|
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68%
|
Christine (1983) |
"
As Dorothy Zbornak demanded, "Maestro, how about something with a little octane?""
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 20, 2013
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|
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90%
|
Holy Motors (2012) |
"
Get your motors running. Death moves at 24 frames per second."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 5, 2013
|
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64%
|
Dick Tracy (1990) |
"
Though sans bonus features, the playful macho burlesque of Dick Tracy still strikes a pose. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 28, 2013
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89%
|
How Green Was My Valley (1941) |
"
Maybe because How Green Was My Valley doesn't delve as deeply into the heart of darkness as Ford did in his earlier The Grapes of Wrath, it remains one of his most curiously underrated films."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 12, 2013
|
|
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89%
|
Consuming Spirits (2012) |
"
Akin to the Disney version of The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. Consuming Spirits has moonshine on its rotten breath, but its images are never less than intoxicating."
—
WCCO.com
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
|
97%
|
Cabaret (1972) |
"
Imitations, bastardizations, and endless co-opting of its surface style can't dilute the supremely bitter rinse of Cabaret's horrors."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 8, 2013
|
|
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20%
|
Deadly Blessing (1982) |
"
The script may be strictly A Touch of Satan, but Wes Craven's deep-seated ambivalence with his own religious upbringing sometimes sparks the rote Jesus freakery of Deadly Blessing to life."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 31, 2013
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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San Diego Surf () |
"
Here, the glamorous and the infantile cohabitate on a casual level, and frivolity remains the Factory's default mode."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 22, 2013
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——
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Lost Horizon (1973) |
"
The Mayans were wrong. When Liv Ullman sings, "The world is a circle without a beginning," that's when the world ends."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 21, 2012
|
|
.5/4
|
4%
|
Playing for Keeps (2012) |
"
Gabriele Muccino's film is knee-deep in "don't hate the player, hate the game" territory."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 5, 2012
|
|
|
94%
|
Der Blaue Engel (The Blue Angel) (1930) |
"
While by some measure creakier than the six Hollywood films that Von Sternberg and Dietrich collaborated on in its wake, The Blue Angel still laid down a solid template for their strange relationship."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 4, 2012
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98%
|
Rosemary's Baby (1968) |
"
So long as there are men in power who are still fuzzy on the definition of rape, Rosemary's Baby will endure as a cautionary tale."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 29, 2012
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|
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100%
|
Letter From an Unknown Woman (1948) |
"
The waltzing heartbreak of Letter from an Unknown Woman serves as the gateway to Max Ophüls's late-period string of masterpieces."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 25, 2012
|
|
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18%
|
Masters of the Universe (1987) |
"
No one is up to Frank Langella's pouting Skeletor in Masters of the Universe."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 12, 2012
|
|
|
98%
|
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial (1982) |
"
Rosie Grier let kids know that it's all right to cry. E.T. gave kids, adults, and aliens no choice in the matter."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 8, 2012
|
|
|
50%
|
Annie (1982) |
"
Category fraud didn't begin with the Oscars. It began when the Razzies awarded Aileen Quinn worst supporting actress of 1982."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 2, 2012
|
|
2.5/4
|
——
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Dear Mandela (2012) |
"
A devout political documentary that insists that community, dignity, and solidarity are sustaining, but not the baseline by which one should settle."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2012
|
|
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86%
|
Macbeth (1948) |
"
Macbeth may be the least successful of Welles's Shakespeare films, but Olive Films's sporadically striking transfer will make that sort of hierarchal sound and fury signify nothing, indeed."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 19, 2012
|
|
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30%
|
Halloween II (1981) |
"
Halloween II is no masterpiece, and established a framework for some of the hackiest filmmaking in horror history. But at least the world knows now to never run on hospital floors covered in fresh blood."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 17, 2012
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65%
|
Steel Magnolias (1989) |
"
If Claree's nephew meets gay men by comfirming they have track lighting in their homes, I filter my dating prospects by checking to see if they have a copy of Steel Magnolias on their shelf."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 11, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
58%
|
Sparkle (2012) |
"
Whitney Houston's death is just about the only thing that gives the film real, albeit mostly unintentional, life. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 16, 2012
|
|
2/4
|
17%
|
This Time (2012) |
"
Documentary director Victor Magnatti is more comfortable with loud and proud, and perhaps a tad suspicious of insinuation and circumspection."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Aug 6, 2012
|
|
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87%
|
The Dark Knight Rises (2012) |
"
Dark Knight channeled the nervous energy of a larger cultural movement. Rises swaggers as though it is the larger movement. Whether or not that's a good thing depends on how highly you rank being a Batman fan among your life goals."
—
WCCO.com
Posted Jul 19, 2012
|
|
|
30%
|
Creepshow 2 (1987) |
"
Aims to recapture the original's seamless pastiche (it's an imitation of an imitation) and fails. But it has an easily digestible, junky sense of humor about it."
