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ANTHONY QUINN
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BEST TO WORST SAMPLING
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5/5  Control
4/5  When Did You Last See Your Father?
3/5  The Singer
2/5  The Heartbreak Kid
1/5  Rocket Science
 
 
BEST REVIEWED
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5/5  The Conformist
5/5  All About Eve
5/5  Control
5/5  Brief Encounter
5/5  Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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WORST REVIEWED
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1/5  Body of Lies
1/5  Blindness
1/5  The Baader-Meinhof Complex
1/5  Scar
1/5  Easy Virtue
1/5  Igor
1/5  Free Jimmy
1/5  Eagle Eye
1/5  The House Bunny
1/5  Gunnin' for That #1 Spot
 more...
 
This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 71% of the time.

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4/5
 
" A powerfully ambiguous meditation on personal and collective avoidance." -- Independent
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
Waltz with Bashir (2008)93%
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1/5
 
" But it's something of a penance to sit through, a token handwringing over American dirty tricks that's just another opportunity for Scott and co to blow stuff up." -- Independent
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
Body of Lies (2008)51%
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1/5
 
" It's prurient, sentimental, and baffling to boot." -- Independent
Posted Nov 21, 2008
 
Blindness (2008)41%
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2/5
 
" Rogen does his man-child-slob shtick dependably, and Elizabeth Banks is a good sport as well as a decent comedian. One only wishes that the whole thing were funnier." -- Independent
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)64%
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2/5
 
" There's an inevitable staginess to Tennessee Williams' devastating portrait of delusion and cruelty, but director Elia Kazan catches the squalid, claustrophobic atmosphere of a New Orleans tenement just right." -- Independent
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)98%
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2/5
 
" Perhaps it's a tad overstretched at 110 minutes, but the film's performances and the sly, satirical tone are unfailingly attractive." -- Independent
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Fine, Totally Fine (2008)56%
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2/5
 
" It's meant to be a portrait of a man "choked" by his own alienation, but Jorge's shyness comes over as dullness, and after all the sensitive maundering the conclusion is a terrible letdown." -- Independent
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
Choking Man (2007)45%
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1/5
 
" His approach has simply been to cram everything he knows about the Baader Meinhof years into a running time of two and a half hours. It is really the most unhelpful and unenlightening film on the subject you could possibly imagine." -- Independent
Posted Nov 14, 2008
 
The Baader-Meinhof Complex (2008)81%
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2/5
 
" The vicissitudes of Qing dynasty politics in the mid-19th century remain rather confusing, and the bloodiness of the battles is relentless, but the film has something to say about the spiritual corruption that afflicts men who live by war." -- Independent
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Tau Ming Chong (2008)57%
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1/5
 
" This boasts of being "a first of its kind 3D movie event", but it's just the same old torture porn tarted up." -- Independent
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Scar ()0%
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3/5
 
" This bad-apple cop drama is the kind of movie that Sidney Lumet used to make in the Seventies and Eighties, and it hasn't evolved a great deal since." -- Independent
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Pride and Glory (2008)34%
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4/5
 
" French writer-director Agnès Jaoui's comedy of manners takes on issues of class, race and loyalty, but in such a charming, offhand way that one hardly notices them being raised." -- Independent
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Let's Talk About The Rain (2008)77%
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1/5
 
" Altogether a shambles, and perhaps uniquely in the Coward canon, it features not a single laugh." -- Independent
Posted Nov 7, 2008
 
Easy Virtue (2009)58%
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3/5
 
" Director Peter Cattaneo will probably never repeat his Full Monty success, but even in its mediocre patches one senses a renewed eagerness to entertain." -- Independent
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
The Rocker (2008)39%
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4/5
 
" The screenwriter, Laura Santullo, is slightly heavy-handed at times, but she expertly captures the mood of paranoia and self-righteousness gripping this middle-class enclave." -- Independent
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
La Zona (2007)78%
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1/5
 
" This dark-toned animation borrows its style from Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas and Corpse Bride without adding much of its own to the macabre mayhem." -- Independent
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Igor (2008)32%
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1/5
 
" The brief relationship that the escaped elephant forms with a resourceful moose is oddly touching, but the fatuities surrounding it ensure that any deeper involvement is unlikely." -- Independent
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Free Jimmy (2006)10%
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1/5
 
" Portentous nonsense, and loud with it." -- Independent
Posted Oct 17, 2008
 
Eagle Eye (2008)27%
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1/5
 
" One could be forgiven for thinking that the American college system is merely one big popularity contest. Certainly, no one does anything outrageous like read a book." -- Independent
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
The House Bunny (2008)40%
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1/5
 
" Unlike the 1994 basketball doc Hoop Dreams, which investigated collateral issues of education, race and money, this merely sets a twitchy hip-hop soundtrack to an unenlightening parade of eager sporting wannabes." -- Independent
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
Gunnin' for That #1 Spot (2008)74%
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2/5
 
" Admire it, at least, as a kids' film trying to be different, but even at 90 minutes, it drags." -- Independent
Posted Oct 10, 2008
 
City of Ember (2008)49%
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2/5
 
" It's not much to offer a newcomer, who would be best advised to read Waugh's novel; failing that, to get hold of the TV serial. Either would be preferable to this copy of a copy, and a rather inadequately handled one at that." -- Independent
Posted Oct 3, 2008
 
Brideshead Revisited (2008)64%
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1/5
 
