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(1940) |
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"One of the only Disney animated features with real gravitas, Pinocchio's reputation grows longer with each passing generation."
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3.5/4 |
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(1940) |
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"Nope, no perverted subtext here."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Not since Larry David's Sour Grapes has a movie kicked off by so thoroughly painting its protagonists as deeply unlikable souls."
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(1961) |
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"Natalie Wood and Warren Beatty fight the good fight, but she should've just gone down faster than the NYSE did in October 1929."
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3/4 |
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(1961) |
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"Splendor in the Grass is a prestigious, top-of-the-line, sensitively-handled melodramatic literalization of the axiom "If you touch yourself too much, you'll go crazy.""
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(1990) |
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"Doc Brown's threatened time paradox is no match for the final installment's dreary life lessons."
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1.5/4 |
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(1990) |
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"It ain't only the DeLorean that's out of gas."
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(1989) |
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"For anyone who ever wanted to see Michael J. Fox playing Tracey Ullman, there's Back to the Future Part II."
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2.5/4 |
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(1989) |
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"The one thing the film got right was the crushed effect the media's growing omnipresence has had on human existence."
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(1985) |
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"Back to the Future defies the laws of physics (and its own cracked view of the past). It's one of the rare big-budget entertainments that's improved with time."
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3.5/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Probably the most carefully-scripted blockbuster in Hollywood history."
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(2008) |
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"Even more surprisingly poignant and intelligent upon repeat viewings, Otto is attractively rough around the edges."
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(1979) |
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"A kinder, gentler annihilation of the nation."
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2.5/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Ground Zero for the cult of Sellers."
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(1988) |
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"Billy Joel sang it best: "Why should I care?""
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1.5/4 |
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(1988) |
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"I guess I can cut the Mouse House a little slack when it comes to paint-by-numbers mediocrities like Oliver & Company."
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(2008) |
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"In 1971: Jane Fonda's Klute makes off with the Oscar, The Stewardesses make off with the bank. Draw your own conclusions."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If anything, The Stewardesses proves that the 1960s were hardly a heyday for free love on both sides of the gender divide."
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(1964) |
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"Practical poontang in every way."
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3/4 |
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(1964) |
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"With all the subtlety of Battleship Potemkin, a queue full of sour-faced old school nannies is shown blowing away into thin air to make way for the embodiment of modern female assertiveness."
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(1954) |
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"Bringing yourself to cherish Sirk not just for his egghead credibility, but also his willful bad taste might be counterintuitive, but it'll be a magnificent obsession."
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3.5/4 |
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(1954) |
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"What people don't quite give Sirk credit for nowadays in their rush to justify his intellectual credentials is the fact that if he didn't necessarily believe in the cheesecake he served up."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A close-up but still, one senses, heavily idealized documentary portrait."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Neither Meryl Streep's as-yet-unpolished performance nor the entire construction of this particular production of Bertolt Brecht's celebrated play are done much favor by this doc's unedifying attempt to shoot the moon."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For a movie with this many ideological loose ends, Otto comes up with a convincingly sweet resolution."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A triune plot that Ferrara digs into with sleeves fully rolled up."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"That personal, private creation (i.e. painting, sculpture) is held up as the standard for artistic expression over collaboration (i.e. film directing) smacks of art-as-onanism."
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(1988) |
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"Daylight comes to Beetlejuice in this anniversary DVD, but apparently the bonus features wan' go home."
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4/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Tim Burton's imagination jumped into the saddle and held onto the bridle with Beetlejuice."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An upstart thriller about a young man's initiation into politics and life, Choose Connor is not coincidentally getting a theatrical release during an election that will likely mark an old man's exit from both politics and life."
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(1962) |
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"An Autumn Afternoon examines disappointment, loneliness and isolation, but Ozu's final film is less a tragedy than it is a miracle of bemused resignation."
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4/4 |
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(1962) |
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"What do all these subtle modifications to the otherwise similar template suggest?"
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(1992) |
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"Chris Marker allows himself to get personal."
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4/4 |
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(1992) |
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"The catch is that the letters are addressing a dead man."
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(2003) |
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"Perhaps Chris Marker is ageless because he compresses the past and present into one cosmic "now.""
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A haunting examination of another photographer's work."
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(1968) |
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"Taken together, these two films are like Chris Marker's epistemology of fiction vs. nonfiction."
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2/4 |
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(1988) |
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"I'm sure Child's Play was far from the only film of its era sold as one of the great scareshows of all time."
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(1988) |
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"It took Don Mancini 10 years to bring the Chucky franchise to its current **** glory, but the original Child's Play is pretty ***."
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(2006) |
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"Chris Marker has nine brains."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Being neither Mexican nor Jewish, I imagine I'm the perfect audience for the chaotically cross-cultural ethnography farce of My Mexican Shivah."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild aims for a self-knowingness that could conceivably be mislabeled as camp by any one of its *****-brained lead characters."
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(1975) |
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"Hate ****."
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3/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Fastidiously attuned to the denial of the comforting release of either eroticism or expulsion, Pasolini's boudoirs of perversion lack De Sade's scarlet hedonism. Quite the opposite, his boners reveal only the presence of spiritual rigor mortis."
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(1976) |
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"I trust Linda Lovelace for President more than I trust at least 50 percent of the voters in the U.S."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A penetrating contemplation of the American industrial-military complex's obstreperous legacy."
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(1980) |
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"Xanadu isn't stupid. It's just a little slow."
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2.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"While the movie is every bit as garish and overly shellacked as the other bomb musicals of its era, at least this one looks like irresponsible amounts of money were thrown around."
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(1963) |
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"Merlin's got the potion that will put your sword into motion."
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1.5/4 |
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(1963) |
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"He had my heart racing like a squirrel. He had my body soaring into the stratosphere like a bird. He had me slippery and firm like a fresh young perch."
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