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3/5 |
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(1967) |
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"It doesn't take much effort to spot the short cuts the filmmakers have taken."
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4.5/5 |
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(1956) |
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"Spanish-born director Luis Buńuel had such a distinctive style and outlook that even his minor films are fascinating to watch."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Writer-director Robert Zemeckis follows Charles Dickens' 1843 novella, A Christmas Carol, so closely that he even makes the same error the author made with the first edition of the book."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's not surprising the film was Germany's 2008 submission for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"All of these seemingly disparate stories are related, but Arriaga connects them more slowly than an alert viewer can on his or her own."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A movie about the undead that never really makes it out of the grave."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Amelia' plays less like a movie and more like a timeline."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Spike Jonze's new film adaptation of Maurice Sendak's children's classic 'Where the Wild Things' Are is more admirable than enjoyable."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Hicks' rambling pacing and Cubitt's routine approach to the story prevent 'The Boys Are Back' from reaching its potential."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bell's charm and finesse with a right hook help elevate Angel of Death from being a mundane straight-to-DVD offering."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Oscar-winning Polish writer/director Andrzej Wajda is now 83 years old. But he thankfully hasn't lost his ability to outrage viewers for all the right reasons."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It might seem like a fantasy for the baker interviewed in the film to be making $60,000 a year and benefits, but Moore proves the idea is less fictitious than the ones that sank Lehman Brothers."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'The Invention of Lying' is based on a simple idea, but Gervais and Robinson come up with seemingly endless ways to maximize it."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"With 'Bright Star,' New Zealand's Jane Campion ('The Piano') has managed to write and direct an engrossing film about a man whose achievements can only be found on the page and in the heart."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The new remake of the 1980 hit 'Fame' is not going to live forever and has clearly not learned how to fly."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While 'Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs' would probably still be entertaining in a conventional 2D format, the story is a natural for 3D."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If Soderbergh's offbeat approach seems alienating at first, the film's second half is loaded with hilariously bizarre revelations, which are actually true to the case."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"From watching the new documentary 'The September Issue,' it's hard to tell if novelist and former Anna Wintour assistant Lauren Weisberger was unfair to the editor when she created the relentlessly cruel Miranda Priestly."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Because '9' runs only 79 minutes, Acker almost gets by on the intricate and distinctive visuals."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"British actor Hugh Dancy manages an astonishing feat by making viewers empathize with a character that has trouble feeling empathy."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Jennifer Steinman's new documentary 'Motherland' follows a group of American women who attempt to get beyond their own suffering."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Whereas several recent films like the pompous 'Lions for Lambs' presented the current war in a didactically solemn tone, Iannucci has more to say by simply playing the crisis for laughs."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"There's some jaw dropping eye candy in 'X Games 3D: The Movie,' but there are also wasted opportunities."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Tarantino assembles his complicated plot and multitude of players with only occasional allegiance to history. As a result, all bets are off, making the film and its twists harder to predict."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Unless your idea of cinematic bliss is a chance to catch Bana's buff torso or shoulders, there isn't much to the film."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Paper Heart' is a strange hybrid of documentary and fiction filmmaking that might have been more enjoyable had it stuck with strictly with the facts."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Co-writer-director Todd Graff doesn't look at teens or their issues in a condescending light."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Ponyo' is a worthy piece of work from an artist who takes his work and his audience seriously."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This broken affair is more entertaining than most successful ones."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bruckheimer and his crew should have imagined material that's suited for more than the bottom of a cage."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While the Harry Potter movies have always been a wonderful excuse for jaw dropping special effects, it's gratifying to see the fantasy landscapes populated by wizards and witches with flesh-and-blood personalities."
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5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"'The Fog of War' reveals McNamara to be an intelligent, insightful and sensitive man who was catastrophically wrong about the nature of the conflict that came to define him."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While watching Phoenix mumbling in a stupor on Letterman is perversely entertaining, it's a lot more edifying to watch him give what he says is his final acting performance in director James Gray's 'Two Lovers.'"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"But by pointing out how low some people will sink to hit the heights of fame, Baron Cohen can raise as many valid discussions as he can squirms."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Thanks to a radiant performance from Michelle Pfeiffer, 'Chéri' occasionally overcomes a storyline that never quite develops momentum."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film's story is so dry and unimaginative that it appears to have been preserved in amber from an earlier era."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Away We Go' is still funny and occasionally touching, but it might have been even more entertaining if Mendes and the screenwriters hadn't tried to so hard to make us laugh."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"'Outrage' makes a convincing argument that legislating while living in the closet is detrimental to everyone."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Bullock and Reynolds are appealing enough to make viewers care if real love will emerge from the legal ploy."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Leave it to Michael Bay to take the fun out of explosions."
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3.5/5 |
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(2002) |
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"Depending on your mood and your familiarity with international politics from 30 to 40 years ago, A Grin Without a Cat can be either talky and esoteric or haunting and prophetic."
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5/5 |
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(1985) |
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"'The Hit' gives the great Terence Stamp what is arguably his best role."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Raimi can do more with a set of false teeth and a compelling, if deeply flawed, heroine that most horror hacks can with enough fake blood to flood the Great Basin."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"When a children's movie like 'Imagine That' fails, it's tragedy that the magic spells in the move can't be used to escape the theater."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It delivers neither laughs nor chills and offers no visuals more interesting than the Exit signs on the theater doors."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Like a good number of films, 'Is Anybody There?' is saved from being a routine offering by the presence of Sir Michael Caine."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It's easy to think of Ron Howard's new effort Angels & Demons as more of an apology than a movie."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"With all the oversized personalities that surround him, Stiller gets upstaged."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"If you're going to make a film about an extremist, it makes sense to tell the story using extreme or at least unusual techniques."
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eFilmCritic.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Unlike the con artists the movie depicts, 'The Brothers Bloom' rewards rather than exploits viewers by defying their expectations."
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