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Sopranos - The Complete Fifth Season (2005) |
"
The next-best thing to hanging out at the Bing."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 6, 2005
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97%
|
Jules and Jim (1962) |
"
A must-see film in a DVD package for die-hards and Truffaut completists."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 30, 2005
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3.5/4
|
97%
|
Jules and Jim (1962) |
"
Jules and Jim is sad yet humorous, breathless yet contemplative, universal yet hermetic."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 30, 2005
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2.5/4
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75%
|
The Upside of Anger (2005) |
"
Endeavors to airmail the middle-aged suburban angst made fashionable by American Beauty safely back to cynicism-free sitcom territory."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 14, 2005
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1.5/4
|
22%
|
In My Country (2005) |
"
Peace, love, and understanding, apparently, are best served with a side order of .45-caliber satisfaction."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 10, 2005
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2/4
|
60%
|
Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
"
A textbook example of why the odds of finding a good genre film are currently about equal to those of winning the lottery."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 13, 2005
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|
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49%
|
Bruce Almighty (2003) |
"
In several ways the movie is an apathetic revision of The Truman Show, with Carrey starring as both Truman and Christof."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2003
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74%
|
The Matrix Reloaded (2003) |
"
Arrives with the same chilling thud that accompanied the dashed hopes and ruined promises of the last two Star Wars movies."
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Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2003
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|
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98%
|
Spellbound (2002) |
"
Blitz is not a filmmaker interested in his subjects, but only in manipulating their experiences for entertainment value."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 2, 2003
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|
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77%
|
The Good Thief (2003) |
"
Even with the drugs and the gambling and a host of oddballs who are thankfully never romanticized to the point of nausea, the film is ultimately much too sanitary for its own good."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 1, 2003
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|
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21%
|
Basic (2003) |
"
There's some magic on display worthy of the great Houdini--in scene after scene, logic and reason vanish before our very eyes with a well-timed poof!"
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 28, 2003
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|
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48%
|
Assassination Tango (2003) |
"
At age 72, Robert Duvall has pretty much earned the right to do whatever the hell he wants. Assassination Tango is exactly that: whatever the hell he wants."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 27, 2003
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35%
|
Levity (2003) |
"
The kind of downsized, misguidedly sincere movie that is meant to transparently serve as its participants' penance for the slop they make the rest of the year."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 22, 2003
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31%
|
The Hunted (2003) |
"
In its handful of principal moments the film compares favorably with the perceptive lyricism of Walter Hill and Michael Mann."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 12, 2003
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|
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34%
|
Tears of the Sun (2003) |
"
An imminent favorite at the White House screening room, but the film is ultimately so dry and remote that one can't imagine Chaney or Ashcroft trooping through all the exposition and moral finagling to get to the carnage."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2003
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8%
|
Gods and Generals (2003) |
"
As remote and unyielding as an untouched textbook, often so much so that its academic fanaticism causes it to resemble a spectacular parody of daytime television's breathy, on-the-fly awkwardness."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 24, 2003
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|
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34%
|
Poolhall Junkies (2002) |
"
A brassy bit of entertainment that makes up in hard-boiled showmanship what it lacks in subtlety."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2003
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|
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58%
|
Dark Blue (2003) |
"
That Dark Blue's template roughly coincides with the Rodney King race riots reeks of a pathetic attempt to over-conceptualize what is, at heart, a superficial, obvious morality play."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 14, 2003
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68%
|
Laurel Canyon (2003) |
"
If the booze-swilling, oversexed evil sister of McDormand's Almost Famous matron were to make her own movie, it might look something like Laurel Canyon."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 9, 2003
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71%
|
All the Real Girls (2003) |
"
Broadens the director's rural visual beauty but also benefits from a sharper placement of his narrative shrapnel and his characters' acute internal dilemmas."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 9, 2003
|
|
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43%
|
The Recruit (2003) |
"
Apparently making a spy thriller that amounts to something more than James Bond clichés taken seriously is indeed mission: impossible."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2003
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|
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63%
|
The Dancer Upstairs (2002) |
"
Feels less tantalizingly ambiguous than it does like a prologue that has somehow taken the place of the story that was meant to succeed it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
|
|
5/5
|
60%
|
Year of the Dragon (1985) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
|
|
2/5
|
89%
|
What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
|
|
4/5
|
91%
|
Three Colors: White (Trzy kolory: Bialy) (Trois Couleurs: Blanc) (1994) |
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Matinee Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
|
|
3/5
|
95%
|
The Gods Must Be Crazy (1980) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
|
|
0.5/4
|
85%
|
Chaos (2001) |
"
Remarkable in that it approaches its assortment of characters with an even hand, regardless of their behavior--until the final third, that is."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2003
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2002 Year-in-Review () |
"
Gangs of New York is Marty's show, the culmination of a career and the decisive statement from one of the greatest filmmakers of all time."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 27, 2002
|
|
2/4
|
79%
|
Confessions of a Dangerous Mind (2003) |
"
The overload of murders and double-crosses make Barris's life seem more and more like the folly of a screenwriter's imagination."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 27, 2002
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|
|
96%
|
Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
"
One of Spielberg's most gratifying films--quick and charming and exciting without ever being too obvious about its intentions."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 22, 2002
|
|
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75%
|
Gangs of New York (2002) |
"
Never before has Scorsese been so willing to let his naked enthusiasm--his love not only for the history within the film and its characters but also the purity of cinema--reveal itself in all of its unabashed glory."
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Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 20, 2002
|
|
|
83%
|
Narc (2002) |
"
Carnahan works with a rough-hewn classicism that recalls the tenacity and resilience of Hollywood in its glory days."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 19, 2002
|
|
|
79%
|
Antwone Fisher (2002) |
"
Fisher greedily encourages Washington and Hollywood to rape his integrity in the name of Ben Franklin, not to mention Oscar."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
60%
|
Soul in the Hole (1997) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
Laura (2005) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2002
|
|
|
78%
|
25th Hour (2003) |
"
The various elements of 25th Hour are invariably provocative, but the husk of the story isn't up to the challenge."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2002
|
|
|
84%
|
Morvern Callar (2002) |
"
Few films this year have been as resolute in their emotional nakedness."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2002
|
|
|
65%
|
Evelyn (2002) |
"
Told just proficiently enough to trounce its overly comfortable trappings."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 7, 2002
|
|
|
21%
|
Empire (2002) |
"
Too clumsy and vulgar a melodrama to be viewed as a calculated piece of racism, but its obtuse unawareness doesn't excuse it."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 2, 2002
|
|
4/5
|
64%
|
Executive Decision (1995) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2002
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Alligator (1980) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2002
|
|
|
50%
|
The Emperor's Club (2002) |
"
Hundert may be remembered by his pupils but the movie will be quickly forgotten."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 30, 2002
|
|
3/5
|
86%
|
Dead Alive (Braindead) (1993) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
3/5
|
77%
|
Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
3/5
|
80%
|
Marnie (2000) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
0/5
|
49%
|
Kids (1995) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
3/5
|
100%
|
Roma, città aperta (Open City) (1946) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
2/5
|
96%
|
Hotaru no haka (Grave of the Fireflies) (1988) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
|
|
1/5
|
55%
|
Single White Female (1992) |
—
Matinee Magazine
Posted Nov 26, 2002
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