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5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"This Hairspray honors its source and emerges as a relentless joy machine."
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5/5 |
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(1978) |
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"The movie itself is repressed; Hitchcock would have admired the way Carpenter artfully avoids explicit bloodshed."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"When will people like Zombie learn that you shouldn't shine a light on the boogeyman?"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There are bits and images in this film that would ensure praise from the horror-fan crowd if they weren't in a Halloween movie directed by Rob Zombie."
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4/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The movie is almost playful in its mission to burrow around inside Hamlet and discover what's still relevant about it."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(1996) |
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"Die-hard Bard students may quibble, but this gargantuan and glorious Hamlet is a movie-lover's paradise."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It's certainly the most complexly ornery superhero flick we're likely to get this summer."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(1981) |
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"Inescapably cheesy."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There's a better cast here than there deserves to be."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A dark and complexly entertaining ride, highly generous to multiple viewings."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"For an absolutely unnecessary movie, Hannibal Rising is handsomely appointed, lushly if unimaginatively directed."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(1998) |
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"Happiness is tough stuff -- quietly confrontational, genuinely haunting, and, most disturbing of all, unexpectedly moving."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(1980) |
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"J. Lee Thompson's entry in the slasher sweepstakes, done up with the usual lack of style."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"It's the kind of indie film that makes its mark by a controversial theme, an infamous scene, and dines out on its film-festival buzz."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"This is less a hardball than a softball, without any curves or surprises."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Giddy brain-dead fun that goes to such pains to debunk stereotypes that the debunking itself becomes a joke."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1993) |
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"You can enjoy the lowbrow apocalypse as surreal theater."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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0/5 |
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(1999) |
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"When you're not yawning at the digital ghosts, you're watching a cast of fine actors dogpaddling in cliches and terrible dialogue."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(1998) |
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"As a filmmaker, Lee only gets better."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Marks [Asia Argento] as a far more adventurous and even risk-addicted filmmaker than her famous father Dario."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"A movie that says we might as well pack it in as soon as we turn 18 is more bitter than bittersweet."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(1991) |
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"We come away from the documentary with a profound admiration for Coppola, if only because he didn’t kill himself or someone else."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(1995) |
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"You can't tell what's important and what isn't, and some may mistake the movie's incoherence for profundity."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1987) |
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"Some of the interviewees are down-to-earth, some loopy, all fascinating."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(1994) |
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"The inner tension of the film emerges from Jackson's enjoyment of the girls' bustling insanity and then his gradual withdrawal from it."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(1994) |
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"The movie has a kind of elegance, but it's a very long sit."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(1981) |
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"...An unabashed crowd-pleaser. Whenever possible, it goes for the fight scene, the sex joke, the jiggly breasts..."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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1/5 |
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(2000) |
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"...A joyless trudge through decades-old cliches, with about twenty gallons more gore than in the original..."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1989) |
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"If you haven't seen any of the old classroom reels dealing (ineptly) with sex issues, this is a good place to start."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1973) |
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"A zesty abstract-jazz riff of a film."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Anyone who has ever felt discarded, disenfranchised, or just plain dissed will find in Hedwig a lot to hook into."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"[Mamet] is a giant in several areas, but I'm not sure moviemaking is one of them."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Perlman, at age 53, strides in like a hungry young actor itching to prove something, only with 22 years of experience lending him charisma and confidence."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Awkward as the plotting is, the movie is too stubbornly weird, too deeply in love with freakishness, to be waved off."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1992) |
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"A mess, though very often an enjoyable one, thanks to the cast."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Better experienced than discussed -- and better seen two or more times."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1982) |
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"Sporadically a guilty pleasure."
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5/5 |
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(2000) |
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"Cusack meets Hornby's British self-consciousness with his own American brand, adding his Cusackian knack for romantic yearning."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Haute Tension is like a French art-house essay on slasher-movie cliches, and as such is good nasty fun."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Aggressively overdirected, with lots of 'Look how cool this angle is' and 'See how tricky my editing is.'"
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(1977) |
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"There's a difference between reiterating a theme and repeating what worked before, and you feel the line drawn here."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"It's self-conscious nastiness, once removed from its motivating source."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"A nastily effective piece of action-horror, as reflective of its time and its war as the Vietnam-era Deliverance was of its time and war."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(1984) |
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"Craven throws away most of what made the first film shocking and relevant."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The tension builds in a slow boil, then ignites furiously when we're not quite ready for it."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"It's hard to dislike a movie in which one of the heroes gets brain power from lemon juice."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(1992) |
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"Raises many questions and gives no answers, but this shouldn't be mistaken for artistic ambiguity."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"All this magical computer-generated whiz-bang, and they can't do more with it than a climax ripping off your choice of slasher movies and Alien films?"
[movie review] |
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2003) |
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"This is going to go down as one of the lesser films in the portfolios of Shelton, Ford, and most everyone else involved."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(1999) |
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"Jane Campion is busily dismantling gender myths that few people take seriously any more."
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