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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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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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(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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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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(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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(1956) |
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"Here's a movie that suggests cute, precocious pre-pubescent blonde girls should get psychological counseling. Are you listening, Dakota Fanning's mother?"
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2.5/4 |
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(1956) |
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"The Bad Seed reflects Slant Magazine’s blind, abject terror of precocious, well-behaved little blonde girls."
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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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1.5/4 |
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(1942) |
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"“Look, Ma! No fungus and no moss-syphilis!”"
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(1942) |
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"Bambi’s friend Thumper teaches him how to flip a bird but leaves his poor apprentice high and dry when it comes to the art of **** like a bunny."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As insistently wry as it is haunting."
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(1996) |
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"The tough but tender Beautiful Thing is one of the most honest and moving gay youth dramas in recent memory."
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(1996) |
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"Beautiful Thing might be the most beloved of all the gay-youth movies released in the late 90s"
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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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3/4 |
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(1984) |
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"This is a documentary that can tell the sometimes bitter truth and still conclude with an unambiguously heartening flourish."
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(1984) |
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"Even though the transfer looks like your local college library’s rattiest tomes, this treatise on how homosexual sociology thrived before being validated is required viewing."
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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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(1979) |
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"A kinder, gentler annihilation of the nation."
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4/4 |
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(1960) |
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"The Bellboy is nearly silent, in what could easily be taken as a nod toward French comedy titan Jacques Tati."
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(1992) |
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"Finally, the legion of yowling Ben Stiller Show fans can swallow this DVD and shut their stinking traps."
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(1992) |
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"When Eric Cartman grows older and goes to film school, his student films will resemble the early works of Michael Haneke."
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1.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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"A smug, contemptuous, passive-aggressive attack on the dehumanizing effects of media."
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(2003) |
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""It's time to put on make-up. It's time to dress up right." Sing it to me, Dom baby, sing it!"
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(1970) |
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"The original Valley of the Dolls was a Bentley. Meyer and Ebert's Beyond is a Rolls. There is nothing like a Rolls. Not even a Bentley."
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3.5/4 |
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(1970) |
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"As his overactive jump cuts prove, Meyer directs films as though he's perpetually on the cusp of a fantastic orgasm."
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(1994) |
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"Bitter Moon is a brusque reminder of the sexually tormented, nihilistic Polanski we know and love."
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(1994) |
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"One of Polanski’s most celebrated directorial motifs, the decimation of human bodies as a reflection of their withering spirits, is brutally forthright in Bitter Moon."
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3.5/4 |
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(1957) |
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"Has almost become eclipsed by the thunder of Jean-Luc Godard’s infamously rapturous tribute in the pages of Cahiers."
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(1957) |
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"To neutralize scorpion venom, all you have to do is surgically remove a camel’s bladder to harvest the ammonia in its urine. Good to know."
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3.5/4 |
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(1966) |
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"Decolonization in Black Girl is not only a myth, but also a myth that actually strengthens the consumerist caste systems."
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(1966) |
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"With Black Girl, Ousmane Sembene used the aesthetic freedom of the French New Wave to attack that very nation's hubris.
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(1961) |
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"The neglected standing of Blast of Silence is the film's own best proof of its uniquely wallflowerish take on film noir tropes."
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2/4 |
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(1961) |
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"The tension doesn't so much revolve around the antihero's job, redemption, or ultimate fate but rather the disconnect between its mundane milieu and the grandiose flourishes they're meant to convey."
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2/4 |
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(1974) |
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"A limp, shapeless mess of a film trades in a genuine respect for westerns’ tropes for purile vulgarity and joy-buzzer showmanship."
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(1974) |
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"Madeline Kahn’s exhausted **** isn’t the only thing that’s tired about Blazing Saddles."
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(2004) |
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"The sort of film wherein Bobby can't win a tournament until he can control his temper."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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4/4 |
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(1984) |
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"Body Double, while not his finest, is the best candidate as Brian De Palma's signature film."
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4/4 |
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(1958) |
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"Among favorite cinephile pet auteurs, no one’s reputation has had a rougher ride than that of Otto Preminger’s."
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(1958) |
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"For cinephiles, the career of Preminger is their oyster. Bonjour Tristesse is the pearl."
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(1967) |
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"If Bonnie and Clyde doesn't seem to carry the heft expected of a film of its standing, the pillowy lips of its two leads make up the difference."
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3/4 |
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(1967) |
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"Stylistically, Arthur Penn's crime epic doesn't do anything that hadn't already been seen in any number of runty, skuzzy teen epics, all of which firmly established the paragons of good (i.e. "The Law") as being the new antagonists."
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1.5/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Russo and Streiner use their sex comedy to espouse the retrograde notion that the only fulfilling sexual position is one-man-one-woman missionary."
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(1976) |
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"The Booby Hatch makes me glad I didn't take John Russo's Making Movies too much too heart."
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(1932) |
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"Boudu swings his swang and puts the smack down on le petit bourgeoisie."
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4/4 |
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(1932) |
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"Even enterprise without state can be amply rewarded in the films of Renoir."
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(1975) |
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"Mostly just a set up to a misogynistic reverse Black Widow joke. Mostly."
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1.5/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Jones’s cameo during an open-air movie theater sequence is by far the most cinematic moment of this 1975 cult classic for boys who hate women."
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(2003) |
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"Feels ever so faintly like the final project showcase for senior year filmmaking."
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