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4/4
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98%
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Some Like It Hot (1959) |
"
Wilder gave his audience credit for being as smart as he was, and, boy, they don't make 'em like that anymore, but they oughtta."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Jul 23, 2006
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5/5
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100%
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Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
"
[Warner's DVD] has received the royal treatment for this 50th Anniversary Special Edition. This all-new 2002 digital transfer from state-of-the-art restored elements delivers one of the best restoration and preservation jobs ever put on a disc."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 8, 2006
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4/4
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100%
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White Heat (1949) |
"
Part of the six-disc Warner Gangsters Collection, White Heat arrives on DVD struck from a print that's a real beauty. The image is nearly flawless, cleaner and truer by miles than any previous edition perhaps since its original theatrical run."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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4/4
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100%
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
"
It was Voltaire, probably, who said that if Alec Guinness did not exist it would be necessary for Ealing Studios to invent him."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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4/4
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100%
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Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949) |
"
[Criterion's 2006 two-disc DVD:] the new, restored transfer from a 35mm composite fine-grain master yields a flawless print.... Criterion's extras always make a release worth the attention...."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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4/4
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Marx Brothers Silver Screen Collection (2004) |
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This essential collection from Universal finally re-releases these gems that have been out of print far too long."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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4/4
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98%
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Eyes Without a Face (1962) |
"
In its sedate, measured virtuosity, eloquently haunting imagery abuts the queasily naturalistic. It's both beautiful and grisly, lyric and sinister."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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4/4
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98%
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Eyes Without a Face (1962) |
"
Criterion's DVD offers a clean, uncut print and flawless anamorphic transfer (1.66:1) that preserve Schufftan's shades and tones with excellent contrast and clarity. The original French soundtrack is clean and robust (even for Criterion)...."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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5/5
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100%
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) |
"
Warner's two-disc Special Edition finally brings the movie home in 65th-anniversary style with an all-new restoration, a first-rate transfer, and restored audio elements. Simply put, the film is gorgeous."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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5/5
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100%
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The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) |
"
[Flynn] catapults across the screen with the greatest of ease, exuding so much charm and confidence that he seems to klieg-light the film all by himself."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 5, 2006
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4/4
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100%
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Ballad of a Soldier (1959) |
"
Criterion maintains its reputation for sterling restorations. The near-pristine 1.33:1 image sometimes could use more depth of contrast, but that quibble is more than compensated for by a gorgeous, nearly flawless black-and-white print...."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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4/4
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100%
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Ballad of a Soldier (1959) |
"
...a simple, genuine, and non-dogmatic meditation on the incalculably tragic cost of war."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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4/4
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94%
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) |
"
Universal's two-disc [Legacy Series] re-release ... delivers the film in a mostly spotless print with the correct 1.85:1 (anamorphic) aspect ratio.... Topping the [extras] list are two feature-length documentaries that delve into the film and its star...."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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4/4
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94%
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To Kill A Mockingbird (1962) |
"
With the Tom Robinson plot intertwining with Scout and Jem's education in the ugly flaws of a world they're only beginning to comprehend, today the film offers an extra accumulated layer of 'meaning.'"
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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5/5
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100%
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King Kong (1933) |
"
'King Kong died for our sins.' It's a T-shirt seen recently in Seattle, worn by a teenager and illustrated with the original vintage image of the monster ape atop the Empire State Building."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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5/5
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100%
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King Kong (1933) |
"
It took eight years for the Eighth Wonder of the World to hit DVD. Everyone involved wanted to get it right, and there's no question that they succeeded.... you're bound to notice details you've never seen before."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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4/4
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Complete Monterey Pop Festival (2002) |
"
Whether you were there or not -- even born or not -- fans of the music that played for three days in June 1967 should jump on this superb Criterion release as if it were the last chopper out of 'Nam."
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DVDJournal.com
Posted Apr 4, 2006
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IL Generale della Rovere (General della Rovere) (1959) |
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Although the film's second half tends to drift toward the stagy and sermonic, Bardone's transformation from a petty chameleon-charlatan to the moral hero and man of conscience is moving and potent, in no small way thanks to De Sica's carefully modulated p"
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Film.com
Posted May 20, 2009
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88%
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Danton (1983) |
"
...uncompromising and impassioned. [Depardieu's] throat-scraping, rage-against-the-machine speech in court -- "the Revolution is devouring its children!" -- makes Jimmy Stewart's in Mr. Smith Goes to Washington look like a monk's benediction."