" The only puzzle of this toxically stupid Europhobe thriller is that its director (Pierre Morel) and producer (Luc Besson) are both French." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Taken (2009)50%
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2/5
 
" What starts out as a hokey satire on electioneering and spin becomes a hokey lesson on civic responsibility, with a catch in the throat and a tear in the eye. Try to suppress the curl in your lip." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Swing Vote (2008)36%
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2/5
 
" Redbelt, his latest, is a curious one, a movie that hints at greatness only to retreat, unpardonably, into genre convention." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Redbelt (2008)69%
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3/5
 
" what writer-director Philippe Claudel does superbly is to map the slow thawing of the icy chip at her heart." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
I've Loved You So Long (2008)91%
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1/5
 
" Fast cars, machine guns, explosions, babes in hotpants – it's everything a 12-year-old boy could want in a movie." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Death Race (2008)42%
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2/5
 
" His sepia images of war's futility are beautiful, and Vishnevskaya's face is a compelling one, but they cannot compensate for the soporific anti-narrative." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Alexandra (2008)94%
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2/5
 
" Instead, it's a rather pompous, disappointing one, and a squandered opportunity to boot." -- Independent
Posted Sep 26, 2008
 
Righteous Kill (2008)21%
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4/5
 
" If Hogg can render the travails of a bunch of middle-class British holidaymakers a subject of interest, there's reason to hope she has some career in the making." -- Independent
Posted Sep 19, 2008
 
Unrelated (2008)85%
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1/5
 
" It's so flat and unfunny it makes Sex and the City sound like Billy Wilder." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Women (2008)13%
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2/5
 
" Rohmer's gentle philosophical chat is better heard, I think, among the muddled middle-classes of late-20th century France." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Romance of Astrea and Celadon (2008)65%
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2/5
 
" The first half-hour floats by on a cloud of mildly funny lines ("couscous – the food so nice they named it twice"), but then slumps into a derivative action caper that's weirdly and unappealingly reminiscent of Eighties dross like Beverly Hills Cop." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Pineapple Express (2008)68%
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2/5
 
" If feeling alone were the benchmark of great art, Vic Sarin's film would be considerable, but the screenplay is desperately poor and the direction leaden." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Partition (2007)40%
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4/5
 
" The burden of this Icelandic procedural thriller will put a chill in your bones, if the lugubrious, wind-whipped coastal setting hasn't done already." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Jar City (2008)94%
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3/5
 
" Daily Mail scaremongering? Possibly. But formidably well-made, all the same." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Eden Lake (2008)82%
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3/5
 
" Writer-director Mark Herman has done a creditable job of negotiating its volatile compound of fable and realism." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (2008)64%
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3/5
 
" Wong Kar-Wai's 1994 epic, remodelled and reissued, looks spectacular, but trying to follow its storyline is a test." -- Independent
Posted Sep 12, 2008
 
Ashes of Time Redux (2008)82%
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4/5
 
" At once epic and intimate, Sweet Land offers a stirring account of love and hardship which, aside from a muffed Capra moment towards the end, hardly puts a foot wrong." -- Independent
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Sweet Land (2006)84%
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2/5
 
" His fortitude under critical flak is admirable, and his self-confidence unbelievable, but RocknRolla is the same old shaggy-dog story with a slightly different variety fleas." -- Independent
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
RocknRolla (2008)58%
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2/5
 
" McDowell's affectionate, mischievous impersonations and clips from Anderson's body of work make for an easy couple of hours." -- Independent
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Never Apologize: A Personal Visit with Lindsay Anderson (2008)64%
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4/5
 
" Can we not just enjoy what's on the screen without being spoon-fed a specious modern analogy? Dibb and his team – especial plaudits to Michael Carlin's production design and Michael O'Connor's costumes – have worked honourably to persuade us that we can." -- Independent
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
The Duchess (2008)61%
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1/5
 
" I wish to God they would find something else to do." -- Independent
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Disaster Movie (2008)2%
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2/5
 
" But even if you don't tire of the relentless violence, you might want to call time on Cage's tough-but-sensitive übermensch." -- Independent
Posted Sep 5, 2008
 
Bangkok Dangerous (2008)9%
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3/5
 
" The film's forlorn charm is a little reminiscent of Cameron Crowe's adolescent memoir Almost Famous. It's a tiny bit soppy, too, but you can forgive that in a teenager." -- Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
The Wackness (2008)68%
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3/5
 
" The film is concerned with observing the passage of time, the change in the light, the immemorial contours of the landscape, and, in one shot, a very touching pieta of a boy and his new baby sibling. Compelling stuff if you can stay with it." -- Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Times and Winds (2008)86%
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3/5
 
" For most of its length, this is a grippingly unpleasant picture of barbaric, gratuitous evil, stealthier and scarier than Funny Games, to which it bears a slight resemblance." -- Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
The Strangers (2008)44%
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2/5
 
" For a while their stupid rivalry, insults and petulant displays of outrage are funny, but like the talented child who won't be quiet for a second, the act eventually begins to grate." -- Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Step Brothers (2008)54%
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1/5
 
" This "issue" movie from Belgian director Nic Balthazar throws a dramatic feint so improbable one can almost see a cartoon question mark floating above the audience's heads." -- Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Ben X (2008)63%
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1/5
 
" Kassovitz creates a grungy dystopia, but the action has the crazed, over-edited ruckus of a death-metal video and the top "international" cast is notable only for being miscast." -- Independent
Posted Aug 29, 2008
 
Babylon A.D. (2008)7%

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