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F
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70%
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Sherlock Holmes (2009) |
"
One of the sourest experiences of my movie year, not a mindless sequel, but...the needless dumbing-down, almost gleeful sacralizing, and generic homogenizing of an established property so that it can yield mindless sequels."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 1, 2010
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F
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54%
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Alpha Dog (2007) |
"
As it happens, not all dogs to to heaven. Some go straight to hell, and Alpha Dog gets there faster and stays there longer than most."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Mar 4, 2007
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F
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65%
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Apocalypto (2006) |
"
A web of death-drives, false devotions, lofty pretenses, auto-plagiarisms, sound but inarticulate craftsmanship, and lowest-common-denominator provisions of trauma as entertainment."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Dec 5, 2006
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F
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50%
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The Hills Have Eyes (2006) |
"
These Hills might have eyes, but they could have used some brains, or at least a steadier hand and a less contemptible sensibility to guide the grisly proceedings."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Aug 13, 2006
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F
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40%
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Same Time, Next Year (1978) |
"
Satisfied neither to be honestly frivolous or sincerely ambitious, Same Time, Next Year winds up giving a bad name both to comedy and to drama."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Mar 3, 2006
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0/5
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63%
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Executive Decision (1995) |
"
Laughably, inexcusably, abjectly awful. How can I even count the ways?"
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Nov 6, 2004
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F
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42%
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The Human Stain (2003) |
"
A tricky adaptation of an unlikely novel that nevertheless goes almost as wrong as possible...prey to the most amateur varieties of structural and tonal errors."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Aug 28, 2004
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F
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60%
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The Terminal (2004) |
"
What will this studio think of next? A remake of The Red Balloon set in Tikrit? How about Sunday in the Park with George relocated to Guantánamo?"
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jul 18, 2004
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0/5
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46%
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The Basketball Diaries (1995) |
"
Crushingly over-emoted and internally inconsistent; for Leo die-hards only, and how many of those are around anymore?"
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Apr 20, 2004
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0/5
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46%
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Agnes of God (2002) |
"
Deadly - despite good work from Meg Tilly, the film is grotesquely directed and the spiritual debate is sensationalized beyond all reason."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Aug 17, 2003
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0/5
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28%
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Nine Months (1995) |
"
An execrable 'comedy,' an insult to Hugh Grant and a felony against Julianne Moore."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Aug 15, 2003
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0/5
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80%
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Yolanda and the Thief (1945) |
"
Truly unbearable; nothing works. When even Astaire isn't coming across, you know you're watching a stinker."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Aug 14, 2003
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F
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77%
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Tadpole (2002) |
"
The worst movie of 2002: 'Any film with such a formulaic foundation...faces the burden of succeeding in spite of it, yet Tadpole just dumbly offers it back up to us.'"
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Mar 19, 2003
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F
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87%
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The Matrix (1999) |
"
The least humane, least responsible, least pardonable movie I have ever seen."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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F
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43%
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The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000) |
"
Sit this one out. Please."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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F
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64%
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Antonia (Antonia's Line) (1995) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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F
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46%
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Runaway Bride (1999) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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F
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13%
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Book of Shadows - Blair Witch 2 (2000) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D-
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69%
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Hollywoodland (2006) |
"
Never makes a case that Reeves' death is worth probing, or even mourning; as on Superman, his humanity is utterly stifled by lousy production values and unrewarding stunts."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Oct 14, 2006
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D-
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24%
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Lady in the Water (2006) |
"
Breaks new ground in Shyamalan's cinema of looniness....The present of the movie is never interesting; meanwhile, its past is never illuminated and its future never arrives."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jul 28, 2006
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D-
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16%
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Alexander (2004) |
"
You know the movie is bound to be swill: imperialist daydreams indigestibly stewed together with limp Oedipal anxiety and unpersuasive pacifist lip service."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Dec 5, 2004
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D-
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80%
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The Green Mile (1999) |
"
A deeply racist movie, though clearly none of the filmmakers thinks so... By the picture's end, we are asked to grasp electrocution as in some way an act of benevolence."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D-
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56%
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The Gift (2000) |
"
