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1.5/4 |
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"Dramatic tension and narrative momentum are MIA."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"For a narrative that's positively overflowing with dramatic intrigue, Elizabeth: The Golden Age is only fitfully compelling."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A smart, low-key charmer."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A monumental achievement, 17 years in the making and financed by Kaye himself, Lake of Fire reveals Kaye to be a far more thoughtful and mature filmmaker than his loose cannon public persona suggests."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"That Bar-Lev takes such care to depict them as complex, foible-laden individuals who can't be pegged either good or bad is one of the great strengths of this intriguing and provocative documentary."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The ridiculous and the sublime collide, with tragicomic results, in Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Chris Metzler and Jeff Springer's lively, fascinating chronicle of "Paradise Lost" in the Southern California desert."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Alternately gripping and frustrating, Trade is a regrettable disappointment."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Although The Darjeeling Limited pales in comparison to Anderson's best film, Rushmore, it's still a vast improvement over the director's last and worst film, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"No better or worse than its video game-derived predecessors, hack-for-hire Russell Mulcahy's tired schlockfest blatantly rips off other, infinitely better sci-fi chillers."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A poor man's version of a Judd Apatow-style raunchy romantic comedy."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Engaging but overly glossy."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Except for the breathtaking Australian landscape, there's little to recommend about December Boys."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"It's overlong, exhaustingly so, and barely held together by the flimsiest of narratives."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This intermittently riveting and atmospheric film nevertheless ends on such a bewilderingly abrupt and unsatisfying note, you wonder if there's a missing reel."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"In the end, Kohn's one-note approach diminishes, rather than intensifies, the impact of Manda Bala."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A captivating fable, told with heartfelt eloquence and restraint."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The analogies drawn between the Ishkanani and the Osborne social circle come off as insufferably precious, rather than thoughtful."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A former storyboard artist, Davis orchestrates the film's nearly wall-to-wall action sequences with breakneck precision and exhilarating verve -- the more outrageous the mayhem, the better."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A terrific, old-fashioned western, proof positive that sometimes, they do "make 'em like they used to.""
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0/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A strong argument for birth control and 2007's worst comedy to date."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Freshman Orientation barely rates a passing grade."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"For anyone bored silly by the formulaic drivel churned out by the studios, Exiled is like a blast of cinematic adrenaline."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A top contender for the summer's worst comedy..."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A passably entertaining hodgepodge of sword-and-sandal film clichés and Arthurian romance."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"What could have been a galvanizing and all-too timely account of religious fanaticism turning violent has instead been reduced to the banal level of an Romeo and Juliet-type love story."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A breezily funny showcase for the rubbery-faced Atkinson's signature character, a near-mute buffoon partly inspired by the similar antics of Jacques Tati."
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3.5/4 |
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"An audience favorite on the film festival circuit, The King of Kong: A Fistful of Quarters is a laugh-out-loud funny and rousing documentary that's far more compelling than the would-be summer blockbusters crowding the multiplex."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Aside from a handful of scenes, the fourth version of Finney's pulp novel may induce drowsiness, rather than goose-bumps."
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1.5/4 |
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"Yet another misbegotten live-action remake of a beloved Saturday morning cartoon, Underdog is a negligible family film that's so blandly formulaic, it makes the original, '60s-era cartoon look downright edgy in comparison."
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1.5/4 |
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"About the best that can be said for this clunky mixture of tired stereotypes, obvious gags, and on-the-nose social commentary is that it's relatively short, clocking in just less than 90 minutes."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A resoundingly mediocre film that commits the cardinal sin of tedium."
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4/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the year's best films to date."
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2.5/4 |
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"Sunshine is also an atypically humorless entry from Boyle, who's never made a film this oddly devoid of personality."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Stodgy rather than sweeping, with precious little of the wondrous excitement conjured by Alfonso Cuaron in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"This stylish and sophisticated film loses its way in a frustratingly vague third act that's more unsatisfying than unsettling."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Danes, radiant with intelligence, warmth and common sense, captures your heart. Sadly, the same cannot be said of Evening."
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3.5/4 |
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"A galvanizing, infuriating and sometimes heartbreaking look into the red tape-snarled morass of the American health care system."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"One of the year's most compelling films to date."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Corneliu Porumboiu's drolly witty black comedy 12:08 East of Bucharest is an understated gem, infused with gimlet-eyed humor, weary pathos and surprising tenderness."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Overly long and often listlessly paced."
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"See it if you're a fan of serious, literate drama and virtuoso acting."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Hollywood's reigning auteur of raunchy romantic comedy, Judd Apatow, scores a near-knockout with Knocked Up, his extremely funny and sweetly endearing follow-up to The 40-Year-Old Virgin."
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3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Bug holds you in its disturbing grip until the genuinely shocking denouement."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Alternately exciting and exhausting, Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End may occasionally sail off course, but it never runs completely aground."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Robert Tannen's first-produced screenplay certainly doesn't lack for story -- or clichés, for that matter. Nor does Tannen skimp on trite, predictable plot twists, or well-worn, stock characters in his pedestrian script."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The narrative momentum and comic energy begin to flag right about the point Shrek and his sidekicks begin their quest for Artie, who's an exceedingly bland addition to the cast of characters."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Frankly, it's a wonder that stars Jane Fonda and Felicity Huffman didn't belly up to the bar alongside Lohan, once they read Mark Andrus' screenplay, an atonal, ersatz mix of garden-variety family dysfunction and rank 'chick flick' clichés."
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Normally appealing actors Eric Bana and Drew Barrymore generate zero sparks as the unlikely couple, whose low-wattage romance apparently bores Hanson as much as it does the viewer, for he devotes far more screen time to poker than their relationship."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Wind Chill suffers from an underdeveloped screenplay, which feels like a first draft, erroneously deemed ready for production."
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"[Goyer's] reliance on pointless montage sequences to push the dawdling narrative forward reduce an eerily intriguing idea for a character-driven supernatural thriller to just another mopey wallow in teen angst."
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