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3.5/5 |
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(1988) |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Half Nelson doesn't pretend that nobility equals goodness in absolute terms. Dan is noble, but he is also deeply flawed, and his ability to help Drey is balanced by her ability to help him."
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4/4 |
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(1978) |
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4/4 |
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(1978) |
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"Even after repeated viewings, Carpenter’s minor masterpiece holds up as a staunchly effective thriller that will always stand head and shoulders above the cinematic progeny it spawned."
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1.5/5 |
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"In yet another needless retread of a classic '70s American horror movie, Rob Zombie's prequel-cum-remake of John Carpenter's Halloween does its best to distort everything that worked in the original in its bid for “improvement.”"
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2/4 |
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(1989) |
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"for most of the running time, one wonders what is the purpose of the movie outside of rehashing old slasher cliches"
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2/4 |
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(1989) |
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1.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Nothing more than a dull retread of worn-out cliches, buoyed only by the much-anticipated return of a familiar face."
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3.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Not many filmmakers would dare to film and then market a four-hour film like this, but Branagh pulls it off marvelously."
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3.5/4 |
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(1948) |
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"a bold, well-paced tragedy that helped expand audience notions of what Shakespeare on screen could be like"
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2.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A relatively satisfying ending that leaves just enough of an opening to warrant a sequel if the box office receipts are right."
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1.5/4 |
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(1981) |
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1.5/4 |
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(1981) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"Bindler's ode to human dedication and endurance in the strangest of circumstances is a rough, unpolished gem of documentary filmmaking."
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3/5 |
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(1963) |
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"Rosi's primary concern is exposing the true mechanisms of power"
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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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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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" it fully achieves neither the gripping, operatic tension of The Silence of the Lambs nor the darkly comedic effect for which the filmmakers were obviously striving."
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"The effect is to distance the audience from the material with a sense of dark humor and self-aware irony, but unfortunately it comes at the expense of genuine tension."
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1.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Director Peter Webber clearly wants Hannibal Rising to be a class production. Unfortunately, he makes the whole affair too artsy and staid for its own good, which results in a plodding pace that induces more eyelid drooping than tension."
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"one of those irritatingly "well-intentioned" movies that constantly falls flat because it offers no depth"
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3.5/4 |
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(1973) |
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"a hard-hitting social drama with revolutionary political overtones, but it is immensely enjoyable and, at times, light-hearted"
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3.5/4 |
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(1973) |
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3.5/5 |
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(1976) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"pulls off the nearly impossible in subverting racial stereotypes by constantly evoking them"
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Chris Columbus' shortcomings in ingenuity and imagination don’t seem terribly detrimental since the material he’s working with is so infused with magic and wit"
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3/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Anything but a disappointment. Even if it doesn't achieve the lyrical enchantment of Prisoner of Azkaban, it nonetheless makes good on Rowling's darker turn in the series."
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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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2.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"There is a sense of being rushed throughout the film without any real dramatic urgency; it is more like a speed-tour through the narrative's greatest hits, with each scene beginning a little too late and ending a little too early."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Comes very close to soaring."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"a beautifully mounted adventure movie that adheres almost fetishistically to its source material"
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"an odd mish-mash, pursuing different ends at different times until, by the end of the film, we're not sure what it was about or how we should feel about what it's saying"
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4/4 |
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(1995) |
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"by the end of its brisk and economic 97 minutes, you feel that you have been where the characters have been, breathed their air, and felt their pulse"
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"uses the ride’s familiar visuals as a leaping-off point for the horror-comedy, which is at times delightfully silly and at other times depressingly thin"
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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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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3.5/4 |
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(1920) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1920) |
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"A truly unique work that still holds the power to unnerve even in today's jaded era."
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3/4 |
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(1998) |
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"As Jesus, Ray Allen gives a better performance than one would expect from a professional athlete."
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"main goal seems to be turning the pretensions of movie-style love on their head"
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"the movie as a whole generates a comic rhythm that is easy to sink into"
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4/4 |
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(1975) |
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"has not lost its power to provoke and challenge our conventional understanding of patriotism and the necessity of war"
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4/4 |
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(1975) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"plays as if it were a rough cut of preliminary scenes that lacks the cohesion that might bring them together into a complete story"
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3.5/4 |
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(1991) |
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"an utterly absorbing documentary"
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3/4 |
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(1995) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1989) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1989) |
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"The points it makes about the violence-prone absurdity of American adolescence are perhaps even more incisive today than they were [in 1989]."
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4/5 |
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(1978) |
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1.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"an uneven, elaborate, sprawling setpiece that highlighted Cimino's obsession with detail and his tendency to go overboard"
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3/4 |
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(1973) |
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"A frenetic, over-the-top combination of live action and crude animation that explores the seedy world of New York's Lower East Side in the early 1970s."
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