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"For all his plain-speaking, down-homey affect, Harry Connick, Jr. remains something of a mystery."
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"How is it that Elvis has become the go-to sign of boys' obsessions?"
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"As new kids movie star Ice Cube takes over Vin Diesel's XXX role, the once promising star of the Riddick franchise here descends into a horrific holding pattern."
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"Well-acted period drama is lush and haunting."
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"The Painted Veil uses its narrative limits to make its political case, that privilege breeds ignorance."
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4/5 |
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"Brilliant, poignant fairy tale isn't for kids."
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(2002) |
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"As beautiful and well used as all this space is, midway through the film, it starts to feel less foreboding than vacant, an occasion for Great Visuals, rather than a location where characters live and where anything might happen."
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(2004) |
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"It's all so very Princess Di."
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(2009) |
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"Paper Heart is increasingly focused on the tension between Cera and Yi's supposedly real romance and the camera's imposition of structure and self-consciousness."
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"Paradise Now underlines the absurd rituals of suicide missions, the ways that the perpetrators are induced into thinking that what they're doing is special."
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(2008) |
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"Poetic, disturbing story of lonely teen skater."
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(2008) |
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"The film closes with still more images of skaters, these reflected in wide-angly convex mirrors, beautiful and frightening and seductive."
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"The titular and sometimes distressing activity in Paranormal Activity serves as a mostly banal metaphor for the couples relationship."
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(1999) |
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(2004) |
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"This problem of truth -- how it might be defined, known, or told -- underlies most all of Mel Gibson's film."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Bloody actioner pits Vikings vs. Native Americans."
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(2007) |
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"Boasting a prettified brutality that rivals that of 300, Pathfinder also explores a similar theme, the manly pursuit of revenge at any cost."
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(2000) |
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"Watching this movie is like watching fireworks in some grandly appointed public place."
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(2000) |
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"Heavy-handed plot designing and telegraphing makes the film more tedious than rousing."
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(1996) |
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"A substantive, specific and occasionally rowdy commentary on U.S. culture."
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6/10 |
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"The home video sets up A Perfect Getaway's frank understanding of itself as formula."
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"Christmas fable is cute and tame, but unoriginal."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Lighthearted comedy that also deals with serious issues."
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(2005) |
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"Think about this: the film's premise is that Heather Locklear can't get a decent date."
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(2000) |
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"While it is obviously invested in heroicizing the swordfishermen, in the end, the film trivializes the vastness of their experience, by containing it in so many cliches."
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"Silly thriller has creepy mix of sex, violence."
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(2007) |
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"While it begins dully enough for an investigative thriller, Perfect Stranger quickly skids off into abject foolishness."
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"Grenouille's obsession is, in the end, much like that of the less ornately literary killers who precede him, producing desperately conventional spectacles of dead girls."
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(2007) |
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"At once traditional and forward-looking, gracious and intuitive, her grandmother provides the eternal child Marjane with a model of generosity and good sense amid the tumult of life."
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(1995) |
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"Roger Michell's movie captures [Jane Austen's] insight into social hypocrisies and elegant sense of irony, with precisely understated performances and a subtle, witty script."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Uneven Mo'Nique vehicle; not for kids."
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(2006) |
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"If Phat Girlz is about desire, for viewers even more than actors or characters, it is also about how that desire is constructed by images."
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(2002) |
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"The Pianist invites you to comprehend Szpilman's predicament -- or better, his thinking about it."
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Pineapple Express is mostly what you expect: bonding mechanics that are unsurprising and feebly unrebellious."
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(2001) |
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"For all the film's spectacle, its visual flash and approximation of street 'realism,' its most daring aspect is its willingness to represent Piņero as a vicious, frightened thug."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"This update to a comedy classic falls flat."
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