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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"A Scanner Darkly looks sweet but it's scarcely penetrating." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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3/4 |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"Even though scene for scene it sticks very close to Philip K. Dick's counterculture classic, A Scanner Darkly feels much more like the earnest theorizing of Richard Linklater in Waking Life mode." | |
Jeremiah Kipp | |
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2.5/4 |
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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
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"A downward spiral of destitution...like a soul jogging in place in Purgatory." | |
Eric Henderson | |
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3/4 |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"A film that is as haunting as it is painfully messy." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"This is the meatiest a DVD edition can get sans director's commentary." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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A/K/A Tommy Chong (2005) |
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"Its dramatic thinness doesn't dilute its simultaneously ridiculous and terrifying portrait of federal prosecution run amok." | |
Nick Schager | |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"Certainly not a keeper but the good news is that now you can quickly fast-forward to the best parts in the film: every scene with Melanie Lynskey as Creepy Library Girl." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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Abandon (2002) |
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"In burying elements of behavioral psychology below a dozen different shades of blue, Gaghan draws attention away from the fact that there's a trick pony at play here." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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3/4 |
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ABC Africa (2002) |
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"There is a sense here of an encroaching darkness humbly met, unburdened by one-note feelings such as fear or joy and simply experienced as a profound moment of enlightenment." | |
Keith Uhlich | |
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ABC Africa (2002) |
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"An engrossing, if flawed, first step into the digital world from a cinema master." | |
Keith Uhlich | |
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2/4 |
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ABCD (2001) |
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"Its identity posturing is considerably less potent than that of Chutney Popcorn's." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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3/4 |
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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
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"Abduction pushes its poignant buttons while casting Megumi's kidnapping as a heinous crime, yet to its credit, it consistently does so with a deftly understated, devastating touch." | |
Nick Schager | |
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3/4 |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
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"A strangely lyrical tale of addiction and family distance." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
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"A splendid package from First Run Features for a little-seen gem perhaps best savored on a rainy, introspective day." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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About a Boy (2002) |
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"Kudos to Ms. Collette for bringing cheer to depression and suicide." | |
Alexa Camp | |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"The film's contempt spills over into the inside of the DVD case, where a Childreach advertisement claims that you can “Meet the REAL Ndugu!” before asking you to donate money to a starving child in Africa." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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1.5/4 |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"Schmidt is a credible creation yet Payne's contempt runs synonymous to that of his native son's." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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Absolute Wilson (2006) |
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"For the Wilson newbie, this puff piece will suffice as an introduction." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2/4 |
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Accepted (2006) |
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"It takes approximately 15 seconds for Accepted to begin showcasing Mac products, a somewhat foregone conclusion given star Justin Long's stint as the face of Apple computers' recent ad campaign." | |
Nick Schager | |
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4/4 |
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Ace in the Hole (1951) |
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"Not unlike Fritz Lang’s equally misanthropic Scarlet Street, Ace in the Hole plays the squashing of one man’s human spirit for societal-weary gravitas." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2/4 |
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Across the Universe (2007) |
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"Taymor's signatures are visible throughout, but she is clearly trying hard to gussy up a screenplay that plays more like The Wonder Years without the cultural insight." | |
Jason Clark | |
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2/4 |
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Actresses (2007) |
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"Fails to congeal into a heady structural puzzle, or into a particularly affecting exercise in female empathy." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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Adam & Steve (2006) |
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"Chester cleverly conflates the personal trauma of the titular couple's 18-year-old incontinence nightmare with the national horror of 9/11." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"It’ll take you at least double the crummy film’s running time to get through the DVD’s genuinely cute Dukesberry interactive wonderland." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy Nights (2002) |
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"Sandler has made a career of playing tactless, ne’er-do-well morons, but never an animated one." | |
Roxanne Blanford | |
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1.5/4 |
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Adam's Apples (2007) |
