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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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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As insistently wry as it is haunting."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Birth of a Nation itself is a set of cinematic training wheels."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Not since Larry David's Sour Grapes has a movie kicked off by so thoroughly painting its protagonists as deeply unlikable souls."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Serves as a fairly surface-oriented hagiography of a self-conscious rock star photographer."
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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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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A close-up but still, one senses, heavily idealized documentary portrait."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An upstart thriller about a young man's initiation into politics and life, Choose Connor is not coincidentally getting a theatrical release during an election that will likely mark an old man's exit from both politics and life."
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Doesn't ever end up communicating anything other than its own capacity for sensitive understatement."
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(2008) |
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"Miraculously avoids leaden 'significance' in favor of a sagacious lived-in-ness."
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When Canses Were Classeled |
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(2008) |
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"I have to admit this is probably the smartest entry in the series."
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When Canses Were Classeled |
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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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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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(2008) |
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"Even more surprisingly poignant and intelligent upon repeat viewings, Otto is attractively rough around the edges."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For a movie with this many ideological loose ends, Otto comes up with a convincingly sweet resolution."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A penetrating contemplation of the American industrial-military complex's obstreperous legacy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"In 1971: Jane Fonda's Klute makes off with the Oscar, The Stewardesses make off with the bank. Draw your own conclusions."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"If anything, The Stewardesses proves that the 1960s were hardly a heyday for free love on both sides of the gender divide."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Biller's film is to the films of Radley Metzger and Russ Meyer what Todd Haynes's Far From Heaven was to Douglas Sirk, only perhaps a little bit cannier and a lot less dryly academic about its postmodern tweaks."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"That personal, private creation (i.e. painting, sculpture) is held up as the standard for artistic expression over collaboration (i.e. film directing) smacks of art-as-onanism."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Rob Reiner's films have always aimed for a heartwarming effect and more frequently resulted in heartworm."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A fate-obsessive film that would nearly register as existential were it not so resolutely low-key."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film tries a little too fastidiously to piece together a life its owner tried quite brazenly to shatter."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"If A Jihad for Love demonstrates the mountainous struggle Muslim homosexuals face daily, the bonus footage on the DVD reiterates that they're far from alone in having much work still to do."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Apatow's talent for accurately portraying his generation at their most self-absorbed doesn't quite go as far at justifying the script's patchy, haphazard conflicts at it does toward explaining the film's bloated running time."
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When Canses Were Classeled |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Lagerfeld Confidential lives up to its title by keeping its central topic top secret."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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(2007) |
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"Hardly worth a double-dip, but No Country's ambient horror will pin you to the floor and slice into your neck with a taut handcuff chain."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Until someone puts out a disc of Harry Potter in Equus, Zoo will have to suffice for those who want to get their horse rocks off."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The legacy of Chris Marker weeps when the future of essay filmmaking looks like a feature-length commercial for Ambien."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Modestly eschewing declarative organization, Marker's interest in and presentation of information is strictly pointillist."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Chris Marker has nine brains."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"At the center of the storm is one of the most focused, downright obsessive examples of cine-diva deification in recent memory."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The surfeit of plot twists and implausible coincidences strain narrative credibility even as the remarkably brawny presentation provides a warm rush."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The feature debut of Swiss director Lionel Baier puts a queer twist on the Mulveynian concept of cinema's 'male gaze.'"
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Arrogantly conceived, pretentiously executed, and petulantly protracted."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Oh, François, you big tease!"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Even more disposable and blatantly money-grabbing than those previous two-disc Diet Golden Collections, if that's possible."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Stryker's allegiance holds novelty above awareness-raising, but maybe the former is meant to feed the latter."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A surprisingly downbeat follow-up to director Noam Gonick's tweaked-out Hey, Happy!"
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Stocked with enough Nickelodeon-owned kid stars to qualify as the public result of an intensive, mandatory summer acting camp."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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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Slant Magazine |
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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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