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"Aliens invade earth in this sci-fi thriller; too scary for younger kids."
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"Dan's take on history%u2014as concept and series of events%u2014has as much to do with his personal past as any ideological leanings."
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"Seagal has too much screen time and when he's on it, he takes up too much space."
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"The showdown is grueling, long, with too many climaxes and improbable events, but Laurie's up for it. And that's what you love about her. She does not quit. She's bound and determined to decapitate his ass."
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"[Hawke's] very lack of polish and overt skills make him a particular kind of tragic hero, that is, not heroic or even very compelling."
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"Dana's inability to parse the difference between acting and living is put to several tests in Hamlet 2, which is not only the name of his movie but also the title of the audacious play he writes for his students to perform."
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"John Hancock is a black superhero desired and derided by crowds who are informed by spectacles, stereotypes, and fear."
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(2000) |
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"The worst kind of Oprah episode with a big studio budget."
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(2001) |
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"Lecter is like an upscale Freddy Krueger, the monster turned into celebrity, romantic icon, and merchandise."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Bloody prequel traces serial killer's origins."
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(2007) |
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""Memory is a knife," warns Murasaki, who lost family in Hiroshima. "It can hurt you." You can only hope the image of the doglike Hannibal, ripping at a victim's cheeks, fades soon."
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(2007) |
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"The wizard appears for two minutes at film's start before he smartly abandons the movie. You'll wish you had the good sense to walk out with him."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Extremely mature comedy about relationships -- not for kids."
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(2005) |
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"Happy Endings begins with what seems quite an unhappy ending, when Mamie (Lisa Kudrow) is hit by a car."
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(2001) |
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"The fact that Conor is white means nothing, of course, except that he's one in a long line of white characters who become 'better people' because they meet adorable, courageous, noble, and/or doomed minority characters."
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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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(2004) |
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"Repeatedly, as per road-movie formula, Harold and Kumar come to expect sex and/or druggy delirium, only to be disappointed."
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(2002) |
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"The outcome for Sarah and Harrison starts to feel slightly irrelevant, compared to the awfulness they observe and endure."
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"In fact, Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets is darker than Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, slightly, especially in its sideways engaging of race prejudice."
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Excellent, but the PG-13 is accurate."
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(2005) |
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"Of the several strange and thrilling sights in Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, a noseless Ralph Fiennes may be the strangest and most thrilling."
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"Order of the Phoenix, for all its shortcomings, does make clear the sense of loss and struggle that comes with maturity."
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"The boys look considerably less interesting whenever Hermione's on screen, she being, again, the creature most in-between."
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3/5 |
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"Complex, mature story of a Gulf War vet in crisis."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Gory monster/slasher spoof is drenched in blood."
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2/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In the poorly paced and ineptly edited Haunting in Connecticut, Matt is surrounded by dark shadows, ooky male choruses, and reflections of tortured corpses in dirty glass."
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(2004) |
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"It's hardly ever a good idea to remake a beloved movie."
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(1998) |
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"The most effective moments are small, when Lee lets his fine actors do their work without all the (movie) business."
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6/10 |
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"He's Just Not That Into You is a standard chick flick, which isn't necessarily a bad thing: it's cute and comic and organized according to fixed, mostly ancient gender roles."
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(2004) |
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"By rights, Gilda Bessé (Charlize Theron) should be languishing in a grand 1940s melodrama."
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(2001) |
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"Beware films packing the one-two punch of Freddie Prinze, Jr. as romantic lead and supermodels as objects of toilet humor."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Excellent high school sports documentary."
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(2007) |
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"The "illegal alien" gag is a lazy joke, contingent on ridiculing otherness in the most insipid ways. Bitches, Mexicans, they all be crazy."
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(2001) |
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"Goony and pleasurable, and often very funny."
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(1995) |
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(2002) |
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(1943) |
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(2001) |
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"While Hedwig occasionally lapses into a kind of pop sappiness, it's also upfront about all that, declaring its faith in the mythology of love, its capacity to 'create something that wasn't there before.'"
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(1995) |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Adapted play is too urbane and uncompelling."
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