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(1997) |
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"It would be a lot easier to dismiss The Hanging Garden if its fetishized details weren’t so naked and boldly autobiographical."
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(1997) |
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"Queer without being sexual, and quirky without being particularly congenial, The Hanging Garden is a game of “Truth or Dare” without ambition."
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(2002) |
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"Happiness of the Katakuris is probably the film best equipped to fill that black-camp-karaoke-musical-horror-claymé-domestic-dramedy void in your DVD library."
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Harry and Max is writer-director Christopher Munch's seemingly candid exorcism of any number of self-consciously naughty fantasies."
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2/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Just as Mac and Me eventually devolved into a feature-length commercial for McDonald's, Harry and the Hendersons eventually emerges as a vegetarian screed."
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(1987) |
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"You know you're a child of the '80s if you still hear Harry's police siren howl in the back of your memory."
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2/4 |
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(1988) |
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"It's probably a stretch to surmise that, just as the first film's subtext dealt with health fears, the sequel mines its dread from the horror of malpractice."
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(1969) |
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"Is it fair that Streisand’s stolen role gets the DVD treatment when victim Carol Channing’s immortal performance as the White Queen in Irwin Allen’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is still unavailable?"
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2/4 |
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(1969) |
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"More infamous for bringing Fox financially to its knees than for being the last major musical directed by Gene Kelly, Dolly! is one big-assed bull in a china shop."
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2.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"Barker's vision cribs equally from the mythos of vampires and zombies, but Hellraiser's overriding ridiculousness (and nagging budgetary shortcomings) can't disguise the fact that the movie is at least unwittingly a product of the AIDS crisis."
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"Overproduced and guaranteed to disappoint all but those who have never bought a Hellraiser DVD to date, the Lament Configuration Box Set will likely only tear your wallet apart."
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4/4 |
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(1969) |
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"The most Hitchcockian riff that De Palma ever examined is the capacity for the human psyche to harbor intense, complicated divergence."
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(1977) |
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"Fans have been waiting for decades for a proper release of Wes Craven’s back-*** desert flick. Anchor Bay’s generous extras make this release the Thanksgiving turkey."
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2.5/4 |
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(1977) |
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"Craven’s latent sick streak gets a major workout here, and the rudest shocks seem to center around the “good” family’s parental figures."
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2.5/5 |
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(1982) |
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"Though the film is obviously coated with a veneer of nostalgic sentimentality, Eastwood never lets Honkytonk Man veer into maudlin territory."
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3/4 |
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(1982) |
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"Clint Eastwood’s dust bowl drama Honkytonk Man is a sensitive road picture about a mostly luckless aspiring country music singer."
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3.5/4 |
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(1963) |
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"A deceptively simple film."
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(1963) |
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"One of the prototypal essay films, The House is Black paved the way for the Iranian New Wave."
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2/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Say "Merchant-Ivory" to most cinephiles and watch their eyelids sag."
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(1992) |
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"Not my cup of tea. I don't even like tea."
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3/4 |
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(1965) |
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"Director Aldrich's work on Baby Jane was already a study in hysteria, and his style for Charlotte is, if anything, even more ornate."
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(1965) |
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"Bette Davis and Agnes Moorehead overact against each other like Miles Davis and John Coltrane traded fours. Thank Jesus no one suggested a sand dance-off."
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