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"Go-to screenwriter for the Dogma 95 collective, Danish writer-director Anders Thomas Jensen hits a decidedly sour note with Adam's Apples." | |
Nick Schager | |
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3.5/4 |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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"Watching Adaptation evolve into something profound, if not entirely complete, is certainly beautiful to behold." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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1.5/4 |
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Adored - Diary of a Porn Star (2004) |
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"Drips with that element that has turned countless gay films into dour endurance tests: navel-gazing self-pity." | |
Eric Henderson | |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
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"See the Baron dance with Venus! See a man outrun a speeding bullet! See the beautiful, mad fiasco that is The Adventures of Baron Munchausen%u2014see it if you dare!" | |
Jeremiah Kipp | |
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2.5/4 |
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) |
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"Making your way through the film is like eating an entire beautifully sculpted wedding cake." | |
Jeremiah Kipp | |
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Adventures of Sharkboy and Lava Girl in 3-D (2005) |
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"Sharkboy offers up a piece of sage advice when he remarks, "You snooze, you win."" | |
Nick Schager | |
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Advise and Consent (1962) |
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"Advise and Consent's near-mathematical approach to political intrigue is a great argument in favor of big government." | |
Eric Henderson | |
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3.5/4 |
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Advise and Consent (1962) |
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"Preminger's visual savvy turns that most staid and insufferable of social terrariums, the floor of the U.S. Senate, into a vibrant, perpetually shifting Voronoi diagram." | |
Eric Henderson | |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"It fluxes all right%u2014from bad to the total pits." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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1/4 |
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Aeon Flux (2005) |
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"An estrogen-energized companion piece to Michael Bay's The Island." | |
Nick Schager | |
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An Affair to Remember (1957) |
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"An Affair to Remember and a movie to treasure." | |
Fernando F. Croce | |
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3.5/4 |
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An Affair to Remember (1957) |
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"Often regarded (or dreaded) as the ultimate chick flick, due in no small amount to its fetish-object role in Sleepless in Seattle, An Affair to Remember deserves better than to be the receptor of Meg Ryan's crocodile tears." | |
Fernando F. Croce | |
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2.5/4 |
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Affliction (1997) |
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"Overwrought metaphors abound in Paul Schrader's ham-fisted Affliction." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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After Hours (1985) |
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"Scorsese's showmanship ends up enhancing the film’s dreamlike, surrealist sense of encroaching hysteria." | |
Eric Henderson | |
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After Hours (1985) |
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"The back of the box calls the film a “Chinese puzzle.” Are they sure they didn’t mean “Chinese Water Torture?”" | |
Eric Henderson | |
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2.5/4 |
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After Innocence (2005) |
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"After Innocence doesn't inspire much confidence in the American legal system." | |
Nick Schager | |
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2.5/4 |
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After Stonewall (1999) |
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"“Lesbians! We’re everywhere! Lesbiana! Yo soy lesbiana!”
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Eric Henderson | |
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After Stonewall (1999) |
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"Six years after it attempted to bring gay rights to an uplifting, if bittersweet denouement, the Bush years have now given After Stonewall its sense of urgency." | |
Eric Henderson | |
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2.5/4 |
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After the Apocalypse (2004) |
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"Bleak, minimalist science fiction reminiscent of Chris Marker via Andrei Tarkovsky’s Stalker." | |
Nick Schager | |
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2.5/4 |
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After the Life (2002) |
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"Even if you refuse to play Belvaux’s Choose Your Own Adventure, do not ignore these performances." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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1/4 |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"After the Sunset has the audacity to con audiences with a script seen a million times before." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"Kudos to Brett Ratner for at least acknowledging that the film’s gay jokes are cheap—doesn’t make him any less of a ****, but still." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2.5/4 |
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After The Wedding (2007) |
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"The wunderkind Jensen's scripts are all schematic and prone to stock characters, but they are soap operas after all, and After the Wedding is beautifully performed by its eager cast." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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2/4 |
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Against the Ropes (2003) |
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"In Charles S. Dutton's Against the Ropes, corny clichés and metaphors square off in a 12-round battle of linguistic idiocy." | |
Nick Schager | |
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2/4 |
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Agent Cody Banks (2003) |
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"Agent Cody Banks reimagines your average James Bond flick as kiddie porn." | |
Ed Gonzalez | |
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