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B |
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(2004) |
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"Saturated with fertile colors and great regional rock and blues, the unhurried atmosphere seems as intoxicated as its characters."
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Instead of laughing with Bridget, The Edge of Reason laughs at her."
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Finding Neverland flirts with complexity but never goes all the way."
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Each successive revealed secret is less believable and yet somehow more obligatory than the last, because, after all, this is an old-school Asian melodrama."
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Around the Bend has outstanding acting and a short running time, and still the story runs thin."
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Almodóvar films don't unfold so much as they unpeel."
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Even in a time when weight gains and losses in the service of a role have become commonplace, Bale has accomplished an astonishing change."
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C |
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(2004) |
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"With a novel of such length, you either have to make a miniseries or adapt it more ruthlessly."
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"Face is a film of considerable charm and warmth, even if the material sometimes feels well worn."
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"With a hungry, compulsive, tender, angry, and passionate performance, Ruffalo has definitely shed the shiftless stoner typecast."
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"STANDER dispenses with unnecessary dialogue and doesn't posit facile explanations, which is good, but it fails to put you, the audience, into Andre Stander's skin."
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B |
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(2004) |
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"The story is gripping and the stakes are high... until the ridiculous coincidence.
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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Remember Me, My Love is well acted all around, but Muccino is proving to be an especially wonderful director of women."
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Bridges, a consistently under-appreciated actor, does arguably the best work of his career..."
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C+ |
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(2004) |
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"Stylish filmmaking and philosophical musings can only disguise a lack of movement for so long. The trouble with I'll Sleep When I'm Dead is that it's already dead..."
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C- |
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(2004) |
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"An extravagant act of self-mutilation is not enough to spice up the humdrum plain-girl- meets-pretty- boy-and-teaches- him-the-meaning- of-love story."
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F |
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(2004) |
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"A concoction that contains nothing recognizable from the lives of real people and no recognizable truth."
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"It's not that cloning is bad; it's that cloning done by bad people is bad."
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C |
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(2004) |
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"Character development consists of sticking a bottle in Creasy's hand."
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B |
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(2004) |
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"A film of wry, black humor and small moments...whose ominous ending combines the mythic and the everyday, leaving an unsettling ambiguity and many questions."
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D+ |
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(2003) |
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"In his strenuous effort to avoid cinematic artifice of any kind, Von Trier has engaged in a different kind of artifice—intellectual artifice."
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A+ |
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(2004) |
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"Kaufman's previous screenplays have always been intellectually rigorous, but you wouldn't necessary say they have a lot of passion. This one is different."
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B |
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(2004) |
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"Where Ned Kelly deviates from more traditional melodramatic hero-ographies is in its visual and symbolic landscape."
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D+ |
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(2004) |
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"An unfocused film that fails, at least for this uninitiated viewer, to open a door into any kind of reality, ordinary or otherwise."
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B- |
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(2004) |
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"propelled by the actors' urgent performances and its running gags"
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A |
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(2003) |
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"No artist biopic has succeeded as completely in capturing the magical, inexplicable artistic moment. [A commentary including an interview with director Peter Webber]"
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Is Monster about Wuornos' transformation into a serial killer, or Theron's transformation into Wuornos?"
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C |
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(2003) |
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"Kingsley's astonishing performance is wasted in this otherwise overlong, overwrought, and overcooked mess-o-drama."
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"The actors are magnificent. They unequivocally know who their characters are, inhabiting them so completely that you cease to remember these are actually actors, even stars."
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B |
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(2003) |
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"An agreeably uplifting movie that doesn't cheat its way (too much) to its life-affirming conclusion."
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F |
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(2003) |
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"Some may praise The Big Empty as a poor man's David Lynch-meets-The X-Files, but it's more of a starving homeless man's David Lynch-meets-The X-Files."
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"Don't expect investigative reporting.... Tupac: Resurrection is a trip through a man's head."
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Shattered Glass functions as a dramatic character study, but not as the galvanizing wake-up call about the sorry state of U.S. journalism that Ray says he wanted to make."
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"Curtis continues to find new twists on old romantic comedy stand-bys"
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"While restrained and internal throughout most of the film, Penn displays both chilling intensity and heart-wrenching grief when it really counts."
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"People will pillory Van Sant for not taking a position on the causes of Columbine, but simply by showing an accurate depiction of a suburban high school, perhaps he is."
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A |
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(1997) |
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"Kitano makes static, understated movies about existences wasted, and rediscovering the joy of being, for a brief time, alive.... Violence comes in sudden bursts, as a shocking interruption."
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A- |
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(1997) |
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"Though a meditative, introspective film, Scorsese's distinctive techniques cause Kundun to pulse with life under its calm surface."
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Allen just does what he does, and he does it very well."
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"Don't allow the ending to ruin the film. Ignore it."
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A |
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(2003) |
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"The man who once stole every film he did, bending it to his comic will, tranquilly inhabits LOST IN TRANSLATION... Understatement is his tool now."
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Though LUTHER suffers from bio-pic-itis, it is more than just a pedestrian recitation of events."
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D |
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(2002) |
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"Yes, apparently Yamazaki takes breaks from his repeated viewings of E.T. by relaxing with THE MATRIX. Occasionally, just for a bit of variety, he might also pop INDEPENDENCE DAY into the DVD player."
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B+ |
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(2003) |
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"a remarkable amalgamation of the real and the fictionalized"
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"The fact that it's such a small film is an intrinsic part of this romantic comedy's charm."
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C |
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(2003) |
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"As boring as a trip across Kansas on a Greyhound bus."
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C+ |
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(2003) |
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"Though unpolished and a bit formulaic, Camp reminds us that adolescence isn't just a period of time, it's a journey of self-discovery that teens must undertake on their own."
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"Two hours of, "This is wrong!" can be difficult to bear. What makes The Magdalene Sisters much better than a censorious browbeating is the girls themselves..."
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Dirty Pretty Things is a movie with Things to Say on an Important Issue...but one whose political intentions have not overpowered its quietly gripping story."
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"Basic ingredients are in under-supply: characterization and believability."
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