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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"In the ambitious and cluttered Cadillac records, Leonard Chess redistributes income among his artists, but the point is not lost on any of them that he decides who plays when and even how to play."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"California Dreamin' mostly observes a series of complicated personal interactions, its point helped along by Doiaru's speeches concerning the ongoing American failure even to try to comprehend the populations it invades, assimilates, abuses, and buys off."
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(2006) |
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"In this brief, brutal moment of Candy's voice, the film is almost something new. But she exists, at last, beyond Dan and beyond Candy."
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(1992) |
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"The enduring resonance of Candyman, adapted and directed by Bernard Rose, has to do with its respect for and investment in specific and real events."
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"The film distrusts viewers to keep up with a story that, even it is isn't well-known beyond salsa and Latino communities, can speak for itself."
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Fascinating biography, but for adults only."
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(2005) |
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"Capote's sympathy for his subjects is always tempered by his ambition."
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(2001) |
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"Frivolous and utterly forgettable."
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Dreary, clichéd "torture porn." Yuck."
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(2003) |
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"Much like the promotional website, the film is all about pictures that seem simultaneously candid and posed, nostalgic and harsh."
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(2004) |
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"Carandiru's particular, polished design is less compelling than the raw, visceral rage of Pixote."
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(1995) |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Pixar comedy is full of four-wheeled fun."
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(2006) |
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"As much as the movie makes such imagery oddly fresh again in the ever-strange form of animation (look how sharp that butte looks!) it is also, inevitably, archaic."
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(2003) |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Legendary lover cleans up for happily committed coupledom."
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(1995) |
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"Scorsese and company do what they do very well -- they've got it down. It's a system unto itself."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Strong new Bond in a darker re-imagining."
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(2006) |
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"The new Bond understands loss, but focuses on revenge instead of grief. He's a hard body in a hard new world."
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(2006) |
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"While this "political thriller" features plenty of action and reaction, it also leads to a kind of transcendent and yet also immediate, very earthly peace, as Derek Luke and Patrick Chamusso share the screen under the closing credits."
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(2007) |
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"That this movie doesn't find a way out of the morass of cliché and triviality isn't surprising, but it is disappointing."
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(2002) |
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"Catch Me If You Can is rife with mythic and metaphorical dad anxieties."
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(2004) |
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(2000) |
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(2001) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2004) |
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"Silly but not-nearly-campy-enough."
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(1996) |
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(1997) |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Hectic slasher movie about monsters. Too scary for little ones."
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(2005) |
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"Constrained and unreadable, the space turns invaders into opportunistic killers (or maybe just rearrangers, a next step in body snatching).
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(2001) |
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"Despite and sometimes because of its unevenness, the film conveys the delusions of daily existence with fierce poetry."
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(2000) |
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(2000) |
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"It's infuriating and boring, predictable and incoherent, brutal and romantic."
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(2004) |
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"Cellular is so corny it's even behind its own time."
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(1996) |
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(2001) |
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"Never gets past its own investment in arty pretense."
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(1996) |
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(1996) |
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"A movie made with awards season in mind, "Changeling" offers extravagant affects and overwritten speeches."
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(2002) |
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"It is plainly less interested in particular characters (their trajectories are pretty corny, in the end) than the abstract concepts they embody."
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Mature, slow-moving Lennon assassination drama."
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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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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Bright, spirited, and edgy -- don't expect the old version of Willy Wonka."
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(2005) |
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"The kids and their parents are optimum consumers, always looking for the next product, greedy to get their hands and mouths on it."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Edgy high school comedy better for mature viewers."
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(2007) |
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"None of the participants can%u2014or will%u2014anticipate the al-Qaeda punchline, of course, but the film includes a coda to ensure you know where their chortling and short-sighted self-interests will lead."
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(2000) |
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"Clever and cheerily ironic -- and it is surprisingly pleasant."
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(2003) |
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"Why do these super-skilled, super-self-sufficient girls work for this wealthy, arrogant, profoundly unhelpful guy? For the team."
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