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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"(Surfwise) delivers facts with fanciful shading, sequences that explain the lure of the ocean with images of the vast waves washing over their would-be conquerors."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Just when you think (Mamet) can't plow more storylines into his situations, the slightly bloated script finds room for five or six more."
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Young@Heart is a classic. May we all live to be so youthful in spirit and soul."
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5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Forget all the curmudgeonly criticism that argues for this movie's optical overload capacity - Speed Racer is a modern masterpiece"
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92/100 |
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(1933) |
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"Yet what one can witness throughout the course of Eclipse Series 10: Silent Ozu is how, early on, this artist understood the value of less."
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93/100 |
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"Ozu's compositions create plenty of iconic images (the two dejected lads walking home, a flat lonely landscape framing their defeat) and the performers - young and more mature - deliver flawless turns."
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91/100 |
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"It's like Bicycle Thieves without the neo-realistic sheen"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Big Rig is a brilliant idea sideswiped by some rather distracting directorial choices."
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The battle for the human heart has official morphed from witty, sophisticated banter between star-crossed lovers to something akin to mixed martial arts."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Kervern and Delépine come across as children with fingerpaints and way too much free time. They create compelling set pieces, but can't quite get them to fit together successfully."
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80/100 |
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(2007) |
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"Everything here is so bright and shiny, so glistening with masterful movie magic, that it's a shame the storytelling lags behind."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Teeth is too polite and PC to follow in those glorious grindhouse footsteps. It really should have reconsidered such a stance."
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"If you're looking for a definitive DVD, a combination of movie and making-of material that redefines and expands on the overall experience, (the) new two disc version of I'm Not There is it."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"For all its noble intentions and universal truths, Snow Angels is not a great movie. It's not a grand movie. It's barely a very good movie."
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Iron Man is fantastic, a sure fire blockbuster that will leave audiences breathless and fanboys wanting more."
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(2007) |
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3.5/5 |
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(1964) |
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"The Fall of the Roman Empire may not be the most notorious motion picture morass in the history of the medium, but for Samuel Bronston, it was the ultimate expression of what he was - for better and for worse."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"During its slightly surreal scenes, Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay crackles. At other times, it's the same old smoke out."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a whiny, juvenile mess"
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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" It may not be the smoothest or most straightforward journey into fear ever experienced, but there are more than enough scares to satisfy."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Yen and costar Chou redefine the big screen brawl with their kinetic, intense display."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"not really a film you enjoy, per se. It's more like a feeling you get used to before finally accepting."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Written with a sensationally smutty Woody Allen expertise and loaded with big fat bawdy barrel laughs, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is another wacked out winner."
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"While the actual ending does give audiences a reason to cheer, it's the final fade out that will make viewers the happiest. It means this tepid terror is finally over."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The middle hour is magnificent, as fascinating a portrait of the beleaguered region as you're likely to see outside the Travel Channel."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Is it possible to recommend a movie based on a single scene alone? If it's The Forbidden Kingdom, the answer is an obvious "Yes.""
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Shane O'Sullivan deserves a lot of praise for picking apart the RFK assassination, wading into waters that have long remained untroubled and overshadowed by the constantly turbulent tide of his brother's still suspect death."
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4.5/5 |
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"Of the myriad of reasons fans still flock to this show some 40 years later, The Phoenix storyline stands as one of the most compelling."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"This film stands as a nice beginning to a necessary Wagstaff reexamination. Yet as with most tastes of something savory, we want another serving."
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4.5/5 |
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(1980-1981) |
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"In today's sonic self-indulgence clime, Flipper's 30 year old cacophony still sounds contemporary."
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4/5 |
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(1976) |
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"The Magic Blade fulfills all the requirement of the genre - it has amazing stuntwork and an almost mystical sense of what makes for eye-popping action."
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3/5 |
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(1941) |
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"This out of print gem is a reminder of the days when cartooning was a wholly creative process, a form of film language that wasn't solely interested in or guided by marketing, demographics, and maximizing future sell through units."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Indeed, what's clear about The Counterfeiters is that it is intended to be a Holocaust film where the archetypal facets associated with the era...are reduced to a filmic footnote."
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"(W)hat many will remember about this otherwise informative film is the way in which we get to know these men."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"For Street Kings, being an above-average example of an overused idea is not necessarily a bad thing."
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Like watching the ultimate collaboration between Lucio Fulci and Dario Argento (with some nauseating originality thrown in for good measure) this sluice-filled sensation is one of the sickest, most gratifying gross out efforts in quite a while."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"You've got to give Clooney credit for trying, especially when most of Leatherheads is a jaunty, jazz age dream."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Shine a Light does deliver in a way few concert films can - especially given the timeless talents on display"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Nim's Island is all too insular, lost in its own unique universe somewhere between Swiss Family Robinson and Joe vs. the Volcano."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Maudlin and melodramatic when it doesn't need to be, but insightful and engaging when it counts, Under the Same Moon represents both the best and worst of the revelatory road trip narrative."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"perhaps Perry's time in the limelight may be shorter than he -- or his fans -- think."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Superhero Movie should be taken as a well-meaning but ultimately uneven lesson in how to handle future parodies."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"For all its faults however, this is a romantic comedy that works - if just barely."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"...more of an artillery based Abercrombie and Fitch road trip than a concise character study."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In fact, the real problems with Chapter 27 is it vagueness. Everyone here - Leto, Lohan, Friedlander - leaves us in the lurch, and nothing Schaefer does can save our confusion."
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In many ways, Married Life is a Coen Brothers knock-off without a bit of the boys' accomplishment or bravado."
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a genial, generic effort attached to an intrinsically interesting premise."
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3.5/5 |
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(2006-2007) |
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"Frisky Dingo is not a dada-esque descent into pointless self-parody. Instead, it's a show that has ambitions above and beyond its meager animation foundation."
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DVDTalk.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"...this is Hostel for everyone who hates Eli Roth's hirsute bravado, High Tension for everyone who found that experiment in terror more 'haute' than horrifying"
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