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3/4 |
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"This is not a great achievement by any means, but the director's consistent display of enthusiasm allows it to stay afloat long enough to get its point across."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Few can argue that the movie is totally unbelievable, but if one is able to leave all sense of logic at the door, it's very hard not to have a darn good time in the process."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Blade: Trinity may indeed be the last film of this series, but it's doubtful that anyone will be complaining that much after seeing it for themselves."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Much like the title character himself, this is an endeavor that strives for greatness but is too burdened by its own ego to live out the full potential."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The Polar Express is the most expensive vanity project ever made."
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"By far the best of the CGI-animated films in the Disney canon, a wondrous and exciting spectacle that is just as enticing narratively as it is visually."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This is the kind of scare-fest that gets under your skin but is too busy elsewhere to penetrate your defenses."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The overall tone of the film lacks accessibility, and much of the humor is so dry that even those who might get the jokes are not likely to find them very funny."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A film so detached from Asimov's vision, it emerges as a destabilized attempt at reworking an already-polished concept."
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A brainless, clueless concept. And it's not even a fun one, either."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...fueled by an exhilarating rush of adrenaline, utilized often and consistently at several points of the narrative...."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...an interesting little piece of entertainment: stylized, ambitious, and filled with scenes in which the element of creepiness seems genuine rather than synthetic."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...the movie has delivery that often overshadows the punch lines, and it's not very accessible."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A faux thriller, so filled with camouflage and manipulation that when the big twists are finally revealed, the entire film loses any true sense of value."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...as a proletarian concept artist, David Twohy proves that he has both the imagination and the skill to build exciting worlds for his characters to interact in."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A brave and admirable little endeavor here that creates a whole lot of grand chaos in just a little over two hours."
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4/4 |
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(1979) |
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"...a movie so good, so involving and so jolting that it not only takes is place among the great science fiction films of our time, but also the great thrillers."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...silly, illogical and downright brainless fluff that, for one reason or another, manages to be both funny and charismatic all the way through."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...the visual highlights are unable to stand on their own; they get buried behind a screen of shoddy characterizations, useless subplots and cheesy ploys for tension."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The Prisoner of Azkaban is basically a routine vehicle that plods its way through details without giving much incentive to feel engaged by the specifics."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"....thoughtful, extensive, focused and energetic without actually being a retread of the past"
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Like a Trojan Horse, Troy is built on a shell that at first glance is appealing, but reveals its deception when you least expect it to."
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...one of the purest movies you will see, unhindered by the conventions of cinema and built completely on the essence of feelings."
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Mind-numbingly brilliant."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"To say that the film redeems this genre from recent semi-lapses like Hellboy is an understatement."
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1/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Nothing more than a long and exhausting excursion into the world of macho men as they defeat the enemy and then celebrate by boring the audience to tears."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"This sly endeavor is not nearly as brave or uninhibited as it claims; it is a movie that scrambles around with its ideas and never really decides where it wants to take them."
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...a wonderful little motion picture that perplexes and baffles the audience almost as easy as it charms them."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"By the end of Secret Window, I was too busy being amused by the film's undeniable sense of thrills to care that much about the flaws."
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...the movie doesn't take any of its material seriously—a big plus—and the alertness of the characters usually results in some scenes of hilarious comic value..."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...essentially Seabiscuit minus the cheering crowds"
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0/4 |
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(2004) |
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"After witnessing it, I felt like writing a letter of apology to the makers of Gigli."
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4/4 |
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(1987) |
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"The movie warrants a response that is perhaps the closest thing possible on film to witnessing the mayhem firsthand."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...has the kind of energy so zealous that one can't help but notice the filmmakers simply using it as a mask to cover up obvious shortcomings."
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0.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"...a dead zone of monstrous proportions that warrants nothing but yawns and groans for all 89 minutes it takes up the screen."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"If you're able to observe things without the intention of analyzing every detail until they make perfect sense, then this is quite an observant moviegoeing experience."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...a film that works, more or less, simply for being about real characters and how they cope with situations."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...provoking and stimulating to a fault, a movie that genuinely seems to care about its messages and the people it involves."
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...so stirring, so inquisitive and so uninhibited by the restraints of cinema that it absorbed me in ways that few movies ever have."
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The Last Samurai delivers in ways that would have made even Akira Kurosawa himself proud."
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...a movie with such raw ambition and spirit that it literally reinvents the standards of everything it can be associated with."
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"One of the most engaging experiences you will have at the movies, it is a taut and intelligent hybrid of a thriller that has as many effective ideas as a mind has brain cells."
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The movie truly is the most amazing visual spectacle ever seen on celluloid."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"...not a very theatrical film, but still concise and taut without being skimpy on necessary traits."
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"..far too much importance is placed on the live action characters, who in contrast look like they should be spectators at a who's-who reunion of animated superstars."
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"To say that I disliked this movie is an understatement. I loathed it."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Though inferior to its predecessors, Revolutions does manage to keep the eyes intrigued for two hours of solid and well-photographed action sequences."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"An affectionate holiday movie with a lot of spirit and heart, but one that might have been much better if not for the fact that the visuals almost annihilate the narrative."
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3.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Anexpertly crafted crime thriller that knows how to juggle the facts and the action without bogging them down in fits of overkill."
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The movie is driven by a brilliant performance from Cate Blanchett, who becomes Veronica Guerin almost as easily as a caterpillar evolves into a butterfly."
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