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"The readymade caricature George Bush is as much a reflection of his moment as he is an occasion for Oliver Stone's latest stab at revisionist history."
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3/10 |
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"The Wackness is a too familiar nostalgic movie, with period soundtrack, hot summer nights, and boys coming of age."
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3/5 |
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"Fast-paced action drama is for adults only."
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(2006) |
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"While the plot is overtly absurd (nearly every scene leads to a shoot-out, beating, or car chase), the film never lets up on those "Save Our Streets" demonstrations."
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(2007) |
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"Earl has to die. Or maybe not."
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(2001) |
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"The movie asks you to be awake as you watch it, so you are not consuming so much as you are processing, in a very self-conscious way."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2000) |
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"Fractured and a bit eccentric."
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(1998) |
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Fascinating biopic, but best for mature teens and up."
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(2005) |
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"John R. Cash (Joaquin Phoenix) is a hard-drinking, drug-abusing, soul-searching, all-black-wearing, June-Carter-loving man."
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(2004) |
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"A savvy media star and self-incorporating product, The Rock embodies our own cynical moment, when the show is what matters."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"At last, an answer to the celebrity voicing in animated movies! No dialogue."
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4/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Kids and parents will both enjoy this funny and charming movie."
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(2005) |
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"And so the class war is on, which only enhances the monster-movie themes that Were-Rabbit explores."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Angelina Jolie has evolved. As of Wanted, she is no longer merely mortal, but her own sublime creature."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"What is it good for? Bloody fighting, apparently."
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(2007) |
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"War/Dance complicates documentary tradition, trying to express events that seem beyond expression."
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(2005) |
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"What comes next is a prolonged look at unthinkable devastation, structured as one family's troubled dynamics."
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(2006) |
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"If the in-country chaos has beginnings and endings, its effects are, as Steve Pink says, "lasting.""
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"While its plot aligns War, Inc. with other, higher-profile action-thrillers, its political critique is more explicit and its ad campaign more oblique."
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(2005) |
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"A mournful meditation on killing for a living, Asif Kapadia's film is by turns poetic and preachy. It's also unexpectedly gripping."
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(2001) |
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"The Wash appears not to have much at all on its mind."
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(1997) |
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(2000) |
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(2006) |
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"as Chuyia sees this simple pleasure loom so crucially for Auntie, the girl's face shows that she comes of age in a way at once wrenching and inspiring, rendered in details of framing and glimpsing."
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(2000) |
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"Do the movie's generic roots -- its patent investments in action flicks, thrillers, gangster movies, Westerns, and films noirs -- make it just another genre picture or a thoughtful challenge to these familiar (not to say stale) configurations?"
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The Way We Get By stays focused on the greeters' mix of loneliness and determination, the pleasure of feeling needed and the pain of growing old."
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Conventional football drama doesn't quite score."
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(2006) |
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"You'd think with this set up that Annie's experience would be complex and sustained in We Are Marshall, but no. This is a men's story."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Josh Koury's documentary about hardcore Harry Potter fans, meandering and amiable, reveals that resistance to consumer culture is pretty much futile."
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(2004) |
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"Annoying and familiar, the adults settle into sameness, as if too tired to imagine beyond it."
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(2007) |
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"Bobby's decision-making throughout is operatic (with grand gestures and tears and sensational lighting), but also crude and flatfooted."
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(2002) |
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"Does raise some dicey questions (even if it does mostly drop them)."
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Bleak comedy-drama for adults only."
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"This raucous, boisterous comedy is not for kids."
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(2005) |
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"Raucous and happily obnoxious, WEDDING CRASHERS makes fun of liars and cheaters, ultimately celebrating a shlocky version of "true love.""
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(2005) |
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"Simple and tiresome, as well as unoriginal, borrowing bits from any number of like-minded movies."
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(2001) |
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"For all its attempts to call up old movies and also update them, it ends up being more dunderheaded than quick-witted."
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(1998) |
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"Adam Sandler's basic schtick is his lack of talent."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2008) |
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"All this said, there's a not bad movie inside of Welcome Home, visible in the quiet center provided by Margaret Avery."
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(2003) |
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"Think of all the images of girls in U.S. pop movies -- so halter-topped, so perfectly coiffed and appointed, so self-consciously cute, so Mary-Kate-and-Ashleyed. Pai is none of that but much more."
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(2008) |
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"Joy and Jack are fated to fall in lazy-movie-love."
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Less an expose than a recap of what even casual observers of the industry know or intuit, What Just Happened relies on clichés even as it deplores them."
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(2000) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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5/10 |
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(2008) |
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"The faux interview preserves Darby Crash's self-image, the reenactment in What We Do Is Secret remembers the preservation."
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PopMatters |
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(2000) |
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2001) |
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"Doesn't have much to show at all, concept-, laugh-, or even logic-wise."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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