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(1987) |
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"The exploited tears of the wage-labor Garbage Pail Kids are a communist playground's gain."
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1/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Indisputably bargain-basement aside from the casting of Mackenzie Astin."
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The feature debut of Swiss director Lionel Baier puts a queer twist on the Mulveynian concept of cinema's 'male gaze.'"
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(1944) |
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"Angela Lansbury's career as a slut got off to its promising start in Cukor's ode to the eggshell-fragile grip women have on their senses whenever confronted by French men."
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2.5/4 |
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(1944) |
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"Gaslight ultimately adds up to very little in the psychological mind-**** department."
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(1913) |
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"Whether you view them aesthetically or archaeologically, the films in Gaumont Treasures show a significant portion of cinema's formation."
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4/4 |
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(1964) |
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"Gertrud is a film that is as richly mysterious and inscrutable as it is earthy and wry."
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3.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"The movie's tongue-in-cheek (and pre-subprime) satire of surging capitalist hubris is scarcely mitigated by the necessary fairy-tale ending."
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(1984) |
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"Ghostbusters, whaddya want?!"
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1.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Girl 6, the story of a girl and her stint in the phone sex biz, is a sloppy and problematic film, no diggity."
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(1996) |
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"In which Spike Lee mind-wrestles with a feminist screenwriter and everyone loses."
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3/4 |
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(1966) |
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"The film flails airlessly, not unlike Day herself when she's mistakenly locked inside Taylor's anti-gravity prototype."
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(1966) |
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"I'd like to presume that Lynde is removing lipstick from his teeth, and not Robert Wagner's short curlies."
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(1995) |
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"Not every lesson is comprised of what you want to hear."
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3/4 |
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(1995) |
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"Burnett uses a socially discomforting scenario that has only vague implications of deeper malice to initiate a brave portrayal of a Caucasian-centric sort of martial law."
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(1980) |
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"Star performances don’t come by more brashly inviting than Gena Rowland’s immortal .44 diva."
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(1980) |
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"Indie godfather John Cassavetes transforms Gena Rowlands into his own little Pam Grier in this oddly sweet-and-sour, PG-rated mob melodrama."
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(1966) |
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"Never had an audience that required so little in the way of cinematic panache been fed so much."
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3.5/4 |
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(1966) |
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"One of the most compelling validations of the western genre’s most elemental touchstones."
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1/4 |
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(1978) |
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"Despite the film's rose-tinted rearview mirrors and Ipana-worthy cheeriness, it's not so much the Wedding Singer of its day as it is the Boogie Nights."
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(1978) |
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"Allen Carr calls Grease his own big party on the bonus featurette. Why do I get the feeling he auditioned for the part of Patty Simcox?"
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(1982) |
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"The only value to be salvaged from this limp carbon copy is in how much of the formulaic worthlessness it exposes of the original Grease."
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(1982) |
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"As far as ‘50s-styled cornball tributes to heavy-petting go, Grease 2 has got nothing on Prince’s “Jack U Off.”"
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3/4 |
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(1968) |
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"Greetings, and salutations to a career destined to be pockmarked by provocation."
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"A masterpiece among masterpieces, the two-part, three-hour A Grin Without a Cat is Chris Marker's most ambitious, clear-headed string of cinematic clauses and ideological couplets, and also his most impenetrable."
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(2002) |
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"For a film that's almost strictly for the political and artistic converts, A Grin Without a Cat is a surprisingly forthright examination of how the left dropped the ball."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Guerilla is a fascinating and cleanly delineated compendium of outrageous footage."
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(1949) |
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"So .38-caliber erections aren’t exactly as subversive as they once used to be. Gun Crazy is still drenched in Lewis’s B-movie finery."
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3/4 |
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(1949) |
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"Wild, wam-bam pacing."
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