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"Beginning with a...hymn to the...power of musical harmony, SMiLE is the definitive utopian view of the [US] as filtered through the...twilight of the Summer of Love."
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"As a series of set pieces looking for any available fable to keep it afloat, 10,000 BC is really nothing more than computing power and implausibility."
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"With its wonderful post-Katrina NOLA setting and the standard stunt spectacle as only Harlin can deliver, 12 Rounds is actually quite good. It's no masterpiece, but then again, few post-millennial adrenaline rushes have been."
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"Overloaded with good intentions and definitely overreaching at the end, 13: Game of Death... is a very '70s post-millennial movie."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"While not actually scary, 1408 is unsettling and intense, taking its own sweet time building to a truly disconcerting climax."
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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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"2001: A Space Odyssey is an undeniable masterpiece and one of the greatest cinematic achievements ever committed to film"
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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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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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4/5 |
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(1977) |
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"We witness the layers of living that tend to add their own indelible stamp on our physical and mental makeup."
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4/5 |
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(1984) |
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"T terrific, telling time capsule of human growth and personality development."
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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"If there is such a thing as a successful piecemeal horror film, 28 Weeks Later is it."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"This is a failed fright flick that is so inspired by Stephen King that the famous horror scribe should consider suing."
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(2007) |
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"Call it an attempt to jumpstart our imagination or a metaphoric map to rediscovering our inner joy, but 300 is built for spectacle, not scholarship."
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4/5 |
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(1993) |
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"Stupendous."
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(2007) |
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"3:10 to Yuma has its off moments, and its unexplored potential, but for the vast majority of its running time, this is an excellently made and superbly acted throwback."
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"The Up Series is stupendous. You will not spend a better 9 and ½ hours."
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"Playing like a Sino-Spaghetti Western (complete with bountiful bloodshed and gore), King Boxer (Five Fingers of Death) is a remarkable movie."
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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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"(T)hanks to the intrinsic intrigue in the slowly shifting storyline, our bond with the Blocks, and the last act denouements which clarify little but clearly bring closure - at least, for some - 51 Birch Street soars"
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4/5 |
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"One of the most magnificent, meaningful documentary film series in the history of the genre."
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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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"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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(2007) |
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"The Abandoned announces that the talent and tenacity Nacho Cerdà showed in his short films easily translates onto the broader, bigger canvas of the full length feature"
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(1951) |
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"Like all great Hollywood classics, Ace in the Hole reverberates with an energy that expertly compliments its material, rendering even the most ordinary sequences visceral and dramatically intriguing."
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3/5 |
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(1998) |
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"The Acid House is an intriguing travelogue to Scotland's sour subdivisions, filled with burned out buildings and even more vacant dreams."
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(2007) |
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"You have to work so hard at forgetting everything you know about the boys from Liverpool, even as the movie constantly throws their monumental achievements directly at you, that it's frequently not worth the effort"
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(2009) |
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"an early 2009 favorite."
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"If you took the concept of Carrie, married it to the circumstances of Patrick, ladled in copious amounts of Dario Argento's Suspiria... you'd have Aenigma in a nutty, infectious shell."
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"Instead of just giving us the glorification of violence or vice, [Cerdà] digs down into the true heart of death's darkness. And he delivers the goods with...sensational skill."
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2.5/5 |
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(2001) |
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"Agent 15 is a schizophrenic slice of smart alecky fun. It is also an occasionally overreaching bore."
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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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"How did something that seemed like a slam dunk turn into one of the biggest piles of 2007 junk?"
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"preplanned pandering at its most callous."
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(2007) |
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"Amateur Porn Star Killer is desperate for you to believe in its authenticity. The only thing you'll have faith in is how foul and forgettable it all is."
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"Amazing Grace is something akin to a cinematic miracle. It takes three stories that few people would be initially intrigued by...and meshes them into a seamless exploration of human duty and the suffrage of the spirit"
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"so absurd and convoluted that even JFK's legacy can't subdue its preposterousness"
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"This excitable expose has all the makings of a sensationalized spoof. Only problem is, there's nothing funny about what happens here - not intentionally or vicariously."
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"just too insular to be engaging"
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4/5 |
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"American Gangster is an oddly one note movie made more or less grandiose by Ridley Scott's insatiable desire to overload the screen with superfluous details."
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2/5 |
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"Any storyline that thinks smearing soup in someone's face is the height of anti-social behavior clearly needs remanding to a series of lessons about real life. But then nothing about American Punks is all that authentic to begin with."
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"The American Ruling Class apparently wants to argue both sides of the situation. But as anyone familiar with the art of debate can tell you, sitting on the fence is ultimately non-persuasive."
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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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"Peppered with sequences both sad and scandalous, Morrissey and his actors turn New York into one big smoldering smut pit, a place where the person and the prurient no longer matter."
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"Heat feels like a cobbled-together conclusion to this so-called trilogy, a movie that offers little of what made the other offerings...so terrific in the first place."
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86/100 |
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"These characters may be easily dismissed as 'garbage'...but because of the frankness in Morrissey's moviemaking..., the film remains with you long after the oddness has worn off."
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"Angel Heart [is] a forgotten gem, a no longer controversial piece of brilliant craftsmanship that represents the height of Alan Parker's pana-visionary skill."
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"Angels and Demons is talky. Talky, Talky, Talky, Talky. You'd swear it was an entire pack of PhDs' dissertations spread out over two plus hours of endless yakking"
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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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"Director Sacha Gervasi has created one of the great masterpieces of the music business, a seminal statement of pipe dreams and true possibilities..."
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