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"Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love."
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"Speed is a driver but he's so much more, embodying the opposite of the film's anti-corporate argument. He's the Matrix victorious."
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"In David Mamet's universe, the fight is always the issue."
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"If she lived in another movie, you'd almost feel sorry for Hannah (Michelle Monaghan). But she's trapped in the execrable Made of Honor, which insists that she behave nearly as inanely as her two suitors."
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"Errol Morris' smart new documentary remembers the Abu Ghraib pictures' effects -- the shock, the outrage, and the anger that greeted their release."
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"For all Tony's new understanding of "peace," the fact that Iron Man is in fact a weapon allows the film to do what summer movies must do: clanking and bashing, zooming, shooting, and exploding."
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"Spurlock goes home in time for his son's birth, but if there's an end of violence and distrust possible in the Middle East, it is not yet visible."
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"CJ7 acknowledges the clichés, sometimes embracing and sometimes satirizing the conventional depictions of kids and adults in family films."
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"While the scene announces the film's intensive focus on water -- a sign of transition, loss and rebirth -- it is also a sign of its stylized poetry, sometimes lovely, sometimes precious."
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(2008) |
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"Diana pays for her bad choices perpetually, in large part through her self-comparisons to M, whose piety she alternately teases and reveres."
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(2008) |
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"Less sensuous than the pie à la mode, more nuanced than the doors opening and closing, cutting the cards might not change any odds, but it does offer an illusion of choice."
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(2008) |
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"Even with the race dynamics not very scrambled, David Ayer's latest film looks a lot like Training Day."
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(2008) |
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"Will Lawrence, at long last, be nice to someone who needs it? "I do have hope for myself," he declares. Good for him."
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(2008) |
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"Their "specialness" is the hook by which the film extols their representativeness."
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(2008) |
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"The movie is grounded in a fundamental difficulty, that Walter's education is achieved by his engagement with this set of brown and black people."
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(2008) |
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"Detective Russo is bored with the story John tells her as soon as she hears it. And so, you feel instantly aligned with her, again, long steps ahead of all the shenanigans."
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(2008) |
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"The boys' throwdown reveals nothing. Neither man comprehends the lunacy of the plot, however, leaving that tiresome deciphering to you."
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(2008) |
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"The formula dictates that Sarah and Rachel are props along the road to Peter's discovery of "true love.""
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(2008) |
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"Jason's relationship with Golden Sparrow stays pretty locked in first gear, such that the movie might attend to kung fu%u2014sort of."
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(2007) |
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"Pashu straddles a particular and complicated divide in Without the King, Michael Skolnik's intriguing documentary about the last kingdom in Africa."
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(2008) |
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"A simultaneously broad-brush and acute critique of U.S. policy regarding detainees gives way almost immediately to the escape, inadvertent and slapdash as everything is in the (apparent) franchise."
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(2008) |
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"If he's not precisely magical, Oscar the doorman does function as wise advisor for white women who should know better."
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(2008) |
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"Buddy Guy makes his guest appearance his own, and for an all too brief couple of minutes, carries the movie off to some other dimension."
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(2008) |
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"Specialist Crystal Davis' story reflects many stories, her life changed forever, her efforts to meet all kinds of unanticipated challenges."
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(2008) |
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""You go to a parade, you got to a demo," says Bobby Muller, "Standard routine: you put the gimps on the front. You gotta have the visual.""
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(2008) |
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"The tourists' fears have infected their very beings, and their decisions are increasingly ineffective precisely because they are based on fear and ignorance."
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(2008) |
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"Racist fantasy is never a good start for a children's film, or any film, for that matter."
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(2008) |
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"Pleasant and clever, Leatherheads is not built for surprises."
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(2007) |
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"Though none of the boys, now young men, talks about it, they all bear burdens of rejection and rage."
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(2008) |
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"As Ben must learn a lesson, the movie must demonize Micky, whose slick meanness becomes increasingly visible."
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(2008) |
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"In Rico especially, and in Brandon's confrontations with his own delusions, the movie focuses on the unhealthy rituals of manhood and male community encouraged by the military"
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(2008) |
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""I hate the movies. They're phony, so goddamned phony." Poor Mark David Chapman: no matter how many times he rejects the world of celebrity and phoniness, he's dragged back inside."
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(2008) |
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"Music -- as a general concept and in the daily details of rock camp -- occasions this ideal state, connected and creative."
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(2008) |
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"t probably goes without saying that the self-involved, privileged Sydney would pay scant attention to the violence and poverty that make up life in Ana's pueblo."
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(2008) |
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"Even if you take the film's moral lesson at face value, the overkill is discouraging, and not very instructive."
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"In this allegory, you understand, times change and troubles stay the same."
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(2008) |
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"It's hard not to think of the many other protestors, detainees, and U.S. citizens whose rights are being stifled as we speak."
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(2008) |
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"As it articulates the families' trauma and distress, the film also shows the layers of context that have produced their frustrations."
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(2008) |
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"Though Kevin shows early signs of bucking formula, he is, in fact, the precise embodiment of same."
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(2008) |
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"Richard's version is exceptionally insidious, which makes Married Life at once fascinating and unsurprising."
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(2008) |
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"However you parse the character's evolution, Rambo the film shows a peculiar understanding of changes in the industry."
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"For all its popularity, self-documentation's purpose and meaning remain elusive."
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(2007) |
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"Perhaps the band members have seen the movies she so loves, and in her eyes, imagine themselves as next generational approximations of Omar Sharif."
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(2008) |
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"The film establishes a complex, compressed moral universe, in which choices are severely limited."
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(2008) |
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"But for all the showy action and spurty blood, it's the evolving intimacy between Ken and Ray that is most compelling in In Bruges."
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(2008) |
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"The movie assumes you know all this already and shows it to you anyway."
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(2008) |
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"All this said, there's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery."
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(2008) |
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"The process of Sweding soon becomes a community project, another glance back and ahead at the same time."
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(2008) |
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"It's not a little obvious that the Step Up franchise means to keep a Disneyfied hand in the apparently inexorable dance movie cycle."
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(2008) |
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"Fool's Gold is pretty much bereft of bright spots."
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