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"Melvin's story, different from Sweetback's, has to do with marketing that resistance, to make his movie matter."
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"Mature themes mark stories about communication."
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(2006) |
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"Babel suggests that violence forges its own kind of language, a means to forge closeness across distances of experience, location, and time."
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"Comes up with images that are consistently involving, provocative, and instructive."
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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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"The fact that Aurora incarnates some extreme other possibility -- be it "light" or darkness, miraculous birth or genocide -- makes her one more "mother of the future.""
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(2002) |
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"The movie slides quickly down its slippery illogical slope."
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(2004) |
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"Almodóvar's movies always provide some sort of education."
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2/5 |
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"Scatological remake of a not-so-innocent movie."
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(2005) |
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"Buttermaker is ornery but strangely resigned, smart enough to know he's settled for a crap life, but too exhausted to do much about it."
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(2008) |
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"Baghead is a mumblecoreish meditation on the increasingly permeable boundaries between movies and life."
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(2000) |
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"Generally, Bait does all right as an intelligent action-comedy."
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(2005) |
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"McDonald is wholly convincing as the frightened but also enticed boy, and for the few minutes he's in focus, the film seems poised to take flight."
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(2002) |
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"Slow in a strange way -- without energy, without imagination, without urgency."
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(2000) |
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"The story that Bamboozled tells could hardly be more urgent or timely."
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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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(2001) |
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"Terry and Joe know what they are, generic buddies in a generic buddy film."
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6/10 |
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"Knowing that you know the drill, Bandslam leaves out most too-explanatory details, and lets the kids be kidlike rather than movie-kidlike."
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Caper movie mixes clichés, brutal violence."
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(2008) |
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"Per formula, Terry's bad behavior is offset by the worse behavior of his assorted opponents."
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(2006) |
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"Very graphic sequel. Brain cells could be lost."
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(2006) |
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"She's the Freddy Krueger of this two-film franchise. The fact that a middle-aged woman serves this function, and that the money shot is not some hideous-prosthetic-face reveal but a look at Stone's flawless breasts in a Jacuzzi, makes a tired point: in 20"
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Smart and entertaining, but also very violent."
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(2007) |
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"Unable or unwilling to acknowledge or comprehend this trauma, the U.S. command structure is indicted no matter what it says."
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(2000) |
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"It’s hard to say which is the most embarrassing moment in John Travolta’s longtime dream movie of L. Ron Hubbard’s 1982 novel."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2005) |
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"For all the smug insiderness that makes Chili's world go round, it is the Rock who distracts from the formula most effectively."
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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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"In The Beaches of Agnès, the "game" of cinema is endlessly fascinating, as what was and what can be come together on screen."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Provocative drama -- mature teens and adults only."
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(2005) |
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"The film shows Binh's experience in lyrical, subtle, often extraordinary imagery."
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(2001) |
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"A heady, if somewhat harsh and narrowly focused, deconstruction of all those popular boy movies that have their cake and eat it too."
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Keaton and Moore can't save bland, cliched romcom."
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1/10 |
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(2007) |
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"In lieu of plot, it’s cluttered with bad driving scenes, dog reaction shots, falling-splat-with-cakes scenes, and watching old movies scenes."
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(2007) |
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"The film's romantic conventions are not nearly so bright or inspiring as what Austen became, in her own words."
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(2007) |
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"As its potential trans-species romance can never be consummated, the movie turns instead into a peculiarly balanced relationship comprised of financial and legal accord."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Spelling bees and family drama intertwine. Not meant for kids."
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(2005) |
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"Words are mystical, magical, and wholly material in Bee Season."
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