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(2004) |
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"The sort of film wherein Bobby can't win a tournament until he can control his temper."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1992) |
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"The characters' predictable quasi-martyrdom brings the movie's more pious concerns to a gratifyingly shocking climax."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1991) |
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"Suggests a Kwaidan remake directed by the Evil Dead 2-era Sam Raimi."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"The Clearing? It's more like The Obscuring."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2004) |
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"Vardalos is Patrick Swayze to Collette's Hugo Weaving."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1976) |
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"Among Creature's motley perks is the 'Scope cinematography of Dean Cundey."
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(2000) |
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"Or, as more than a few IMDB reviewers have hinted: My Big Fat Swedish Wedding."
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(2004) |
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"If the film's only great scene is a direct lift from Eisenstein's Alexander Nevsky, the remainder is a dour Braveheart rehash."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1997) |
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"John Waters would be jealous."
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(1976) |
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"Reeks of vintage Old Spice."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1976) |
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"A testament to the Right's continued attempts to slap a chastity belt on pop."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2002) |
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"A particularly unfortunate casualty is the movie's otherwise effective final montage."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1992) |
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"Even the title suggests self-inflated notions of deft entertainment."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1965) |
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"Malamondo is the strip-show that keeps on giving."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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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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(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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(2004) |
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"The film's biggest flaw is that it never settles on and adheres to the basic rules of any given genre."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1991) |
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"The difficult, convoluted plot gets off track too often for the film to retain a full head of steam."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1994) |
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"For all its flirtation with the boundaries of bad taste, never once does Red to Kill come close to treating the mentally handicapped as worthy of ridicule."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1994) |
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"Plays like an early harbinger of the sort of moody, mournful films that have become commonplace with the success of M. Night Shyamalan."
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(2004) |
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"Dreamworks' attempt to turn random, satire-devoid pop cultural references into the new language of fairy tales."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1992) |
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"Can't a girl get a little sugar without tipping the jar?"
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(2004) |
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"Doesn't anyone from The Daily Show do anything worthwhile on his down time?"
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(1987) |
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"Plays attractively like Intro to Anticapitalism 101."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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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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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1997) |
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"A cut-rate Hong Kong buddy picture."
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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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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(1978) |
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"An acutely confused vehicle for writer-director-star Herb Robins to film one of his most memorable childhood fever-dreams."
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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(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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(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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(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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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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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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(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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(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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(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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