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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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"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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"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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"We witness the layers of living that tend to add their own indelible stamp on our physical and mental makeup."
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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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(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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(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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(1998) |
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"The Up Series is stupendous. You will not spend a better 9 and ½ hours."
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(1973) |
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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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(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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"(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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"One of the most magnificent, meaningful documentary film series in the history of the genre."
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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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(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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(2009) |
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"an early 2009 favorite."
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(2009) |
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2.5/5 |
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(1987) |
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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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(1994) |
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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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(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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"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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"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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"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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(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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"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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"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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(2003) |
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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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"Apocalypto may not be one of the best movies of the year, but it surely stands shoulder to shoulder with those exceptional efforts of 2006 -- at least from an artistic perspective."
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"Actor turned filmmaker Ed Harris wants to go back to the days of simple sagebrush storytelling, and with one major exception, everything he does...is nothing short of brilliant."
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"It's an exceedingly brilliant combination of future shock set-up and old school moralizing, a deconstruction of what it means to be human rendered in tech tones so slick that you often forget you're watching a cartoon."
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"Almost dadaesque in their view of entertainment, it is safe to say that the overall idea expressed by ..Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film for Theaters for DVD is as close to post-modern art as talking foodstuffs can get."
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"Fact is, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford should have been better. It should have followed the real focus on the story and done away with at least an hour of subplotting."
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"Though it pales in comparison...At Last, The 1948 Show proves that Monty Python's Flying Circus was not just some act of silliness synchronicity."
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"...without a sense of justice, Atonement just doesn't pay its penance. It turns a potentially magnificent movie into something that's merely good."
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"This is what makes Au Hasard Balthazar so powerful, and yet so distant. It asks as much of its audience as it does of its characters..."
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(2008) |
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"That's it's not confrontational or deconstructionist may seem rebellious on paper, but blown up on the big screen for nearly three hours, Australia sure plays as purely conventional."
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""...a greatest hits package of terror takes...""
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