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3/4 |
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(1972) |
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"Subtly disconcerting."
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(2004) |
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"Unless you’ve got a soft spot for British anthologies with fine, aged hams, you’re better off buying Kiss Kiss in paperback."
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"Tawny and all wet, the bare skin of Esther Williams in her earliest features probably kept up the morale (and other things) of the boys fighting overseas."
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(1995) |
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"Director Lik-Chi Lee stuffs his film with some winning slapstick mayhem."
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(1956) |
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"Anne Baxter tries to tame Charlton with the power of her royal poon, but her pheromones prove to be no match for Heston’s NRA-approved staff."
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2.5/4 |
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(1956) |
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"My, how times have changed!"
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(1974) |
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"...the only other film to truly capture that uniquely unsettling promise of Romero’s first zombie epic was Tobe Hooper’s absolutely perverted directorial debut..."
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1/4 |
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(1978) |
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"There is a transvestite who takes about eight hours in the men's bathroom to electric shave his bust, making him the only gay in this disco (aside from Debra Winger's AC/DC dance partner)."
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(1978) |
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"One of the few infamous disco flicks that was actually made before the death of disco, though you wouldn't know it from the sad evidence on display."
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(1985) |
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"The rare dance documentary that features more clips of Bob Fosse in front of the camera rather than behind, That's Dancing!'s only crippling flaw is that it was made when Kim Carnes was around to rasp through the closing credits."
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2.5/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Bends over backwards to celebrate the perception that the box office success of Fame and Flashdance heralded the rebirth of the form."
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(1975) |
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"Earth, Wind & Fire fans may now have the missing film, but the band is still nowhere to be found.
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(1975) |
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"If I chose to write a review of That's the Way of the World the length of which accurately reflected the duration of its star attraction Earth, Wind & Fire, I should have stopped writing two clauses ago."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Neither Meryl Streep's as-yet-unpolished performance nor the entire construction of this particular production of Bertolt Brecht's celebrated play are done much favor by this doc's unedifying attempt to shoot the moon."
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(1997) |
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"A cut-rate Hong Kong buddy picture."
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2/4 |
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(1971) |
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"Instead of taking an indirect sociological tack, Vanilla opts for fairly transparent post-Graduate countercultural hot-button topics."
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3.5/4 |
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(1968) |
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"Probably the most common misconception about Radley Metzger's films is that they are "innocent.""
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(1982) |
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"The new “Collector’s Edition” of The Thing is actually not much more than a perfect imitation of the previous “Collector’s Edition,” so beware."
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3/4 |
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(1982) |
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"The Thing may be a tad too careful and schematic to stand shoulder with Carpenter’s very best films."
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(1945) |
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"The menu buttons are shaped like sombreros. I trust I needn't say more."
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3.5/4 |
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(1966) |
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"Three on a Couch is a film that flies any number of directions."
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3.5/4 |
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(1984) |
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"It’s one thing for a documentary to claim a person great, it’s something else entirely to convince the audience they have an active role in fulfilling his legacy."
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(1984) |
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"A historical document that turns its subject matter into a clear plea for civic activism, The Times of Harvey Milk is a model documentary."
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(1997) |
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"In some cases, it's too much of a good thing."
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3.5/4 |
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(1997) |
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"It's something of an ingenuous revision of the standard disaster movie."
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3/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Towering Inferno's glass-spangled erection burns with an uncontrollable lust for spectacle."
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(1974) |
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"Irwin Allen's crowning achievement, and a shrine to all the bull**** behind Hollywood's blockbuster franchises, The Towering Inferno continues to fascinate in spite of its riskless self."
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(2002) |
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"The Transporter is probably the closest to a Franco experience as its Freedom Fries-eating target audience is likely to get."
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(1989) |
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"Hardly the far-reaching exposé of triad Mafiosi that its title promises."
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(1934) |
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"Witness John Barrymore’s brash thee-at-ah director remove puddy from his nose for the sake of his art."
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2.5/4 |
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(1934) |
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"Casually reverses and undermines its frumpy thesis by validating the effortlessly supple benefits of the seventh art.
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2/4 |
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(1996) |
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"When it sticks to kinetically portraying the sheer oddness of the tornadic phenomenon, Twister is a breeze. When it tries to recreate Hawks, it falls gracelessly from the green sky."
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(1996) |
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"An anorexic premise could've been a great and unusual disaster film if only Twister had taken the courage to keep everything pared down."
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