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Meeting David Wilson ()
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"Newark, New Jersey born filmmaker David Wilson makes the very emotional, painful and quite courageous journey to North Carolina to search for the white people down South that once owned his family."
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Prairie Miller
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94%
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Juno (2007)
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"Excels in smart, stylishly rude, tangy teen dialogue, courtesy of screenwriter and former stripper and phone sex operator, Diablo Cody, boasting career choices that have assisted her in perfecting talking dirty on screen into a science, I guess."
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Prairie Miller
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94%
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Juno (2007)
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"Excels in smart, stylishly rude, tangy teen dialogue, courtesy of screenwriter and former stripper and phone sex operator, Diablo Cody, boasting career choices that have assisted her in perfecting talking dirty on screen into a science, I guess."
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Prairie Miller
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74%
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
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"John C. Reilly does Dewey Cox as a hilarious stoner, beer gut middle-aged teen, with a touch of Imus. Move over, Britney Spears."
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Prairie Miller
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74%
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Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story (2007)
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"John C. Reilly does Dewey Cox as a hilarious stoner, beer gut middle-aged teen, with a touch of Imus. Move over, Britney Spears."
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Prairie Miller
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86%
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Shine a Light (2008)
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"The Stones aspire to project physical and musical agelessness, and a reinvented rebellion switched from anti-patriarchal authority to one against Father Time. You don't need a weathered man to know which way the wind blows."
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Prairie Miller
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51%
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Nim's Island (2008)
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"Jodie 'Brave One' Foster is still peeved, though now it's less about what bad people do, than how icky their unsanitary their germs are. And she isn't half bad either doing a divine nitwit dining on worms or playing soccer with a coconut in the wilds."
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Prairie Miller
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Meeting David Wilson ()
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"Roots documentary chronicles reunion of blacks and whites linked by ancestors to same slave plantation in North Carolina."
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Kam Williams
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58%
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Resurrecting the Champ (2007)
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"Pardon me for being offended when a flick revolving around the question of journalistic ethics takes so many liberties with the truth simply to spin a tall tale designed to tug on unsuspecting heartstrings."
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Kam Williams
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26%
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Lions for Lambs (2007)
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"A simplistic, if well-intentioned, overindulgence in obviousms."
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Kam Williams
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80%
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Le Voyage du Ballon Rouge (The Flight of the Red Balloon) (2007)
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"A slight, surreal cinematic experiment apt to enthrall the more discerning theatergoer, while leaving the mundane masses scratching their heads and asking, 'Is that it?'"
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Kam Williams
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25%
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Sex and Death 101 (2007)
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"A latter-day Casanova meets his match in the reincarnation of Lorena Bobbitt!"
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Kam Williams
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75%
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Naissance des Pieuvres (Water Lilies) (2008)
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"Jailbait gone wild, Parisian-style!"
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Kam Williams
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Love & Other 4 Letter Words (2007)
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"Using lightweight humor to take some of the bittersweet edge off black female pain, the film walks a fine line between staying serious or opting for an all-out buppie screwball crowd pleaser, and discarding certain stereotypes while reinforcing others."
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Prairie Miller
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47%
|
My Blueberry Nights (2007)
|
"The movie is all over the map in more than just its cross-country itinerary, and these stars are all far too good looking to imagine them as unrequited lovers and perpetual losers. But that blueberry pie sure looks awfully good."
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Prairie Miller
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91%
|
There Will Be Blood (2007)
|
"Daniel Day-Lewis does an oil maniac in this emotionally drenched gut-slicing and grueling bipolar gore, and what is surely the most grotesque screen image ever of a warped male maternal instinct."
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Prairie Miller
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82%
|
Hors de Prix (Priceless) (2006)
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"A hilarious, class-conscious French farce which features more coupling and uncoupling than you might be able to keep track of."
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Kam Williams
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65%
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Stop-Loss (2008)
|
"Whether designed with a pacifist agenda or simply intended to make the case for a return of the draft, this compelling saga compassionately establishes that Iraq War veterans shouldn't have to be wounded physically to be considered damaged goods."
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Kam Williams
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86%
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
|
"Depp as the malevolent, pasty faced serenading barber chopping away at assorted customer throats while in razor rage meltdown, can't seem to carry a tune quite as impressively as a deadly weapon. Could bring beards back into fashion in a jiffy."
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Prairie Miller
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86%
|
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007)
|
"Depp as the malevolent, pasty faced serenading barber chopping away at assorted customer throats while in razor rage meltdown, can't seem to carry a tune quite as impressively as a deadly weapon. Could bring beards back into fashion in a jiffy."
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Prairie Miller
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——
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The Greatest Silence: Rape In The Congo (2005)
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"A chilling reminder of why John Lennon once wrote a song entitled, 'Woman is the [N-word] of the World.'"
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Kam Williams
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31%
|
The Good Night (2007)
|
"This sleepyhead Prince Charming is in for a rude awakening when the choosy, chain smoking Anna, actual female that she is, finds him an annoying loser, and at best undesirable. Au revoir, unconditional love. Someone wake me when it's over."
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Prairie Miller
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31%
|
The Good Night (2007)
|
"This sleepyhead Prince Charming is in for a rude awakening when the choosy, chain smoking Anna, actual female that she is, finds him an annoying loser, and at best undesirable. Au revoir, unconditional love. Someone wake me when it's over."
