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(1961) |
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"So long as Disney's never made any bones about finding the whole female race either bland or evil, I have no trouble embracing the studio's biggest bitch of them all."
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3.5/4 |
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(1961) |
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"Cruella De Vil is so much a tour de force that she single-handedly snatches the movie away from any retroactive comparisons to post-classical Disney features whose sloppiness is the is their only saving grace."
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(2002) |
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"Winterbottom’s film didn’t exactly win him any new fans at Cannes last summer, but on DVD 24 Hour Party People is a cult favorite in-the-making."
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(2002) |
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"A light and playful look at the Manchester music scene which spans from the punk explosion to the dawn of acid house."
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4/4 |
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(1977) |
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"3 Women is a daring piece of cinema that glides along the edge of weirdness and somehow manages not to fall off."
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(1977) |
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"Apparently, Robert “Hot Lips” Altman was ready to be reborn as Maya Deren.
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4/4 |
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(1959) |
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"The 400 Blows, one of the initiating sparks of the French New Wave, ultimately boils down to the film's trendsetting coda, perhaps the most exclamatory question mark in movies."
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(1959) |
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"Criterion's Blu-Ray presentation of The 400 Blows isn't perfection, but it suggests there's a whole new world of black-and-white cinematography to be discovered in high-definition."
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(1941) |
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"While narrowly focused and lacking the flights of fancy that mark The Archers' enduring classics, 49th Parallel is still in tune with the miraculous."
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(1941) |
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"While it might not seem so on the surface to those weaned on Why We Fight and, conversely, The Eternal Jew, 49th Parallel is wholly valid as propaganda."
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Oh, François, you big tease!"
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(2004) |
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"You and I will be together ‘til the 6 is 9. That’s right."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Its deadly punchlines suggest the archetypal “cosmic joke” with more emphasis on the tragic side of the tragedy-comedy continuum.
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A downward spiral of destitution...like a soul jogging in place in Purgatory."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Drips with that element that has turned countless gay films into dour endurance tests: navel-gazing self-pity."
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(1962) |
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"Advise and Consent's near-mathematical approach to political intrigue is a great argument in favor of big government."
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3.5/4 |
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(1962) |
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"Preminger's visual savvy turns that most staid and insufferable of social terrariums, the floor of the U.S. Senate, into a vibrant, perpetually shifting Voronoi diagram."
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(1985) |
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"The back of the box calls the film a “Chinese puzzle.” Are they sure they didn’t mean “Chinese Water Torture?”"
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2.5/4 |
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(1985) |
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"Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria."
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(1999) |
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"Six years after it attempted to bring gay rights to an uplifting, if bittersweet denouement, the Bush years have now given After Stonewall its sense of urgency."
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2.5/4 |
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(1999) |
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"“Lesbians! We’re everywhere! Lesbiana! Yo soy lesbiana!”
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3/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Sustains a single premise for its entire running time, and does so without lagging or going limp."
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(1980) |
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"Once the film's fanatics find out that the "Don't Call Me Shirley" edition of Airplane! is mostly a gussied-up replay of the previous edition, the ****'ll really hit the fan."
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(1951) |
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"Did we mention that Carol Channing’s performance in Through the Looking Glass is one of the three or four greatest performances ever caught on film?"
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2.5/4 |
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(1951) |
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"Disney was and is a studio with an impenetrably inflated sense of quality control."
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(1979) |
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"All That Jazz manages an act of alchemy as it exudes the foul miasma of flop sweat at the same time as it showcases Fosse’s consummate cinematic talents."
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(1979) |
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"All That Jazz may be Fosse’s finest cinematic achievement."
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2.5/4 |
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(1965) |
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"Drenched with Metzger's penchant for self-reflective wit."
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2/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Lewis Teague is only too willing to hand over the entire project to Sayles's hunger for allegorical subplots."
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(1980) |
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"Flush it down the toilet."
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(2003) |
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"Costa-Gavras walks a fine line between portraying the soulless social allowances and ignorance that allowed the Holocaust to happen, and exploiting them for dramatic punch."
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(2003) |
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"Though such elements might chip away somewhat at Amen’s seriousness of intent, they do add fire to the stimulating drama."
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(2001) |
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"That baby just spit up…right in his dad's nyuts!"
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"And what of New York's disco-era gays? They're written out of the story here just as decisively as they were written out of Levenson's version of utopia."
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(2004) |
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"More than you ever wanted to know about the vagina, which isn’t good enough for Catherine Breillat."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The ultimate lesson being taught isn’t how homosexuality can be transposed to kinky hetero sex games."
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4/4 |
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(1970) |
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"Morrissey's films provided a more welcoming stage for bona fide superstar performances than many of Warhol's own movies."
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(1991) |
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"Undoubtedly careful, tasteful filmmaking. But, then again, Janet Frame's writing could also be described as careful and tasteful."
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2.5/4 |
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(1991) |
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"Campion's knack for solitary yet paradoxically epic scope nibbles off Laura Jones's bite-sized scene-sketches of loneliness and makes entire meals of them."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Another Gay Sequel: Gays Gone Wild aims for a self-knowingness that could conceivably be mislabeled as camp by any one of its *****-brained lead characters."
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(1929) |
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"Still recovering from Ellen Burstyn’s Sara Goldfarb? See her cinematic grandmother’s career as a hoochy-koochy derail itself right into a bottle of poison."
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3/4 |
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(1929) |
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"Even more impressive was its (pre-Freaks) sympathetic portrayal of a shunned community in all its self-contained, lip-biting game-face pride."
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1/4 |
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(1980) |
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"Noxious."
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(1980) |
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"Rated PG, for “penis gratification” during the sex number titled “I’m Coming For You.”"
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2/4 |
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(1970) |
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"The Aristocats is one of the slightest of director Wolfgang Reitherman's contributions to the Disney animated feature canon, which is to say it's still among the studio's least suffocatingly ornate and ideologically risible films."
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(1970) |
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"The Aristocats is not jazz."
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3/4 |
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(1929) |
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"A tranquil nocturne when compared to the scherzo standards of German expressionism."
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(1929) |
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"Joe May's tale of forbidden self-abnegation asks whose *** is really at fault?"
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.5/4 |
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(1980) |
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"The really frustrating thing about Tomatoes is the toothlessness of its satire."
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(1980) |
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"Attack of the Killer Tomatoes is in that thankfully small sub-genre of film I like to call “frat guy camp.""
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