Stilted, obvious, and cruel... No longer an absurdist of gore, Raimi is now a reveler in it."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
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71%
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Lovely, Still (2010) |
"
Lovely, Still made me feel sorry for its venerable stars, despite my fondness for their legacies and my gratitude for their committed best efforts through most of the film."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Oct 11, 2009
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D
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83%
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Tropic Thunder (2008) |
"
Tropic Thunder, full of punchlines about Milli Vanilli and Being There, stitches the tired cultural references of one generation to the utterly debased expectations of their heirs."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Sep 15, 2008
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D
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56%
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Vacancy (2007) |
"
Trite and opportunistic in its feints at intellectual weight... Best, in fact, to mine from the crumbly ore of Vacancy a drinking game plated in gold."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted May 2, 2007
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D
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86%
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Garden State (2004) |
"
It's dispiriting to see such a pandering and clunkily written picture get so puffed up with a belief in its own integrity; the movie has a Shins CD where its heart should be."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Oct 22, 2004
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D
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55%
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The Ladykillers (2004) |
"
The Ladykillers just feels indulgent, without imparting any notion of whom it might be indulging. Everyone in it looks as though they're punching a timecard."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Apr 15, 2004
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D
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——
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Coquette (1929) |
"
I guess 1929 audiences knew a stinker when they saw one coming. There is very little to criticize in Coquette, because there is so little in it, period."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 23, 2004
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D
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43%
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Charlie's Angels - Full Throttle (2003) |
"
Diagnosis: D.O.A....Novelty value: significantly diminished. Stunt sequences: total overkill. Directorial style: antic incoherence."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jul 19, 2003
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D
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73%
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The Matrix Reloaded (2003) |
"
A rabble-rousing aestheticization of violence and potential violence...Even I don't think the Wachowskis are Nazis, but I do think they might be Leni Riefenstahls."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jun 20, 2003
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D
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60%
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The Fugitive Kind (2005) |
"
An almost unbelievably sluggish and uninflected adaptation of Tennessee Williams' searing Orpheus Descending."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Mar 19, 2003
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D
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65%
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Tea With Mussolini (1999) |
"
Art and suffocating tastefulness are taken as such inherent goods in [this film] that they utterly overwhelm the real people whom the film pretends to showcase."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Mar 19, 2003
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D
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62%
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Playing by Heart (1998) |
"
The dozen or so lead characters of Playing By Heart fear silence the way Biblical people feared locusts."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Mar 19, 2003
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D
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83%
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There's Something About Mary (1998) |
"
[The filmmakers], out of some hyperactive reflex, grab at any joke they can get, like toddlers trying desperately to spear fish in a creek--a shallow creek."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
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54%
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Basic Instinct (1992) |
"
If it weren't so grotesque and repugnant, the consistent misogyny of Joe Eszterhas' movie scripts would almost be laughable."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
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16%
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The Avengers (1998) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
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82%
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Road to Perdition (2002) |
"
Road to Perdition is so jumbled and poseurish that you're less likely to wonder, 'How did the creators of American Beauty sink to this?' than to venture, 'Maybe American Beauty couldn't have been all that good, either.'"
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
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29%
|
Reptilicus (1963) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
|
45%
|
Planet of the Apes (2001) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
|
76%
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Panic Room (2002) |
"
It is despicable to see a renegade artist like Fincher consume himself within such a tired, deceptively conventional product..."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
|
6%
|
Body of Evidence (1992) |
"
Be thankful that its star, a singer, dancer, mother, and woman of the world, has plenty of day jobs to go back to."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
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3%
|
fear dot com (FeardotCom) (2002) |
"
In this case, a viewer's apathy to images of suffering and degradation are not a pointed comment on contemporary desensitization to violence -- it's just the proper response to a really crappy movie."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
|
65%
|
Dancing at Lughnasa (1998) |
—
Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
|
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D
|
41%
|
The Four Feathers (2002) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
|
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D
|
56%
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The Hi-Lo Country (1998) |
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
|
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D
|
64%
|
Wild Things (1998) |
"
One of those thankfully rare pictures that makes every man and woman it portrays seem hollow and insubstantial."
—
Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
|
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D
|
44%
|
Get Over It (2001) |
"
There's something almost perverse about a show that only comes alive as the curtain rises and falls..."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
|
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D
|
55%
|
Pitch Black (2000) |
"
Pitch Black is action science-fiction that barely qualifies as action and not at all as either science or fiction."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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D
|
13%
|
Hush (1998) |
"
Given how terrible Hush is, it should be more fun to watch."
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Nick's Flick Picks
Posted Jan 10, 2003
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