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1.5/5 |
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"Cares about poker just a bit more than it cares about the characters, and the movie doesn't give a shit about its characters."
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3.5/5 |
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"A really sweet film about growing up weird."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"We get to know these folks, their love for life and performing -- and yes, we even start to see them as more than a mere novelty act."
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3.5/5 |
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"Focused entirely on these people and how the unplanned relationships affect their lives."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Enter Mark David Chapman's mind and prepare to be bored out of yours."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The kind of movie that people will discover new and hilarious ways to mock for years to come."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Bharat Nalluri keeps the misunderstandings and ruses of Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day going at a quick tempo."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Works pretty well as melodrama against a legitimately dramatic backdrop."
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1.5/4 |
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"Trying, monotonous, and not anywhere near as relevant or clever as it imagines itself to be, Vantage Point proves once again that while it's easy to rely on a gimmick, it's usually not the best idea to trust it."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A fine concept executed with disappointing ends."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Short on mystery and long on testing our patience for obligatory coincidence."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Makes us focus too much on its storytelling shortcomings when we should be impressed by the light and sound show."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Everything comes together in a climax that acts like one in a standard crime thriller but means a bit more."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Ugh. Just ugh."
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1/4 |
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"The top-billed star of Over Her Dead Body dies within five minutes of her first appearance, and if the majority of the other characters in the movie suffered a similar fate, I wouldn't have complained much."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A 60-foot IMAX screen showing a 60-foot Bono on a screen at the concert might be a new definition of kitsch."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Neither feels authentically like high school nor decides on an appropriate tone."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This is a gripping account of psychological turmoil that's also intellectually challenging."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"More concerned about coming up with graphic death scenes than anything else."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Has the gritty realism of the first film and a sadder mood for our hero but still continues Rambo as a soldier for hire involved in a standard plot."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The cast makes it work."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"That the movie can't decide if it wants them to get away with it is even more irritating, but that's probably because I didn't care either way."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A time capsule of our current fears displaced onto our nightmares."
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0.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Boll is back and as bad as ever."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A wearing examination."
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Plays out just as silly as its premise sounds."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Another phenomenal performance from Daniel Day-Lewis, who balances his character's purpose as symbol and depth as an individual."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I alternately wanted to slap and hug the majority of the characters"
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Creates some genuinely creepy moments and a sad tone of loss and remorse that elevates the tale beyond our expectations for the genre."
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Not so much a movie as much as it is a series of blurs and shapes moving quickly across a screen."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A movie about ideas that's a bit too timid to actually be about them."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Familiarity doesn't breed contempt here, but it's so familiar as to keep us from getting caught up in the scavenger hunt this time around."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"So is it a satire or a spoof?"
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The material, a Gothic yarn of bloody revenge, seems specially suited for the macabre hand of Tim Burton, but alas, such is not the case."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Predictably unconventional, indulgently metafictional, and hesitant about going for its alluded intentions."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Has its occasional oddball charms, but it is also ultimately conventional ... and pandering to go along with them."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Julian Schnabel's telling of the story is ingenious."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A lean and tight insider's look at the absurdity, deceit, and artifice of politics."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Manipulative filmmaking, to be sure, but director Marc Forster manipulates us so well, we overlook the fact in the viewing and forgive it in the memory."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Demands we throw out our preconceived notions and face the issue without walls to protect us."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Could have played up the subversive, satirical possibilities of the scenario, but [Diablo Cody's] first script is too smart, her affection for her characters too strong, to mistreat the story and its inhabitants so."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Feels like a false start allowed to run the length of the track. There's an effort, but nothing is really accomplished."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"True in its core depiction of a man dealing with limitless sorrow."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Soul-numbing."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"An undemanding, blunt, simplified adaptation."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"I'm sure it works on the page, but on screen, it gets clunky, especially in the epilogue, which hardly packs the intended emotional punch as a result."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There are no laughs from the material, which wants to be edgy but can't go for broke because it's too busy being a trifling piece of holiday cheer but without the cheer."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The movie isn't bad; it's just all too familiar."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"There are probably a few actresses who could play the role of an animated Disney princess come to life, but let's be thankful it's Amy Adams who is playing it."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Saying August Rush is contrived is like saying that, in terms of continents, Asia is pretty big."
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