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75%
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House of Sand and Fog (2003)
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"Kingsley's astonishing performance is wasted in this otherwise overlong, overwrought, and overcooked mess-o-drama."
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Carlo Cavagna
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72%
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Girl With a Pearl Earring (2004)
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"The most impressive feature of the film, however, is its use of metaphor and suggestion to advance Vermeer and Griet's forbidden attraction."
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Erika Hernandez
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79%
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl (2003)
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"Knightley&Bloom's tandem openmouthed floundering during Depp's hamacting masterclass is like watching two nematodes rehearse Waiting For Godot in a mad scientist's petri dish."
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Dominic Varle
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0%
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Highlander II: The Quickening (Highlander 2) (1991)
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"The director's cut elevates this misconceived sequel from one of the worst stinkers ever to merely dreadful."
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Carlo Cavagna
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50%
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Point of No Return (The Assassin) (1993)
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"Totally unnecessary, sterile remake of LA FEMME NIKITA."
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Carlo Cavagna
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77%
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Two for the Road (1967)
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"One of the best movies about relationships ever. Outstanding performances."
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Carlo Cavagna
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50%
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Fever Pitch (2000)
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"With soccer substituting for rock music, novelist/screenwriter Nick Hornby's FEVER PITCH plays like a rough draft of HIGH FIDELITY...a very rough draft."
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Carlo Cavagna
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76%
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The Cooler (2003)
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"Straight-to-video, B-movie material that benefits from A-level performances, particularly from Maria Bello."
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Carlo Cavagna
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80%
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21 Grams (2003)
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"The actors are magnificent. They unequivocally know who their characters are, inhabiting them so completely that you cease to remember these are actually actors, even stars."
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Carlo Cavagna
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89%
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In America (2003)
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"An agreeably uplifting movie that doesn't cheat its way (too much) to its life-affirming conclusion."
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Carlo Cavagna
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36%
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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"The danger of sentinels, who rip through flesh more brutally than they do metal, is far more potent than that of exiled programs doing cartwheels on the ceiling."
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Frances Nicole Rogers
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71%
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The Big Empty (2003)
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"Some may praise The Big Empty as a poor man's David Lynch-meets-The X-Files, but it's more of a starving homeless man's David Lynch-meets-The X-Files."
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Carlo Cavagna
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78%
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Tupac - Resurrection (2003)
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"Don't expect investigative reporting.... Tupac: Resurrection is a trip through a man's head."
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Carlo Cavagna
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85%
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Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
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"Sentimental and lyrical from beginning to end, Tarantino's Kill Bill Vol. 1 is an ode to movies and moviegoing."
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Erika Hernandez
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91%
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Shattered Glass (2003)
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"Shattered Glass functions as a dramatic character study, but not as the galvanizing wake-up call about the sorry state of U.S. journalism that Ray says he wanted to make."
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Carlo Cavagna
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63%
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Love Actually (2003)
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"Curtis continues to find new twists on old romantic comedy stand-bys"
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Carlo Cavagna
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67%
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Kurt & Courtney (1998)
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"A sloppy, irresponsible, self-promoting p.o.s. that documents little more than people with an axe to grind. Broomfield would be better off writing for the Enquirer."
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Carlo Cavagna
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34%
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In the Cut (2003)
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"[an] increasingly over-cooked stew of allegory and metaphor "
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Dominic Varle
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42%
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The Human Stain (2003)
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"When viewing a film, you should not be scanning your mental bank for a more suitable actor for the title role."
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Erika Hernandez
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87%
|
Mystic River (2003)
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"While restrained and internal throughout most of the film, Penn displays both chilling intensity and heart-wrenching grief when it really counts."
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Carlo Cavagna
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72%
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Elephant (2003)
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"People will pillory Van Sant for not taking a position on the causes of Columbine, but simply by showing an accurate depiction of a suburban high school, perhaps he is."
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Carlo Cavagna
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|
72%
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Shallow Grave (1995)
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"a darkly humorous tale concerning three Scottish flat mates and a dead man's money"
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Frances Nicole Rogers
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29%
|
The Time Machine (2002)
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"Ah, what lady wouldn't love a genius who knows less about time travel than philosophers, other scientists, science fiction writers, and fans of Harry Potter?"
