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(1956) |
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"breezy and enjoyable—often funny and sometimes even a little sad"
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"There have certainly been worse."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"it is hard to be enthralled with the dusty, warmed-over romantic fixations of what is essentially a very handsome cave-couple"
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3/4 |
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(1995) |
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"The whole scope of 12 Moneys is completely insane, often confusing, sometimes almost unintelligible; but somehow at the end it all comes together and everything makes sense if you look at it closely enough."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"a cannily effective horrorshow, even if its PG-13 scares sometimes feel like they've been pulled a bit"
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"a message vehicle that is both painfully obvious and utterly obtuse about its subject matter."
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3/4 |
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(1996) |
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"2 Days in the Valley is witty and bracing in its own right, and it shouldn't be buried under extraneous comparisons to Pulp Fiction."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"works best when it immerses us in the vulgar mayhem, rather than when it's asking us to care too deeply"
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(2005) |
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"Visually ravishing and deeply melancholy."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"a deeply spiritual film, dealing as it does with the core issues of life and death and the role God plays in them"
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Lee finds subtle and clever ways to link the narrative with the setting, allowing the gaping hole in the middle of Manhattan ... to become an all-encompassing metaphor for both the pains of life and hope"
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"For all its effective visual horror, 28 Days Later sticks in your gut because of what it ultimately says about humanity."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"works not just because of its visual and thematic resonance with current global traumas, but because it grips you on an emotional level"
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The isolated, unique nature of the town's plight keeps the film from tapping directly into universal fears, but it will certainly make you grateful to see the sun rise"
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"For all its explicit goriness, it has the impact of a cartoon"
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Reduces the violence of battle to cartoonish proportions that make the film as a whole much less involving than it should be."
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"It is, in every conceivable instance, over-baked and under-conceived."
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"In the end, what makes 3:10 to Yuma work despite a rather preposterous final act, is that it refuses to see anything in terms of moral simplicity, despite the presence of black and white hats."
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"it is essentially a slightly more mature gross-out comedy"
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Overall, The 40-Year-Old Virgin finds a good balance between multiplex-pleasing body humor and multiplex-pleasing sincerity."
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4/4 |
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(1959) |
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"Léaud's performance is a marvel in the way he conveys Antoine's frustration with the world around him and the inability of adults to understand him."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"tries to have it both ways: earn tears and sniffling smiles from the sentimental and big guffaws from those who like vomit, penis, and gay jokes"
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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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1.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"There's a great movie to be made about Studio 54, but this is not it."
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3/4 |
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(2000) |
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"a science-fiction action extravaganza with some interesting ideas"
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4/4 |
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(1963) |
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"a wonderfully self-indulgent meditation on creative blocks and personal crises—the film director as tortured soul"
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4/4 |
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(1963) |
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"a wonderfully self-indulgent meditation on creative blocks and personal crises"
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2/4 |
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(1999) |
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"While Greenaway keeps the film ice-cold in terms of its methodical eroticism, he does maintain a certain sense of humor"
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Eminem manages to take all that we think we know about Eminem and inject it into his character without turning the character into a simple screen version of himself."
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2.5/4 |
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(1998) |
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"The third reel is vicious sensationalism pure and simple, designed to please the crowd who may feel that that the makers of the snuff film need to suffer a horrible death."
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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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3.5/4 |
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(1931) |
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"a delightfully radical farce about freeing oneself from the controls of social and economic oppression"
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"the kind of film that ... haunts your thoughts after you leave the theater"
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3/4 |
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(1972) |
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"done in a comic spirit that makes what might have been repulsive into the merely creepy bordering on laugh-inducing."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Credit should certainly go to relative newcomer Nicholas Hoult, who manages to strike all the right notes"
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"what really keeps the film interesting and intriguing is the presence of Jack Nicholson"
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"a rare film--big-budget Hollywood entertainment on a grand scale that is able to seamlessly incorporate many levels of meaning into an entertaining experience."
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3/4 |
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(1988) |
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"has a slightly torrid made-for-TV feel to it ..., but is elevated by the superb performances and genuinely empathetic stance its takes"
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4/4 |
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(1951) |
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"one of the sharpest and smartest, not to mention cruelest, skewerings of journalism, American culture, and the base human desire to exploit tragedy ever committed to film"
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"an ambitious mess of a movie that stretches a thin premise across a bold canvas, resulting in moments of near ecstasy mixed with a nagging lack of emotional involvement"
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"an absurdist black comedy and brilliantly sustained meta-joke on the modern entertainment industry"
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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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3/4 |
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(1994) |
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"a comedy, and a frequently outrageous one, at that; but, it is also a moving film that seeks to bridge differences even as it reaffirms their existence"
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2.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"a generally a fun movie, especially for those who are familiar with the old cartoons"
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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"a powerful, bleak family drama about a son's tragic inability to not become his father"
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4/4 |
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(1973) |
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"a film of great power and raw brutality"
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(1997) |
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"calculated with statistical precision to function as both a patriotic call to arms and an emotional tear about a man's family in jeopardy"
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2.5/4 |
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(1982) |
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"it works largely on our fond memories of the first movie"
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3.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"grabs you from the opening moments and doesn't let up for 90 minutes"
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"little more than a well-mounted, but hollow history lesson that is the very antithesis of what its means to be bold"
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