, e.g. The Man Who Wasn't There, their no less ubiquitous spi"
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UGO |
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3/5 |
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(1963) |
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"For all its annoyances -- and there are many -- the film somehow sears its way into the mind’s eye."
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