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2/5 |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"It wavers between traditional period adventure, cynical, revisionist history and meandering, multi-character mini-series. The action scenes aren't very good either." | |
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4/5 |
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Bad Education (2004) |
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"...Almodovar's meta-movie teases us with Big Ideas about those of us who love our fantasies so much that we turn them into our realities." | |
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4/5 |
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Before Sunset (2004) |
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"For all the talk, there's always something unspoken bubbling away in the space between these two ex-lovers..." | |
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1/5 |
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The Brown Bunny (2004) |
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"...M. Knight Shyamalan trapped in a pornorgraphic art flick." | |
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4.5/5 |
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City of God (2003) |
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"We've seen this story before, more or less -- the blood, the budding psychopaths, the all-too-young victims of urban decay -- but never quite like this." | |
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1/5 |
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Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2005) |
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"...a passion play with a guy in drag (who could ask for anything more?)..." | |
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4/5 |
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Dogville (2003) |
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"...an experience that's both grueling and, in its way, glorious." | |
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3.5/5 |
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The Door in the Floor (2004) |
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"...a film both fluid and hermetically sealed, inviting multiple interpretations and yet ultimately reluctant to give up its secrets." | |
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3.5/5 |
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The Dreamers (2004) |
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"The erotic parlor games in Bertolucci's film don't get quite get debauched or deep enough, and once they've run their course, the movie doesn't know what to do." | |
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5/5 |
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El Bruto (1952) |
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3.5/5 |
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Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004) |
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"It's a strange trip, to be sure, sort of like what Fantastic Voyage might have been if some acid-gobbling metaphysicians had been at the helm." | |
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3/5 |
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Ghost (1990) |
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4/5 |
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Hero (2004) |
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"...an astonishingly graceful ballet performed with swords, arrows and fists." | |
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2/5 |
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A Home at the End of the World (2004) |
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"The naughty bits were eventually cut (so to speak) for being too "distracting," but the publicity surrounding the deletion may be the best thing the movie has going for it." | |
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4.5/5 |
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In the Realms of the Unreal (2004) |
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"...a fascinating sort of connect-the-dots that allows us to essentially piece together our very own personalized portrait of this most curious of artists." | |
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4/5 |
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Kandahar (2001) |
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"As with so much in the Islamic world, there are things here that are profoundly beautiful, as well as much that is profoundly scary." | |
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4/5 |
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Kill Bill Vol. 2 (2004) |
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"KB2 is still basically a cartoon, albeit a more elaborately illustrated one..." | |
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3/5 |
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Ladykillers (2004) |
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"...nowhere near the Coens' funniest or most distinctive or even most endearing work." | |
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3/5 |
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The Last Samurai (2003) |
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"...doesn't seem particularly interested in the nuances and points of frisson that are bound to occur when East meets West." | |
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4.5/5 |
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Le Cercle Rouge (1970) |
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"It's a languorous and uncompromising work that will drive some to distraction, but also a movie of dark, still beauty that will have others weeping tears of pure, noir joy." | |
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4/5 |
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Les Cousins (1958) |
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4/5 |
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Marius (1931) |
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3.5/5 |
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Mean Girls (2004) |
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"...a lean, mean entertainment that manages to be both playful and subversive while exhibiting plenty of mainstream appeal." | |
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3.5/5 |
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Millions (2005) |
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"...Millions pulls off the neat trick of affirming that money can't buy happiness, even as it has a ball pretending that it can." | |
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4/5 |
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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) |
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4/5 |
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My Architect: A Son's Journey (2003) |
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"A film with all the passion, mystery, tears and joy of first-rate, fully fleshed fiction." | |
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4/5 |
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Off the Map (2005) |
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"...eloquently written but not overwritten, with a story that ultimately feels less like a literary construct and more like a spontaneous celebration of a few lived lives..." | |
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2.5/5 |
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Open Water (2004) |
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"...Daniel and Susan just float around bitching at each other, so the movie frequently seems like a production of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf in scuba gear." | |
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2/5 |
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The Passion of the Christ (2004) |
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"The movie's biggest sin lies not in where it chooses to cast blame, but in its bungled attempt at manufacturing what I suppose you'd have to call an epiphany of excess." | |
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5/5 |
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Paths of Glory (1957) |
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3.5/5 |
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The Punisher (2004) |
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"It's dark and gritty and even a little tawdry, pushing ... deep into Death Wish territory, which is exactly as it should be." | |
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4.5/5 |
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The Saddest Music in the World (2004) |
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"...a little bit like what Matthew Barney's Cremaster Cycle might have been without the illusions of grandeur or pretentious aftertaste." | |
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1/5 |
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She Hate Me (2004) |
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"...a movie that spews so much random, senseless, undigested matter that it seems more like projectile vomiting than filmmaking." | |
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4/5 |
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Sin City (2005) |
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"...might just be the most extravagantly brutal live-action cartoon ever made." | |
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4.5/5 |
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The Son (2003) |
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"...a work of enormous moral and spiritual depth, where sacrifice, forgiveness and redemption are revealed as the natural extensions of the movie's humdrum landscape." | |
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4.5/5 |
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Talk to Her (2002) |
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"Almodovar continues to refine the form of melodrama ... without sacrificing one iota of emotional texture or resonance." | |
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