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B- |
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(1999) |
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"Seamless integration of digital effects and effective use of color within the dark, typically noir composition"
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C+ |
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(1999) |
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"The actors keep the film from becoming too stupid"
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D+ |
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(2001) |
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"Every situation is ironic, every event is a moral point, every symbol is forced, and everything is a symbol..."
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D+ |
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(1997) |
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"If you're looking for another Stand and Deliver, watch something else."
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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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C+ |
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(2000) |
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"Bullock downplays her trademark mannerisms and allows her character to take precedence."
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B |
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(2003) |
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"Yes, the rage-afflicted zombie substitutes are scary. But 28 DAYS LATER is even more frightening for what human beings end up doing to one another."
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C- |
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(2002) |
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"Ozon finds women aesthetically pleasing, but has no desire to get close."
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"It seems Grant doesn't need the floppy hair and the self-deprecating stammers after all."
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F |
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(1996) |
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"Sample dialogue: 'Over here!' 'What?' 'Arrrg!'"
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C |
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(1998) |
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"Oblique and random for the sake of being oblique and random... it gives you no reason to care until the film is half over"
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A+ |
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(1979) |
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"...a seminal movie in the history of horror..."
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C |
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(1992) |
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"Generally viewed as the nadir of the Alien series."
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B+ |
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(1997) |
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"Not the best Alien film, but unquestionably the most thematically ambitious"
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A |
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(1986) |
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"Scott's tension-building atmospherics are replaced by Cameron's high-octane punch."
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C- |
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(2001) |
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"a slick product conceived in the executive conference room of some Hollywood studio, not in the mind of an artist"
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A |
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(1998) |
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"For Director Tony Kaye to disown this is irrational beyond belief"
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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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(2002) |
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"Amy and Matthew have a bit of a phony relationship, but the film works in spite of it."
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D |
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(1998) |
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"Billy Crystal could turn "Othello" into an insipid, feel-good movie."
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B |
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(1999) |
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"the sort of film that would have contended for a Best Picture Oscar in the mid-80s and handily won in the early 60s"
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"How do people with perfect lives find ways to live them so imperfectly, you might wonder? "The Anniversary Party" shows us, making us laugh and understand at the same time."
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D+ |
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(1995) |
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"The magical realism in Antonia's Line is neither magical nor real."
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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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(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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A- |
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(2004) |
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"Few things are as exciting as watching a great actor successfully turn off the star wattage and don the skin of an utterly weak, insignificant person."
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C- |
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(2003) |
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"Francis Ford Coppola suggested to his friend that he combine his love of tango with his love of filmmaking. The story doesn't seem to be thought out much beyond that."
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B- |
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(2005) |
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"delivers the action movie goods [thanks to] adroit pacing...[and] a cast of extremely capable actors."
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C |
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(1999) |
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"Recycled ideas and a weaker plot"
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B+ |
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(2002) |
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"Instead of hitting the audience over the head with a moral, Schrader relies on subtle ironies and visual devices to convey point of view."
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D- |
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(1998) |
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"Even with extensive use of the rewind function on my VCR, I couldn't piece the story together"
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A |
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(2004) |
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"THE AVIATOR is almost impossibly fertile and rich, but always Scorsese marshals his resources to get inside Hughes' head."
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B- |
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(1998) |
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"Most definitely not a movie for young children"
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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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(2005) |
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"Jack's realizations, particularly vis-ŕ-vis his daughter, offer rich dramatic possibilities."
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B- |
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(2001) |
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"derivative, but it ain't dull"
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C- |
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(1999) |
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"In an effort to give you, dear reader, insight into the source material from which the screenwriters reverently drew, we offer the following translation of key passages..."
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C |
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(2004) |
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"The film winds up being more a celebration of Spacey than Darin."
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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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A- |
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(1946) |
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"Bogart and Bacall are so good together that the story's impenetrability doesn't matter much, as long as it keeps serving up suspenseful situations and sassy dialogue."
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B |
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(2001) |
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"beautiful and harrowing, but, curiously, does not resonate"
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C- |
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(1998) |
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"By the second half, it's dragging despite all the action."
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C+ |
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(2002) |
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"Guillermo del Toro directs with considerably more flair than Stephen Norrington, whose original Blade dragged badly after the novelty wore off."
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A+ |
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(1982) |
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"A genre-defining science-fiction thriller with echoes of old-fashioned film noir"
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D+ |
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(1999) |
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"An innovative concept and well-improvised dialogue is no substitute for coherent narrative vision."
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A |
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(1999) |
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"Raw, unvarnished power"
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B+ |
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(2001) |
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"Though there's no denying that Bread and Tulips is just a feel-good movie, it is a delightfully executed, simple, and unassuming film..."
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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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(2005) |
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"An introspective film, but not, thankfully, an inert film.
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B |
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(2002) |
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"What a ridiculous film this is. What a brazenly, aggressively, stupendously ridiculous film!"
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