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Film.com
Posted May 20, 2009
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100%
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The Odd Couple (1968) |
"
...a durable classic, the sort of comedy that doesn't try to yank laughs by cramming its fist down our throats."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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57%
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Clickety-Clack (Dodesukaden) (1970) |
"
Dodes'ka-den need not be a grand-scale 'Kurosawa film' on the order of Rashomon, Seven Samurai, or Ran to give us much that's effective, emotive, and beautiful."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 18, 2009
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100%
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Pinocchio (1940) |
"
Benefiting from modern digital restoration techniques that -- this is vital -- don't lose touch with the film's rich painted-cel brush strokes and artistic authenticity, this new edition of Pinocchio looks and sounds sensational."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 12, 2009
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69%
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Synecdoche, New York (2008) |
"
It's Kaufman mind-melding with Samuel Beckett and Franz Kafka while Salvador Dali is pouring the drinks and M.C. Escher is doodling on the napkins. It's the 2001: A Space Odyssey of existential funk, David Lynch without the bubbly joie de vivre."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 10, 2009
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87%
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Frozen River (2008) |
"
Frozen River let me forget I was watching a movie, something that didn't happen often in 2008."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 10, 2009
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97%
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Casablanca (1943) |
"
From the absolute crispness and clarity of the first image ... this clean, practically flawless 1080p transfer is now the definitive home video edition."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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87%
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Funny Face (1957) |
"
...can clunk like a tin can in the dryer. But hey, we're talking Audrey Hepburn and Fred Astaire, so that's some mighty elegant slack we're willing to cut here."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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88%
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Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961) |
"
...the final scene, a tender sequence that you can sop up with a sponge, but if you aren't moved by it you probably stick kittens with pins."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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100%
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Trafic (Traffic) (1972) |
"
...in the breezy vapor that amounts to the movie's plot, it's not the destination that counts, but the leisurely, amiably aimless travel you take getting there."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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59%
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The Fall (2006) |
"
...a movie that not only expected me to pay attention, it assumed that I could."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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67%
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Snow Angels (2007) |
"
So when the film's moment of horror arrives, it's not with suspense but instead the sort of dully anticipatory inevitability that drains as much energy from the story as from the audience."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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84%
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Kabluey (2007) |
"
...a low-key comedy perfectly tuned for our times."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 2, 2009
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Upright Citizens Brigade - ASSSSCAT! (2008) |
"
But since improv ... is all about the impulsive creative jazz, the immediacy, and the spontaneous energy of a live, you-are-there, no-rules event, does ASSSSCAT work on DVD? It does."
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Film.com
Posted Apr 27, 2008
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89%
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The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1998) |
"
...probably the purest expression of Gilliam's Rococo imagination..."
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Film.com
Posted Apr 10, 2008
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94%
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My Kid Could Paint That (2007) |
"
New York Times senior art critic Michael Kimmelman offers sharp insights when he mentions how Marla's painting reflects not just 'innocence' and what our psyches project into them, but also 'the cynicism of the art world.'"
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Film.com
Posted Mar 11, 2008
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100%
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12 Angry Men (Twelve Angry Men) (1957) |
"
From 1957 and first-time director Sidney Lumet, here's the great jury-room drama about the dynamic -- and potentially lethal -- relationship between guilt, suspicion, and prejudice."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 11, 2008
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95%
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No Country for Old Men (2007) |
"
Both brutal and snowflake delicate all at once, this meditative neo-noir bears rewatching as layers and insights reveal themselves with subsequent viewings."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 11, 2008
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Lillie (1979) |
"
Annis inhabits Lillie with subtlety and in three dimensions, giving us plenty of room to admire the classy crumpet's self-possession and stick-to-it-iveness in a society that valued conformity and propriety above all else."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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Slings & Arrows - The Complete Collection (2008) |
"
...affectionate, sophisticated, bitingly satirical, hilarious and sexy -- no English degree required. At the same time, it's absolutely essential viewing for theater lovers, who may be blissfully horrified at what goes on when the audience isn't looking."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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100%
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City Lights (1931) |
"
That final scene. Last week, CNN asked -- in "The Screening Room's Top 10 Romantic Moments" -- whether this was the most touching film moment of all time. Could be. Either way, if it doesn't move you, you're beyond human reach."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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100%
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Singin' in the Rain (1952) |
"
...this one's the Taj Mahal, Armstrong's footprint on the moon, the 2001 Arizona-New York World Series, the Clash's London Calling, and the perfect foamy head on an expertly poured Guinness."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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66%
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Shortbus (2006) |
"
Shortbus is not, above all, 'dirty.' What it is, in fact, is a nice movie, one of the nicest to come down the pike since March of the Penguins."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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100%
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The Philadelphia Story (1940) |
"
Every time Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant, and Jimmy Stewart connect in a scene, we hear the happy ding! of quality champagne crystal."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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61%
|
Death at a Funeral (2007) |
"
It's no classic, but it did prompt me to watch those great old Ealing Alec Guinness comedies again."
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Film.com
Posted Mar 4, 2008
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Beatles - Ed Sullivan Presents the Beatles: 4 Complete Shows (2003) |
"
Beatles aficionados should leap on these raw performances -- shot live with no studio post-production gloss, only the boys in their rare natural state -- as primary documents from the pre-Revolver, pre-Sgt. Pepper years...."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 9, 2008
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94%
|
Best in Show (2000) |
"
...it's always a pleasure to watch this ensemble of gifted talents do what they do best -- be spontaneous and funny and surprising. What we get is a master-class demonstration of the distinction between comic actors and comedians who try to act."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 8, 2008
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85%
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2 Days in Paris (2007) |
"
...an impressive, funny urban comedy of manners from a suitably distinctive voice that I hope we'll hear again soon."
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Film.com
Posted Feb 5, 2008
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91%
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Petulia (1968) |
"
...an anti-The Graduate ... an essential film from and about America in the dying days of the '60s, yet the modernism of its style and ambitions makes Petulia impressively ahead of that time."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 25, 2008
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81%
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The President's Analyst (1967) |
"
If Philip K. Dick had worked for Mad magazine, he might have come up with The President's Analyst."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 18, 2008
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37%
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The Ten (2007) |
"
...brings to mind the fondly remembered Kentucky Fried Movie/Amazon Women on the Moon anthos from the '70s and '80s."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 15, 2008
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62%
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Joshua (Joshua: The Devil's Child) (2007) |
"
...a bewildering extension rather than a retread of this played-out subgenre."
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Film.com
Posted Jan 8, 2008
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63%
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97%
