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82/100 |
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(1957) |
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"taut, well-crafted sociological study"
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62/100 |
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(2002) |
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"For a comedy, not nearly funny enough to justify the label."
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Cinemania |
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72/100 |
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(1998) |
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"A promising directorial debut by Myles Berkowitz."
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94/100 |
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(1968) |
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"Kubrick's film not only changed the way I viewed film, but the way I experienced art and life"
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Cinemania |
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(1968) |
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"What else can such a film be called but ART?"
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Cinemania |
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86/100 |
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(2005) |
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"Seductive and luscious, a cinematic smorgasbord of sensuous delight."
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85/100 |
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(2008) |
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"A real kick in the gut"
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93/100 |
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(1959) |
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"Truffault's masterpiece. Timeless and true, heartbreakingly sad."
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85/100 |
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(1998) |
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"42 Up is not only riveting viewing, it is an important social document that allows an ageing group of Boomers to remind us – as Yogi Berra noted – not only is 90 per cent of this Game of Life ‘half mental,’ but it it ain’t over ‘til it’s over."
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53/100 |
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(1998) |
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"54 is mediocre on almost all counts: acting (with a couple of exceptions), writing, direction and cinematography are uniformly bland, inoffensive and completely unmemorable."
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71/100 |
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(2002) |
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"Eminem does a credible roughed-up urban ghetto impression of James Dean"
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Cinemania |
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81/100 |
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(1931) |
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"Deserves to come out from under the long shadows cast by Charlie Chaplin’s Modern Times, and bask in the adulation of a whole new generation of filmgoers."
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47/100 |
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(2007) |
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"chooses cheesy and nostalgic mis-en-scene over meaningful engagement with the musical material. A terrible disappointment."
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52/100 |
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(2006) |
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"The attempts to parallel the subordinate and dominant plots never really pays off."
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Cinemania |
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85/100 |
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(2007) |
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"The actors play this darkly funny material as if they are in a deadly serious Shakespearean drama, highlighting the situation's many absurdities"
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86/100 |
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(1949) |
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"Adam’s Rib gives us writers, performers and a director all operating at peak levels of performance; it’s a classic comedy."
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79/100 |
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(1991) |
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"Typical in only one way: It is a typically complex, intelligent and challenging Atom Egoyan film.
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88/100 |
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(1951) |
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"There are not two better actors to tackle these roles, and director Huston keeps their story moving without lulls."
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33/100 |
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(2003) |
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"Dreadful, witless and pointless."
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33/100 |
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(2004) |
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"Vapid, banal, humourless, witless; a cynical cash-grab."
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Cinemania |
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94/100 |
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(1973) |
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"A seminal film without which we almost cerainly would not have with us either Apocalypse Now or much of the ouevre of Terence Malick."
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Cinemania |
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58/100 |
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(1997) |
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"Air Force One has neither the wit to laugh at its own absurdity nor the wisdom to mock its pretensions."
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70/100 |
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(2007) |
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"the film will be remembered for the overall sense of camaraderie overcoming competition, fraternity trumping rivalry, and the discovery of graciousness in victory and defeat"
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Cinemania |
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80/100 |
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(1960-1965) |
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"Some of Hitch's best work done in the medium of television can be found in the collection"
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67/100 |
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(1969) |
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"In the end, the slap-dash narrative loses focus and credulity, particularly when the tale turns to the disintegrating relationship of Alice and Ray, and to an ill-developed subplot involving the ex-con drug addict Shelly."
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77/100 |
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(1979) |
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"Energetic Fellini-esque autobiographical examination of the life (and near death) of Bob Fosse"
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89/100 |
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(2003) |
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"There are several moments so sublime, so ineffably and serenely beautiful, that you might be convinced that this sort of relationship could only happen in a dream."
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81/100 |
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(2000) |
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"Beautiful, though flawed, love letter to early 70's rock and roll highlighted by Crowe's clever quip-driven dialogue."
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81/100 |
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(1984) |
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"A clever and majestic hybrid of art house fare and middle brow entertainment."
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4.5/5 |
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(1974) |
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"Fellini's whimsical and tender semi-autobiographical film is one of his best works."
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46/100 |
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(2006) |
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"This movie is so humorless that it makes you wax nostalgic for the good old days when Michael Moore was sticking it to the man.
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Cinemania |
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71/100 |
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(1985) |
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"Thankfully, Costner and Grant are able to overcome the bumpy screenplay and ride American Flyers to a satisfying, if predictable, conclusion."
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53/100 |
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(2002) |
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"Its intentions are good, at least if you share the film’s wariness of guns, but the execution so earnest as to be joyless."
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53/100 |
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(2002) |
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"Contrived, pedantic and ultimately a tedious bore."
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Cinemania |
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53/100 |
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(2002) |
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"The single special feature of note is “James Coburn: Bang the Gong” a typical and generally engaging edition of A & E’s Biography."
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83/100 |
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(1997) |
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"Amistad is a good, but not great film."
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(1959) |
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"Preminger's intense, controversial, intelligent, court room drama is completely engrossing"
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78/100 |
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(1984) |
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"A lesser Fellini is still much greater than most of the product presented for our consumption."
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94/100 |
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(1969) |
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"A virulent assault on all that is wrong with Mother Russia, both past and present. One of the most significant movies of its (and all) time."
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Cinemania |
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93/100 |
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(1977) |
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"That this Woody Allen film is of such raw-nerved honesty is admirable. That it is also so incessantly funny is remarkable."
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93/100 |
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(1977) |
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"More jokes per frame than any other film I've seen."
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Cinemania |
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76/100 |
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(1988) |
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"Sometimes emotionally disengaging, but generally an intelligent Bergman-esque study of one woman's quest for fulfillment."
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81/100 |
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(1998) |
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"The philosophical debates that centre the film are rather complex for little ones, but give us older ones something to talk about."
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68/100 |
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(1960) |
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"This cynical study of office politics and sexual mores by Billy Wilder, despite winning 5 Oscars in 1960, doesn't date well."
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88/100 |
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(1979) |
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"A fascinating study of the nature of evil in man."
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88/100 |
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(1979) |
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" It is also occasionally flaccid, incomprehensible and obtuse. Yet, it manages to overcome these flaws to stand as a fascinating study of the nature of evil in man."
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76/100 |
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(2003) |
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"Visual poetry."
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Cinemania |
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90/100 |
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(2001) |
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"Miike, the Tasmanian Devil of modern filmmakers, throws our assumptions back at us like a thousand poison darts. Great film."
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90/100 |
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(2001) |
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"Takashi Miike is the Tasmanian Devil of contemporary filmmakers."
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46/100 |
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(2008) |
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"too tame to be outrageous, too limp to be erotic, and too predictable to be in any way surprising"
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