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C+ |
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(2006) |
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"Where For Your Consideration fails the most is in its rather juvenile interpretation of how the entire awards season functions...there was a great film to be made here."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"[Stallone] is channeling all the animal and primal method instincts of the late Marlon Brando, and it’s exciting to behold the aging actor rediscovering the innate power of his acting prowess."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A+ |
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(2006) |
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"It's the culmination of a lifelong examination of men and their violent ways...The Departed is, in my estimation, possibly the finest film Scorsese has ever made."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Capote is a taut, elegant work of cinematic expression...a major work."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D+ |
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(2006) |
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"Steve Martin...isn't quite up to the task...Shawn Levy...lacks the ability to reign in the broadness of the material, and the film suffers because of it."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"...an astonishingly unnerving piece of humanist cinema."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"...Roth has crafted a supremely political film, one that lambasts the jocular xenophobia of the typical American..."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B |
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"The Land of College Prophets could easily become the first genuine cult hit of the DV era.
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[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"Brokeback Mountain is a grand, romantic, staggeringly great epic...the best film of the year."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Walk the Line is a powerful piece of work, a modern-day Rebel Without a Cause...a potent bit of filmmaking"
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Though bits of this plodding film work pretty well...Broken Flowers is a mixed bag of vignettes."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"For my money, Doom is the best of the video game adaptations (quite possibly the weakest status label I've ever given a film)."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Once Red Eye leaves the confines of the plane cabin and attempts to open up into a more standard thriller, it loses steam...and intrigue"
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"[a]haunting masterpiece...He [Weerasethakul] is one of the most expressive, important contemporary; his abilities as a master formalist are a large reason for this."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A- |
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(2001) |
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"Perhaps the best movie musical of the past decade"
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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B |
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(2002) |
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"This sturdy update of the classic musical, features solid vocal performances from the leads"
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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B+ |
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(1972) |
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"Liza Minnelli is revelatory as cabaret dancer Sally Bowles."
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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B+ |
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(1992) |
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"A brilliantly acted, tautly directed incarnation of David Mamet’s explosive office-politic treatise."
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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A |
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(1951) |
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"Probably the best-realized translation of Tennessee Williams we’ve seen on screen...a gold standard"
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"...the whole thing creeps toward the end under the weight of an overbearing narrative."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D+ |
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(2005) |
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"Cursed, somehow, manages to not be scary, not be funny and not be involving, all of which Craven & Co. are so painfully reaching to attain."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"This new adaptation is sorely lacking in nearly everything that made FF such a blast. It's poorly acted, written and directed."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Land of the Dead is probably the best-directed film in Romero's canon. It is a stunningly crafted genre work, a film of potent political import."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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C- |
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(2005) |
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"Salles' Dark Water abandoned what was an intriguing dramatic narrative and wasted it on what seemed like four climaxes, none of them in service of what came before."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Actually, the latest entry in the Hellraiser saga...is a vast improvement over the last hundred or so...A solid, if underwhelming, genre effort."
[dvd review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Jack and Rose bears a haunting economy of style that appears as near-minimalist...Miller realizes her own screenplay with a stunning lack of self-consciousness."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"Haute Tension is the epitome of manufactured terror...succeeds greatly in its first two-thirds, but the contrived, implausible climax leaves much to be desired."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"It's essentially a retread of the Spy Kids films...I'd love to see [Rodriguez] invest the...passion he displayed in Sin City into one of these children's films."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2006) |
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"Murder-Set-Pieces is a truly pure cinematic expression of violent sexual rage...perhaps the greatest serial killer film ever made"
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A+ |
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(2005) |
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"Revenge of the Sith is [Lucas'] great Star Wars swan song. It is, and will likely remain, the best film of the year... a true masterpiece.
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[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B |
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(2005) |
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"This update, muscular and surprising, captures Carpenter's spirit, if not his pared-down, Hawksian formalism."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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F |
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(2005) |
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"It's tepid cinema, truncated, abbreviated...The worst film of the year.
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[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"Unleashed...is...a rich cinematic experience...A brutal, yet thoughtful, action picture."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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F |
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(2005) |
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"House of Wax is no mere failed attempt on cashing in on a recognizable name...it's...the complete and utter bastardization of a great genre work"
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"Ridley Scott has concocted his most sloppy film to date, a cringe-worthy epic of the Crusades that says absolutely nothing about the Crusades."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A+ |
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(1976) |
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"This will surely be the DVD release of the year. Criterion has finally brought to DVD a wonderful transfer of Orson Welles' most playfully masterful film..."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Equal parts Chuck Jones, Buster Keaton, Bubsy Berkeley and Bruce Lee, Kung Fu Hustle tows every line perfectly."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D |
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(2005) |
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"mannered, forced and inconsistent...uninspired...a narrative and thematic mess, thrown together, lacking any authorial focus."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Sin City marks a substantial leap forward in Rodriguez's film craft...[Rodriguez's vision is] fiercely committed."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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(2005) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"Perhaps the warmest surprise of the year so far is Andy Tennant's smart, big-hearted romantic comedy"
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D- |
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(2005) |
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"The [Elmore Leonard] streak ends with F. Gary Gray's insufferable Be Cool, a pointless exercise in genre mish-mash"
[laserdisc review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Constantine is...kinky, funny and fresh...a true Gothic action spectacular..."
[foreign language] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"...suffers from Alexander Payne's recurring broad brushstrokes...reductive, anti-intellectual..."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D |
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(2004) |
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"...a sloppy, near-disaster of a picture, in which confusion and tedium are present in nearly every frame."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"...has absolutely no cinematic spark or vision for framing the implications of what Dr. Kinsey accomplished."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A |
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(2004) |
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"Closer is Mike Nichols' finest film since Carnal Knowledge...a masterpiece."
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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(1996) |
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Click here to see the review!
[movie review] |
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TheFilmJournal.com (Ohio) |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"Bad Santa never compromises its singularly offensive–though refreshing–vision, and that’s something to celebrate."
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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B |
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(1994) |
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"Leary, along with Judy Davis and Kevin Spacey, is at the top of his game in this bitterly funny black comedy."
[movie review] |
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Columbus CityScene |
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