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"He and Scarlet, in another movie, might have found a way to spin their one day's worth of intimacy into something more movie-like, but here, they keep it contained."
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"It includes some genuinely funny moments, solid performances from its too-old-to-be-in-high-school cast, and respect for its likely pre-teen audience."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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(2007) |
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"Debates over policy, resources, and money are and will be shaped by campaigns, images, and celebrities. The 11th Hour understands that, and makes its case accordingly."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"DiCaprio headlines talky global warming docu."
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(2004) |
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"As Jenna, Garner embodies a joy that's all too rare on recent movie screens, in adults or kids.
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Hotel room horror is more mental than physical."
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(2007) |
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"Mike and Lily argue, he feels guilty, and now he's got to relive the whole thing -- not as memory but as reality-TV video, which does seem unduly harsh."
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(2003) |
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"As 21 Grams has it, the most difficult aspect of "going on" is the lie that must propel it."
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(2002) |
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"This season's plot runs parallel to current headlines, except, as Sutherland offers, "Our show is about trying to stop a war; our country, unfortunately, is at war.""
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(2004) |
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"Rajskub sighs. "Something feels off to me, I wish I had one of those helmets on. Yes, right away: fires, shooting, blood.""
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(2002) |
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"A rewarding redemption piece that echoes the cynicism of post 9/11 sensibilities."
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(2003) |
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"While the virus metaphor is obviously timely, the characters' seeming capacity to forget these nasty changes in themselves by film's end may be the film's most unsettling point."
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(2007) |
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"While the theme of soldiers as lethal and relentless as the infecteds repeats Boyle's film, here the uniformed threat is specifically U.S."
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(2005) |
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"The oddly mystical, utterly material 3-Iron (Bin-jip) opens with a set of images and sounds almost too close to identify."
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(2007) |
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"3:10 submits that the American West is a function of capitalism, expedience and exploitation of resources. That's not to say morality isn't a useful measure, it's just relative."
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(2004) |
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"It's nearly a profound concept, but only nearly. Remember that 50 First Dates is an Adam Sandler movie: there are limits."
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Provocative animated sci-fi. Not for kids."
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(2006) |
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"Simultaneously strange and familiar, not himself, Bob lives inside an ooky, unsolvable world that mirrors our own ongoing fears, of surveillance, loss, and forgetting.
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Privileged girl runs with bank-robber boyfriend."
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(2005) |
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"Whether focused on Lili's face or standing back to take in her long limbs, Caroline Champetier's enthralling black-and-white camerawork is at once nimble and evocative."
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"Haroun's second film is lilting and profound at once, precise and sinuous."
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(2002) |
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"[The boy is] thankfully, not so preternaturally 'mature' or 'cute' as the ones who have helped save Tom Cruise or Bruce Willis' souls, and more appealing because of it."
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(2002) |
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"Careens between fiction and confession, repetition and revelation."
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(2007) |
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"Helene, caught like Jacob between lives, spends much of the film trying to explicate choices that now look only wrong."
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(2004) |
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"It's easy to understand Demme's fascination with and dedication to Dominique: he's a brilliant storyteller and relentless optimist."
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"As much about the culture that produces and fears, consumes and condemns, an Aileen Wuornos as it is about Aileen Wuornos.
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Inspiring drama about a champion speller."
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(2006) |
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"Akeelah not only embodies her gift and her passion, but she also inspires new ways of thinking about intellectual activities."
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(2001) |
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"Knowledgeable, evocative, and occasionally excessive, the film jumps right into its big subject and bold concept and never looks back."
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"More than a coherent or even very interesting puzzle, the film is another occasion for you to work out your own relationship to Binoche, who remains, as ever, seductively distressed and distressingly seductive."
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"A sophisticated meta-melodrama featuring some of his most complex and compassionate characters -- not so over-the-top campy as much of his previous work, yet as politically and sexually adventurous in its own shrewd ways."
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Philadelphia City Paper |
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3/5 |
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"Timberlake stars in fact-based drug drama."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Earnest drama about fervent English abolitionist."
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(1999) |
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"The language is brutal and lyrical."
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3/5 |
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"Social satire more for teens and adults."
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3/5 |
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"Violent, drug-fueled drama isn't for kids."
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"As corny as Frank and Richie's relationship may appear, it returns again to the movie's central problem: it loves Frank and has to hate him."
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"For a dour, cynical guy, he does okay: even this corniness works out, because his primary mirror is the undefeatable Joyce by way of Hope Davis."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Certainly, the sex was exciting, as well as controversial. But Plato's Retreat also represented an effort to think through the mores behind monogamy, to challenge assumptions and imagine an alternative."
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(2009) |
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"Based on the infamous Panhandle Regional Narcotics Task Force case in Tulia, Texas, American Violet makes clear the corruption and racism that pervades the official structures of its fictional town."
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"A tightly edited, wildly energetic paean to the trauma of relationships, between people and between people and their dogs."
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(2009) |
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"If the story of Jenny's inevitably hard lesson is standard, An Education comes up with a few moments that give pause."
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"Well worth seeing for just such insights, its flashes of brilliance, failures, and virtuous intentions."
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(2006) |
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"Despite its narrative awkwardness, the film comes up with a terrific ending, underlining the importance of the girls' friendship over stereotypical romance."
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5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Pitt stars in beautiful -- but brutal -- Western."
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"Slowly paced and almost painfully detailed, Andrew Dominik's film more than fulfills the promise of Chopper (2000), another study of the violence inherent in celebrity."
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"Even as Sam unravels, the film doesn't judge him, but rather adopts his perspective."
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"The clash of seething, seeming opposites who really do see eye to eye, as embodied by Hawke and Fishburne, is pretty near irresistible.
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"The clash of seething, seeming opposites who really do see eye to eye, as embodied by Hawke and Fishburne, is pretty near irresistible.
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"The easy moral to draw is that everyone needs assistance in living, but the more difficult truth is that living is illusory always.
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