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3/4 |
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81/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite non-stop horror and perversity, nothing in the movie seems gratuitous. Its vision remains so comprehensive and convincing that it justifies everything that it puts you through."
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"When pastiche is assembled with as much excitement as it is here, it gains distinct energy of its own."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"If Ten feels neither like a reinvention of cinema nor a truly fundamentalist attempt to get back to basics, it manages to work best as a distinctive entry in Kiarostami's diverse oeuvre."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A respectable collection of shorts."
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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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73/100 |
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(2003) |
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"It might be dumbed down when compared to its predecessor, but it gains an immeasurable amount of visceral impact as a result."
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76/100 |
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(1958) |
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"By stressing the universal elements of Stevenson’s story, Renoir eradicates the creakiness of the plot, spinning the tale into something that still feels relevant."
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3/4 |
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(1973) |
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"It has the distinction of being perhaps the most critic-proof film ever created."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The essentially nonexistent characterizations do little to help matters."
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97/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Here is a film that makes its enormous intentions abundantly clear, then follows up on them magnificently, resulting in what seems destined to become a bona fide American classic."
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1.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"It only manages to be startling in passing."
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4/4 |
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(1969) |
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"Endlessly negative, the movie goes out of its way to deny the audience any moments of joy, opting instead to retreat further and further into the phantasmagoric fever dreams of the exhausted group."
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79/100 |
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(1949) |
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"Dassin’s film emerges as a rather searing, wide-reaching indictment of the necessary evils of doing business in the United States"
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1.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A high-budget spectacle of garish overkill."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"By the time the curtain rises on opening night, we are provided with what feels like a catharsis for not only the playwright and the actors, but for Almereyda too."
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4/4 |
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(1945) |
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"[After the] headlong launch into that abstract fantasia of color and sound, it's difficult to deny the sexual nature of its characters' pelvic thrusts and rampant phallic imagery. Clearly, this is Disney's horniest animated feature."
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58/100 |
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(2009) |
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"It is accomplished, but overdetermined. Its dramatic force can’t its equal its visual impact, resulting in a clear indication of where Ceylan’s strengths as a director lie."
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4/4 |
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(1957) |
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"Kurosawa’s dim view of humanity in the face of nature in Throne of Blood is reflected everywhere visually."
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2.5/4 |
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(1994) |
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"The third film in Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami's unofficial trilogy extends the themes present in the previous two films to the point of emotionally numbing, if intellectually admirable, redundancy."
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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2/4 |
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(2000) |
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71/100 |
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(2003) |
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"The Time of the Wolf's portrait of a civilization gone off the tracks tests us to consider exactly how much of the way we live is taken for granted."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Recoing’s fantastic performance doesn’t exactly reveal what makes Vincent tick, but perhaps any definitive explanation for it would have felt like a cheat."
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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2/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Schlöndorff’s treatment of this material is horribly flawed because he’s too interested in making the audience feel comfortable before he starts damning everything."
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56/100 |
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(2007) |
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"A better than average omnibus film."
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63/100 |
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(2009) |
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"With this sudden shift in genre and ambition, Kurosawa ends up delivering his best film yet."
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1.5/4 |
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(1982) |
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"The politics of the film seem to be a bit out of whack..."
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40/100 |
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(2004) |
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"An expeditious ending keeps Torque from ever really wearing out its welcome, but if that's the best that can be said about it, perhaps it's better left unsaid."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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47/100 |
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(1992) |
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4/4 |
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(2000) |
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"All in all, it's one of the best (though not the best) films of the year."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"When the characters start taking obscene amounts of physical abuse and coming back for more, it manages to help you take the film’s events less seriously… something that would have helped from the start."
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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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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"In a final shakedown, it's the lack of conviction to the importance of its own message that keeps [it] from carrying any weight. Its considerable directorial sprightliness can't disguise its lack of a brain."
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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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53/100 |
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(2009) |
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"Kim is undoubtedly a skilled director, but she’s someone who seems more content to observe than state."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This disturbing social order, both inside and outside the Triad, is the series’ defining characteristic. Because of its emphasis, this installment satisfies, even if another sequel feels inevitable."
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94/100 |
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(2005) |
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"Apichatpong poetically expresses the transformative quality of love, realizing a kind of intense profundity that simply could not be reached in any other medium."
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Ultimately, the message of Trouble Every Day seems to be that all sexual desire disrupts life’s stasis."
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3/4 |
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(1955) |
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"Despite the artifice, or perhaps partly because of it, the film manages to be enjoyable."
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2/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Truly Madly Deeply is an odd duck of a movie that never really gets off the ground."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Fortunately, the almost tangible romantic mood and the wonderful soundtrack are more than enough to sustain the viewer through [its] mildly lumbering, more densely plotted sections. This is quite clearly one of Hollywood's top releases thus far this year."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Though it takes a while for its real emotional heft to be made apparent, [it] eventually grows into an insightful and astutely realized examination of the ways we accumulate the emotional baggage that we carry as we move through our romantic entanglements"
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"It's downright refreshing to see a farce in which the lead actors don't feel its necessary to build up some inane sense of dignity so we'll like them more... Both seem up for anything here to get a laugh."
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(1934) |
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"Less a backstage farce than prototypical screwball, Howard Hawks’ brilliantly funny Twentieth Century set the stage for the subgenre that most consider the peak of American screen humor."
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3.5/4 |
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(1963) |
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"Twice-Told Tales manages to retain a great deal of the literate feel of Hawthorne’s work."
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