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3.5/5
|
——
|
Tanner '88 (TV SHOW) () |
"
the first thing that strikes you upon revisiting Tanner '88 today is how familiar this whole circus seems"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 22, 2004
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|
3/5
|
——
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I Drink Your Blood (1971) |
"
it comes as a surprise when you first realize that I Drink Your Blood is not just coherent but fairly inventively plotted"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Oct 2, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
67%
|
The Door in the Floor (2004) |
"
The material is slim and becomes slimmer still by our advance grasp of it; what's meant to be novelistic in detail instead comes to seem belabored. Not a bad film. A misfire."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 30, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
31%
|
The Forgotten (2004) |
"
A freaking delight. Ruben keeps the threat both palpable and eerily undefined, and his payoffs are both ridiculously scary and hilariously unexpected."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 30, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
——
|
The Demon (1977) |
"
a reminder that there's a whole world of film out there to discover, no matter how deeply invested you already are"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 28, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
——
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Zero no Shoten (Zero Focus) (1961) |
"
What's most original -- and best -- about Zero Focus is its marvelous atmosphere."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
33%
|
Epidemic (1987) |
"
feels thrown together, as though von Trier is working at the mercy of available material, weaving it into a whole as he goes"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
72%
|
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004) |
"
Conran skips what chokes so much screen adventure today: extraneous characters, endless back story, ethical dilemmas, a tormented hero. He keeps Sky Captain airborne."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 24, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
48%
|
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"
Captures a fleeting moment in the subculture of 1980s America with heart-rending precision."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
1.5/5
|
26%
|
Anacondas - The Hunt for the Blood Orchid (2004) |
"
Not especially tedious, the snakes were OK, and I understood most of the conclusion. The only surprise, though, was that I made it to the end."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
95%
|
Hero (2004) |
"
Stands well above Zhang's lesser works while not ranking among his masterpieces, the redundancies of its plot redeemed by the spectacular poetry of its battles."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
23%
|
Wicker Park (2004) |
"
High style masks rather than updates what's essentially conventional in the material, and the plot unfolds on a seeming need-to-know basis. It's aggravating."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Sep 17, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
70%
|
Smell of Camphor, Fragrance of Jasmine (2001) |
"
Farmanara's artistic vision is hit-or-miss and his material hangs together rather slackly"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Sep 16, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Titanic (1943) |
"
A fascinating glimpse into a chapter of film history seldom perused."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 27, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
72%
|
Open Water (2004) |
"
As the characters begin to openly suffer, the movie becomes a grueling record of their pain and fear. It ultimately feels futile as well as pointlessly punishing."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Aug 25, 2004
|
|
0/5
|
11%
|
Exorcist - The Beginning (2004) |
"
I would think that John Boorman, director of Exorcist II: The Heretic, is now officially off the hook. This isn't entertainment; it's assault and battery."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Aug 25, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
75%
|
Elena et les hommes (Elena and Her Men) (Paris Does Strange Things) (1957) |
"
the resemblance it bears to Renoir's great Rules of the Game is more than passing, and I think this detracts"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 24, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
100%
|
The Golden Coach (Le Carrosse d'or) (1953) |
"
The Golden Coach, despite its preoccupation with the stage, is a distinctly cinematic experience."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 22, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
100%
|
French Cancan (Only the French Can) (1956) |
"
It's a true spectacle; Renoir suggests that, potentially, for those involved in theater, all of life is."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 22, 2004
|
|
0.5/5
|
21%
|
AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) |
"
Joining two previously independent monsters in one film signals the same desperation a sitcom producer feels when he sends his cast to Hawaii for an hour-long "special.""
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Aug 20, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
74%
|
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle (2004) |
"
So disreputable in its premise and so fly-by-night in its technique that it's easy to enjoy. It's unburdened by aspirations"
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Aug 17, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
95%
|
Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (2004) |
"
the question isn't will this be adapted for television? so much as how soon?"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Aug 8, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
43%
|
The Village (2004) |
"
You want to shut down the action and demand an explanation. Where are these people? Why are they behaving this way? What do they know that we don't know?"
