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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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4/4 |
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(1981) |
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"What makes the film so intriguing and so beguiling and so utterly wonderful is the way it slowly reveals itself, uncoiling in ways that don't produce dramatic fireworks, but rather gradual realizations"
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2/4 |
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(1979) |
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"strange, sub-Coen Brothers caricature that, especially when underscored with Alex North's deliberately hammy hillbilly music, never amounts to much more than a condescending tragicomic satire of spiritual emptiness"
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3/4 |
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(1963) |
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"an intriguing, albeit rough-edged, portrait of the struggles of womanhood in modern Japan"
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"one of the great war films and perhaps the greatest film ever made about the American Civil War"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"perhaps the movie isn't quite weird enough, so instead of seeming inspired in its dementedness, it just seems inept and desperate"
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3.5/4 |
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(1973) |
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"a slow burn crime thriller that may lack flash, but is heavy with presence"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Because of Scott's reliably indiscriminant overdirection, the film only works in fits and starts"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"throws its comedy around with semi-reckless abandon, but never quite achieves more than a few good chuckles"
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"takes everything that was bad about the first Transformers movie two years ago, and amplifies it to deafening proportions"
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2.5/5 |
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(1981) |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a cleverly vulgar comedy that manages to take a tired conceit and make it feel inventive and consistently funny"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"good, malicious fun that revels in its own absurdity, lack of lofty ambitions, and determination to drag you down with it"
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3/4 |
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(1941) |
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"a daring film that explicitly prefigures the surge of anti-Nazi cinema that was to come"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an amusing concept that still holds some charm now, although it also lends itself to bombastic overkill, which sequels are naturally inclined toward anyway"
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4/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a wonderful, whimsical flight of fancy, a wild 3-D excursion into storybook delirium that is nonetheless firmly grounded in trecognizable human emotions"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"one wonders how much more engrossing its nick-of-time shenanigans would have been had we cared for the central character ... or even found him remotely interesting"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a quirky, sometimes schmaltzy British dramedy that mixes meaningful ruminations about growing old with broad black comedy"
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4/4 |
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(1998) |
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"pure joy--whimsical, funny, and downright entertaining"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"weighed down with so much grit and gloom that there's no fun left"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a confident and even touching bit of genre twisting, with its best moments providing plenty of anticipation for what else Johnson has up his sleeve"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It doesn't have anything particularly profound to say, but its old-fashioned virtues make its depictions of dark dealings along the Potomac feel all too possible."
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4/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Rourke wears his scars (both physical and emotional) with such naked humanity that his performance becomes a kind of on-screen outpouring of his own grief and waylaid potential"
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"a bold attempt to humanize Van Damme, not by trying to ignore his personal and professional pitfalls, but by reminding us that behind ever movie star, loved or loathed, is a complex human being"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"pretty much everything you need to know about this by-the-numbers clunker is summarized in the one-word title"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a stylishly empty stab at the genre that makes no bones about its obviousness even as it introduces a deliberately racialized twist"
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3/4 |
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(1985) |
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"really more of an exploration of the disjunction between exteriors and interiors, and while some may find it slow-going, those who see it for what it is will find it an intriguing portrait of human nature"
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"an outsized romantic epic built on a potentially flimsy bit of fantastical whimsy that instead becomes an affecting allegory for the fleeting joys of life"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"never quite good or original enough to justify itself beyond an obvious extension of a money-making franchise that won't quit as long as the cash registers keep clanging"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"an intriguing and frequently exciting experiment in using 3-D computer-generated animation for serious-minded entertainment"
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2/4 |
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(1976) |
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"quickly becomes as monotonous as bluenoses accuse it of being prurient"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"successfully crafts a new beginning that both honors the series' previous incarnations but also charts its own course using a clever time-traveling narrative that essentially creates an alternate Trek universe"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a strange, slightly disconcerting, and at times aggressively insistent wince-inducing comedy"
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3.5/4 |
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(1983) |
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"does not give us easy grounding, but instead constantly challenges us to see each character within the context of both his convictions and the necessities of his political position"
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3/5 |
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(1980) |
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3/4 |
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(1980) |
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"although not one of Truffaut's strongest works, it is nevertheless a striking and engaging film, one that reflects the great filmmaker's love of artistic creation and its role in maintaining humanity"
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"has just enough oddball gags and adolescent humor to fill a two-minute trailer, but its heart and soul are deeply invested in the slightly shaky, awkward, geek-chic moroseness of indie-art dramedy"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"a brightly colored mash-up of pop-culture gags that speeds at you so fast and furiously that it feels like a rush even if you can't remember much about it the next day"
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2.5/4 |
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(1970) |
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"even if the film does not stand up with Kurosawa's better known works, it is still an intriguing, if only semi-successful, experiment that suggests the great director's willingess to expand his palette"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"works at times as an effectively creepy chiller that loses its way only near the end when it starts getting too sensationalistic for its own good"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"has the kind of narrative trickery that draws us in, but it's ultimately up to the actors to keep us interested, and in this regard the film is something of a mixed bag"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"finds room to celebrate the inner caveman without discarding all of the refinements"
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"the tougher, rougher version of Bond as incarnated by Daniel Craig is harder than ever; already a steely and unflappable man of action, he's now driven by anger and vengeance, which turns Craig's flinty blue eyes into razor-sharp ice chips and every actio"
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"rectifies the original's bizarre tonal range, but also dilutes its thematic power by completely discarding the critical portrayal of vengeance as a zero-sum game"
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