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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"What Friday Night Lights offers is the perspective that, for the people and young players caught up in this whirlwind, football simultaneously means everything and ultimately nothing."
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The Mist paints [its] divides starkly -- perhaps a bit too much so -- but combined with its spooks and gore, it makes for effective, smart entertainment."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The characters are all stuck on tracks, which might work on other occassions, but not when your underscoring music is all about refusing to follow conventional tracks."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Bullock is totally at home in this territory, and she remains fun to watch, but I do wish she would get stronger, possibly more original comedic material."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A curious snapshot of urban America during a particular pressured time; it doesn't have a generally nice view of people, but a frankness about the film's subject drives it -- when the chips are down, it's all about business."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The good acting provides an example of what might make this kind of formula work, but it's quite an uphill battle when one can see the scripted situations acting as comic fallbacks."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It's funny how much I'll forgive just to watch Jackman play this raging mutant again."
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9/10 |
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(2002) |
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"[Kaufman and Gondry] dive right into the subject [of sex] to lay bare the pain of it, and to have us laugh at it."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It might be saying something that I preferred to see [Giamatti and Wilkinson] in action than the two actual leads of the film."
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"This documentary stares truth in the face in more ways than one."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"For all we know, it's just a big show, a put-on for our entertainment -- but what matters is that it's really quite convincing. You do want to believe this is Van Damme."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Doesn't necessarily reveal the insight behind the composer's unique brand of music so much as display the working mode of a passionate artist."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"For a piece about forbidden lust/love, it's not very tortured."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"General unoriginality contributes to 'The Fast and the Furious' series' own issue as a 'seen one, seen 'em all' series."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"On the whole, it's a fine film, and yet I'm disappointed that it didn't more greatly acknowledge the gravity of the impending conflict."
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Street Fighter fans like me will be blissfully playing Street Fighter IV, with this movie occupying our minds as little more than a disposable curiosity."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If you took a still shot of one of them in the middle of an action sequence, you'd need to think for about a second or two to really understand what you're looking at. The visual design of these Transformers appears decidedly uncinematic."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"[Plays] itself as a mystery/thriller with something profound to say at the end, when we've pretty much heard a lot of this already."
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10/10 |
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(2009) |
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"How powerful are the folks at the Pixar Animation Studios? Their latest offering, Up, can possibly make you cry within the first 15 minutes."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Raimi going back to his roots, showing that he hasn't forgotten how to exercise his wickedly mischievous side to put on a hell of a show."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The movie proceeds to show how everything, little by little, falls out of place -- not the most thrilling of events to cover, but interesting all the same."
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4/10 |
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(2002) |
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"It's a shame The Next Generation crew went out on this flat note."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It neither adds to nor subtracts from the mythology. And with Judgment Day upon us, there's no more tension, nothing compelling left to explore."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Comes across as a less contemplative, more motion-driven version of its predecessor, The Da Vinci Code."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Works enough within its own rules, its own container, but blunts its own real-world impact along the way."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Suffers from a meekness -- its scares never dig deep and are more sensational than disturbing, and its storyline has been modified to something more conventional."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In order to become a new Star Trek, facets of its old personality must inevitably be sacrificed, while modern flavor -- faster pace and a little sass -- is infused."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"I found myself having a few pleasant chuckles but still frustrated at the movie for not bothering with telling a story that hasn't already been told a million times before."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Wants to be a wakeup call in a room where the people are willing to sleep just a little too deeply."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Anyone knows we all come here just to see the girl kick serious behind. At least she does just that, and after a while Chocolate mainly and plainly feels like the exhibition that it is."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"What Bolt lacks in originality it makes up for in execution."
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10/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Starts out in what feels like the real world only to gradually become something that isn't, on the surface, real, but only resonates more strongly in the emotional department as it goes. It's a fantastic accomplishment."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It's a bit overloaded, though I love Luhrmann's obvious enthusiasm."
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Has a simplistic environmental concern, presented with sensationalist sensibilities and, perhaps worse, given an even more simplistic resolution."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A certain rawness and despairing urgency is never quite achieved for the message the film wants to deliver, and so it remains a well-intentioned, well-produced, yet generally unmemorable entertainment."
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10/10 |
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(2002) |
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"[Characterizes] history as a large rush of information so huge, alive, and easy to get lost in that it would feel a shame if there existed nothing to give us a conduit to it."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A movie fascinating to watch while asking us to contemplate moral relativity, the futility of life ... and other heady concepts you might fully expect to find in not just another comic book movie."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The agenda is obvious, but the rage feels justified, and meanwhile Lee gives us a few virtuoso touches."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Realistically depicts the relationship between the allure of criminal activity and times of desperation."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It's ironic when the tactics it uses to ratchet up the suspense actually reduces the very real tension that gets communicated in its first half."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Rather simplistic and reductive, but something tells me Oliver Stone didn't mind it turning out that way."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Doesn't represent much movement from where Smith had placed himself with Clerks II, which means what you felt about the previous should be about the same as what you'd feel about the latest."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Everything you'd expect it to be: a well-acted British period piece with lavish attention to period detail, about discontented characters in a royal family. And that's about it."
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A version of The Matrix that didn't bother to construct a thoughtful mythology for its universe, and a version of Shoot 'Em Up that plays it too straight."
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The creakiness of the plot mechanics and the light condescension I detect don't have me looking forward to the third Narnia movie."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It isn't enough for director and writer Fatih Akin to show that we're all only a few degrees from each other across countries; rather, he's also interested in the level of connectedness."
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8/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Arnaud Desplechin's headfirst dive into the complex relationships within a middle class French family is a messy, captivating, and very much living affair."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Anytime one of these [stop-motion animated films] turns up, and turns up well, we should show gratitude for the treasure."
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3/10 |
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(2008) |
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"It's one joke, already predictable, and it gets old fast."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Gets by with a solid traditional mounting and a healthy interest in the dynamics of a growing micro-community."
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