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6/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Since the movie does its job well in playing out its formulas, it becomes an effective endorphin rush at the time."
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7/10 |
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(2003) |
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"I like what it's trying to do -- use a ghost story surface to tell a tale of guilt, blame, and madness -- but was disappointed in the conventional tactics it used."
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8/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Talk to Her is excellent movie-making and much of it is wondrous, but my conscience won't allow me to be devoted to unconditionally singing its praises."
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"This Will Ferrell vehicle ... is essentially chucking javelins at good ol' American redneckery."
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2/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Created with the effort it would take to cut three pages out of a magazine and stapling them together to form your own magazine."
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Another needless Disney sequel, but it also happens to be animated pretty decently."
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6/10 |
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(2004) |
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"I love Latifah, who almost does the job here, and that's probably the highest compliment I can pay Taxi."
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9/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A comprehensive movie, an everything-you-wanted-to-know-but-were-afraid-to-ask film, engaging, paced well, informative, and professionally polished."
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"What works best involves scenes in which the visuals and humor are allowed to stick their heads out of the cage of convention."
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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"I haven't laughed myself to tears in a while, but this movie made it happen... doesn't quite hold itself together all the way through, otherwise it might've been a slam dunk."
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Spielberg seems to be letting the audience know that he's not trying to be terribly serious this time, so just sit back and enjoy the show."
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4/10 |
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(2003) |
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"They made a clone, but left behind the soul -- T3 is T2 without the heart, spirit, and humanity."
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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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(2003) |
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"The new movie isn't bad -- not bad at all -- it's just not very Texas Chainsaw Massacre-ish."
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"[Tends] to overstate itself -- both in its concerns and its humor. Eckhart, though, consistently brings the movie to the viewer's level."
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Its elements are actually quite typical of a syndicated cartoon series, aimed mostly at the young'uns and contributing pretty much nothing to the Star Wars mythos."
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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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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Good work for the sake of good work -- it delivers something I'll readily admit is enjoyable, but not easily embraceable."
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10/10 |
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(2007) |
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"No lesson needs to be learned here, but observations can and should be noted because we're so rarely fed such coldly realistic characters."
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6/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Can be admired for the truths it manages to expose, but it can't shake off the cheap feel of its horror movie tactics."
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6/10 |
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(2002) |
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"As [the characters] get more depressed, the story gets more tiresome, especially as it continues to mount a conspicuous effort to be profound."
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8/10 |
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(2006) |
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"A handy summary piece for many of the complaints about the MPAA over the years."
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9/10 |
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(2006) |
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"[Hou's] work gains significance due to his specifically tying this theme of love to Taiwan in particular, as opposed to just proposing a general essay on love."
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10/10 |
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(2005) |
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"A rebuke to the current 3-D computer animated takeover of the field, and what a beautiful rebuke it is.
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4/10 |
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(2002) |
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"This new movie is an eye-candy spectacular but it's seriously lacking in the meaning department."
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7/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Although it may not win points for total originality, TMNT makes good use of proven techniques."
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8/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Journey of a gifted character ... may work so well that you might not mind its gloriously sappy finale. I'll admit it -- I was tearing up at the end."
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7/10 |
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(2004) |
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"A sweet little melodrama of deep, personal wounds being treated by dashes of holiday miracles, and it's enough to bring a smile to one's face."
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6/10 |
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(2001) |
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"English-language Mexican-family version of Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman doesn't duplicate the subtleties of the original."
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Illustrates the inherent human instinct to self-preserve."
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9/10 |
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(2000) |
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"Hits home because of what it is portraying ... the drug war feels ultimately futile, but its victims and consequences can not be ignored."
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9/10 |
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(2001) |
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"Larger than life ... a classic tale of good vs. evil."
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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"TransAmerica is a road movie with a transexual twist, but it pretty much leaves it at that."
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4/10 |
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(2007) |
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"Bay's direction ultimately bothered me less than the messy screenplay. As an old-school fan, I was quite disappointed though not necessarily offended."
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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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8/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Tackles action with the enthusiastic glee of boys who like to dream up impossible scenarios and commit them to film."
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6/10 |
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(2005) |
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"Things are a little bit too much this time, though -- to say all elements are exaggerated would be a gross understatement."
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6/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Although Disney follows its standard formula in this animated adventure, it feels more forced than usual."
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9/10 |
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(2003) |
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"Feels like a cross between '60's Disney cartoon movies and Yellow Submarine. No, even that description is too simplistic."
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7/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Turns into a lampoon of the filmmaking process, which has its share of highly funny moments but otherwise feels like territory well-tread."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Stiller's parody of Hollywood opportunism and insecurities is fairly lacerating, but perhaps could've been more so had not the whole thing been played so broadly."
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8/10 |
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(2005) |
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"The division of the two halves is pronounced and disruptive ... but the filmmaking is assured and focused, reaching for abstraction and poetry."
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8/10 |
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(2004) |
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"Blustery acting, big battle sequences, and lots of 'sweeping epic' shots, and there you have it -- Troy, a mainstream film depiction of The Iliad, at last."
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5/10 |
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(2002) |
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"Boring and meandering."
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6/10 |
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(2006) |
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"Our protagonist may want to give the appearance of being heartless, but the script is stacked against him."
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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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