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88%
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Titanic (2012)
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Alison Tweedie-Perry
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87%
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The Matrix (1999)
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Alison Tweedie-Perry
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82%
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American History X (1998)
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Alison Tweedie-Perry
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Strangers When We Meet (1960)
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"Adult drama in the style of Douglas Sirk, mostly believable (except for Matthau's action at the end) but lacks the poetic quality that elevated Sirk's best works."
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Jeff Vorndam
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56%
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The Notorious Bettie Page (2006)
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"Recreating the unusual spirit of the photos is what the film does best..."
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Carlo Cavagna
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71%
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Friends With Money (2006)
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"Holofcener has a gift for wonderfully oblivious and in-denial characters, and the subtly ridiculous situations that such characters get themselves into."
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Carlo Cavagna
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81%
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District B13 (Banlieue 13) (2006)
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"Besson's script may be formulaic crap, but he obviously still has an eye for fresh action talent, and an instinct for how to show it off."
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Carlo Cavagna
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24%
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Fierce People (2005)
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"Dunne weighs down a light social satire with a ponderous anthropological analogy."
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Carlo Cavagna
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100%
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Cabiria (1914)
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"This early epic Italian silent feels choppy, most likely the result of missing so many scenes to the ravages of time. As a result, the story is hard to follow, and there aren't even identifiable characters. Some nifty set-pieces impressed me with their sc"
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Jeff Vorndam
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53%
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Wah-Wah (2006)
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"The sort of film that's obviously deeply meaningful to the filmmaker, but he fails to make it particularly meaningful to you."
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Carlo Cavagna
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53%
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Two Girls and a Guy (1998)
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Jeff Vorndam
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93%
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In the Heat of the Night (1967)
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Jeff Vorndam
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83%
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Stone Reader (2003)
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"Books are awesome. That's the primary theme of Mark Moskowitz's documentary about his quest to track down the author of Stones of the Summer, a book he loved when he read it in 1972. Within that umbrella theme Moskowitz explores why first-time authors of"
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Jeff Vorndam
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89%
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
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Jeff Vorndam
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38%
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Up in Smoke (1978)
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Jeff Vorndam
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88%
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Slap Shot (1999)
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Jeff Vorndam
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75%
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Darling (1965)
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"Julie Christie won Best Actress and Frederic Raphael Best Screenplay, but I was most impressed with Dirk Bogarde as the spurned lover in John Schelsinger's morality fable about a modern girl's implacable vacuousness."
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Jeff Vorndam
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78%
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The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977)
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Jeff Vorndam
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90%
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Valmont (1989)
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Jeff Vorndam
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95%
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Time Bandits (1981)
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Henry V (1989)
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Jeff Vorndam
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88%
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Junior Bonner (1972)
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"Lesser known and underappreciated Sam Peckinpah film starring Steve McQueen. It's a quiet character-driven story about an aging rodeo star who visits his family on one of his stops. There's little of the characteristic Peckinpah violence, but the theme of"
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Jeff Vorndam
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61%
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Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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The Letter (1940)
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"More subtle than most melodramas, and as much a look at male gullibility as female manipulation. Another fine performance from Bette Davis."
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Jeff Vorndam
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79%
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The Changeling (1980)
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Jeff Vorndam
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91%
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Arachnophobia (1990)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
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95%
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Nashville (1975)
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"Just this side of brilliant ... if the country songs were shorter and less numerous I'd probably give it a '5'. As it stands, no other film (save maybe Taxi Driver) capture the post Vietnam, post Watergate malaise better."
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Jeff Vorndam
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79%
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Dark Star (1973)
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"This is allegedly a comedy, but it's so amateur-hour that it's difficult to find laughs when the poor soundtrack muffles most of the dialogue."
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Raw Deal (1948)
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"A lesser effort from Anthony Mann, with a rudimentary plot but striking cinematography from John Alton. It's a movie where the hero is only less evil than the villains, and it's downbeat, dark, and low-budget. The bare-bones plot is strictly a means to vi"
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Jeff Vorndam
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26%
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Ready to Wear (Prêt-à-Porter) (1994)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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96%
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Limelight (1952)
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"Limelight is a conundrum. It's a film about a famous comedian who is past his prime and who has lost touch with his audience, made by a director who is a famous comedian past his prime and who has lost touch with his audience. The film's protagonist, play"
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Jeff Vorndam
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93%
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The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun) (1979)
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"I appreciated this movie more for its mise-en-scene (which, given Fassbinder's idiosyncratic style, often begs to be beheld) than its allegorical content. The arrangement of the actors in the screen-space, so conspicuously unnatural, has a comedic and dis"
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Five Graves to Cairo (1943)
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"The story isn't all that believable, and there's just little to get excited about --not suspenseful, funny, romantic, etc. Ho-hum."
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Jeff Vorndam
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77%
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A League of Their Own (1992)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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96%
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Midnight Run (1988)
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Jeff Vorndam
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Angel - Season 1 ()
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Jeff Vorndam
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30%
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Porky's (1982)
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Jeff Vorndam
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85%
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North Dallas Forty (1979)
|
"The closest thing to a good football movie, North Dallas Forty sports an excellent performance from Nick Nolte and emphasizes the pain and manipulation involved in the sport. Few of the actors look like professional athletes, but maybe that's the way it w"
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Jeff Vorndam
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82%
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The Three Musketeers (1973)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
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54%
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City Hall (1996)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
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67%
|
Cloak & Dagger (1984)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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58%
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Immortal Beloved (1994)
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"The plot is an excuse to get at the real meat of the film: what feelings informed the magnificent, passionate music of Ludwig van Beethoven? The answers the film comes up with are somewhat trite, and apart from Oldman, no one in the cast seems up to task."
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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46%
|
King Kong (1976)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
51%
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Manderlay (2006)
|
"The most self-important, heavy-handed film since...well, since DOGVILLE."
|
Carlo Cavagna
|
|
90%
|
Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story (2005)
|
"A thin slice of a not-very-interesting nothing... The book they said was unfilmable turns out to be a film that is unwatchable."
|
Carlo Cavagna
|
|
76%
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The Matador (2006)
|
"insubstantial, but fun"
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Carlo Cavagna
|
|
77%
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Match Point (2005)
|
"Thank goodness Allen has left New York and left himself out of the script."
|
Carlo Cavagna
|
|
46%
|
The Ice Harvest (2005)
|
"Memo to John Cusack: There's a thin line between humorous unflappability in the face of strange events, and sleepwalking. "
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Carlo Cavagna
|
|
82%
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The World's Fastest Indian (2005)
|
"The *ahem* engines take far to long to rev up."
|
Carlo Cavagna
|
|
67%
|
Mrs. Henderson Presents (2006)
|
"Just because the film starts taking itself seriously doesn't mean you have to."
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Carlo Cavagna
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