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3/4 |
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(1965) |
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"With The Family Jewels, Lewis seems more willing than ever to acknowledge his own hostility towards being dismissed as a kids’ entertainer."
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(1996) |
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"Fargo is the Coens' most ice-cold satire, but also features its warmest character."
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4/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Do you have to be a Minnesotan to really get Fargo?"
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Doesn't ever end up communicating anything other than its own capacity for sensitive understatement."
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(1986) |
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"The picture quality is a step up, but Paramount's production team clearly took the day off when it came time to bring Ferris Bueller to Blu-Ray."
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2.5/4 |
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(1986) |
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"One has to marvel at just how perfectly Hughes nails his frustratingly entitled mise-en-scène, which he unquestionably does in the film's mesmerizing detour inside an art museum."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A fate-obsessive film that would nearly register as existential were it not so resolutely low-key."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The success of the film depends almost distressingly on the audience’s cheeky sense of bad faith toward Lars Von Trier."
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(1951) |
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"Fixed Bayonets! isn't the most hyperbolic film in Samuel Fuller's catalog, but it earns the exclamation point."
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3.5/4 |
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(1951) |
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"If the film has endured it's because of a few aspects particular to Fuller's career, which began not in film but in yellow journalism and pulp writing."
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(2008) |
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"Miraculously avoids leaden 'significance' in favor of a sagacious lived-in-ness."
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When Canses Were Classeled |
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4/4 |
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(1986) |
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"David Cronenberg's 1986 remake of the sci-fi schlockfest The Fly is celebrated as perhaps the most perfectly balanced of the director's pre-prestige films."
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(1986) |
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"I say The Fly is maybe Cronenberg's most accomplished straight horror film, but, then again, a dentist just knocked out three of my teeth."
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(1976) |
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"Forget Bill Murray and Jim Carrey. Zero Mostel’s brutally moving performance in The Front shows you what a real “clown who cried” performance is made of."
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3.5/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Bernstein smartly suggests how capitalism actually benefited from the oppression of suspected communists."
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(1957) |
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"Hepburn's neck, fashion week in Paris, music by George and Ira Gershwin, and walls of pink. How did this movie end up so off-the-rack?"
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2.5/4 |
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(1957) |
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"The Devil may wear Prada, but the rest of the fashion world wears pink, at least according to Stanley Donen's endearingly naive Funny Face."
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4/4 |
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(1978) |
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"The movie that draws the deepest line in the sand between De Palma apologists and De Palma maniacs."
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