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3/5 |
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"Without (Travolta), the movie would be a royal waste of time. With him, it's redeemed, if only super-spy-ficially."
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2.5/5 |
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(2010) |
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"the "art of movement" has been replaced by the same old Hollywood histrionics."
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3/5 |
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"The showdown with Gibson almost singlehandedly saves the movie -- almost"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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1/5 |
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(2010) |
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"If you've seen it in the endlessly running ads, you've "seen it" in the film itself"
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2/5 |
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(2010) |
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"When it doesn't try to be everything to everyone, Tooth Fairy works, more or less. The rest of the time, it is relentlessly inane."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It might take you a while to see it, and maybe more than one viewing, but in the end, The Lovely Bones becomes a heartbreaking, harrowing expression of love and loss"
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1/5 |
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(2010) |
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"a mindless waste of time"
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4/5 |
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(2010) |
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"Set against an enigmatic and atmospheric backdrop, the duo avoids the standard sci-fi trappings to forge something meaningful and memorable."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A Single Man should have been stellar. Instead, it's just oddly engaging without being emotionally immersive."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"As one of the last great proprietors of motion picture prestidigitation, Gilliam is his own protagonist. As you follow the fall of Parnassus, you see the story of the director's rise, rejection, and reinvention of himself."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Just when we think we 'get' where Cody and Kusama are taking us, they thwart expectations and cinematic standards%u2026but not always in a good way."
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3/5 |
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(2010) |
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"Michael Cera and the rest of the cast lift Youth in Revolt beyond the cutesy pie piecemeal affectations. As a result, what could have been great is only marginally good."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...just a single casting decision away from being another brilliant update. Instead, it's just a wonderful, if flawed, entertainment."
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(2008) |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie musical can still be a splendid bit of escapism. With Nine, the only thing you'll want to flee is the movie theater itself."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In a year filled with audacity (Antichrist, Inglourious Basterds), nothing is cheekier and as out and out ballsy as The Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call - New Orleans."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...one of 2009's best experiences, a narrative highway where every mile represents another revealing rest area, where each conversation pushes us closer to our formidable final destination."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It would be acceptable if all this fakeness lead to something legitimately funny. Instead, we're left bemused and bored."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a stunning masterpiece."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...every sports movie cliche, combined it with a relatively revealing look at the early days of the Nelson Mandela administration..."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's like getting into a time machine and going back to the days of great mouse detectives, lion kings, and open-hearted beauties and their lovelorn beasts."
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3.5/5 |
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(1998) |
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"What his other movies have done summarily or languidly, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels does with some clear novice stumbles. It's creative and very clever. It's just not a classic."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...a wholly unique piece, a contemporized take on Dahl's 1970 book with as much interpersonal angst as kid-friendly fun."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While there is more to Ninja Assassin than endless gory excess, what's remains is like an arterial spray afterthought."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"(T)hanks to Hillcoat's reverence to the source material and his desire to visualize McCarthy's mind's eye Armageddon, we wind up with something so harsh it's almost unbearable."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Even if it weren't true, The Blind Side would be a special film."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"dull and lifeless, moving inertly from point to point without offering much that's memorable or amusing"
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5/5 |
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(1999) |
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"Fight Club is still today a definitive film, a statement as strong as any rock anthem and twice as packed with power chords."
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5/5 |
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(1939) |
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"Gone with the Wind is still dated, but it's a dynamite kind of antiquity."
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3/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Like one massive inside joke that only regulars to the View Askew Universe will get, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back is the ultimate measure of Smith's undeniable nerdiness."
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4.5/5 |
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(1997) |
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"Like a raw nerve tweaked over and over again by emotions both radiant and revealing, Chasing Amy is as close to a masterpiece as Smith has ever created."
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4/5 |
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(1994) |
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"Clerks remains a defining debut, a symbolic shot into the darkened domain of legitimate moviemaking."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Most tragedies provide a final act of catharsis. All Precious has to offer is more and more malice."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Winning, witty, and wearing out its welcome toward the end, Pirate Radio is either a noble failure or the slightest of successes."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Step right up and prepare to be mesmerized, bowled over, and generally blown away by Roland Emmerich's 2012, a movie that is guaranteed to be the last word on impending cinematic Armageddon for the foreseeable future."
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4/5 |
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(1983) |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Neither as quirky as it thinks it is nor as witty as it wants to be, The Men Who Stare at Goats is a low grade military send-up."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"all science and little sentiment"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a smart-ass slap in the face"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"As titles go, Jackson's own self-penned label lingers with hints of what could have been and what never will be. Still, for anyone still looking for a little bit of his magic, This Is It contains more than enough."
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3.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"P offers a subtle, often scary look at life as a Thai bar girl in Bangkok, with some frightening folklore and magic thrown in for good measure."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Fear(s) of the Dark should put to rest once and for all any qualms about mixing animation with angst."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Similar in style to the brilliant Let the Right One In, this story of blame and belief, terror and trepidation uses an unfamiliar era and event to lay the foundation for one undeniable work of fear."
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3.5/5 |
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(1994) |
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"Still, this is a decent little diversion, the kind of pure popcorn fodder that would find a far more ballsy form when Will Smith took on city-sized flying saucers in Independence Day."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...this outrageous example of Joe Bob Briggs' patented "three Bs - breasts, blood, and beasts" is so insane, so silicon injected and silly that it's almost impossible to take seriously."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Orphan is not very good. At 90 minutes, it might have been amazing. At nearly two hours, it's tedious."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Absolutely stunning in its visual flourishes, horrifying in its aggressive violence, and knowing in its psycho-sexual philosophical bent, Von Trier's Antichrist is simply astonishing."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There is so much about We Live in Public that is mesmerizing, so much that is both shocking in its statement and knowing in its insight, that it's hard to take in at one sitting."
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