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Shooting Michael Moore (2010)
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Leslie Rigoulot
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Mary Jane's Not a Virgin Anymore (1997)
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Liza Bear
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84%
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Jane Eyre (2011)
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Karen Jaehne
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Histoire(s) du cinéma: Seul le cinéma ()
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David Sterritt
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41%
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Ex Drummer (2011)
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"Ex Drummer is a mess of a film, a tawdry, bizarre tale that has enough visual style to set it apart, barely, from being a complete waste of several hours of your life."
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Jason Gorber
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94%
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My Winnipeg (2007)
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"Part documentary, part autobiography, part psychotherapy, Maddin's smooth narration and pithy asides take us in his inimitable style on a journey through what he dubs "the coldest city in North America"."
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Jason Gorber
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76%
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007)
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"With an almost aching restraint in the performances and storytelling, Assassination makes for a quite enjoyable film if you give yourself over to its pacing and style."
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Jason Gorber
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94%
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
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"This is a film that pulls no punches - it's brutal, violent and at times perverse. It is almost sadistic in how it removes all sense of catharsis from the audience, yet does so with such grace and efficiency that you're constantly shaking your head in ama"
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Jason Gorber
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94%
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Juno (2007)
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"It's a thinking person's teen flick, a feel-good film that earns its earnestness. It's got the-little-film-that-could spirit that could see it succeed like Little Miss Sunshine, but for my money it's the better of the two..."
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Jason Gorber
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90%
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Michael Clayton (2007)
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"A story rich in ideas that doesn't blow valuable time proselytizing its message."
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Jason Gorber
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72%
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Lust, Caution (2007)
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"It's a film to admire, but not an easy one to fall in love with."
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Jason Gorber
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43%
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The Brave One (2007)
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"In the end it's a film that doesn't know what it wants to be - on the one hand it's visceral entertainment (B-thriller?), and on the other hand it tries for some arch conservative, Reaganesque view of conflict resolution."
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Jason Gorber
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Chicken Rice War ()
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"The Montagues and Capulets are replaced by the Wong's and Chan's, as an age-old rivalry between two Chicken Rice sellers has dragged on for generations."
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Jason Gorber
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53%
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Sheitan (Satan) (2006)
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"Kids-in-the-country vibe mixes teen horror with Deliverance"
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Jason Gorber
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69%
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Lights in the Dusk (Laitakaupungin valot) (2007)
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"Another weird, frigid tale by Kaurismaki."
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Jason Gorber
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70%
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Amazing Grace (2007)
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"While the subject matter is ripe for investigation, the film isn't quite up to the challenge."
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Jason Gorber
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Invisible Waves (2007)
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"The story of betrayal, poisoning, karaoke and manky cruise ships is often convoluted despite the deliberate pace."
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Jason Gorber
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96%
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Flirting (1992)
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"Animation is used here clearly to allow the story to be told with a certain amount of distance, yet the constant shift in tone and introduction of video elements keeps the film intensely unsettling."
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Jason Gorber
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Tales of the Rat Fink (2006)
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"Bubble cars and air-brushed flames abound...Interesting and accessible."
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Jason Gorber
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No Place Like Home ()
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"The classic reggae of the soundtrack (interspersed with MOR 70s schmaltz) keeps the film chugging along."
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Jason Gorber
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64%
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Severance (2006)
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"A slasher film with a brain, cleverly constructed with strong performances and storyline....The Office meets Deliverance...."
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Jason Gorber
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87%
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The Pervert's Guide to Cinema (2006)
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"It's pretentious, arch, and often times ridiculous (as well as being philosophically incoherent, trying to sound smarter than it actually is), but it's in the end a lot of fun."
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Jason Gorber
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79%
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Sharkwater (2007)
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"Pretty, if polemical look at Sharks, the illegal harvesting of fins, and one man's journey into radical activism."
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Jason Gorber
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33%
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Ye yan (Legend of the Black Scorpion) (The Banquet) (2006)
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"A beautiful, if incomprehensible and interminable film with fest-fav Zhang Zi-Yi."
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Jason Gorber
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40%
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Bonneville (2006)
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"This is Pablum masking as a tragi-comic chick flick, and should be avoided by all thinking people."
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Jason Gorber
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76%
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Black Book (Zwartboek) (2007)
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"Carice van Houten is an astonishing find, and if someone were on the ball she'd be world famous sooner rather than later."
