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3/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Adding emphasis on the homo-ness of their lucrative bond are the repeated instances where the interference of women breaks both their concentration and their hot streaks."
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4/4 |
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(1928) |
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"One of Keaton's most impressively self-reflective films and an ode to the unexpected and elusive lightening-in-a-bottle nature of filmmaking."
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3.5/4 |
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(1969) |
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"With Camille 2000, Metzger began to let his experimental impulses emerge."
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(1992) |
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"“Sweets to the sweet.” And societal disgrace and hot, interracial, interspatial romancing to the smug."
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3/4 |
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(1992) |
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"The Candyman is a svelte, sexual monument, far removed from the silent brutality of your average serial slasher."
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0/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Most of the enduring grindhouse movies lose the residue of sweaty misanthropy through the simple, inevitable obsolescence of their hard-candied centers of shock value."
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3/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Today, irony has started to look more and more like the death knell for serious horror films, and so the relative straightforwardness of a Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter is a welcome throwback."
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(1974) |
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"Quintessentially British in that it takes all the eroticism out of the vampire myth, Kronos is still suffuse with a swampy, Moorish moodiness."
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(1964) |
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"If the Internet Movie Database is to be trusted, and if you liked The Godfather Part II, you should therefore enjoy Carpetbaggers. Yeah, if you’re John Waters."
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(1964) |
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"The film was a blockbuster back in 1964 and could have been seen as the last word in silver screen sleaze ... at least as far as mainstream America was concerned."
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4/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Carrie might be a film about high school, but it was perhaps Brian De Palma's first completely mature film."
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(2006) |
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"Chris Marker has nine brains."
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Modestly eschewing declarative organization, Marker's interest in and presentation of information is strictly pointillist."
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(1992) |
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"The characters' predictable quasi-martyrdom brings the movie's more pious concerns to a gratifyingly shocking climax."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"De Palma uses his consummate filmmaking skill to craft a reflection of his own grave sorrow about the Vietnam era."
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"Today's episode of softcore melodrama has been brought to you by Pamprin, Love's Baby Soft, and Diet Slice."
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1.5/4 |
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"Cecilia isn't that far removed from the world of the nighttime soap."
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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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(1991) |
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"Suggests a Kwaidan remake directed by the Evil Dead 2-era Sam Raimi."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1987) |
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"Check out Miss Miller riding down the freeway of Alzheimer's in her pink Cadillac."
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3/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Chipmunk Adventure is worth one toked-out viewing for Dody Goodman's gratingly senile Miss Miller and her description of the trio's daily breakfast menu."
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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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(1950) |
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"A dream is a wish your heart makes. Apparently, whatever your head wishes is to be stifled and gagged."
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2/4 |
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(1950) |
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"A trim hour and change worth of Gerber life lessons."
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(2000) |
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"Moody yet mischievous, this multicultural mafia mash-up might make a mad Miike admirer of you."
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(1982) |
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"If Mark Lester really believes Class of 1984 prefigured Columbine, then he must truly believe some kids really do deserve to get taken out. Sick."
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2/4 |
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(1982) |
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"An allegory in which the subtext out-bullhorns the text itself."
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(1943) |
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"The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"At the center of the storm is one of the most focused, downright obsessive examples of cine-diva deification in recent memory."
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(2004) |
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"The Clearing? It's more like The Obscuring."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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4/4 |
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(1962) |
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"By most accounts, photographer-turned-director Agnès Varda is considered the archetypal girl who crashed the big boys’ clubhouse, and Cléo from 5 to 7 was the film that paid her membership fee."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The surfeit of plot twists and implausible coincidences strain narrative credibility even as the remarkably brawny presentation provides a warm rush."
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(2004) |
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"Vardalos is Patrick Swayze to Collette's Hugo Weaving."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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2/4 |
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(1972) |
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"There is nothing in Ted V. Mikels's infamous grindhouse cheapie even a fraction as disturbing as the graphic art of its promotional one-sheet."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Cowards Bend the Knee is paradoxically retrograde and ultramodern."
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(1976) |
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"Among Creature's motley perks is the 'Scope cinematography of Dean Cundey."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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1.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Ultimately, the hitchhiker’s immortal catchphrase "thanks for the ride, lady" is just another way of saying "Yessuh, massuh.""
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(1987) |
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"“Thanks for the ride, lady.”"
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"Makes meteor **** smell sweet."
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(1954) |
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"If the maxim "crime doesn't pay" is noir's given, then Crime Wave spins it to answer "but virtue barely scrapes up a living wage.""
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(1986) |
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"Critters as a franchise has nothing on the Nightmare on Elm Street films, but it’s proven popular enough with Gen X-ers who forward “You know you’re a child of the ‘80s if…” emails to all their office mates."
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(1986) |
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"Apart from the nostalgic appeal to die-hard New Line horror aficionados, most are likely to share the eye-rolling sentiments of second-billed cameo star M. Emmet Walsh."
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(1988) |
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"If Critters was a sorry replay of Gremlins, then Main Course anticipates in many ways the barn-burning Gremlins 2: The New Batch."
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(1988) |
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"That rare sequel which improves on its original, which, in this case, wasn’t that hard to do."
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(1977) |
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"I don't know whether Peckinpah is saying that war is hell or that war is gay. Either way, it's all about the boys."
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2.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Cross of Iron would almost seem a proper mea culpa by Peckinpah for his controversial career."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Why Cruising? Why now? And why does it feel like how you answer those questions will determine which side pocket you keep your handkerchief in?"
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Slant Magazine |
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(1980) |
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"Rather than settling the score on a supposedly misunderstood film, the deluxe edition of Cruising only turns up the heat on its controversial bad self."
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(1983) |
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"Underrated, but nowhere near as much as the book. I'd personally rather rescue Christine and 'Salem's Lot from the King adaptations of ill repute."
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