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3.5/4
|
78%
|
The Fury (1978) |
"
A hangout movie when all's said and done..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Apr 24, 2013
|
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2/4
|
75%
|
Peter Pan (1953) |
"
Who wants their son taking his cues from this meanspirited "hero"?"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Feb 4, 2013
|
|
2/4
|
87%
|
Frankenweenie (2012) |
"
A remake of not one Tim Burton movie, but all of them."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
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2/4
|
69%
|
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) |
"
Director Brian Henson should have left brand expectations out of it and simply carried on in the vein of his father's excursions into fantasy."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 19, 2012
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2.5/4
|
78%
|
Flight (2012) |
"
The moments that dazzle are not so much visual as conceptual, thus harking back to Zemeckis's Used Cars days."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Nov 1, 2012
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2/4
|
——
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Girl Most Likely (2013) |
"
There's enough indie quirk in Imogene to choke a Sundance programmer."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 21, 2012
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1/4
|
52%
|
At Any Price (2013) |
"
The new soap opera from America's least exciting regional filmmaker."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
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3.5/4
|
57%
|
Blackbird (2013) |
"
Told with a rare mix of humanity and procedural clarity that recalls, nay, honours the late, great Alan Clarke."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 19, 2012
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1/4
|
44%
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The Paperboy (2012) |
"
If only Daniels could direct!"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
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2/4
|
44%
|
American Reunion (2012) |
"
Points for consistency, I guess, on the part of Harold & Kumar creators Jon Hurwitz and Hayden Schlossberg."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
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|
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100%
|
The Shark Is Still Working () |
"
The Shark Is Still Working isn't necessarily better than The Making of Jaws, but it trods less familiar ground."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
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——
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Stanley Kubrick's Boxes (2008) |
"
...Ultimately satisfies as a digest version of Taschen's must-have coffee-table book."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
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3/4
|
——
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Picture Day (2013) |
"
Picture Day leaves a pleasant aftertaste, and I can't help but chalk most of that up to Maslany."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
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3.5/4
|
96%
|
Argo (2012) |
"
Argo is a valentine to the cinema in the very convincing drag of a political thriller."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
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1.5/4
|
65%
|
Antiviral (2013) |
"
It's pretty silly."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
|
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1.5/4
|
65%
|
The Iceman (2013) |
"
The Iceman proves that a movie cannot get by on Michael Shannon's dark charisma alone"
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Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 14, 2012
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3.5/4
|
64%
|
Curling () |
"
A slow burn that respects the audience's literacy."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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3.5/4
|
91%
|
Into The Abyss (2011) |
"
Less a polemic than a sombre sifting-through of the collateral damage that collects in concentric circles around an execution."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
|
3.5/4
|
64%
|
Uncle Buck (1989) |
"
It's not John Hughes's best film, but it could be his funniest, as well as his saddest."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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2.5/4
|
89%
|
Lady and the Tramp (1955) |
"
Handsomely, seductively drawn, Lady and the Tramp owns its place in the canon..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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4/4
|
——
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Duck Amuck (1953) |
"
Daffy's existential crisis is oddly revealing of his identity and, for the viewer, a lesson in the possibilities of the medium."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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3/4
|
——
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The Scarlet Pumpernickel () |
"
In Daffy's increasingly harried responses to J.L.'s unquenchable thirst for more story, we get some sense of what it must've been like to work at Termite Terrace..."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
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4/4
|
——
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Rabbit of Seville () |
"
Invention, madness, and visual delight are in seemingly endless supply..."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
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3.5/4
|
——
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What's Opera, Doc? (1957) |
"
By the end it's difficult to say whether Jones is lampooning Fantasia or merely envious of it."
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Film Freak Central
Posted Mar 20, 2012
|
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3.5/4
|
77%
|
Killer Joe (2012) |
"
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
|
45%
|
Twixt () |
"
This is perhaps not personal but private filmmaking."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 2, 2011
|
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2.5/4
|
100%
|
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2012) |
"
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
|
78%
|
Jeff Who Lives at Home (2012) |
"
Warm, funny, and wise."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 18, 2011
|
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1/4
|
32%
|
The Oranges (2012) |
"
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
|
|
2.5/4
|
73%
|
Dark Horse (2012) |
"
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
|
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"
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Sep 11, 2011
|
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3/4
|
76%
|
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
|
|
1.5/4
|
34%
|
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 (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
|
|
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
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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Strumpet (2001) |
"
Strumpet seems to think that small-scale ambitions excuse great contrivances."
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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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La Coupure (Torn Apart) (2006) |
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 15, 2010
|
|
—
|
——
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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. "
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
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."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2.5/4
|
88%
|
White Material (2010) |
"
Claire Denis's very own Gone with the Wind."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
|
2/4
|
——
|
A Gun to the Head () |
"
A bush-league Mikey and Nicky."
—
Film Freak Central
Posted Oct 5, 2010
|
86%
22%
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