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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
"This straightforward version of Dick's anguished vision of drug-addled addiction makes Naked Lunch seem positively romantic." |
J. Hoberman |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
"It's the story of a sleeping beauty roused." |
J. Hoberman |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
"A seething psychological bonanza." |
J. Hoberman |
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A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
"This genial doc sprinkles Reagan and Nixon soundbites over its vintage stash of C&C clips for a suitably fuzzy squint at America from '69 to the buzzkill present." |
Rob Nelson |
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Abandon (2002) |
"Hardly a nuanced portrait of a young woman's breakdown, the film nevertheless works up a few scares." |
Ed Park |
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The Abandoned (2007) |
"The relatively tame horrors on display here may disappoint fans of the director's gut-spelunking short Aftermath, which made him an underground hero on the abra-cadaver circuit." |
Jim Ridley |
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ABC Africa (2002) |
"Fulfilling his mandate to make useful publicity, Kiarostami unavoidably expressed himself." |
J. Hoberman |
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ABCD (2001) |
"ABCD's abecedarian treatment of melting-pot anxieties proves as jumbled and bland as alphabet soup." |
Ed Park |
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
"The documentary never finds the appropriate rhythm to match the severity of its subject matter." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
"The near-perfect cast has talent to burn." |
Leslie Camhi |
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Able Danger (2008) |
"Able Danger's various generic elements and ambitions, while successful on their own, resist melding into a successful pastiche." |
Michelle Orange |
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Abouna (2004) |
"Lyrical and stoic." |
Michael Atkinson |
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About a Boy (2002) |
"Since the central odd couple have no rapport, their bond never seems to progress past mutual usury." |
Jessica Winter |
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About Adam (2001) |
"Squanders its potential themes." |
Jessica Winter |
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About Baghdad (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
Joshua Land |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
"An impressively bleak comedy with intimations of social satire." |
J. Hoberman |
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Absolute Wilson (2006) |
"The real value of this film is its treasure trove of archival footage, rare clips that document this genius of an artist as a young man." |
John Pitcher |
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Accepted (2006) |
"Accepted is an inspired premise in search of a movie: What starts out as a scabrous takedown of academic bureaucracy ends up yet another modestly rousing underdog story about the little slacker that could." |
Scott Foundas |
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Ace in the Hole (1951) |
"By no means a great -- or even a particularly good -- movie, but its sustained nastiness shows a stunning disregard for box-office niceties." |
J. Hoberman |
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Ace in the Hole (1951) |
"A lurid pulp indictment of exploitation, opportunism, doctored intelligence, torture for profit, insatiable greed, and shady journalism." |
Nathan Lee |
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The Acid House (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
Jessica Winter |
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An Actor's Revenge (1963) |
"An eccentric masterpiece" |
Elliott Stein |
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Acts of Worship (2001) |
"Digna's struggle with sellout guilt is way more interesting than Alix's boilerplate dissembly, but ultimately Digna's just a pawn in the moralist checkmate." |
Laura Sinagra |
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Adam & Steve (2006) |
"Writer-director Craig Chester's debut is truly enjoyable." |
Melissa Levine |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
"Squanders the cross-cultural comedy potential of a Jewish-themed Christmas movie on cheap fart gags and boilerplate schmaltz." |
Ed Halter |
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Adam's Apples (2007) |
"A noxious, flippant mix of snark and biblical allegory." |
Ed Gonzalez |
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Adaptation (2002) |
"Adaptation's success in engaging the audience in the travails of creating a screenplay is extraordinary." |
J. Hoberman |
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Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004) |
"The film's witlessness keeps any satirical potential submerged well below soap opera levels." |
Ed Halter |
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Adrenaline Drive (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Amy Taubin |
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Adrift in Manhattan (2007) |
"You can't build a movie around lingering, soulful shots of the No. 1 train zooming up and down the West Side." |
Julia Wallace |
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The Adventures of Felix (2001) |
"[Bouajila's] quietly forceful performance rises miles above the melodrama while somehow keeping the movie firmly on the ground." |
Mark Holcomb |
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) |
"Movie pageantry at its best, done in the grand manner of silent spectacles, brimming over with the sort of primitive energy that drew people to the movies in the first place." |
Elliott Stein |
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
"How does it honor the Americans happily imprinted with the original show's beautiful chaos to have it turned into bastard nonsense?" |
Michael Atkinson |
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The Adventures of Sebastian Cole (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Gary Dauphin |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
"Based on characters created by Rodriguez's then-seven-year-old son, Racer Max, the film doesn't belong in wide release. It belongs on a refrigerator door, alongside '100%' spelling tests, old lunch menus, and notices from the PTA." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
"The enormous, and probably impossible, amount of style and wit required to resuscitate the original cartoon into something with real faces, bodies, gravity, and locations is beyond Kusama." |
Michael Atkinson |
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An Affair of Love (2000) |
Click here to see the review. |
Michael Atkinson |
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The Affair of the Necklace (2001) |
"An endless illustrated Harlequin paperback of mawkish backstory and corset-popping purple prose." |
Jessica Winter |
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Afraid of Everything (2004) |
"While her co-stars all too easily revert to arch mannerisms, the wonderful Richard, best known for her work with Jacques Rivette and Olivier Assayas, can animate even the most bloodless lines." |
Dennis Lim |
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After Innocence (2005) |
"Both riveting and disturbing." |
Jennifer Gonnerman |
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After Life (1998) |
Click here to see the review. |
J. Hoberman |
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After the Apocalypse (2004) |
"A surprisingly engaging ride." |
David Ng |
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After the Life (2002) |
"Movies, particularly post-Spielbergian Hollywood product, tend to steer your frame of reference with fascistic discipline. Here, delivered in a shiftable tripartite sequence, is a movie experience you can shape yourself." |
Michael Atkinson |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
"To pass the time between the product placements, director Brett Ratner tries to squeeze chuckles out of gay-panic set pieces, the quaint antics of colorful natives, and Woody Harrelson's surreal miscasting as the FBI agent." |
Jorge Morales |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
"For a filmmaker who's so attracted to psychological discomfort, Bier has a disarming affinity with the pleasure principle. In this she's further blessed to have cast the riveting Mikkelsen, who here displays the self-conscious jitter of the young Pacino." |
Rob Nelson |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
"What could have been a Working Girl hoot gets mired in redundant assertions of Kallen's feistiness." |
Laura Sinagra |
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Agent Cody Banks 2: Destination London (2004) |
"Really pretty hateful, shooting for the bulk of its laughs at the expense of those wacky foreign kids and the endlessly humiliated Anthony Anderson." |
Ben Kenigsberg |
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The Aggressives (2005) |
"The Aggressives is more than just performance studies, as Peddle includes ample footage of real-life hardship." |
Melissa Anderson |
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Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
"Painfully literal/ironic soundtrack choices add to the general unpleasantness, and the nods to Fassbinder's great In a Year of 13 Moons only emphasize what this scattershot satire most decidedly is not." |
Dennis Lim |
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Agnes Browne (1999) |
Click here to see the review. |
Michael Atkinson |
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