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Prairie Miller
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87%
|
Control (2007)
|
"Positioning art as a necessary surrender to a creative force which removes the self dangerously from existence and society, Control intimately connects in tragic yet euphoric ways to the mixed blessing of the radically unleashed musical imagination."
|
Prairie Miller
|
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87%
|
Control (2007)
|
"Positioning art as a necessary surrender to a creative force which removes the self dangerously from existence and society, Control intimately connects in tragic yet euphoric ways to the mixed blessing of the radically unleashed musical imagination."
|
Prairie Miller
|
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66%
|
Wristcutters - A Love Story (2007)
|
"A postmortem suicide heaven filled with slit personalities, not quite born again dime store messiahs, and a grimy downscale pizza dive."
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
83%
|
Skid Row (2007)
|
"Pras, one of the founding members of the hip-hop group The Fugees, goes undercover to shed light on the plight of the homeless."
|
Kam Williams
|
|
65%
|
The Kite Runner (2007)
|
"The book was better. What else is new?"
|
Kam Williams
|
|
56%
|
Flawless (2008)
|
"As complex a mindbending crime caper as you could hope to wrap your head around."
|
Kam Williams
|
|
72%
|
American Zombie (2007)
|
"A cleverly-comedic, high-concept adventure, artfully-executed, and thought-provoking, too!"
|
Kam Williams
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92%
|
The Cool School (2008)
|
"Though designed more for the devotee of the arts than your average moviegoer, the film is still apt to enthrall even the uninitiated who wouldn't know a Jackson Pollock from a Willem de Kooning."
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Kam Williams
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48%
|
Run Fatboy Run (2007)
|
"Well enough crafted to keep you in stitches while on the edge of your seat for the duration, even if this laff-a-minute escape is more mindless than cerebral."
|
Kam Williams
|
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73%
|
The Mist (2007)
|
"A horde of plus size nuclear bugs stops by to shoplift and chow down on some take-out humans, favoring their homo sapien dinner fare feisty and playing hard to get, and never bothering to stop at the cash register."
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
73%
|
The Mist (2007)
|
"A horde of plus size nuclear bugs stops by to shoplift and chow down on some take-out humans, favoring their homo sapien dinner fare feisty and playing hard to get, and never bothering to stop at the cash register."
|
Prairie Miller
|
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83%
|
Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim le America) (2006)
|
"Dear Mr. Waldman on DVD: A kind of Cinema Paradiso in old Tel Aviv, as a young boy imagines through exposure to far too many movies, that he possesses his own inner gladiator Spartacus, who can make his disintegrating world whole again."
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
83%
|
Dear Mr. Waldman (Michtavim le America) (2006)
|
"A kind of Cinema Paradiso in old Tel Aviv, as a young boy imagines through exposure to far too many movies, that he possesses his own inner gladiator Spartacus, who can make his disintegrating world whole again."
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Prairie Miller
|
|
88%
|
War Made Easy (2007)
|
"Killing for peace as analagous to fornicating for virginity."
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Kam Williams
|
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——
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Showstoppers (2008)
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"Since Don Imus' disgusting remarks about the young women on the Rutgers Basketball team, this flick's sort of humor falls flat, even when coming from the mouths of African-Americans."
|
Kam Williams
|
|
32%
|
Meet The Browns (2008)
|
"Too laced with silly slapstick to measure up to the best of Tyler Perry's previous offerings, yet still hilarious in spots and ultimately satisfying enough to be well worth watching."
|
Kam Williams
|
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——
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Meet the Browns (2005)
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"Too laced with silly slapstick to measure up to the best of Tyler Perry's previous offerings, yet still hilarious in spots and ultimately satisfying enough to be well worth watching."
|
Kam Williams
|
|
79%
|
Jimmy Carter Man From Plains (2007)
|
"Bio-Pic basically defends President Carter's controversial stance on Israel."
|
Kam Williams
|
|
25%
|
Drillbit Taylor (2008)
|
"A Superbad lite knockoff replacing sex with violence and minus the dirty talk, Drillbit Taylor is its own worst enemy by tackling a grim subject like school bullies for laughs."
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Prairie Miller
|
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18%
|
Chapter 27 (2007)
|
"Not at all helpful to the stagnant proceedings and skimmed surfaces, is Lindsay Lohan, who pops up as hey, Jude, wouldn't you know it, a crazed Lennon fan, playing for a hoot what she likely loathes most on this earth in her own life."
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Prairie Miller
|
|
24%
|
Awake (2007)
|
"Sex, Lies and Surgical Tape meets I Saw Mommy Killing Santa Claus!"
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
14%
|
Hitman (2007)
|
"A slick take on sniping, strangling, homicidal body doubles, and a seductive Moscow sex slave in distress, the property of a local baddie, whom the hero invites to tag along from inside his car trunk, don't ask."
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
91%
|
Strange Culture (2007)
|
"A timely wakeup call - Kurtz's own '5/11' as he terms his personal nightmare - to remind us just how dangerous and threatening the terrorism of the US government is right now, towards its own people."
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
59%
|
Les Chansons d'Amour (Love Songs) (2008)
|
"Why make a movie about bohemian swingers, if all you're going to serve up is the French equivalent of a Broadway musical?"
|
Kam Williams
|
|
52%
|
Funny Games (2008)
|
"With the cult of cruelty wallpapering the media more than ever, and murders, wars and celebrity breakdowns as spectator sport, it was inevitable that the cinema of sadism would grab the untapped egghead arthouse crowd market. And the stampede is on."
|
Prairie Miller
|
|
83%
|
Planet B-Boy (2007)
|
"To think that this internationally-embraced dance form was started somewhere in the ghetto by a poor kid with nothing more than a radio and an unbridled passion for self-expression."
|
Kam Williams
|
|
68%
|
Irina Palm (2008)
|
"A thought-provoking drama, which arrives in a timely fashion, given these dire days of skyrocketing medical costs and a governor caught consorting with high-priced call girls."
|
Kam Williams
|
78%
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