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65%
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Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)
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Jeff Vorndam
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63%
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Funny Games (1998)
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"Michael Haneke's meta-commentary on violence in the movies and the audience's thirst for it is brilliantly conceived and executed."
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Salesman (1968)
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"Establishes salesman as American icons --the modern-day rugged individualists, heirs to the cattle-driving cowboys."
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Plein soleil (Purple Noon) (Blazing Sun) (Full Sun) (Lust for Evil) (1996)
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Jeff Vorndam
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87%
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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My Darling Clementine (1946)
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"Classic John Ford Western is the most emotionally powerful version of the Wyatt Earp/Doc Holliday/Gunfight at the O.K. Corral legend. Henry Fonda brings his characteristic sense of honesty and morality to the role of Wyatt Earp, but Robert Mitchum would h"
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Jeff Vorndam
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82%
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
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Jeff Vorndam
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82%
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About Last Night... (1986)
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Jeff Vorndam
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56%
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Weird Science (1985)
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Jeff Vorndam
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96%
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Lost in America (1985)
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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The Heiress (1949)
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Jeff Vorndam
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86%
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Eight Men Out (1988)
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Great Expectations (1947)
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"David Lean's best film and the best Dickens adaptation ever made."
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Jeff Vorndam
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36%
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Rear Window (1998)
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Jeff Vorndam
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95%
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The Crowd ()
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"King Vidor's silent classic has many sublime moments, but it works too hard at its theme of ambition struggling in the face of cosmic and social insignificance."
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Jeff Vorndam
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98%
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Forbidden Planet (1956)
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"Yeah, the dialogue, costumes, and sets are cheesy. And the acting is bad. But the story, with its Shakespearean influence, is pretty damn good."
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Jeff Vorndam
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92%
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Pale Rider (1985)
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Jeff Vorndam
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95%
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Midnight Express (1978)
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Jeff Vorndam
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81%
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Innerspace (1987)
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"Can there be a fate worse than being injected into the body of Martin Short?"
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Jeff Vorndam
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95%
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In the Name of the Father (1993)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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40%
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The Champ (1979)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
|
100%
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Rio Bravo (1998)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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82%
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Nine to Five (9 to 5) (1980)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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19%
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Now and Then (1995)
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Jeff Vorndam
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38%
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Boomerang (1992)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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86%
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Get Shorty (1995)
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Jeff Vorndam
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80%
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Marnie (2000)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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90%
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The Muppet Movie (1979)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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——
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Meetings with Remarkable Men (1979)
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Jeff Vorndam
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100%
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Shoot to Kill (Deadly Pursuit) (1988)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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84%
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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60%
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Rocky III (1982)
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"Any movie with Mr. T is fodder for a guilty pleasure list, but this one gets the nod because it lets him be the bad guy for once."
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Jeff Vorndam
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95%
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Floating Weeds (Ukigusa) (1959)
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"Another (shock!) well-wrought domestic drama from Ozu."
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Jeff Vorndam
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92%
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The Great Dictator (1940)
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"One of Chaplin's weakest films, The Great Dictator lacks the subtlety and grace that distinguished his earlier features. It's not funny when it's supposed to be (the Italian dictator was particularly annoying), and it takes itself too seriously overall (n"
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Jeff Vorndam
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94%
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To Catch a Thief (2009)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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50%
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Triumph of the Spirit (2000)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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68%
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Dahmer (2002)
|
"The best thing Dahmer has going for it is its structure, with several well-integrated flashbacks shedding light on one harrowing present day of action."
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Jeff Vorndam
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38%
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Nuts (1987)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
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100%
|
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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95%
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Fallen Angels (1995)
|
"I got the sense that Wong and Doyle shot a bunch of footage, and only then decided what the film would be about."
|
Jeff Vorndam
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89%
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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36%
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Ghost Story (1981)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
|
81%
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Baby Boom (1987)
|
|
Jeff Vorndam
|
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80%
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Cocoon (1985)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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96%
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La Dolce Vita (1960)
|
"Landmark arthouse classic that leaves itself open to interpretation. Fellini leaves neo-realism in the dust here."
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Jeff Vorndam
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63%
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Dumb and Dumber (1994)
|
"The Farrelly Bros. funniest film, if not their best."
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Jeff Vorndam
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54%
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Home Alone (1990)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
|
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——
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Loaded (1996)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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41%
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Beneath The Planet Of The Apes (1970)
|
"Charlton Heston tried as hard as he could to make this un-sequal-able (not a word, alas). The transparent political commentary is good for a laugh."
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Jeff Vorndam
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66%
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Scrooged (1988)
|
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Jeff Vorndam
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73%
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