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Jason Gorber
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33%
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Breaking and Entering (2007)
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"A convoluted plot of break-ins, architectural redevelopment and mid-30s life crises mask a fairly standard tale of a love triangle."
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Jason Gorber
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Remembering Arthur (2006)
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"Overly long, with stories that end up going nowhere, the filmmaker is clearly to close to the subject (his friend Arthur), and this eulogy does little but hold up his closest friends to scrutiny that is not sustainable."
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Jason Gorber
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96%
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Pan's Labyrinth (2006)
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"A film with vision..."
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Jason Gorber
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33%
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Trapped Ashes (2008)
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"A horrible mess of horror movie cliches..."
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Jason Gorber
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90%
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Rescue Dawn (2007)
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"A very accomplished film, and Bale continues to impress with his craft."
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Jason Gorber
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91%
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So Goes the Nation (2006)
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"The star of the show is Paul Bagala, who in no uncertain terms points out the foibles of his own side's defeat."
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Jason Gorber
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28%
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Copying Beethoven, (Klang der Stille) (2006)
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"A horrid mess of a film, only the music elevates it from being a total dud."
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Jason Gorber
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66%
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Shortbus (2006)
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"Incredibly sexy without being titilating, this is a very well crafted flick that deserves a bigger audience than it will inevitably receive."
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Jason Gorber
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37%
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Death of a President (2006)
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"The talking head interviews and other elements make for an intelligent analysis of our reactions and prejudices about such a situation. A must see."
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Jason Gorber
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38%
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The Abandoned (2007)
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"A weird and wicked tale further emphasizing that you can never go home again, especially if you never lived at home in the first place"
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Jason Gorber
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47%
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Renaissance (2006)
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"The inky blacks and bright whites make for a really interesting, printed look that's unique..."
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Jason Gorber
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57%
|
The Half Life of Timofey Berezin (PU-239) (2008)
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"It's a quirky mix of incompetent bureaucrats and small time gangsters trying to carve a life in the new Russia."
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Jason Gorber
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51%
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The Fountain (2006)
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"It will no doubt find itself aging quite well, appreciated long after its (inevitably short) theatrical run."
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Jason Gorber
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70%
|
Black Sheep (2006)
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"The film is fabulous, perfectly capturing the sense of silly horror while bloodying the meadows of NZ with gore."
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Jason Gorber
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51%
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For Your Consideration (2006)
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"While they do pull a few punches (to the detriment of the story), there are enough laughs and great performances to rescue the film from the dustbin."
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Jason Gorber
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17%
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Bunny Chow (2006)
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"The story puts the pot in "melting pot", as we watch these stoner dudes take a road trip to a festival in search of fame, fortune and laughs. It's got the trappings of a better film, but unfortunately the jokes land flat."
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Jason Gorber
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93%
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Lake of Fire (2007)
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"This is the most impressive, most honest and most brutal account of the abortion issue I have ever seen. With breathtaking scope and access (shot over a 14 year period) Kaye has crafted a film that could easily be the subject of an ethics graduate course."
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Jason Gorber
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53%
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Penelope (2006)
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"A sweet lollipop of a film, a fable told with charm and whimsy. It does get overly saccharine as it goes on, losing its shape and novelty as it clambers towards its (supremely unsurprising, and in many ways disappointing) conclusion."
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Jason Gorber
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48%
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All the Boys Love Mandy Lane (2006)
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"A silly, generic teen slasher/stalker move with a twist!"
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Jason Gorber
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11%
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All The King's Men (2006)
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"A "shouty" film... a bit too long, a bit heavy handed with the rhetoric."
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Jason Gorber
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75%
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Catch a Fire (2006)
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"...as the credits rolled, I did hope for more."
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Jason Gorber
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78%
|
Shi gan (Time) (2007)
|
"With the raised expectations brought from his last films it's certainly a disappointment that Time doesn't rise to the level I hoped for."
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Jason Gorber
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93%
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Gwoemul (The Host) (2007)
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"I was disappointed what started out as a very promising genre pic became weighted down by its own pretensions."
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Jason Gorber
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77%
|
The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
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"The breadth of interviews was quite good, and the film goes to great pains to situate Lennon within the wider political framework of the day. Everyone from G. Gordon Liddy to Geraldo are trotted out to either decry or justify the treatment that the Nixon"
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Jason Gorber
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74%
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