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(1969) |
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"At the time, The Damned was considered Visconti’s “crowning achievement.” Sure, if that crown is meant to befit Italian cinema’s foremost drama queen."
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3/4 |
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(1969) |
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"By the end of the opening sequence, the film has already indulged in pan-sexuality, corporate backstabbing, anti-reactionary suppression, pedophilia, and murder plots."
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4/4 |
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(1978) |
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"Dawn of the Dead’s most unsettling aspect is in how it shows us how little we’ve changed as a culture."
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(1978) |
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"If the endless gallery of box covers from previous video versions are any indication, this “Ultimate Edition” will keep you occupied just until the “Definitive Edition.”"
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(1985) |
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"Anchor Bay lays down the extra features smack down for their presentation of Romero’s most grueling and nihilistic installment in his peerless zombie trilogy."
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(1985) |
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"Day of the Dead is unquestionably the most controversial and debated entry in George A. Romero’s unrivaled zombie trilogy."
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(1945) |
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"Two classics of early British horror have been thoughtfully doubled-up on a DVD release that should be on any fright fan’s shelf."
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(1945) |
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"Cavalcanti’s contribution might be the finest single episode to appear in any horror anthology film."
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(1945) |
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"Two classics of early British horror have been thoughtfully doubled-up on a DVD release that should be on any fright fan’s shelf."
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(1945) |
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"It’s more distressing to witness just how much the mood of a dark and uncompromising masterpiece can be sabotaged by a producer with his eyes on the easy uplift."
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2.5/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Harnesses the complex psychological implications of physical doubling."
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(1964) |
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"Is there an anamorphic screen big enough to handle the diva wattage of two Bette Davises?"
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(1983) |
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"Stephen King's name may be billed above the title, but The Dead Zone belongs firmly in the good company of the early auteurist "Masters of Horror" period of King adaptations."
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3.5/4 |
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(1983) |
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"Don't let the fact that visible breath and frosty misery take priority over exploding heads and fetus-licking snow you."
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(1975) |
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""Whoever named your car The Bull was only half right!" And whoever thinks of Death Race 2000 as second-rate is only half wrong."
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2.5/4 |
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(1975) |
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"Corman didn't direct the drive-in hit Death Race 2000, but it bears his imprint of economic utilitarianism."
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(1966) |
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"William Klein's films may be more arrogant than anything by Jean-Luc Godard. Americans...always trying to outdo everyone."
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3/4 |
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(1967) |
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"Lee seems to be sniffing out the evil."
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(1967) |
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"Regardless of whether he was playing a sinner or a saint, the deep throat of Christopher Lee made the battle between good and evil never sexier."
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2.5/4 |
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(1964) |
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"It certainly sets the stage for the films that followed."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Birth of a Nation itself is a set of cinematic training wheels."
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4/4 |
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(1989) |
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"Like Rear Window to Alfred Hitchcock, like Nashville to Robert Altman, like Playtime to Jacques Tati, Lee's Do the Right Thing is an undiluted representation of its creator's artistic command."
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(1989) |
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"As Mister Señor Love Daddy commands, "WAKE UP" to this absolutely essential home video."
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2.5/4 |
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(1970) |
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"Dodes'ka-den's forgotten souls enact their tribulations only in brief, impressionistic strokes, as apt to lapse into candy-coated reverie as they are to stare down the demons of fiscal and moral poverty."
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(1970) |
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"Keep a copy of this DVD handy for when we're all living on the edge of sanity in a pile of trash down by the river."
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(1989) |
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"Judge for yourself. I'm late for my appointment to get my head examined.
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3.5/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Dr. Strangelove's status as the movie that confirmed both Stanley Kubrick's reputation and the arrival of beat-sick irreverence can no longer be retracted."
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(1964) |
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"Still no sign of the holy grail pie-fight sequence, but the Blu-ray edition of Dr. Strangelove still preserves the film's purity of essence."
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3/4 |
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(1968) |
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"For starters, Lee’s eyes are frequently and unnervingly bloodshot whenever his sexual drive begins to rev into gear."
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(1968) |
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"Hot blood carouses thorough the veins of this handsome Hammer Dracula installment, even if Christopher Lee apparently took a cold shower before filming started."
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4/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Inflates paperback pulp psychology into something like a plot, all the better to demonstrate that filmmaking is an inherently visual storytelling."
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(1941) |
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"Pink elephants are on parade in Dumbo, Walt Disney's most sanguine film by an ear. Too bad Disney's single-disc package treats him like the Cheneys do Mary."
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3.5/4 |
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(1941) |
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"In its scant 64-minute running time, the big top melodrama of Dumbo reduces me to a blubbering, mucus-drizzling wreck at least once with every viewing."
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