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"Slow-moving, talky translation of popular novel."
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"Where's Ed Harris when you need him?"
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(2007) |
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"No Madea in Tyler Perry's latest melodrama."
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(2007) |
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"Jenny and Joe don't help to make a case for the "good men" and "strong women" they seem to oppose. They only drag everyone down."
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"The plot depends on Marie playing an excruciating, thankless role. It's not original, but it certainly is depressing."
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(1998) |
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"The downsides have to do with plot and stereotyping..."
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(1999) |
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(1998) |
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(1997) |
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(2003) |
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"It's a grim, familiar place to be in an action movie -- thrilling to abuse and carnage. That Daredevil makes you pay for it, even a little, is to its credit."
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(2007) |
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"If its explanation of Sudan's politics and history is rudimentary, Darfur Now maintains an effectively intense focus on the necessary work to save actual people in Darfur."
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(2007) |
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"Only on screen for a few moments, Anjelica Huston provides the most moving experience in this odd, self-indulgent film about oddness and self-indulgence."
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"By the time the inevitable comes to pass, the movie has devolved into conventional action-melodrama, complete with bad white cops' sacrifice, redemption, and just punishment."
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(1998) |
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"Such thin plotting is okay, because it's the city itself that makes this film work."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Batman's dilemma in The Dark Knight is how to use his bad press, whether he will embrace it or continue to fight it."
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3/5 |
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"This scary movie is too creepy for little kids."
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(2005) |
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"Almost worse than these competing illogics, the film offers what might be the embodiment of logic, a lawyer."
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(2003) |
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"Granted, logic is hardly a high priority element in slasher films, but Darkness Falls sets a new bar for lack of it."
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"Gross-out comedy that mocks romantic movies. A waste of time."
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"Alyson Hannigan deserves better. In fact, we all deserve better than DATE MOVIE, a slow-witted assembly of every date movie joke we've already seen."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Provocative documentary is for older teens and adults only."
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(2006) |
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" While Dave Chappelle's recent tv appearances have suggested the reasons for his departure from his tv series last year, this film brings back in energetic, funny, insightful full force, surrounded by people he likes and admires."
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(2004) |
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"Their efforts to survive make them human, but they can only confront more of the same, deadish or aliveish."
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(2004) |
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"Surely, there are smarter, more compelling ways to make this point than Jack's whole-hearted, robust embodiment of U.S. remythification.
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(2001) |
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"At once haunting and immediate."
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4/5 |
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"Suicide bomber drama doesn't offer easy answers."
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"Julia Loktev's movie never explains the suicide bomber or makes her strange in order to ease your own mind. Rather, it makes you nervous both for and about her."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Sobering look at WWII from Algerian perspective."
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(2006) |
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"The finale, a veritable tableau of loss and frustration, is hardly surprising. The outrage, however, remains raw."
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(2004) |
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"The split Porters -- one watching the other acting out his life as a stage show -- provide an approximate mirror for the film's theory of his split self."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Murder victim links stories of women's survival."
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(2006) |
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"s she stands, so perversely resistant and so utterly naked, Ruth embodies the grief and torment of being a live girl."
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(2003) |
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"As bright and appealing as George is, and as wise as Rube seems, Roxy is the vibrant, dead-on center of Dead Like Me.
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(2003) |
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"The season closes with a stunning meditation on order, meaning, and cultural mayhem."
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(1995) |
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"It will make you think about its specific subject matter -- capital punishment -- in emotional, moral, social and political contexts, all intertwined and none reducible to right or wrong."
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(2009) |
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"Dead Snow knows exactly what it is... a horror film with Nazi zombies as stars."
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(2006) |
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"The movie does highlight the ways that news and commercial images shape public perception."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Vigilante justice turns ugly and painful. No kids."
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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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(2006) |
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"You might be wondering just when the heartwarming spirit of the season is going to come crashing down upon these boy-men."
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(1999) |
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(2001) |
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"It is most definitely a throwback film noir, but is also so acutely contemporary in its anxieties, that it's impossible to label as only that."
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