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4/5 |
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(1994) |
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"While you might not always appreciate the historical aspects of the story, you will definitely find Chan's physical acumen amazing."
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3/5 |
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(1993) |
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"While purists may balk at not getting Yuen Woo-ping's complete "vision" here, Iron Monkey manages to make its case, even within the mangled material provided."
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4.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"When we are not left agog by the pristine production design and costuming, we marvel at the various staged conflicts, each one bringing a new level of proficiency and polish to an already overripe genre."
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Seen now, sans all the hype and hoopla)...we can gauge Kitano's production for what it truly is - a compelling and quite complex bit of fractured folklore."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Like the great artist he is Trumbo's work speaks as loudly today as it did 50 years ago. Perhaps we should all listen."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While Perry is still preaching to the already converted, I Can Do Bad All By Myself confirms that he's finally figured out how to turn said sermonizing into a far more mainstream experience."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Perhaps because of its status as an overused commercial gimmick to get '80s adolescents into movie theaters, the slasher film has lost most of its luster. Sorority Row won't restore it, but it also won't tarnish it further."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Dull and draining, Whiteout should have been offered under one of these preferable alternate titles -- Washout, or even better, Wornout."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"9 is the kind of movie that breaks your heart. It shows so much promise, but then wastes it on the same old fuddy duddy future shock storyline."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While it's a decent and sometimes effective thriller, the guys have done better -- a lot better"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Extract is an excellent example of what the Coen Brothers do effortlessly - minus the movie history homages and sublime stylizations. It's a microcosm comedy, small things blown up into universal truths."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This surreal creation is built around one of the most maddening and borderline unbearable characters ever conceived."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"As with most of the ideas tossed around by Second Skin however, it's never fully explored or realized"
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"A fine film like Vito After should remind us that, even if the world realigns itself toward a more peaceful path, that horrific fall event will remain with many of us forever"
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"either a work of jaw-dropping, unhinged genius, or the most moronic horror film since Ernest Scared Stupid"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Marins turns this final chapter in the character's quest for everlasting life into a Grand Guignol geek show, complete with shocking sequences of vivisection, cannibalism, and sexual sadism."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Percentage-wise, it's about 75% blood and 25% boring exposition and lax characterization"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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DVDTalk.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"American Son is one of the few modern takes on the material that never once apologizes for its warrior-in-waiting."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The only thing you'll be 'fighting' is your lagging attention span."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The Garden moves beyond the feel good facet of any apparent ending to show how stark, stupid reality can rip said victory away. It won't make sense - none of these 'us vs. them' situations ever do - but it does create compelling cinema."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"so bereft of anything close to humor that one wonders if it was even meant to be a comedy in the first place."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"this time around, Rodriguez is vying for Father of the Year"
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"an insane destruction of the war film"
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4/5 |
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(1977) |
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"Castellari's film is a Pilgrim's Progress, a journey by the irredeemable toward some manner of salvation."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...Hannah Montana: The Movie, its light and empty, cotton candy made out of sugar substitute, not the real sweet deal."
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3/5 |
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(1977) |
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"As a testament to its founder's legacy, this is still somewhat lesser Disney. But when viewed in combination for what passes as House of Mouse merriment today ...it's utterly brilliant."
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In a Summer of senseless mayhem and underwhelming efforts, Ponyo on the Cliff by the Sea is majestic. It easily matches (and in many cases, surpasses) the best the genre has to offer."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"This delightful bit of gallows humor has its high points."
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"By avoiding the typical end of the world apocalypse that most alien invasion movies mandate...District 9 becomes that most elusive of science fiction films - a serious and thoughtful dissertation on who we really are."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"contrived plot coincidences and the dead air between the film's photogenic leads keep getting in the way"
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(2009) |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Efron, whose biggest onscreen drawback is his ever-changing '60s mod hairdo, owns almost every moment, milking the minimal laughs available while playing up the material's maudlin strengths."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"They're not heroes, or zeroes. Instead, these G.I.s are just so-so."
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a failure, and a highly flawed one at that."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"an enjoyable experience -- just not as filling as it could have been."
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1.5/5 |
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"Nature's Grave violates one of the first rules of remakes - if you're not going to be as good, or try to improve on, what came before, you really shouldn't bother."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Not classic, but a highly inventive and entertaining look at the fears and tears of a clown"
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3.5/5 |
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(1965) |
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"From the outrageous fashions to the less than hidden anti-media agenda, this revamped version of The Most Dangerous Game is like a retro Running Man meshed with a Cinzano ad."
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3.5/5 |
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(1973) |
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"So overloaded with red herrings that even Scandinavians would find it excessive, Torso is not the most complicated of whodunits."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Fast & Furious could be called Grand Theft Autopilot. Lin knows that his demographic doesn't care about truth. They want to see stuff smash up - and in as outlandish and outrageous a way possible."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Uproarious, bitter, and ever so slightly twisted, In the Loop revives our hope in art infiltrating and exposing the hypocrisies of life."
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PopMatters |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"just tries too hard, and it shows"
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The "ugly" truth about this film is that it's all artifice and very little amusement."
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3.5/5 |
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(1983) |
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"it's Dangerfield's emergence as a certified movie star that makes this movie worth investigating"
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"so absurd and convoluted that even JFK's legacy can't subdue its preposterousness"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"While it may miss an opportunity here or there, The Disappeared is an eerie, entertaining effort."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While perhaps a tad too quirky for its own good, this is still one of the best, most insightful romantic comedies in a very long time."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This is Harry Potter for grown ups, the boy wizard and his clever companions given a dramatic heft and cinematic legitimacy they've sorely missed before."
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