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2/4 |
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"a media satire that ultimately lacks bite"
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2.5/4 |
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"jumps from plotline to plotline, stringing them together with a series of action setpieces that fulfill their obligations, but little more"
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3.5/4 |
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(1968) |
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"a stark, indelible cinematic portrait of the trials and tribulations of the door-to-door salesman, a profession that is virtually extinct today"
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3.5/4 |
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(1968) |
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4/4 |
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(1975) |
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"While it is easy to think of Salò as simply depraved, it is ultimately a savage plea for humanity"
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3/4 |
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(1986) |
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"most compelling in the vigor with which it takes its stance on American involvement in Central America"
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3/4 |
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(1986) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1961) |
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"Rosi extended neorealism and made it his own by marrying the realist aesthetic to the exposure of power dynamics"
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3.5/5 |
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(1962) |
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"gleefully perverse, but Shiota keep the tone restrained and suggestive, rather than obvious and graphic"
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Provocative but frustratingly shallow."
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3.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Jenkins is a provocateur to be sure, but she also has a heart, which is why her films don't come across as mean even when dealing comically with issues of death, debilitation, and emotional trauma."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"There are plenty of ways to share your faith with others, and [I]Saved![/I] only mocks the ones that put people down in the process."
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4/4 |
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(1998) |
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"With complete visual and aural technical mastery, Spielberg and Kaminski thrust us face-first into the fighting, and never let us back out for two hours and forty minutes."
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3/4 |
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(1953) |
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"holds out a modicum of hope, but only enough to suggest that human relationships, despite their difficulties, are what keep us together"
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Crowe's script is honest and straightforward in its simplicity, yet deeply moving in its details and nuances."
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"most of their jokes are forced, silly, or just not funny"
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3/4 |
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(1989) |
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"more interested in the people rather than the parts they played in a national scandal"
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3/4 |
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(1989) |
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3/4 |
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(1934) |
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3/4 |
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(1934) |
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"a dense, visually astounding portrait of a woman evolving from an innocent, inexperienced, and idealistic girl to a shrewd, calculating empress"
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"did it really require six screenwriters to tack tasteless jokes onto Kevin Williamson's "Scream" screenplay for less than an hour and a half?"
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2/4 |
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(2001) |
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"fast-paced, sloppy, and pretty dumb, but it's over quickly"
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4/4 |
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(1973) |
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"drives deep into a set of universal emotions with which anyone who has been in a serious relationship can identify on some level"
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4/4 |
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(1993) |
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"one of the most devastatingly emotional films ever made"
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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"However, if there is a revelation in Schizopolis, it’s Soderbergh himself, who proves, in his only acting role to date, to be an extremely gifted comedic actor."
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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2/5 |
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(2006) |
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"School for Scoundrels has some good ideas and funny moments, but it loses steam as it goes on, which you really feel when it resorts to yuks involving defibrillator paddles accidentally applied to a character’s genitals."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"a shining example of how good Hollywood comedies can be when the right minds are behind them"
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Gondry manages to keep his balance for most of the film, deriving humor and pathos from Stéphane's difficulties with his waking life."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"the most strained jokes and unfunniest moments are when the movie tries to be hip in a postmodern, self-conscious kind of way"
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"a solid piece of old-fashioned genre work starring a brilliantly assembled cast of heavyweight American actors"
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"entertaining enough to get the job done"
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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"a nineties-style teenage slasher movie with just enough tongue-in-cheek understanding of its own silliness to make it gruesomely fun without being insulting"
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3/4 |
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(1997) |
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"dances delicately around its inherently cheesy material by being an effective thriller adhering to the rules of the genre while simultaneously mocking itself"
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Unfortunately, this final installment, while answering some lingering questions, still doesn't feel essential."
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Unfortunately, too much of Seabiscuit forces its ideas on us, rather than allowing us to discover them for ourselves."
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3.5/4 |
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(1964) |
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3.5/4 |
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(1964) |
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"The film’s extraordinary power derives from the way in which actress Kim Stanley convinces us of her character's conviction, no matter how misguided and, ultimately, pathetic."
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4/4 |
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(1993) |
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"The film's simple message is that no one thing should ever dominate anyone's life, no matter how good he or she is at it."
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4/4 |
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(1993) |
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3/4 |
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(1966) |
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"What really grabs you in Seconds is the unique visual style."
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3/4 |
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(1966) |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"for a while it works, right up until its dreadfully silly ending"
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"In the end it’s too simply all too familiar."
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2.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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