—
House Next Door
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
|
70%
|
Men in Black III (2012) |
"
It's summer movie smack, and it leaves you hungry only for more of the same."
—
WCCO.com
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
|
74%
|
Prometheus (2012) |
"
In space, everyone can hear you try too hard. "
—
WCCO.com
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
|
80%
|
Magic Mike (2012) |
"
Gah, bare flesh pecs on screen drool cup need quick!!"
—
WCCO.com
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
|
73%
|
The Amazing Spider-Man (2012) |
"
The directive given to the filmmakers behind The Amazing Spider-Man was undoubtedly: strut that teen angst."
—
WCCO.com
Posted Jul 17, 2012
|
|
|
90%
|
The Lion King (2011) |
"
"Hakuna Matata" would mean never having to be subjected to The Lion King ever again, much less having Simba's growing pains coming at your face in 3D."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Oct 8, 2011
|
|
—
|
96%
|
Limelight (1952) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 20, 2011
|
|
3.5/4
|
95%
|
Weekend (2011) |
"
The longer you spend inside Weekend, the more its fictions seem apparent."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
67%
|
Limelight (2011) |
"
Limelight, like the club it's named after, doesn't do much to break the mold of sex-drugs-and-star****ers sameness afflicting this particular subgenre."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 18, 2011
|
|
2/4
|
57%
|
House Of Boys (2011) |
"
Heteros get their Crazy, Stupid, Love. this weekend, and I guess gay New Yorkers, fresh off their immensely satisfying we-have-arrived nuptials, get their own Crazy, Stupid, Tragedy. as counterprogramming."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jul 26, 2011
|
|
1.5/4
|
26%
|
The Best and the Brightest (2011) |
"
Dimly plays out like a waking daymare Alexander Payne thought up while sitting disinterestedly through last fall's disinteresting Waiting for Superman."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 22, 2011
|
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2/4
|
——
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The Colors of the Prism, The Mechanics of Time () |
"
Electronica is the next progression, and Jacqueline Caux caps her otherwise rarified musical program with a rave anthem from Plastikman to drive the point home."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 14, 2011
|
|
—
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——
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Florent Pagny: l'Integrale du Spectale (2007) |
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 21, 2011
|
|
2.5/4
|
83%
|
Florent: Queen Of The Meat Market (2011) |
"
David Sigal's documentary may not quite manage to canonize the diner, at least not to flyover country, but it sure makes it sound like a good meal and a great time."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted May 20, 2011
|
|
|
90%
|
Blow Out (1981) |
"
Criterion continues to prefer their De Palma relatively humorless, but there's no denying Blow Out's importance in the underrated director's filmography."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 30, 2011
|
|
—
|
67%
|
Kitten with a Whip (1964) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
—
|
——
|
Domani torno a casa (Back Home Tomorrow) (2008) |
—
House Next Door
Posted Apr 22, 2011
|
|
|
67%
|
Daughters of Darkness (1971) |
"
The lifeblood of marriage was all but drained by the time Slovakia's sullen vampires reached it in the early '70s."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 8, 2011
|
|
|
92%
|
The Naked Kiss (1964) |
"
No one slaps the f-stop out of pimps like Constance Towers!"
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 18, 2011
|
|
3/4
|
100%
|
The Leopard (1963) |
"
The Leopard is more than a tad too pleased by its own spots, but in this case the source material and its director's intentions were almost accidentally an appropriate match. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 30, 2010
|
|
|
40%
|
Salon Kitty (Edited Version) (1976) |
"
Saucy without entirely giving itself over to maladaptive glory, Salon Kitty festers in that fertile field somewhere between The Night Porter and Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS. "
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 14, 2010
|
|
|
82%
|
Fantasia 2000 (2000) |
"
The bonus features, or lack thereof, are a bummer, but Fantasia and especially its eager-to-please stepchild Fantasia 2000 have never looked better."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 5, 2010
|
|
|
96%
|
Fantasia (1940) |
"
The bonus features, or lack thereof, are a bummer, but Fantasia and especially its eager-to-please stepchild Fantasia 2000 have never looked better."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 5, 2010
|
|
|
36%
|
Burlesque (2010) |
"
Is it too much to ask for one wig to get snatched?"
—
WCCO.com
Posted Nov 24, 2010
|
|
|
79%
|
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 1 (2010) |
"
Hallows: Part 1 isn't a film at all. It's a placeholder. And its makers are making fans pay for the privilege of remaining caught up."
—
WCCO.com
Posted Nov 19, 2010
|
|
|
95%
|
Best Worst Movie (2010) |
"
Best Worst Movie doesn't actually build much of an argument on behalf of Troll 2 eclipsing the reputations of Mommie Dearest, Xanadu, or even The Room, but it's made with genuine affection."
—
Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 18, 2010
|
43%
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