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"Straddling one those tiresome lines between caricature and inventiveness, Esqueleto is easily the movie's most engaging presence."
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(1994) |
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"The most compelling point here has to do with Lowensohn: She's sulky and sad, but her precision is also remarkably vibrant against her shades-of-grey backdrop."
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"Rendered in visual impressions rather than plotty assertions, these complex relationships are affecting and unforgettable."
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"Nancy's not nearly different enough from other movie girls. And that makes her look more old than fresh."
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"Even as history changes to accommodate current needs and frameworks, it's crucial to remember those who lived it."
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"Where's Mary Poppins when you need her?"
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(2007) |
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"Sadly, The Nanny Diaries' focus on beleaguered women doesn't lead to any sense of "freedom.""
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"If some of the movie's effects are distractingly shoddy (see: the unconvincing dancing donkey), Thompson is rather divine.
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Action-packed treasure hunt offers few surprises."
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(2007) |
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"It's never a good sign when you can figure out a movie's secret plot before the characters involved."
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(2006) |
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"When word of Catherine Hardwicke's attachment to The Nativity Story first surfaced, the possibilities swirled. What if the film reimagined the about-14-year-old Mary as a recognizable teenager?"
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(2008) |
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"Amid all this conventional-plotty mishmash, it's not a newsflash that the role of Jean, the tireless, morally upright and vaguely spiritual mentor, is especially grating."
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(2004) |
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"King's funeral opens Never Die Alone, but his throbbing self-consciousness drives it."
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(2002) |
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"It's not quite so pathetically unplotted or even so offensive as, oh, Freddy Got Fingered. Instead, it's merely monotonous."
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(2005) |
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"Poetic rendering of John Smith and Pocahontas myth."
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(2005) |
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"The New World is more mundane than Malick's previous films, in part because the myth it takes on remains disturbingly intact.
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(2004) |
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"The sheer oddness of this moment cannot be overstated, as the Olsens are exemplary narrow-bottomed white girls."
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(2007) |
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"The film doesn't try to explain or rationalize its essential trick, but drops you rather perfunctorily into Cris' multiple dilemmas."
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(1999) |
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(1997) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2007) |
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""Where's the path to the future? I don't see it." A tracking shot of two boys running along the sidewalk freezes on one, caught between now and a future that remains unknowable."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Stiller dodges CGI creations in cute adventure."
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(2006) |
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"It's repetitive and strangely invested in its silly explanation of how the animated creatures phenomenon comes about (something about an Egyptian pharaoh's tablet)."
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(1998) |
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"The Butabis (Will Ferrell as gangly Steve and Chris Kattan as weasely Doug) are especially dismal to watch for 80-something minutes, more like Pat than Wayne and Garth."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Complex mystery/thriller is best for adults."
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(2006) |
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"Tapping into recent public outrages over writers who lie, The Night Listener's indictments are drearily unsubtle."
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(2008) |
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"In brief scenes, lovely or tense, mostly unresolved, Nights and Weekends indicates a slow, almost imperceptible evolution in the relationship."
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(2008) |
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"Racist fantasy is never a good start for a children's film, or any film, for that matter."
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(1995) |
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(2002) |
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(1999) |
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(1995) |
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"It's grand-scale moviemaking, but eventually its scope and polish are less compelling than its messiness and incompleteness."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2007) |
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"Coens' violent film is brutal, thought-provoking."
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(2007) |
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"The film leaves you to figure whether such perception is real, Anton is random, or Carla Jean sees something about the "country" the men cannot."
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(2007) |
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"You know the Iraq war is going badly. What you may not know is how it also started badly."
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(1998) |
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(2007) |
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"The movie assumes Kate, so powerful, self-confident, and driven, must be "softened.""
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Awkward casting, dubbing mar violent Kazakh tale."
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1/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Another fat suit for Murphy, another bad movie."
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(2007) |
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"Stealing from Date Movie: now that is pathetic."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Excellent and stirring, but for mature audiences only."
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(2005) |
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"As much as the movie means well, it doesn't trust viewers to keep up."
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(2003) |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Russell Mulcahy and other artists look back fondly on Australian exploitation films for Not Quite Hollywood, sometimes wondering just how they were able to get away with it."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Dark tale of betrayal and fixation isn't for kids."
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(2006) |
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"As much as Barbara judges, however, you may find yourself in a quandary, not judging so much as taking pleasure in her vile, brilliant perfection."
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