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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"in our brave new world of Glenn Beck-style paranoia, anger, and histrionics masquerading as political discourse, Moore's sarcastic mugging seems very nearly quaint"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"I cannot image a visual record of any kind doing a better job of showing us what might have been, which makes it both a cause for celebration and its own unique tragedy"
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3/4 |
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(1986) |
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"virtually every frame of the film is a love letter to a bygone era as realized in the vibrant tones of the music-video-addled '80s"
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4/4 |
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(1969) |
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"a relentlessly fast-paced political expose that has not a single wasted second"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Jonze and Eggers do an admirable, and at times alchemic, job of transforming the slim volume into something decidedly weightier in terms of plot without sacrificing the essence of the book's focus on the darker edges of childhood"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"absolutely bone-chilling"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a terribly unwieldy vehicle built on an inherently funny premise that just can't sustain what Ricky Gervais and Matthew Robinson eventually want to heap on it"
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Stilillman pulls off a unique balancing act of conveying the specificities of the cultural milieu but also maintaining a sense of universality that keeps the film from being solely about its time and place"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"tweaks the story just into the realm of dark humor, but without ever losing the sense that it is fundamentally a tragedy"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"too much of the film devolves into hectic action sequences that makes you feel like someone suddenly dropped you into a blender and turned out all the lights"
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4/4 |
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(1937) |
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"the film's overall effect is undeniable, not only on the history of cinema as a whole, but in each new viewing that reveals another dimension or additional detail, the sum total of which is one of the true cinematic masterpieces"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"manages to successfully rework the familiar in a way that pokes fun at its living-dead predecessors while also recognizing the underlying sense of dread that has allowed the genre to thrive for nearly four decades"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"sporadically successful, but mostly feels stranded at the surface, possibly because its insider-ism gets the best of the filmmakers by keeping them so trapped inside the Vogue universe that we never hear any outside voices"
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3.5/4 |
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(1991) |
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"one of Mamet's strangest and most compelling films"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"funny and at times wonderfully weird, and even has a few meaningful things to say"
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3.5/5 |
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(1961) |
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3.5/5 |
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(1967) |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"the various ingredients Diablo Cody tosses into the script blender mix into a lumpy mess, rather than the smooth concoction you might expect."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If it didn't come from a major studio, I would think the film is a satire of romantic comedies, or at least some kind of avant-garde experiment in testing the limits of audience identification"
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3.5/4 |
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(1941) |
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"Leigh and Olivier translate their real-life passion to celluloid, making it curiously difficult to discern what was performed and was simply there"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a relatively mediocre, by-the-numbers mystery thriller that melts from your mind as soon as you step into the sunlight"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a weird and wonderful but narratively lacking post-apocalyptic fantasy"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"saddled with side stories that are meant to put specific faces on the issues of the time, but feel meandering and unfocused"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"mocks idiots, hypocrites, and all the other clueless denizens of life who make it difficult for everyone else, but the bile is balanced with affection for the ordinary people who make the world turn"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"little more than an unconscious projection of the filmmakers' simultaneous desire for and deep fear of grotesquely overprivileged and snarky girls gone wild"
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4/4 |
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(1975) |
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"maddening, hypnotic, fascinating, mundane, electrifying, mind-numbing, and ultimately shocking"
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1.5/5 |
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(1982) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1967) |
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"a wide-ranging cinematic essay that may seem scattershot and abstract on first viewing, but rewards more and more with each repeated experience"
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2.5/4 |
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(1966) |
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"While in theory it all sounds very interesting and intriguing and, well, Godardian, the whole never really comes together"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"would be a genuinely terrible movie (even as far as horror sequels go) except for its mordant sense of humor"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Tarantino is much less interested in the gory possibilities of the premise than he is in old-fashioned suspense and tension"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a carefully staged deconstruction of our assumptions about horrorshows about preternaturally manipulative and malevolent children"
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"creates dramatic energy without a tightly delineated storyline"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a sharp-edged science fiction parable that mixes metaphor and violent action with such dizzying confidence that you leave the theater feeling charged and alive"
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2/4 |
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(1970) |
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"as a time capsule rendition of men being boys, it certainly has an inherent intrigue, but it is not one of Cassavetes' strongest films"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"exceeds its whimsical indie-film touches because it is rooted in the kinds of recognizable truths that give weight to what would otherwise be simply amusing"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"awash in culinary imagery, and it's enough to make you want to run out, purchase some Le Creuset cookware, and start deboning a duck"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"feels like too little that's been strung out too far"
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4/4 |
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(1965) |
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"a riveting horror thriller, one that cuts through the simple and comforting categories of good and evil"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an intriguing existential space oddity"
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a visceral, heart-pounding experience that is easily the best film yet to made about the current war in Iraq and also one of the best war films of the past decade"
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3/4 |
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(1978) |
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"a brutal and brutalizing film whose effects have diminished little in the decades since its controversial theatrical release in the late 1970s"
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"encapsulates with great power the wonderment of something that too many of us now take for granted"
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3.5/4 |
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(1961) |
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"the elegant tracking shots amid the baroque architectural excesses that frame the film's lingering questions draw you into a world of mystery that seems to be ultimately understandable, yet constantly unravels at every turn"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"while the film has its moments of visual elegance, its lack of narrative rhythm and jumbled sense of forced plot points will leave ravenous Potter fans griping about what's been left out and those poor souls who haven't read the books perpetually confused"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a frightening film, easily one of the most important of the recent spate of socially conscious documentaries"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a cool and calculated throwback to the romanticized heyday of gangster films"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"For those willing to endure the shocks and actually think about them afterwards, the film's jokes work on multiple levels, although it is hard not to feel that there is some diminishing return this time around"
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3/5 |
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(1977) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The jokes don't always hit like they should, but there is a pleasant familiarity that mixes well with the sense of adventure to underscore the film's warm-n-fuzzy proclamations about the nature of family and togetherness."
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