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Aug 4, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
81%
|
The Manchurian Candidate (2004) |
"
[Has moments of] delirious political comedy, and it functions as a thriller, too."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Aug 4, 2004
|
|
1/5
|
9%
|
Catwoman (2004) |
"
It's really painful to watch."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 29, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
89%
|
Grey Gardens (1975) |
"
No film - no Tennessee Williams adaptation, nothing by Guy Maddin or Lynch, no genre-exploding Japanese horror flick - has ever had a stranger pair of characters at its core."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 28, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
100%
|
Early Summer (1951) |
"
the perfect vehicle for chronicling the small pleasures and disappointments that comprise the bigger enterprise of life"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 26, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
100%
|
Smile (1975) |
"
like a season of I Love the '70s condensed into two hours, and in its intimation that this is a uniquely disposable culture it's decades ahead of VH-1"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 26, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
96%
|
Port of Shadows (Le Quai des Brumes) (2012) |
"
A pleasure to watch, and there's much to recommend it. But, like that other poetic realist stalwart Pépé le Moko, what's best about it is its atmosphere of romance."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 25, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
——
|
Kimi ga wakamono nara (If You Were Young: Rage) (Our Dear Buddies) (1970) |
"
The film isn't unenjoyable, but it never rises above novelty."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 18, 2004
|
|
2.5/5
|
66%
|
Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"
The period detail is hilarious, abetted fantastically by Alex Wurman's score. But there's so much talent on hand that you couldn't blame anyone for wanting more."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 17, 2004
|
|
4.5/5
|
96%
|
I'm Going Home (2001) |
"
a realistic look at the ways in which mortality plays into the conscious and subconscious plans of the living"
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 16, 2004
|
|
3.5/5
|
83%
|
Onibaba (1965) |
"
Onibaba shows less interest in laying bare its meanings than in offering the occasion for the viewers' meditations on life, existence (a different thing), and whatever lies below."
—
Filmcritic.com
Posted Jul 9, 2004
|
|
0/5
|
58%
|
California Suite (1978) |
"
Offensive, stupid, and embarrassing."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 8, 2004
|
|
0.5/5
|
15%
|
White Chicks (2004) |
"
Even a child will have seen enough movies to sense that these scary creatures should be turning into wolves rather than shopping for Fendi at the mall."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 8, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
85%
|
Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003) |
"
Kill Bill isn't human. It's cinema as cinema. Tarantino is like a hyper, too-bright child, worrying you for your attention, jumping from thought to thought in his brain"
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
84%
|
Swimming Pool (2003) |
"
As in Chabrol, the plot's not the thing: what drives Swimming Pool is the transformations that take place within its characters. Rampling is a pleasure."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
88%
|
Russian Ark (2002) |
"
An audacious and insane experiment, a triumphant film."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
0.5/5
|
6%
|
Gigli (2003) |
"
The first half is an unfunny drag, with a few uncomfortable laughs provided by a retarded man. The last half is a tragedy."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
2/5
|
77%
|
Seabiscuit (2003) |
"
There's nothing for the audience to observe except the construction presented. Seabiscuit makes all its connections and observations for you."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
33%
|
Johnny English (2003) |
"
You won't die laughing in the theater, but the filmmakers aren't asking you to, as they do in the frantic, adolescent comedies that dominate the market. It's a pleasure."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 7, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
79%
|
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003) |
"
Comes close to recreating some of the bigger-than-life wonder that we experience at the movies in our childhood. Depp is a fey, hilarious wonder."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
0.5/5
|
17%
|
The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (2003) |
"
If you stripped this film of its effects, not even the platform would remain. Unplug the computer and The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen disappears."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
98%
|
Spellbound (2002) |
"
It expands as it goes until, by the end, it presents a hopeful overview of American life. It's a wonderful movie."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
99%
|
Finding Nemo (2003) |
"
The creators are cracking themselves up first, the way the Warner Bros. animators did in Bugs Bunny's golden age; it works for anyone with a sense of humor."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
0/5
|
48%
|
Bruce Almighty (2003) |
"
The dearth of imagination is stupefying. Carrey is alternately embarrassing and terrifyingly detached, [and] Freeman has sold out."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
60%
|
Down with Love (2003) |
"
Bright and very funny... manages to recreate a filmmaking style that was practically a parody of itself in the first place."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
0.5/5
|
28%
|
Daddy Day Care (2003) |
"
My advice is to beat your children rather than take them to Daddy Day Care."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
4/5
|
77%
|
Holes (2003) |
"
Engaging, generous, and well-paced. Holes is inventively plotted and its coincidences and crazy mysticism pull you in the way the best children's fiction does."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
X2: X-Men United (2003) |
"
X2 is motivated by a love of the action and characters. It's chaotic sometimes, and parts of it drag. But the affection shows, and you feel the director's enthusiasm."
—
F5 (Wichita, KS)
Posted Jul 6, 2004
|
74%
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