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8/10 |
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"The movie's strength isn't in the impact of what it reveals; it's in putting the starting points for all this polemic in one accessible place, now presented to a wide audience"
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Features a nice ensemble in a story about family prejudice dynamics."
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4/10 |
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(2005) |
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"The most endearing terms I might come up with for this film are 'dorky' and 'cute,' but 'cute' is never what a superhero movie aspires to be."
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"This sequel is out, overall succumbing to the weaknesses of the first movie, which, once again, relegates it to sitting at the kids' table at the gathering of comic book movies."
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10/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Made with a lot of love -- love for Sirk, love for detail, and love for the power of the movies."
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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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(2001) |
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"The film can be regarded from two angles: from the street-racing perspective and the plot perspective. Guess which one matters more? ... The real meat of the movie is in the racing scenes."
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5/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Lin had the opportunity to create a vision of [Tokyo] that feels updated, hip, and relevant. He may have only half-succeeded here.
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Not the most naturally flowing film, but it does get its point across."
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Plays out as a constant tug-of-war between what makes it trite and what makes it unique, although what makes it unique has the better chance of sticking with you."
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"A martial arts version of a comic book superhero movie."
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7/10 |
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(2005) |
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"[The] battle scenes, during which all normal physics go straight out the window, are exhilarating in a disorienting thrill-ride way."
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6/10 |
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(2001) |
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"As a technical achievement [the characters] are astounding. It's too bad they weren't put into a plot that felt less hackneyed."
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10/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Those Pixar strengths -- story, humor, characters, and art ... shine through, more dependable than rising of the ocean tides."
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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"The movie is able to sail through familiar waters rather than sink under the weight of clichés."
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4/10 |
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(2006) |
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"The kind of movie that wears its cliches like bright flowers on a Hawaiian shirt."
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Although the intentions of the movie are noble and the tale is worth telling, I'm afraid the reverence with which Eastwood relates his story threatens to choke it."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"While Hou's cinematic techniques are as sound as ever, this time it feels as if they're being used to peer into nothing of particular, specific significance."
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6/10 |
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(2006) |
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"There's much that's enjoyable about this computer-animated movie, but in the end it feels a bit generic."
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10/10 |
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(2003) |
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"The images and music combine with McNamara's voice and expressions to create a tapestry of a life lived toughly through a world that has looked over the edge at hell itself."
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5/10 |
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(2006) |
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"[Not] on the level of the fine work Guest and his talented ensemble have delivered in the past."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"[Chan and Li] punch, kick, jump, and fall all over in an extended sequence that never feels too long."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"For a film that's been lauded for its daring display of full-frontal male nudity, I got the nagging feeling that it actually played things pretty safe."
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"The tastiest fruit [Aronofsky's] talent has come to bear may be mainly an eye-stimulating array of pretty pictures."
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6/10 |
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(2007) |
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"A light psychological thriller that works better on a technical level than a thematic or character-centric one."
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4/10 |
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(2002) |
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"[God] ought to sue Bill Paxton for defamation of character."
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2/10 |
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(2003) |
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"I'll bet my DVD collection that barely anyone's ire will be raised over the insensitivity shown to Asians in Freaky Friday. It deserves to be greeted with a fair degree of disgust."
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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"If you must make a movie combining two series at which most people would turn up their noses, make it right for the people who wouldn't ... I think they made it right."
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5/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Part cop drama, part race drama, part women-who-need-healing drama, all over the place."
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6/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Less worrying about covering all the drama in Frida's life and more time spent exploring her process of turning pain into art would have made this a superior movie."
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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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5/10 |
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(2001) |
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"Loaded with appealing gothic style and dread-laden atmosphere, but the story is incredibly dull."
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2/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Why assemble a movie that the majority of American Idol's audience would be embarrassed to go see?"
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Langella gives Nixon a chance at audience sympathy -- for everything you know and possibly hate about the man, you can see, through the performance, that third dimension."
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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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4/10 |
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(2002) |
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"It's too self-aware of its own irony. It makes sure the audience knows this and tries to be cute about the whole thing at the expense of its own characters, inviting us to laugh at them."
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5/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Arbus was surely a complex personality and should have been given credit for it. Here, she's practically presented as a cipher."
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8/10 |
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(2007) |
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"The movie employs all of the hallmarks that has made the show such a cult favorite. Amidst this, the movie retains its keenness of observation and sense of the profound."
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