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25%
|
The Da Vinci Code (2006) |
"
There is a natural limit as to how deeply any film, but especially a would-be summer blockbuster, can dig into radical ideas of faith and history. To his credit, Ron Howard hits that limit."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted May 21, 2006
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|
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75%
|
Secret Honor (1984) |
"
Does anyone have a clue what Altman was driving at with this intense glob of lunacy?"
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 19, 2005
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|
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92%
|
Gabriel Over the White House (1933) |
"
Gabriel Over the White House encourages its viewers to live the fantasy of the philosopher-king, but never counts the costs of such a regime."
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Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 19, 2005
|
|
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25%
|
Bewitched (2005) |
"
I'll have some of what Nora Ephron's having, as long as I don't have to watch her movies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 19, 2005
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|
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65%
|
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (1967) |
"
If you guessed, 'a wheezy social problem drama,' you're right."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 19, 2005
|
|
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93%
|
Good Night, And Good Luck (2005) |
"
Not only was Good Night, and Good Luck filmed in black-and-white, it was written and acted that way, too. This is Good versus Evil for Political Dummies."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Nov 5, 2005
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——
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The World, the Flesh and the Devil (2000) |
"
Belafonte is magic in his loneliness."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 26, 2005
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|
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85%
|
Batman Begins (2005) |
"
The class dynamics of Batman Begins are just insufferable. Thank heavens we have our incorruptable masked moneybags to keep the criminal poor in line. "
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 17, 2005
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|
|
85%
|
F for Fake (1974) |
"
A little gem, full of vintage Welles ruminations on the ephemeral nature of personal celebrity and the elusiveness of ultimate truth."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted May 22, 2005
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|
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85%
|
The Yes Men (2004) |
"
Chris Smith is the next great documentarian for mainstream American audiences to discover, and he richly merits a wide release."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted May 15, 2005
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97%
|
Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room (2005) |
"
While Smartest Guys sometimes veers into C-Span2: The Movie territory, just then another shocking tidbit will drop to keep the fires stoked."
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Mixed Reviews
Posted May 15, 2005
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|
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93%
|
Nobody Knows (Dare mo shiranai) (2004) |
"
Nothing more can be done to lay the concrete reality of poverty out for persons of conscience. Take and read."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Mar 14, 2005
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|
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56%
|
Ocean's Twelve (2004) |
"
Ocean's 12 is malt-liquor-on-a-Monday stupid."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Dec 12, 2004
|
|
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88%
|
The Five Obstructions (2003) |
"
Despite his own pessimism, I think Von Trier does change Leth as an artist, a little, through these chastisements."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 25, 2004
|
|
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56%
|
The Polar Express (2004) |
"
This praiseworthy film has been awarded highest honors from Puissant Guide and All-Fertile Giftgiver Kris Kringle."
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Mixed Reviews
Posted Nov 17, 2004
|
|
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84%
|
The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004) |
"
An unexpected renaissance in Soviet filmmaking."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 25, 2004
|
|
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62%
|
I Heart Huckabees (2004) |
"
See I Heart Huckabees before your boss asks you to tell your Shania Twain mayo story and you vomit all over a meeting of the Board."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 18, 2004
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|
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76%
|
Team America - World Police (2004) |
"
A post-9/11 gutbuster."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 10, 2004
|
|
|
72%
|
Bonhoeffer (2003) |
"
Bonhoeffer doesn't probe as deeply as one might like into the details and implications of his theology, but is an invaluable study of a man of conscience. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 6, 2004
|
|
|
48%
|
A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
"
All roads lead to ruin in Home's world, lending an unexpectedly reactionary tone to the work."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Oct 3, 2004
|
|
|
90%
|
Going Upriver - The Long War of John Kerry (2004) |
"
John Kerry may well be the conscience that America needs at its helm. But I'd never trust a 90-minute campaign ad like Upriver to tell me that. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 2, 2004
|
|
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53%
|
A Dirty Shame (2004) |
"
A Dirty Shame, a very funny movie, overcomes its limitations by playing to director John Waters' strengths."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Oct 1, 2004
|
|
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86%
|
Garden State (2004) |
"
Ultimately, The Graduate could only offer that the young would shut out the old and start over. Garden State is about the next season, about getting off the bus."
—
Flak Magazine
Posted Sep 26, 2004
|
|
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43%
|
The Village (2004) |
"
In this election year, our cinemas have been overrun by insincere communities headed by dissemblers-in-chief."
