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B |
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(2009) |
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"The story is robust enough to survive the theme-park treatment, and for the most part it's a very good ride, with a welcome note of actual Christmas caroling spirit."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"The book is about anger, while the film is as much about sadness. Here is a film broken-hearted over the messiness of the world. It is sad, and beautiful, and true."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Confronts us with the inveterate human capacity for self-justification
we are all prone to casting ourselves as the hero of our own drama and the victim of our own tragedy."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A fine tribute to an American pioneer, but I feel sure that Earhart's story merits, and would reward, a more searching and thoughtful exploration."
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Christianity Today |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"When in movie history has the girl ever revealed her true self and become more attractive to the hero by putting on spectacles and pulling back her hair?"
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Acker does himself no favors with rote anti-dogmatism and vapid characterizations. Despite that, though, his little creations remain oddly compelling."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"[The "popcorn" egg-burning scene] in a way represents the whole film: There's popcorn appeal for casual viewers, but something more vital and desperate at stake underneath."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Sticks together disparate bits and pieces of fairy tale, mythopoeia, sci-fi and family film with the artless simplicity of a child mashing up Tinkertoys, Playdoh and Daddy's cuff links into a single sculpture."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There's nothing wrong with G-Force that John Lasseter couldn't fix."
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Continues the trajectories of recent installments — it’s darker, more tragic and more romantic … loyalty to and trust in Dumbledore emerges as a defining moral trait for Harry."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"With its well-staged stickups and shootouts … it seems to be all surface — a glossy updating of 1930s Hollywood gangster melodrama without any substantial commentary or insight."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C- |
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(2009) |
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"Marks Blue Sky Studios' descent into the kind of crude and suggestive humor they once left to DreamWorks."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Like The Magdalene Sisters, Soraya M offers its audience only those appalling truths they want to know about the evils of an alien culture they are already inclined to look down upon."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A subtext of self-criticism runs through Vardalos's material. Over and over characters tell her, "You're not funny. Stop trying." Is it a sort of apology to the audience?"
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"Sam's predicament touches on issues from the deconstruction of human nature and the commodification of human life to existential loneliness, alienation and the dehumanizing effects of corporate ruthlessness."
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Christianity Today |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"Bound up in this haunting, moving meditation on a family in transition are implicit questions about globalization and the relationship of art, life and culture, the past and the future."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(2009) |
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"What other animated film has contemplated the anxious stubbornness of the elderly to cling to whatever independence they can for as long as they can, to remain connected to familiar places and things?"
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"The Lincoln Memorial statue is something of a travesty."
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"Langdon may wind up saving the Church, but does Angels & Demons offer any hint of a church worth saving? If not, why should we care?"
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"It's like what Alan Moore said about Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns: 'Everything is exactly the same, except for the fact that it's all completely different.'"
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Has visual style to burn, but its politically correct tale of rapacious invaders and noble natives is less interesting than the world in which the story is set."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"You go in knowing it has certain beats to hit, and it hits most of them in ways you might expect … What it's most conspicuously lacking is any sense of surprise, of revelation, of creative boldness."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2009) |
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"In a sea of Hollywood formula, artifice and escapism, here is an invitation to wonder, awe and gratitude."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"The basic contours of the story do emerge from the ill-advised Hollywood stylings … Does Lopez help Ayers? Does Ayers help Lopez? It's messy."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"Has one character that really matters - Ginormica - and no relationships to speak of … As a tale of female empowerment and male comeuppance, Monsters might have been provocative, like, 50 years ago."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A+ |
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(1940) |
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"In spirit a classical European fairy tale, full of wonder and terror … a pinnacle of artistic achievement that, after Bambi, classic Disney would never even try to match again."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Much like Scorsese's Gangs of New York, it's a film that has been long labored over, and the artist's love of the material is clear, but the inspiration has been lost along the way."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C- |
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(1988) |
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"The last gasp of Disney Animation's post-Walt malaise before the 1990s Disney renaissance … retains Dickens's seamy milieu, but not his morality-play tableau."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B- |
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(1978) |
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"Better structured and faster-moving than its predecessor … disappointingly, Tony spends almost the whole film separated from Tia in a trance-like state, so the siblings' relationship is lost."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(1975) |
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"Pleasant enough, but underwhelming, and curiously lacking in wonder, even in the high-flying finale."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"Slicker, darker and funnier than the original films, though wall-to-wall action makes it a bit of a one-trick pony, and prevents the characters from catching their breath and displaying more than one side."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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D |
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(2009) |
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"A thoroughgoing deconstruction of humanity as well as heroism, one that takes its world apart without putting it back together again. There are things to admire here, but Watchmen doesn't make me care."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"With its dark tale of changeling parents and imprisoned souls, Coraline comes closer to the bracing spirit of the traditional European fairy tale than perhaps any other film, animated or otherwise, in recent memory."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Although well-crafted but improbable action set pieces cast Neeson as an essentially indomitable force, the film's emotional force rests on the comparatively persuasive setup."
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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F |
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(2008) |
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"The Frank Miller Universe at its most reductionist, self-parodying and content-free … There is nothing at stake … only a pointless, shapeless exercise in wildly veering moods and styles."
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Not a Fractured Fairy Tale, not an ironic deconstruction … but a sincere morality tale in a folk storytelling mode, with dark themes to do the Grimm Brothers proud."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(1951) |
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"More thoughtful and restrained than most sci-fi of the period, The Day the Earth Stood Still has aged better than almost all of its peers."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"A credible effort to honor the original while contributing something new. Derrickson effectively builds and sustains a sense of thoughtful tension - until the screenplay lets him down."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"Is there something darker: an unhealthy fascination with unwholesome relationships and bad boys, perhaps mixed with a Nightingale/Stockholm-syndrome desire to "save" them?"
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Three years ago, before Casino Royale, Quantum would have been a pretty good Bond flick. Two pair isn't a bad hand. It's just anticlimactic after a royal flush."
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"A hodgepodge, combining elements of The Lion King, Joe vs. the Volcano, Happy Feet and some romantic comedy that I'm sure must exist but which I haven't yet identified."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1956) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(1965) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2007) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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D |
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(2002) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(1962) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A+ |
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(1977) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"It’s morbidly absurdist, thoroughly pointless, and can certainly be funny at times."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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