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"A movie for people who don’t mind having their expectations played with, and who prefer wordplay over gunplay."
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2.5/4 |
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"Despite setting itself up as a behind-the-scenes, insider's look at the making of the Woodstock Festival, Taking Woodstock tells us nothing new about the 1969 event that defined a generation."
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3/4 |
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"A biopic with a strong sense of character and period."
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2.5/4 |
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"The result seems almost as hypocritical as many of the movie's targets, which ultimately defeats the movie's intentions."
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3/4 |
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"I'm ultimately recommending Tears of the Sun and notably its first three-quarters, because even with its oversimplified and falsely optimistic ending, the film hits upon an issue people need to start exploring."
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2/4 |
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"A well-made but empty spectacle that is missing dread, thrills, and, most importantly, variation."
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2/4 |
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"Perhaps it's my fault that I'm unwilling to accept this new type of horror movie, and this review is evidence of my stubbornness."
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4/5 |
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"This is a gripping account of psychological turmoil that's also intellectually challenging."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Actually has half a brain in its head."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The world of the movie is the stuff of childhood fancy, but it never engages us in that transcendent way that brings even the most hardened adults into its imagination."
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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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"There are certainly some problems, but there's enough honesty about the cycle of addiction and the struggle of recovery to smooth out the rough edges."
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0.5/4 |
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"You don’t like to see someone like F. Murray Abraham awkwardly hamming his way through a role. It’s actually pretty sad."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"All and all, Time and Tide is, to be completely unprofessional for a moment, really damn cool."
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The movie simply meanders along, making things up as it goes, and it shows."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's breaking [its own] rules in half, stomping on them, tossing them in the stove, and then throwing them right out the window."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Looks good, with its overly cartoonish characters and grungy depiction of NYC, but it's hollow to the core."
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Watching teenagers going through some of these situations seems normal; watching men in their late 20s going through them is obnoxiously abnormal."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"I don’t quite understand why screenwriters try to cram their more nuanced or interesting characters into something as conventional as the final act of Training Day."
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0.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Probably the worst computer-generated-special-effects-driven summer blockbuster to ever disgrace the screen."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A relatively effective little potboiler until its absurd, contrived, overblown, and entirely implausible finale."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's roots and execution are faithful to the source and allow the emotional and thematic complexity of the tale to shine through."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"For all its post-postmodern use of intersecting narratives, Tristram Shandy: A **** and Bull Story works and, in certain spots, works brilliantly."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Because Bella does a half-hearted attempt to understand Jacob's lycanthropy compared to the half-assed job she did trying to comprehend Edward's vampirism, it has less than half the intrigue of the first movie."
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