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"The S.W.A.T. teamers exemplify what seems a set of ideal contradictions -- militaristic but individualistic, cartoonish but sort of relevant, elite but regular, dangerous but sensitive."
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(1995) |
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"Ormand and Ford, who are actually okay, have the impossible tasks of following Wilder's perfect players, Audrey Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart."
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"Chester's productions -- "Abolition Blues," "San Francisco Quake of '06" -- rearrange history as lurid, self-promotional displays, huge and irrelevant.
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(2005) |
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"Dirk is less the "adventurer" of the novels than a very tanned, very bland former Navy SEAL/current treasure hunter/archaeologist, the average capitalist yahoo."
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"By the time you reach the finale, you're likely wondering why you've been watching all this strutting and posturing."
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(2008) |
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"Savage Grace shows the family members' slide in and out of pathologies, but it doesn't sensationalize or even much pry into possible motives."
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(2001) |
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"For my money, it's the girls' friendship that holds the film together."
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(2004) |
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"That religion as a business has recently discovered the youth market is hardly surprising."
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(2005) |
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Saving face is the means by which everyone gets through the days, performing in order to please others, to get ahead, to avoid trouble, to survive."
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"High contrasts, as well as grays in between, structure John Henning and Mike Roth's moving 2006 documentary about the legal and political battles surrounding gay marriage in Massachusetts."
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(2001) |
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"One of the meanest, silliest, most ridiculous movies I've seen in some time."
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(2004) |
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"Saw's serial killing is classically grotesque, with emphasis on bodily abuses, in that low-budget-make-a-splash sort of way."
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(2005) |
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"Gruesome and explicit -- not for kids."
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(2005) |
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"Jigsaw returns, this time as self-styled family counselor."
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(2006) |
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"More bloody mayhem from Jigsaw; not for kids."
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(2006) |
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"A movie of its moment even as it borrows from so many that have come before, Saw III conjures all manner of torments, displayed for you as they are for its virtuoso showman."
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(2007) |
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"Like many villains before him, John turns out to have been wronged rather randomly, an act of terrible violence that he absorbs into his worldview."
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(2001) |
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"The film's one-note characterizations are instantly tiresome, and its slow pacing makes the onscreen events feel pretty much interminable."
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(1995) |
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"Roland Joffe's deeply ridiculous movie is caught between rocks and hard places, from its "what were they thinking?" concept ("freely adapted from the novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne") to its muddled execution."
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(2000) |
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"Not only do they mix their upbeat parodies with a certain yuckiness -- but they also inject occasional social commentary."
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(2001) |
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"Most of the gags have to do with sex, none of it makes any sense and no one cares. And if it's not so surprising or clever as the first film, well, that’s just predictable isn't it?"
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(2003) |
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"A string of jokes, increasingly unfunny as they settle into something of a plot and the trajectory becomes obvious."
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(2006) |
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"The first moments, drawn from Saw, feature the two least professional and most engaging performers: Dr. Phil and Shaq are chained in the basement and their escape depends on Shaq making free throws, which he cannot do, er, to save his life.
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(2006) |
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""Did he rape you?" This question serves as a running gag throughout School for Scoundrels, a decidedly unfunny comedy about a wimp who becomes not a wimp."
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(2006) |
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"Charming and strange, with lovely animated scenes."
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(2006) |
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"The Science of Sleep doesn't tell a story so much as it unravels. A journey through a young man's dreams and desires, it's at once lyrical, strange, and resistant to interpretation."
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(2004) |
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"In the sequel no one needs to see, the Scooby Gang grapples with the stress of stardom."
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Another comic murder mystery from Woody Allen."
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""I don't like this whole thing," Sondra moans. "I don't like the whole process." That makes two of us.
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(2002) |
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"Even as it pays earnest homage to turntablists and beat jugglers, old schoolers and current innovators, Scratch is great fun, full of the kind of energy it's documenting."
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(1996) |
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"The movie is less concerned with explaining motivations than it is with dismantling the social mechanisms which produce them."
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(1997) |
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"Smart, engaging, high energy."
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(2003) |
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"It offers up those lovely, exhilarating races. At these moments, it feels most like it's about horses, and their particular poetry."
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(2008) |
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"May's wailing wall appears repeatedly in Gina Prince-Blythewood's The Secret Life of Bees, each time an invitation to reflect, to remember what was and hope for what might be."
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(2002) |
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(1996) |
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(2001) |
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"By the time the film ends, everyone -- and I mean everyone -- has been humiliated, abused, and generally reduced to Gordon's level of inanity."
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(2004) |
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"What do killer dolls use to masturbate?"
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