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47/50 |
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(2003) |
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"The presence of God's (or the director's) grand scheme is so apparent that it undermines the movie's time spent grappling with faith."
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Masterful. It's too damn rare that such an intelligently conceived, tautly executed, politically astute film gets made."
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Apparently the legacy of the Blair Witch phenomenon is the belief in filmmakers that visuals aren't important and incoherency is scarier than anything viewers can actually comprehend."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The consistently high production values and legitimately creepy storylines ensure that even those who don’t consider themselves horror fans will likely feel satisfied after this three-course meal."
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4/4 |
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(1977) |
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"It ranks in the pantheon of great films about dreams."
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3.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"By not making judgments on the characters it endows the audience with the greatest understanding of the situation."
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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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2/4 |
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(1963) |
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"A jingoistic cartoon."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"As the center of the movie's universe, Eminem is seriously lacking any sort of gravity that can hold the pieces together. It's no wonder, then, that 8 Mile falls apart."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Every seemingly insignificant, color-coded fragment of the picture's makeup coheres into a satisfying whole."
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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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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"[Its] failure becomes most obvious in retrospect, when the realization dawns that the most affecting, inventive, and honest moments of the film were those that hewed most closely to the original text."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"You can’t help but shake the feeling that you were having more fun with the old, sarcastic, lying Will."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"About Schmidt treads a fine line between glib and profound, between comic and sad, but in doing so shows the audience that it's usually easier to laugh at someone than it is to take a hard look at them."
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73/100 |
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(1972) |
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50/100 |
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(1971) |
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"In adding a literal deconstruction of man to the metaphorical one that graces so many works of art, Brakhage has created with Act the ultimate horror film, for better or worse."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"[Its] failure becomes most obvious in retrospect, when the realization dawns that the most affecting, inventive, and honest moments of the film were those that hewed most closely to the original text."
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1.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"Buckaroo Banzai seems stranded in an alternate dimension where films don’t need to have a solid perspective to exist."
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41/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Both less inventive and less substantial than it seems to think it is, this would-be epic suffers from the comparisons it prompts as it references a series of silent classics."
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4/4 |
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(1993) |
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"Thanks to Scorsese's directorial prowess, the film completely immerses the viewer."
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2.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Broomfield frequently seems as willing as his subject to indulge in conspiracy theories and there often exists the queasy hunch that his interest in her feeds her sickness."
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It occasionally fumbles and it sometimes feels downright hokey, but it cumulatively earns a feeling of gravity and reverence that fully justifies its extended running time."
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"At once far more faithful to its source material than the popular Disney version, and farther from it in tone than one might ever imagine."
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Binoche’s character is sketchily drawn. Although she gives an admirable, unshowy performance, her role is underwritten, with the script frequently using her as the engine that propels the plot."
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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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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Perhaps no greater example yet exists of the beauty achievable when one is a master of the digital aesthetic."
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Even as All or Nothing doesn't fail, it pales in comparison with the best of Leigh’s work, but all the same it's well worth seeing."
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3.5/4 |
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(1955) |
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"Sirk’s film is filled with such satirical barbs at the American rat race, and horrifyingly enough, most of his attacks feel unusually prescient."
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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4/4 |
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(1983) |
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"Throughout, Tarr seems exasperated by the capacity of each to believe that they are justified in their machinations, and in his inability to accept their individual actions, he seems to be expressing disgust and outrage at all of society."
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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41/100 |
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(2007) |
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"With all of the bulk, but none of the substance, of your average epic production, American Gangster lumbers across the screen with such obviousness that it is almost shocking."
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3/4 |
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(1951) |
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"The feeling of escapism that it generates quickly fades away."
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44/100 |
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(2003) |
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"Casting itself at first as an antidote to the overly sentimental strains of Hollywood melodrama, it succumbs to formula and a facile treatment of its hero's fight with cancer."
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The stories never come together in a way that really enlightens, but that's not to say the film is anything less than entertaining."
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71/100 |
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(2004) |
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"It might not be a film that can be taken too literally, that doesn't mean it shouldn't be taken seriously."
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4/4 |
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(1945) |
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"One of the supreme suspense films."
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4/4 |
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(1968) |
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"By comparison to the aimless young adults of Flesh, the troubled teens in any given Larry Clark film seem downright motivated."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Lopez has great lips for pouting, and this somber script gives her ample opportunity to flex those skills."
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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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68/100 |
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(2003) |
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"Anything Else is easily one of the funniest movies of the year."
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3.5/4 |
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(1979) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Pasolini's Arabian Nights succeeds mostly because it never assumes neither frank carnality nor flights of fancy are beneath us."
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3.5/4 |
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(1994) |
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"Even those that can't quite follow its plot should enjoy the fleeting pleasure that Wong's gorgeous images and frenetic editing provide."
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69/100 |
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(1994) |
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"Viewing it on the big screen, with a blaring soundtrack, only amplifies the director's singular achievement."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"If [it] fails to be the truly great statement that it obviously yearns to be, it can't be faulted much for trying, since most of its failures on that account arise from its desire to remain honest about its subject's limitations."
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