—
Flak Magazine
Posted Aug 19, 2004
|
|
|
22%
|
AVP - Alien Vs. Predator (2004) |
"
If you're aching for lines like, 'Well, that tunnel didn't dig itself,' and 'My enemy's enemy...is....my friend?,' run don't walk to AVP."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 14, 2004
|
|
0/5
|
46%
|
Secret Window (2004) |
"
Another lousy movie adapted from Stephen King's writing; another slander against the mentally ill; another energetic Depp performance in a losing cause."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Aug 6, 2004
|
|
99/100
|
96%
|
Intolerance (1916) |
"
D.W. Griffith wants to fight for your right to party."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 25, 2004
|
|
|
78%
|
The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
"
The best film of 2004. A throwback in more than just its look, Guy Maddin's latest brings new life to the melodrama."
—
Flak Magazine
Posted Jul 22, 2004
|
|
|
7%
|
Boat Trip (2003) |
"
Only Cuba Gooding Jr., the Olivier of his generation, could pull off such a daring commentary on modern manners."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jul 18, 2004
|
|
5/5
|
48%
|
De-Lovely (2004) |
"
'There are no little memories with you,' Cole tells her. "
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 18, 2004
|
|
|
67%
|
Anchorman - The Legend Of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
"
All hail Will Ferrell, King of the man-children!"
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jul 10, 2004
|
|
|
93%
|
Spider-Man 2 (2004) |
"
Its predecessor's equal in pure popcorn entertainment, Spiderman 2 adds moral complexities to daunt even the most intrepid of webslingers."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 30, 2004
|
|
|
84%
|
Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) |
"
Moore films exactly how we think in the age of 164-channel cable TV, flipping among a variety of moods and tones, engaging in levels of discourse both high and low."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 29, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
70%
|
Dodgeball - A True Underdog Story (2004) |
"
Most of Dodgeball's considerable humor comes from droopy-eyed Vince Vaughn watching manic, macho Ben Stiller wear himself out."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 16, 2004
|
|
|
90%
|
Cidade de Deus (City of God) (2003) |
"
Directors Kátia Lund and Fernando Meirelles stir all the cinematic virtues into this finely-crafted narrative."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
98%
|
Chavez: Inside the Coup (The Revolution Will Not Be Televised) (2003) |
"
The big story here is neither the coup, nor the countercoup, but the spread of constitutional values to the people of Venezuela."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
92%
|
Dogtown and Z-Boys (2001) |
"
Using the Zephyr team's creation, its sudden fame, and death by defection, Dogtown documents genuine 20th century tribalism."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
——
|
Modern Tribalism (2002) |
"
Modern Tribalism tries to universalize the discontent felt by tattoo addicts, cheek-spear enthusiasts, and weekend anarchists."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
54%
|
Veronica Guerin (2003) |
"
Veronica Guerin is a sharp study of the vices that sometimes goad us to virtue."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
38%
|
Legally Blonde 2 - Red, White & Blonde (2003) |
"
Legally Blonde II is even smarter than Election. It is a brutal satire of the pop politics with which the Rock the Vote generation deludes itself."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
3/5
|
87%
|
Home Movie (2001) |
"
Each of the subjects alternates between charming and creepy."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
91%
|
Dark Days (2000) |
"
As a chronicle of midnight and dawn in the great human day, Dark Days ranks among the most moral of films. "
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
56%
|
Devil's Playground (2002) |
"
Devil's Playground is a classic exposition of the choice between freedom and order, between a closed society and an open one."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
96%
|
Winged Migration (Le Peuple Migrateur) (2003) |
"
Winged Migration must be the most subversive G-rated film ever."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
82%
|
Thirteen (2003) |
"
What power does a teenage girl have?"
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
70%
|
Terminator 3 - Rise of the Machines (2003) |
"
Sadly, what began as a smart sci-fi franchise has apparently been huffing glue since 1985."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
57%
|
Northfork (2003) |
"
With the pacing of a death march and the theological heft of Angels in the Outfield, this feel-bad extravaganza is 2003's Exhibit A of why people avoid arthouse cinema."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
85%
|
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003) |
"
In 2003, what our psychic diet needed most wasn't blood and bombast. No, it needed films to reawaken our respect for life and love of peace."
—
Flak Magazine
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
63%
|
Love Actually (2003) |
"
My problem is an acute allergy to repitition. Love, Actually and other champions of the romantic-comedy flyweight division make me break out in hives."
—
Low IQ Canadian
Posted Jun 13, 2004
|
|
|
——
|
Sguardo di Michelangelo () |
"
Lo Sgaurdo, a Top Ten movie in this or any other year, speaks for every tourist left speechless by Rome's scenes of religious and artistic enormity."
—
Mixed Reviews
Posted Jun 12, 2004
|
79%
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