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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2009) |
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"Work is at the center of Frederick Wiseman's absorbing documentary, La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet."
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(1990) |
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(1990) |
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(2007) |
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"Angry, needy, and almost painfully lovely, Marion Cotillard's Edith Piaf fills all emotional space in La Vie En Rose."
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(2004) |
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"Sentimental and surprisingly uncomplicated, Ladder 49 seems a disservice to the very folks it wants to extol.
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(2000) |
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"Leon is just never very funny."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"More soggy than scary. Still, not for youngsters."
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(2006) |
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"Story's whiter-than-white skin, bloody cuts, color-shifting hair, and need to keep wet make her a bizarre amalgamation of fantasies, alternately "male" and "childish.""
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(2004) |
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"Pious, earnest, and broadly drawn, Marva is the first black character in a Coen brothers movie to occupy center stage. For a minute, anyway."
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(2009) |
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"It's only the start of Abu Laila's long, long day in Laila's Birthday (Eid milad Laila), and already, he's impatient."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Corny romance will bore kids."
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(2006) |
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"For all its impressionistic efforts, The Lake House doesn't imagine a time or space beyond romantic conventions. And you're left waiting.
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PopMatters |
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(2007) |
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"As the U.S. elections media coverage becomes incessant, it's worth keeping in mind that actual listening to other "sides" can be enlightening."
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(1999) |
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(2008) |
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(1998) |
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(2001) |
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(2003) |
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(2001) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Sex doll takes center stage in quirky comedy."
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(2007) |
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"The snowy, bleakish start of Lars and the Real Girl doesn't quite prepare you for the strained winsomeness and warmth that follow."
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(2001) |
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This tale of a Kurt Cobain-like rock star isn't for kids."
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Common Sense Media |
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(2005) |
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(2006) |
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"The film quite misses the point of casting LL Cool J as romantic object: he's only visible some 20 minutes total.
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Brutal look at the consequences of absolute power."
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(2006) |
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"As a metaphor, the fictional Nicholas makes clear the insidious means by which the West, and in particular, the Caucasian West, exploits and abuses its privilege."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Cheating, breaking up, making up. Adults only."
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Common Sense Media |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Mr. Darcy trades Austen for Excalibur. Only OK."
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Common Sense Media |
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(2007) |
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"Unlike E.T., Mimzy isn't wrinkly or strange or even very mobile, nothing that might frighten the All-American youngsters who discover her on a beach near Seattle."
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PopMatters |
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(2002) |
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"For the most part, Last Orders avoids tear-jerking and grand emotional revelations."
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(2001) |
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"A deft and moving study of displacement and self-discovery."
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(2003) |
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"This is no splendid saga of a people or a culture. It's a star vehicle, straight up."
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(2007) |
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"As such terror is harder and harder to articulate, the film is most effective when it abandons dialogue and leaves the camera to do its very spooky work."
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(1944) |
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(2009) |
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"Jamie Foxx's Nick mostly repeats the part played by Denzel Washington in Ricochet, the superior first incarnation of Law Abiding Citizen."
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(2004) |
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"Audrey learns that she must tolerate dishonesty of a devastating sort, because in this universe, Daniel's insanity prevails.
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(2005) |
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"If XXXX were not Daniel Craig, the film's clever plotting and imaging would overwhelm him."
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(2003) |
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"... muddled and blustery ..."
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(2008) |
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"Pleasant and clever, Leatherheads is not built for surprises."
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(1995) |
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"Playing an alcoholic is traditionally a route to critical acclaim, and Cage delivers beautifully."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2001) |
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"A Christian fundamentalist film styled as a grade-B sci-fi action thriller."
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(2001) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2003) |
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(1998) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(1999) |
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"Granted, it's not fair to bring a 21st-century sensibility to reading a historical situation, but this historical situation is considerably cleaned up, no matter how you look at it."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Loud sequel to the PG-13 rated Mask of Zorro."
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(2008) |
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"As Oskar and Eli gaze into the seeming mirrors of one another's faces, their mouths smeared with the victim's blood, their eyes soften and they look, at last, close, their fates entwined in ways they can't anticipate."
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(1998) |
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