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 4/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Entertaining and provocative enough."
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 5/5 |
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(1995) |
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"One of the most mesmerizing and provocative films in recent years."
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 4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The whole movie is a kick, actually."
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 5/5 |
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(1979) |
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"A surprisingly fine and forceful character study."
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 5/5 |
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(1986) |
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"One of Oliver Stone’s best films, and absolutely James Woods’ best performance."
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 4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Wu has abundant affection for her characters and a sharp eye for how they interact."
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 3/5 |
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(1998) |
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"It's forty minutes of steely violence and two hours of cliche-ridden flab."
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 3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Saw gets by on its mood of industrial dread."
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 2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"The ornate sadism isn't enough to carry our interest this time around."
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 1/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Starts with an interesting premise but quickly squanders it on the usual barely-glimpsed bloodbaths."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Jigsaw is an interesting character with an interesting worldview and an interesting way of carrying out his will. It's too bad the movies themselves aren't worthy of him."
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 0/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The Saw franchise has become a weekend-before-Halloween tradition; ironically, though, it has ceased to be a horror series."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1/5 |
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(2001) |
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"What we have here is a wannabe-outrageous comedy that flirts with the last taboo but then retreats."
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 5/5 |
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(1983) |
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"Pacino, of course, goes way over the top and through the floor on the other side."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"In a quarter of a century who's even going to remember that Tom Cruise went on Oprah's show and made an ass of himself?"
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 5/5 |
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(1993) |
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"Spielberg has painted his masterpiece with his own blood."
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 4/5 |
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(1987) |
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"Even with all its flaws, School Daze is worth seeing, because Lee gets into areas no director before had even bothered to come near."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2003) |
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"It's another case of independent film artists beating Hollywood at its own game."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The Score, a competent if nothing-special heist thriller on paper, showcases three generations of acting giants."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/5 |
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(2002) |
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"There are quite a few slow spots, never more so than when we're asked to believe in The Rock and Kelly Hu falling in love."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(1996) |
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"Witty, tightly structured, and often effective as a straight horror film."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(1997) |
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"Scream 2 is as clever and nerve-wracking as the original; on its own self-referential, crowd-pleasing terms, it's a success."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The other Scream films were also tricky and convoluted, but I don't remember them playing like the WB version of Murder, She Wrote, as Scream 3 too often does."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Seabiscuit is not a work of great art, but it tells its solid story with grace and dignity."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 5/5 |
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(1993) |
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"An intelligently crafted celebration of introspection and decency."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Once again, Depp slouches into a piece of mainstream entertainment and takes every opportunity to amuse himself."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2004) |
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"A gutbucket farce that works better as a lampoon of Hollywood than as a horror movie."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Eminently worth seeing, arguing with, and thinking about."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1/5 |
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(2001) |
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"The goofiest movie Nora Ephron never wrote."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"For what it is -- viewed as filmmaking in and of itself -- Serenity is tense and smoothly put together."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1/5 |
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(1978) |
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"I stared at the screen wondering how anyone thought this could possibly have found an audience, even in the degraded '70s."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(1994) |
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"The film may be a bad-boy satirist's mournful acceptance that America has finally become sicker than anything he could dream up."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 5/5 |
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(1996) |
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"One of the rare movies sporting great action sequences and a ring of truth."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 5/5 |
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(1995) |
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"The most disquieting and powerful Hollywood thriller in years."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 1/5 |
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(1997) |
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"After more than an hour of solemn preparation, we get ... Brad Pitt showing a kid how to drive a car and work a radio. Wow."
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 4/5 |
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(2001) |
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"This slight-seeming but trim and absorbing British import deepens in your head the more you chew it over later."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/5 |
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(1996) |
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"We've seen it before, almost frame for frame, in every other service comedy, especially Stripes."
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 2/5 |
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(1994) |
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"What's on the screen is so tired by now that you've seen it before even if this is your introduction to the Shadow."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/5 |
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(2000) |
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"At best, this is a dawdling, toothless riff on a vastly superior film. At worst, it's character assassination."
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 4/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The real appeal of Shaft is its acting teamwork; no '70s blaxploitation movie ever had such an entertaining cast."
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 5/5 |
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(1998) |
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"Wastes no time setting itself up as a rowdy, colloquial piece of popular entertainment -- the furthest thing from a fussy biopic of the Bard."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 2/5 |
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(1995) |
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"At some point, ordinary human compassion must take up the slack. Boyle isn't a zippy enough director to make up for what's missing. No one is."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2003) |
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"The movie seems to have been made simply because these guys should get together again."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2000) |
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"The movie walks the line between good stupid humor and embarrassing stupid humor, and usually manages to stay on the good side."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(2003) |
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"LaBute gives us a sequence of scathing emotional violence that outdoes anything I've seen this year."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"...not only a loving, teasing homage to the Romero Dead films. It's also a superb zombie film in its own right..."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(1994) |
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"It's an old-school melodrama at heart, sturdy and forthright and upstanding, but without a whisper of complexity or wit."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 4/5 |
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(1996) |
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"Burns' follow-up to 1995's witty The Brothers McMullen continues his wry examination of Irish machismo and its growing irrelevance in the '90s."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 3/5 |
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(1996) |
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"The movie is really an Oscar sandwich -- stale bread surrounding a big piece of ham: Geoffrey Rush."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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 5/5 |
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(1980) |
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"The Shining is an intense and not always ingratiating experience, a natural bookend to 2001..."
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