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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."
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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."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2003) |
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"In the absence of any larger drama of characters or exploration of moral issues, the horror seems manipulative rather than dramatically justified."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1956) |
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"As much a testament and a fixture of traditional American ideals and affections as a courthouse display of the stone tablets, and as weighty and solid."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Shamelessly rips off interpretive conceits and even specific dramatic beats from The Prince of Egypt."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Wobbles between plotlines and characters that make emotional sense and ones that don't… remains passably entertaining, but doesn't bear much thinking about afterwards."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Against all odds, a smart, rousing extension of Cameron's paranoid fantasy that not only meshes seamlessly with the past and future continuities of the earlier films, but actually advances the apocalyptic mythology."
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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."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Santa's home is not a magical fairyland, merely a quaint European-style city with winding cobblestone streets and — I am not making this up — canned Christmas muzak."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(1956) |
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"The Searchers's reputation is so widely accepted that it's a surprise to discover that the film, and Wayne's character, are more complex than the reputation suggests."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(1986) |
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"Built of fleeting minimalist vignettes, almost snapshots, glimpses of its subject rather than an integral portrait. Is the final explanation from below or from above?"
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Reverent, uplifting, straightforward biopic that will be enjoyed by Catholics… lacks the psychological depth and spiritual insight [of] Story of a Soul."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1924) |
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"Unprecedented special effects and sets… perhaps the first great achievement of cinematic epic mythopoeia, and the forerunner to the likes of The Lord of the Rings."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B |
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(1940) |
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"Not quite as charming or magical as the original…best are Abu's adventures with Ingram's baleful genie, whose meeting on the beach with Abu is an unforgettable highlight."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Though not always faithful in small things, Things We Lost is faithful in much. The individual moments are sometimes off, but the large emotional resonances are right."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2000) |
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"A fitting dramatic tribute to the deadly brinksmanship that pulled us back from the edge during the most volatile two weeks of the Cold War."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B- |
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(1921) |
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"Exuberantly embraces the melodramatic absurdities of Dumas's moral universe [though] Don Q Son of Zorro did better with this kind of sophisticated European intrigue."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"A raucous danse macabre in jumping jazz rhythms… and, perhaps most surprisingly, a touching portrait of tragedy, doomed love, empathy, and sacrifice."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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D |
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(2002) |
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"Pitiful entertainment, succeeding neither as spectacle, as action-adventure, or as love story."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C- |
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(1997) |
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"Perhaps the most melancholy thing about Titanic is its celebration of romantic ideals to the exclusion of such self-denying virtues as honor, duty, and heroism."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1942) |
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"The famed "Lubitsch touch," whatever it really was, was never put to a more formidable test… the last hour is satiric perfection."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(1945) |
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"[Bogey & Bacall's] onscreen chemistry is palpable, all but overshadowing the fictional back story that made Rick and Ilsa's dance in Casablanca so memorable."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1935) |
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"The quintessential Fred-and-Ginger vehicle… typically escapist Depression-era fare… [but] whenever Fred and Ginger are in motion, the magic is timeless."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"Isn’t the delicacy that Eat Drink Man Woman was… But on the level of comfort food this remake is enjoyable enough."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Forget Cast Away. Forget Alive. Touching the Void may be the most harrowing, dazzling, haunting survival story ever filmed."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1995) |
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"Moviemaking alchemy — a breathtakingly perfect blend of wide-eyed childhood wonder and wry adult humor, yesteryear nostalgia and eye-popping novelty."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A+ |
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(1999) |
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"Pixar's gold standard for storytelling sophistication… not only their best all-around film, but one of the best films ever made, period."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Trade needed to be the United 93 of the human trafficking crisis. It's closer to being the World Trade Center."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1965) |
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"How do you weigh the cultural heritage of a nation against the value of human life? A wholly persuasive, intelligent thiller crisply directed by Frankenheimer."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C- |
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(2001) |
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"Abruptly shifts gears, switching from character-driven issue-oriented thriller to formula action-driven cop flick."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A+ |
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(1948) |
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"Riveting, downbeat, and surprising, a gripping adventure and one of Hollywood's most resonant morality tales… a smart, remorseless story of gold, greed, guns, and guile."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"By following its story as closely as they have, the filmmakers have retained much of what made the novel a classic."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A |
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(1978) |
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"A gentle Catholic counterpoint to angry Marxist peasant cinema… acutely aware of harsh economic and social injustices, but devoid of violent revolutionary spirit."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Not a story of heroes and villians, of good triumphing over evil, but of flawed, selfish men locked in a deadly struggle in which there can be no winners, only losers."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(1998) |
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"A deceptively simple fairy tale; a hilariously subversive satire… and finally an elegant parable about truth and happiness with evocative religious resonances."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Hood avigates this mine field with sure instincts… He doesn't tell, but shows; his characters never become too lucid or articulate, avoiding the danger of didacticism or moralizing."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"Together with this spring’s The Rookie, Tuck Everlasting represents Walt Disney Pictures’ best work in years."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"Yet another flawed but serviceable vehicle for Jackie Chan’s unique style of action comedy."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(1934) |
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"Often credited as the first screwball comedy… an acerbic satire of show-business ego and superficiality."
[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?"
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The Decent Films Guide |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Uncritical celebration of that overwrought, obsessive passion that is the hallmark of immaturity, that subordinates all sense of one's own identity and readily leaps to suicidal impulses and fantasies."
[movie review] |
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Christianity Today |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Deeply humane… a bittersweet, eloquent tribute to a man who is bent but not crushed beneath the weight of his various competing duties."
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The Decent Films Guide |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Annaud's skill and subtlety elevate what is basically a fable-like throwback to the sort of live-action features Disney made in the 50s... so far the year's best family film."
[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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[movie review] |
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The Decent Films Guide |
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