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23%
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Home of the Brave (2006)
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"An Iraq requiem, and not bad."
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Robert Cashill
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76%
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Rocky Balboa (2006)
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"Unpretentious and unassuming."
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Robert Cashill
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58%
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
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"It reeks."
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Robert Cashill
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54%
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The Good Shepherd (2006)
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"An end-of-the-year disaster."
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Robert Cashill
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66%
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Curse of the Golden Flower (2006)
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"Overscaled, overstuffed, over-everything."
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Robert Cashill
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65%
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Apocalypto (2006)
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"More interesting to read about than to actually see."
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Robert Cashill
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89%
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Venus (2006)
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"A vinegary yet unsentimental Peter O'Toole performance."
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Robert Cashill
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74%
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The Painted Veil (2006)
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"A film to embrace."
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Robert Cashill
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87%
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Notes on a Scandal (2006)
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"Gratifyngly quick and nasty."
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Robert Cashill
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91%
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Iraq in Fragments (2006)
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"A restless account, filmed with an eye toward the poetic."
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Robert Cashill
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89%
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El Aura (The Aura) (2006)
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"Its effect is meant to be hypnotic, drawing you into the dream state where its main character functions best, and from time to time it works--that is, if you can stay fully alert."
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Robert Cashill
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63%
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10 Items or Less (2006)
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"As fast and as painless as a trip to a well-organized grocery store with no waiting."
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Robert Cashill
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70%
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Wrestling With Angels: Playwright Tony Kushner (2006)
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"The inescapable flaw is that filming ended a year too soon."
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Robert Cashill
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66%
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Shortbus (2006)
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"Upbeat and disarming."
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Robert Cashill
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94%
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Reds (1981)
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"Well worth revisiting."
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Robert Cashill
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30%
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Running With Scissors (2006)
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"I don't know what's more repellent; the movie, or the author's strip-mining and reframing of his own misery to attract sales."
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Robert Cashill
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66%
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The Bridge (2006)
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"Goes beyond mere voyeurism."
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Robert Cashill
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96%
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
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"My first exposure was dismal, but in time I welcomed this Nightmare."
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Robert Cashill
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56%
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Keeping Mum (2006)
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"Rowan Atkinson gives an astonishingly quiet performance in this not-quite-black-enough comedy."
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Robert Cashill
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85%
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Old Joy (2006)
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"This is cinema by wavelength--if you get on it, fine, if you don't, like, it's no big deal."
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Robert Cashill
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33%
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Flyboys (2006)
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"Why was this picture made?"
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Robert Cashill
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32%
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
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"De Palma and Ellroy are not a good match."
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Robert Cashill
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56%
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Feast (2005)
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"On its third and final attempt, Project Greenlight came up with a real movie."
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Robert Cashill
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84%
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13 Tzameti (2005)
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"It's harrowing, elegantly filmed in widescreen black-and-white...and pretty disagreeable."
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Robert Cashill
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47%
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Miami Vice (2006)
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"Flat-out terrible, Miami Vice is the worst film of a dismal summer for Hollywood."
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Robert Cashill
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|
90%
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Half Nelson (2006)
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"Gosling is reaching the point where he'll be asked to put on superhero gear, for tremendous sums of money, and become another run-of-the-mill entertainer. Long may he resist."
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Robert Cashill
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68%
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World Trade Center (2006)
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"World Trade Center is William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives, brought up to date by 60 years and condensed to a single day."
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Robert Cashill
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27%
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Trust the Man (2006)
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"An uncertain stab at romantic comedy that hits neither the heart nor the funnybone."
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Robert Cashill
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74%
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The Illusionist (2006)
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"In a summer that has been parched for more adult entertainment The Illusionist is a beautifully appointed oasis."
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Robert Cashill
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76%
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The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
|
"It opens a corner office window on the here-and-now regarding timeless subjects in the movies and in life."
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Robert Cashill
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86%
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Quinceañera (Echo Park, L.A.) (2006)
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"Bursts with color."
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Robert Cashill
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74%
|
Monster House (2006)
|
"A pleasant summer breeze."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
70%
|
Heading South (2006)
|
"A more thoughtful, much less empty-headed piece than I had been lead to believe from the largely dismissive reviews."
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Robert Cashill
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75%
|
Gabrielle (2006)
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"Movies like this should kill you."
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Robert Cashill
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46%
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Edmond (2005)
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""Mamet-land, where words, rather than fists, are thrown. ""
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Robert Cashill
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|
63%
|
Clerks II (2006)
|
""Very deftly pulls itself together for a genuinely touching and warm-hearted conclusion, not an easy bar to reach after a leather-bound stud and his donkey have reached a different kind of climax. ""
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Robert Cashill
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|
85%
|
The Descent (2006)
|
"An excellent monster movie."
|
Robert Cashill
|
|
81%
|
District B13 (Banlieue 13) (2006)
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"A lithe and diverting 85 minutes."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
81%
|
A Prairie Home Companion (2006)
|
"No big deal, a minor, mild picture with off-putting surface details and a vaguely defined center."
|
Robert Cashill
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69%
|
Yôkai daisensô (The Great Yokai War) (2005)
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"A hectic two hours, like the entire Lord of the Rings cycle boiled into a single, demented feature."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
48%
|
Beowulf & Grendel (2006)
|
"I've never seen a movie more lifelessly composed. It's not even up to the low standards of Sci-Fi Channel movies where boas fight pythons."
|
Robert Cashill
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|
52%
|
Strangers with Candy (2005)
|
" An extremely modest expansion of the funny Comedy Central show."
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Robert Cashill
|
|
86%
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The Road To Guantanamo (2006)
|
"It's satisfying on a purely physical level, however insufficiently the drama is developed."
|
Robert Cashill
|
|
87%
|
The Hidden Blade (2006)
|
"Easily one of the best films of this year."
|
Robert Cashill
|
|
69%
|
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
|
"Movies as rich as this can be habit-forming."
|
Robert Cashill
|
|
70%
|
Mission: Impossible III (2006)
|
"That an infusion of "heart," and an allegedly coherent plotline, do not compensate for a lack of stylistic invention, which a vapid franchise like this needs."
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Robert Cashill
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50%
|
Sex and the City (2008)
|
"I am reasonably confident that our nation, the international market, and civilization will survive the purported outrage of Sex and the City and its triple-digit-millions haul."
|
Robert Cashill
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86%
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Autumn Leaves (1956)
|
"Coming at a time when Aldrich was making punishing pictures like Kiss Me Deadly, Attack!, and The Big Knife, Autumn Leaves is (as you can tell by the title) an unusually sensitive change-of-pace, not without cruelty but never unkind."
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Robert Cashill
|
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Sergeants 3 (1962)
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"The best of the Rat Pack movies."
|
Robert Cashill
|
|
80%
|
Yella (2008)
|
"A nightmare of naturalism."
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Robert Cashill
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74%
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