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Frances Nicole Rogers
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|
95%
|
Fireworks (Hana-bi) (1997)
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"Kitano makes static, understated movies about existences wasted, and rediscovering the joy of being, for a brief time, alive.... Violence comes in sudden bursts, as a shocking interruption."
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Carlo Cavagna
|
|
76%
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Kundun (1997)
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"Though a meditative, introspective film, Scorsese's distinctive techniques cause Kundun to pulse with life under its calm surface."
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Carlo Cavagna
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|
19%
|
City Slickers 2 - The Legend of Curly's Gold (1994)
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"As broad as a barn."
|
Carlo Cavagna
|
|
2%
|
Speed 2 - Cruise Control (1997)
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"When some people talk about how much they loathed 1997's Big Boat Movie, I think they must mean this one."
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Carlo Cavagna
|
|
11%
|
Striptease (1996)
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"Funniest moment: Demi Moore rips open her top with a snarl, revealing the decidedly unattractive and wholly unnatural results of her cosmetic surgery."
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Carlo Cavagna
|
|
88%
|
The Animatrix (2003)
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"Far from fleshing out the universe of THE MATRIX, this cynical, self-indulgent marketing tie-in renders it less coherent. Boasts only a few memorable visual moments, and suffers from a paucity of narrative."
|
Carlo Cavagna
|
|
73%
|
The Matrix Reloaded (2003)
|
"A disappointing sequel to a magnificent film that nearly regresses to the status of "just another action flick.""
|
Frances Nicole Rogers
|
|
88%
|
The Animatrix (2003)
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"The Animatrix is not much more than an interesting experiment... With the exception of "Kid's Story" and "A Detective's Story," all the shorts are failures."
|
Frances Nicole Rogers
|
|
55%
|
Prey for Rock & Roll (2003)
|
"After covering rape, child abuse, revenge, patricide, and death...the film's valedictory justification for Jackie's carrying on with the band--"I just love rock and roll"--is trite."
|
Dominic Varle
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|
34%
|
Wonderland (2003)
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"When the youngest student ever admitted to the Drama department at Julliard (Kilmer) plays a derailed porn god...YOU SEE IT."
|
Erika Hernandez
|
|
51%
|
Dopamine (2003)
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"The "LOVE IS REAL! NO, IT'S NOT!" banter kills the film's core issue rather than underscoring it."
|
Erika Hernandez
|
|
42%
|
The Fighting Temptations (2003)
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"The wonderful music is the centerpiece of the movie."
|
Frances Nicole Rogers
|
|
76%
|
Scanners (1981)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
86%
|
The Servant (1963)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
89%
|
The Pope of Greenwich Village (1984)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
87%
|
The Goodbye Girl (1977)
|
"Cutesy and formulaic, but watchable thanks to Dreyfuss."
|
Jeff Vorndam
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|
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Strange Impersonation (1946)
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"Mann is able to keep it afloat with low-angle shots and confining compositions, but there's much better Mann out there, and this one's only for completist nerds like myself."
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
——
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War and Peace (2003)
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"Superbly demonstrates the gulf between the people's will and the greed of those in power."
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
100%
|
Streeters (De La Calle) (2001)
|
"A bleak and realistic movie... it's a shame the story is so trite."
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
79%
|
Singles (1992)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
100%
|
Ken Burns' The Civil War: A Film Directed By Ken Burns (MINI-SERIES) ()
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
44%
|
Harry and the Hendersons (1987)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
94%
|
Le Cas Pinochet (The Pinochet Case) (2002)
|
"The Pinochet Case would make a good double-bill with Long Night's Journey Into Day, a documentary about the public trials of Apartheid criminals in South Africa. Both films deal with forgiveness, and contend that victims can only forgive when asked."
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
35%
|
Young Guns II (1990)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
81%
|
Sophie's Choice (1982)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
96%
|
Out of the Past (1947)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
88%
|
Where Eagles Dare (1969)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
73%
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