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2/4 |
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(1970) |
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"A good dint lower than its reputation, more so if you look at it not as one of the seminal 1970s films but instead as the first chapter from the finest filmmaking career spent examining the American mystique."
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(1970) |
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"M*A*S*H is no Nashville. Hell, it may not even be O.C. & Stiggs. But for better or worse, it stands testament to the fact that at least one segment of the counterculture had no place for women."
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Huppert doesn't turn this object d'cypher role into exactly the sort of gay-son-as-Oedipus tribute that Dan Harris flubbed with last year's Imaginary Heroes."
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(1992) |
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"Even the title suggests self-inflated notions of deft entertainment."
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3.5/4 |
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(1954) |
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"What people don't quite give Sirk credit for nowadays in their rush to justify his intellectual credentials is the fact that if he didn't necessarily believe in the cheesecake he served up."
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(1954) |
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"Bringing yourself to cherish Sirk not just for his egghead credibility, but also his willful bad taste might be counterintuitive, but it'll be a magnificent obsession."
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(1965) |
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"Malamondo is the strip-show that keeps on giving."
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2.5/4 |
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(1992) |
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"Finds Lee’s tendencies towards gadflyish social outrage folded into the fabric of the typically reactionary biopic genre."
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(1992) |
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"Lee turns the life story of Malcolm X into that rare biopic that all but explicitly acknowledges its director’s sense of identification with its subject."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film, a purported examination of male sexuality, was directed and written by women, and thus all we get is two super-sensitive men stroking each others' emotional baggage instead of licking each others' *****."
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(1928) |
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"Batman and the Joker only wished for this kind of psychological complexity."
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3.5/4 |
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(1928) |
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"The film’s fascination with bric-a-brac and its tendency towards spare, minimalist compositions is evidence of a stylistic schism."
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2/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Its execution sits perched well above its scummy aim, and the end result is that you feel guilty for wishing for something more perverted."
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(1988) |
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"Maniac Cop is only a petty misdemeanor to Uncle Sam's gross felony."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A triune plot that Ferrara digs into with sleeves fully rolled up."
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3/4 |
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(1964) |
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"With all the subtlety of Battleship Potemkin, a queue full of sour-faced old school nannies is shown blowing away into thin air to make way for the embodiment of modern female assertiveness."
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(1964) |
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"Practical poontang in every way."
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(1977) |
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"You know a flick is gunning for bad-movie notoriety when its claim to fame comes from a precredit intro delivered by Christopher Lee."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1988) |
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"Produced for Danish television in 1987, Medea is a remarkable, streamlined minimalist tone poem."
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(1988) |
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"Between this and Dreyer’s own ode to castrating matriarchy, Master of the House, one could have a real ironic Mothers’ Day film festival."
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(1944) |
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"“Have yourself a merry little Christmas, it may be your last. Next year we may all be living in the past.”"
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3.5/4 |
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(1944) |
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"Minnelli's gracefully gliding camerawork is at its absolute best here."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Another case study delving into the hubris and insult of trying too hard to feel someone else's pain."
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(1924) |
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"Dreyer turns a bisexual love triangle into the archetype of sexual piety and martyrdom. How Scandinavian of him."
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3.5/4 |
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(1924) |
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"Many critics have chosen to downplay the film’s gay subtext, but to do so would deny the power of Dreyer’s fastidious attention to the polarity of love’s vicissitudes."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Given just how much material Kenny Ortega and his editors plowed through to whittle together a two-hour scrapbook and they still could only just barely come up with the presentable material here isn't exactly a vindication."
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(2003) |
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"The cliché of the idealistic young preacher learning a few lessons from the real world gets an energetic workout in this Swedish import."
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3.5/4 |
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(2000) |
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"Mission to Mars' redemptive coda opened the door for the subsequent film's continuing figurative and literal sanguinity."
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(1996) |
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" Makhmalbaf's Chinese puzzle box structure matches the heft of his collective memory."
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3.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"Resonates heavy with the Proustian understanding of how memories only amplify and enrich with time."
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(1981) |
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"You've gotta give Paramount credit for resisting the urge to call it the "No Wire Hangers Ever! Edition." They're aces. True class."
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4/4 |
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(1981) |
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"Perry and Yablans fuse this formal schizophrenia with the cruelly episodic structure and fetishized period details of Hollywood biopics."
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(2004) |
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"The best that can be said for Mr. 3000 is that it does the schmaltz of the baseball movie genre justice."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"It's a team sport, but the story belongs to the individual, which gives the otherwise comfortable corniness of Mr. 3000 its meta-celebrity subtext."
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(1978) |
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"It's amazing how much male pigs are attracted to Sly Stallone."
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(1976) |
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"Though not 100% uncut, Muppets fans have been waiting for a collection like this for a long while."
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"Bob Hope dodges Japanese pole vaulters nearly as swiftly as he sprinted from one USO stop to the next, and Piggy comes frustratingly close to removing Rudolf Nureyev's towel in the sauna."
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3/4 |
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(1944) |
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"What really fills out the film is Dmytryk’s jazzy application of Orson Welles’s RKO set-design."
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(1944) |
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"Raymond Chandler might have scoffed at the gauze of Hollywood, but Murder, My Sweet is crawling with grunty RKO expressionism."
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3.5/4 |
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(1963) |
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"A truly frustrating tug-of-war between conventional narrative and fragmented presentation."
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(1963) |
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"Somewhere between swinging in Last Year at Marienbad and dropping spoons in Jeanne Dielman, Delphine Seyrig reached a domestic crossroads in Muriel."
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(1985) |
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"While Personal Best and Making Love have faded into obscurity as The Celluloid Closet footnotes, My Beautiful Laundrette has become a benchmark in the 80s new queer cinema."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1985) |
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"As inviting as having a studly young Daniel Day-Lewis lick your neck."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Being neither Mexican nor Jewish, I imagine I'm the perfect audience for the chaotically cross-cultural ethnography farce of My Mexican Shivah."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"In the theater, whenever Mike, Crow or Tom Servo flub a punchline or resort to a fart joke, you almost want to lean forward and shush them."
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(1996) |
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"With added scope but little to justify its bloated heft, Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie is the show's own Manos: The Hands of Fate."
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