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 D |
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(2008) |
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"While Babylon A.D. isn't the worst big-budget sci-fi film ever made, it comes near enough to merit avoiding at all costs."
[movie review] |
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Mania.com |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"The sheer absurdity of it all allows one to forgive the fact that it never truly realizes its potential."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Mmmmmm... it tastes like sleaze."
[movie review] |
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Sci-Fi Movie Page |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"The Clone Wars is what it is -- what Star Wars has become, for better or for worse -- and while it won't blow anyone over, you can't say you weren't warned going in."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Hell, it may even save Tom Cruise's career. Let's see Batman do that."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 A+ |
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(1998) |
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"The experience of Dark City is one that no film lover should miss... seen now as it was intended after 10 long years of wandering in the shadows."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"Stoner-based or not, good comedy shouldn't need any help from the baggie in your pocket."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 A- |
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(1999/2001) |
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"Pegg, Stevenson, and Wright know their demographic uncannily well, having shared their experiences and looked at the world through the same skewed lenses as most Gen Xers."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C- |
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(2008) |
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"I know that dragging old franchises out of mothballs is all the rage these days, but quality control still counts for something."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C- |
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(2008) |
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"'Look, they're grown men! And they behave like children!' Lather. Rinse. Repeat."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 A |
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(2008) |
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"Nolan is clearly on the title character's wavelength and understands how a crisis of such magnitude might affect good men trying to do the right thing."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Synergistic product promotion Gotham Knight may be, but the people behind it treat their efforts as anything but disposable."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C+ |
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(2008) |
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"This director has shown us how good he can be, and with a character he adores as much as this one, he should have more to show for it than the mixed bag on display here."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"Hancock endures by finding the right rhythm to match its star, and by lashing enough amusing moments together to provide a trim 92 minutes of entertainment."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"As long as you check your ethics at the door, there's nothing wrong with reveling in its skillful brand of sociopathic mayhem."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 A+ |
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(2008) |
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"Not only does it provide further proof of Pixar's unprecedented brilliance, but it may have actually elevated their game to a whole new level."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"In the land of bad comedies -- which this summer truly seems to be -- its serviceable workmanship reigns supreme."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 A+ |
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(2007) |
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"While diehard fans don't need a reason to rush out and grab it, this second collection proves especially inviting for more casual viewers."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"You want your "Hulk smash"? You got it."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D+ |
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(2008) |
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"Another case of elegant filmmaking kneecapped by a thunderingly stupid concept."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"None of it sounds encouraging, but the directors find the right mixture of slapstick, satire, and affection to bring out the best in their material."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D |
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(2008) |
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"Yes, OK, bad things happen to good people. Consider the message received... about seven movies ago."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"To counteract its shortcomings, what has the film got? It's got Indiana Freaking Jones, that's what."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"Adamson overcomes some of the book's better-read-than-spoken dialogue and the odd bits of chunky plotting with plenty of grace and charm."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D+ |
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(2008) |
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"By trying to convince us that we're having a good time even as it pounds us senseless, Speed Racer moves beyond mediocrity and into the realm of active irritant."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"The director knows this world and the actor makes us care about it. Redbelt requires little more to make good on its promises."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"A few lowered expectations and a tolerance for the odd slow patch will serve you quite well in soaking up the dependable fun on display."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C+ |
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(2008) |
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"It relies too much on Spurlock's own personality to make simple and fairly obvious points in a manner which never offends, but certainly fails to linger."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Toto and Scarecrow were dropped from the project after demanding excessive residuals on the back end."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"Ayers makes the trip worthwhile largely through his excellent eye for asphalt level L.A. and his careful attention to Ludlow's moral dilemma."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B- |
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(2008) |
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"Murro works overtime to find the humanity in his characters, and with help from the cast, the search eventually pays off."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"A well-meaning movie fatally dazzled by the very nostalgia it's drowning in."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C- |
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(2008) |
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"I probably should have given it a lower grade, but I really, really like watching Laurence Fishburne hurt people."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C |
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(2008) |
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"It ambles along pleasantly, produces a few chuckles, and is forgotten by the time you pass the popcorn counter on the way out of the theater."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 F |
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(2008) |
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"The appalling sadism it eagerly employs in the name of, well, decrying sadism, becomes all the more infuriating when Funny Games repeatedly tells us it's for our own good."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D |
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(2008) |
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"My poor brain hung in there for as long as it could, but it lost its grip during the giant chicken attack and I haven't seen it since."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D |
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(2008) |
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"As sorority party filler or a double bill with the likes of Cruel Intentions, this movie can't be beat."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D+ |
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(2008) |
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"The most unintentionally hilarious film so far this year."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D+ |
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(2008) |
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"A movie of marvelous little moments framing giant dumb contrivances."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"The mood never wavers, allowing The Spiderwick Chronicles to develop into an exciting and largely watertight adventure."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C+ |
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(2008) |
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"[Its] joys stand alone and isolated amid a well-intentioned film that never quite connects the dots."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D |
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(2008) |
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"Director Andy Tennant seems to have found a mythical Zen space of bad comedic timing."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"Full of black humor and sharp comedic jabs, but with an undercurrent of genuine soul searching."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 D+ |
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(2008) |
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"I suppose this is what we get for encouraging the man."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"Seriously dude, no means no."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2008) |
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"When freed from unreasonable expectations, it turns out to be a modest little gas."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Any time Sayles clicks with his material this succinctly, the results are thrilling."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Nothing ruins a pretty good movie more than calling it great, and with Atonement, even 'pretty good' feels like a stretch."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 A |
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(2007) |
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"An Old Testament bellow of ferocity and pain that seduces us on so many levels you'd swear you could see the fourth wall tumbling down around our ears."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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 B |
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(2007) |
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"It may not be Burton's best film, or his most innovative, but it always stays faithful to his uniquely haunted soul."
[movie review] |
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Flipside Movie Emporium |
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