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82/100 |
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(2009) |
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"By turns provocative, repulsive and downright elemental, it churns with such a surfeit of unresolved energy that it's likely to leave viewers dazed and confused by the end of its assault."
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39/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It devolves into a morass of bitterness, losing even the rooting interest in the underdog that makes the formulaic structure of most sports films forgivable."
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34/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Goldthwait's movie tries so desperately to be edgy that it's hard not to laugh at it."
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71/100 |
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(1999) |
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"Taken as a whole, the sinister and accomplished The House That Screamed is something of a classic of European horror."
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70/100 |
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(1942) |
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"By exhibiting a great deal of sympathy and a considerable amount of cinematic skill, Szots relays the mores and customs of the people he observes."
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82/100 |
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(1968) |
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"It conceives of characters not in the terms of the typical cinematic narrative, but rather as spontaneous beings, seemingly unpredictable even to themselves."
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63/100 |
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"All the more awesome for being so totally inexplicable, Hausu may not be ultimately be classifiable as a "good" movie, but it's certainly one that must be seen to be believed."
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83/100 |
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(1964) |
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"It almost immediately launches into a nightmarish journey of violence and hopelessness, confronting us with an abstract yet uncomfortable vision of human struggle."
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80/100 |
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(1942) |
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"Walsh trusts his viewers to value ability and wit over humility and pathos, resulting in one of the most roundly entertaining of all sports films."
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74/100 |
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(1949) |
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"The Small Back Room is too good to be regarded as the curio that most currently see it as."
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53/100 |
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(1935) |
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"While there is a mild confusion about whether ingénue Sten is mean to be a new Lombard or a new Garbo, the mixture serves the script's needs."
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88/100 |
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(1949) |
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"An early indicator of Ozu's late-career greatness, his remarkably subtle family drama Late Spring finds him at his expressive peak."
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80/100 |
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(2008) |
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"Perhaps more than any other horror film, Martyrs demonstrates the range of the genre's capabilities to find ways to excite, provoke, and disturb us."
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64/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It's an easy movie to snipe at, but its quest for authenticity, even in its most affluent characters, is honorable."
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92/100 |
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(1931) |
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"Vampyr might not be much of a vampire movie, but it's one hell of a horror movie. It creates a sense of unease that few films can compete with, casting viewers into a realm where meanings are elusive and terror lies in every shadow."
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79/100 |
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(1964) |
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"...one of Godard's most approachable, conventionally plotted movies. It merges the director's interest in social constructs with a curiosity about individual emotions often obscured in his work."
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63/100 |
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(2009) |
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"An effort that handily trumps the first in every respect, Ong-Bak 2 further cements Tony Jaa's status as one of the era's key action stars."
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78/100 |
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(1939) |
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"Set convincingly on the streets and in the tenements, every frame here feels lived in."
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44/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Every moment of this sub-Annie Hall routine confounds not only audience expectation of a balanced feminine perspective but the very notion of romance itself."
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54/100 |
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(1939) |
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"In its best moments The Devil's Daughter achieves an authenticity that cannot be denied."
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59/10 |
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(1977) |
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"Starting out as a seemingly predictable creature feature, Prey soon twists expectations, morphing to become a most unlikely chamber drama."
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72/100 |
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(2009) |
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"The tenderness that À L'aventure discovers as it stares into the void might be its most radical gesture of all."
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62/100 |
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(1990) |
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"Livingston is smart enough to realize that her subjects are best equipped to explain themselves."
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50/100 |
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(2009) |
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"[It] seems rather quaint, resulting in a movie that is well-meaning, and certainly well-mounted, but somewhat devoid of real excitement."
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60/100 |
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(2006) |
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"In its bravado and its commitment to its own perversity, it throws down a gauntlet at the rest of the genre. Make no mistake, when it comes to sheer shock value, it will be tough for other horror films to trump Header."
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95/100 |
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(1922) |
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"One of the silent era's best and most exciting epics, the hyper-modern Dr. Mabuse, The Gambler has scarcely aged a day in nearly ninety years."
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65/100 |
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(2008) |
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"There's not much to Mum & Dad, besides what needs to be there to achieve grisly effectiveness. What is most disturbing about it is the way that it captures and distorts the very dynamics that exist in any family."
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47/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Public Enemies traffics in the accumulation of detail at the expense of a big picture."
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33/100 |
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(2009) |
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"One can't tell if it's inspired in its attempts to find something that will draw us in or just colossally sloppy."
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72/100 |
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(1982) |
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"Endowed with remarkable performances, superb photography, and a clear vision of what matters to its characters, Personal Best is an underappreciated gem in a genre full of filler."
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25/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It explains that the world is broken and dares you to agree that it's honest. It promises engagement, but delivers only retrenchment."
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66/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Summer Hours is undeniably in touch with the way we live, eminently respectable, and a tad forced."
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57/100 |
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(2009) |
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"[It] broadens the appeal of its cult property, turning what was once strictly nerd fodder into a shaggy dog action movie."
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39/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Such modestly crafted moral tales sometimes manage win the audience over, but here the tone wavers too much for sincerity to be felt."
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54/100 |
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(1965) |
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"<>The Nanny is not especially ambitious, so one must settle for the small pleasures and chills that it offers."
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62/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Lake Tahoe confirms Embicke as a promising young talent, but simultaneously raises some worries that he's only able to offer a small, singular form of pleasure."
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27/100 |
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(2009) |
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"A determinedly ugly movie, as brutish in its delivery as its subject is brutish in character, Bronson fails to offer meaningful insight into the life of a singularly idiotic individual."
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48/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Jones is a methodical filmmaker, and he conveys his plot without mucking it up too terribly, but he's also dull."
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55/100 |
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(2009) |
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"For viewers who are willing to accept the sheer adolescence of Coppola's thematic obsessions and stylistic approach, Tetro shows plenty of questionably placed inspiration."
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53/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Jim Jarmusch takes no prisoners, especially from his audience, in his quest for art house glory."
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66/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It is about as pleasing a star-driven comedy as one could reasonably expect to open in wide release during the dog days of summer."
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63/100 |
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(2009) |
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"What results is an irreducible and complex portrait of the drama that is modern life. Téchiné, much to his credit, has transformed here a thoughtless action into something that is capable of making the mind reel with implication."
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66/100 |
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(2008) |
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"At once tragically wounded and gloriously shameless, Bad Biology is a must-see for a certain, self-selecting breed of filmgoer."
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40/100 |
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(2008) |
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"Concessions to the audience's expectations certainly make Otto a more palatable viewing experience, but they also make it seem less dangerous."
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63/100 |
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(1945) |
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"Rarely has the dream factory lavished such skill on such destitution and such insistence that people are not really that changeable in nature."
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84/100 |
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(2008) |
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"Julia is at once a marvel of screen acting, an unthinkably black comedy, and one of the few truly nail-biting suspense films to emerge this decade."
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70/100 |
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(1936) |
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"It is a brief movie, which is impressive considering how much of Japanese culture its critique assults, but it must be conceded that it loses a little of its potential richness as a result."
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82/100 |
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(1936) |
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"By the end of Osaka Elegy, Ayoko's situation warrants nothing less than a universal call for empathy."
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82/100 |
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(1936) |
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"By the end of Osaka Elegy, Ayoko's situation warrants nothing less than a universal call for empathy."
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82/100 |
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(1936) |
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"By the end of Osaka Elegy, Ayoko's situation warrants nothing less than a universal call for empathy."
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