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3.5/4
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86%
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Killer Joe () |
"
McConaughey's performance as the Mephistophelean title character is one for the ages."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 2, 2011
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3/4
|
38%
|
Twixt () |
"
This is perhaps not personal but private filmmaking."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
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2.5/4
|
100%
|
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2008) |
"
More a glorified DVD supplement than a documentary."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
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3/4
|
82%
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Jeff, Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
Warm, funny, and wise."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 18, 2011
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1/4
|
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The Oranges () |
"
It's the Sundance version of Blame It on Rio, which is to say direly lacking in scenery and nudity."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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2.5/4
|
71%
|
Dark Horse () |
"
Solondz has viewers so conditioned to his cruel ironies by now that most of this picture's [are] met by howls of approval."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 17, 2011
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2/4
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30%
|
Sarah Palin: You Betcha! (2011) |
"
Preaches to the converted."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
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1/4
|
67%
|
Pearl Jam Twenty (2011) |
"
A deadly combination of fanboy, friend, and Richie Cunningham, Crowe has zero objectivity about the band"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
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3/4
|
80%
|
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012) |
"
We Need to Talk About Kevin affirms that Lynne Ramsay is the heir apparent to Terrence Malick..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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3/4
|
78%
|
A Dangerous Method (2011) |
"
On some level, A Dangerous Method is Cronenberg's first out-and-out comedy..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 11, 2011
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1.5/4
|
33%
|
Prom (2011) |
"
[At least] it doesn't get mired in the '80s nostalgia that's come to infect today's teen comedies..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 6, 2011
|
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0/4
|
0%
|
The Fox and the Hound 2 (2006) |
"
...Stupid and irreverent in a useless way, and a bunch of crappy songs don't help."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 21, 2011
|
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3/4
|
83%
|
Viva Las Vegas (Love in Las Vegas) (1964) |
"
It's not magic, this movie, but it is alchemy of a kind..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 11, 2011
|
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1/4
|
4%
|
The Roommate (2011) |
"
It might be genius compared to Single White Female 2: The Psycho, but know that The Roommate is ultimately about as sensitive as that dtv sequel sounds."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jun 26, 2011
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2.5/4
|
——
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Cosmonauta (2009) |
"
Has its charms, including an enticing, Almodóvarian palette."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 16, 2011
|
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2/4
|
93%
|
The Kids Are All Right (2010) |
"
...All the pieces are in place--I just wish Cholodenko had been a little more precious about the execution."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
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2/4
|
25%
|
House of Wax (2005) |
"
A 2005 review of this picture would've registered more shock from me..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 24, 2010
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—
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——
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Strumpet (2001) |
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2010
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—
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——
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On Their Knees (2001) |
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
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—
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——
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La Coupure (Torn Apart) (2006) |
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2010
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—
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——
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All the Invisible Children (2005) |
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
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3/4
|
87%
|
Control (2007) |
"
The film overcomes the central miscasting of Samantha Morton. "
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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3/4
|
——
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My Toxic Baby () |
"
Setting out to enlighten and inform her fellow parents, Lee instead captured the onset of OCD from the eye of the storm."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
Claire Denis's very own Gone with the Wind."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
——
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A Gun to the Head () |
"
A bush-league Mikey and Nicky."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
43%
|
A Shine of Rainbows (2010) |
"
Gawd, this movie is so nauseatingly nice."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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2/4
|
53%
|
I'm Still Here (2010) |
"
Phoenix needs a hug. And a Bowflex."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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2/4
|
50%
|
Stone (2010) |
"
Stone, like director John Curran's previous work, never peaks in any way that could be conventionally described as satisfying."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
1/4
|
70%
|
Never Let Me Go (2010) |
"
At the risk of accusing the book of same, the whole thing reeks of fear of genre."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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2/4
|
67%
|
Jack Goes Boating (2010) |
"
Jack Goes Boating reminded one woman I spoke to of Rocky; I can see it if I squint."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
0.5/4
|
33%
|
The Ward (2011) |
"
A return to form it definitely isn't."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
3/4
|
89%
|
Let Me In (2010) |
"
A pleasant sort of déjà vu."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
——
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Womb () |
"
Beneath its sensationalistic hook, Womb is solid pop anthropology."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
82%
|
The Big Picture (l'homme Qui Voulait Vivre Sa Vie) () |
"
I can't discount the sheer pleasure I got from its constant gear-shifting."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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2/4
|
79%
|
I Saw the Devil (2011) |
"
A potentially exasperating conceit [is] rendered all the more so by the execution."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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1/4
|
20%
|
Repeaters (2010) |
"
The '80s-horror-movie coda doesn't help..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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The Promise: The Making of Darkness on the Edge of Town (2011) |
"
You've got to admire Springsteen's chutzpah in documenting and cataloguing his creative process with a borderline-Kubrickian obsessiveness long before his reputation warranted it..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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2/4
|
47%
|
Super (2011) |
"
[Whatever its shortcomings,] Ellen Page delivers another performance for the ages."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
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2/4
|
44%
|
White Irish Drinkers (2011) |
"
I never could shake the feeling that this is exactly the sort of project Vinnie Chase would be hot for on "Entourage"."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
3.5/4
|
90%
|
Flaming Star (1960) |
"
The filmmaking may be a little ramshackle, but it's sensitive, and the performances are soulful."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Aug 5, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
82%
|
The Natural (1984) |
"
...silly, repetitive, episodic, mannered..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jul 13, 2010
|
|
1.5/4
|
17%
|
It Happened at the World's Fair (1963) |
"
...It's probably expecting too much to call It Happened at the World's Fair uninspired..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Feb 20, 2010
|
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2/4
|
——
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Dumbland (2009) |
"
It makes you wonder if Lynch doesn't occasionally abuse the benefit of the doubt"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 18, 2010
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3/4
|
——
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Short Films of David Lynch (2006) |
"
[Lynch's] blossoming sophistication unwittingly paralleled that of film itself"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 18, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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Dawson's Creek - First Season (2003) |
"
..The stupidity gets addictive, the running-in-circles can take on an old shoe's comfort, and the series is not without virtues."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 17, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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Dawson's Creek - Third Season (2004) |
"
...Easily the most infectiously romantic season of "Dawson's Creek""
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 17, 2010
|
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3/4
|
——
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Dawson's Creek - The Complete Fourth Season (2004) |
"
I would definitely classify this as the hang-out season of "Dawson's Creek""
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 17, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
——
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Dawson's Creek - Second Season (2003) |
"
...A misguided didacticism that can overtake the conscience of "Dawson's Creek" when social lubricants are involved"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 17, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
——
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Dawson's Creek - The Complete Sixth Season (2006) |
"
...Not the complete loss of season five"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 17, 2010
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