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(1946) |
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"(The filmmakers') creativity is both fantastic and organic, their imagery spellbinding and gorgeous, and their scripting clever and witty."
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(1948) |
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"... one of the great films of innocence lost and a powerful portrait of the powerlessness of children in the adult world, where they are so often ignored or discounted."
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(1951) |
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"For all the spectacle, it is more abstract than involving and the film never pumps with the blood of romantic passion that flows through so many Powell movies."
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(2008) |
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"Truth and guilt and responsibility are not just themes here, they are topics of debate and we keep returning to the seminar and the courtroom to hear those debates."
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(2008) |
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"These are performances - and lives - lived in quotation marks."
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(1919) |
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"Based on a scenario written by Fairbanks himself, it's a strange and surreal comedy..."
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(1917) |
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"[Fairbanks] lands in a cauldron of royal cloak-and-dagger intrigue and faces it like a two-fisted American increasingly exasperated by the assassination attempts."
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(1918) |
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"Fairbanks is as charming as can be with a smile as big as all outdoors and a can-do spirit..."
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(1916) |
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"Less a story than a succession of comic set pieces defined by Fairbanks' athleticism and unbridled joie de vivre..."
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B |
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(2008) |
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"David Frankel directs with a modesty and restraint that favors the people over the situations, and he really captures the chemistry of a family dog in the mix."
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(2008) |
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"It's a film more designed than directed."
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(2008) |
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"A lot of viewers get caught up in trying to figure out what really happened, when in fact the film is more of a Rorschach test."
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"There's a dark and demented little psychodrama of self-inflicted madness beneath the narrative contrivances."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"As director, [Bruce Campbell] trips through gory gags and gallows humor with more tenacity than talent, while onscreen he mugs shamelessly."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"... beneath the cultural color and Spanish exclamations, the dilemmas and conflicts that swirl around the family gatherings are just like the holidays in every such movie."
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(1965) |
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"... one of the strongest and most entertaining anthology films to emerge from the 1960s."
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(2008) |
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"(T)here is no stylistic thrill to this blunt object of a callous action film."
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(1999-2000) |
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"No show on TV better captured the subtleties or the dynamics of the high school caste system."
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"It creates quite the illusion of velocity but the confetti editing cheats the audience out of Hong Kong action maestro Corey Yuen's choreography and Statham's stiff, steely, strong-arm style of martial-arts fighting."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"... stumbles awkwardly through the slapstick parade of brotherly body slams and sneaky kids and babies spitting up all over the maternally tone-deaf Kate..."
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(2008) |
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"... it's not about story, it's about opportunities for stunts, and there are some terrific ones here, most of them impressive enough to forgive the arbitrariness of the script."
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A |
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(2008) |
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"The most emotionally rich and cinematically thrilling film I've seen all year, a film that pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"... or all the emotional integrity and observational exactness, it's more social study than character drama."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"... a rousing documentary on the real costs of petrochemical dependence and the practical alternatives within reach."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2008) |
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"... pulses with human life in all its terrible and beautiful irrationality."
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(2008) |
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"... an action film where the flamboyant heroics occur only in fantasy and Van Damme's most daring stunt is a self-pitying monologue dropped into the middle of the movie."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Tomas Alfredson's Swedish vampire film is a young love horror piece full of chilly moods and twisted allegiances..."
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"This is no historical portrait of ancient life but a dreamy reflection of 17th-century romanticism of the past..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"By the climax, which will tie your stomach in knots, Herman has turned Bruno into the innocent caught up in the nightmare and Jews into extras in his story."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C- |
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(2008) |
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"In this brand of comedy, nothing succeeds like excess, and this film is seriously deficient."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"... rapid-fire comedy and energetic parade of sight gags, delivered with visual invention and whiplash timing..."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1946) |
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"Lean fills Great Expectations with a wealth of visual detail and vivid characters and personalities... and he directs with a warmth and humor..."
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(1966) |
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"Le Deuxieme Souffle is at heart a romantic fantasy of underworld loyalty and lives of calculated risk and violence anchored by brilliantly staged and shot set pieces..."
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(2008) |
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"... it is kind fun, in a junk-food crime fantasy sort of way."
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C |
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(2008) |
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"... a buffet of romantic comedy comfort food: the good old American standbys complemented by bland international dishes."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"... filmdom's Everyman geek of a director is a goofy, gooey romantic at heart. Emphasis on the gooey."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1983) |
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"... Videodrome is as contemporary and relevant as ever."
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(1934) |
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"[Anna] Sten plays Nana as either a conniving golddigger or girlish romantic but offers little nuance in between..."
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(1964) |
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"The funniest film ever made about nuclear holocaust..."
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(1979) |
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"... a scrappy, vibrant musical portrait painted in the bold colors of rock itself: impassioned lyrics, power chords, crashing drums and smashing guitars."
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(1969) |
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"... a spurting blast of pulp and poetry choreographed into a ballet of violence."
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(1997) |
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"Hayao Miyazaki recasts the mythic tale of man's dominion over the earth with an animist mythology and a conservationist message..."
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(1971) |
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"... as Inspector Harry Callahan, known to the squad as Dirty Harry, Eastwood turned his frontier persona into an urban cowboy on the mean streets of our urban world."
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Seanax.com |
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(1941) |
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"This Spade is no stranger to the guile of shady clients and colorful suspects..."
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(1939) |
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"More than a movie classic, it's an essential part of the popular culture..."
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Seanax.com |
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(2008) |
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"It's a little visually precious and obscure but still a marvelously wistful film of regret and retreat..."
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Seanax.com |
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C |
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(2008) |
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"[Gavin] O'Connor never captures the edge of danger, anger and moral stands being ground up in compromise."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1919) |
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"The epic drama is angry and tender and horrifying and touching, all of it conveyed by [Abel Gance's] powerful and delicate imagery and sophisticated techniques."
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(1958) |
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"... Welles was handed a pulp thriller and turned a straight commercial assignment into a baroque murder mystery directed with stylistic bravura."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(1933) |
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"... an illusion of grand production values and produced and released... with a mix of high culture and popular showmanship."
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