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Koroshiya 1: The Animation Episode 0 (2002)
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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0%
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The Sex Lives of the Potato Men ()
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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84%
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Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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60%
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The Dreamers (2004)
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"It's thrilling."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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98%
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Double Indemnity (1944)
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"The ultimate film noir crime picture."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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77%
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The Mother (2004)
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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76%
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Big Fish (2003)
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"The story of the movie is disjointed and unaffecting, and what we remember are all the little moments, for their visual splendour, their joyful flights of fancy."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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70%
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Elephant (2003)
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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13%
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The Haunted Mansion (2003)
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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95%
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Lost In Translation (2003)
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"The movie should have been a masterpiece of mood and character, and it almost is, revolving as it does around two wonderful performances."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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71%
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Cold Mountain (2003)
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"Whether we're watching the domestic struggles of Kidman or Law doing moody wandering, scenes run on randomly, and don't build into a structure with arc or emphasis."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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88%
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Freaky Friday (2003)
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"Somehow people have got it into their heads that this is a good movie."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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63%
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Love Actually (2003)
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"It wants to swirl round the world and find love in every cranny, but it doesn't have the effortless rush of energy that it would need to make the masses of plot come together."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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85%
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Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World (2003)
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"The arguments between Bettany and Crowe don't seem like typical leader-and-subordinate confrontations, but have real philosophical edge, and are beautifully played."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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87%
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Mystic River (2003)
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"It's not the masterpiece people have been claiming, but Eastwood does set up a gripping moody atmosphere and get some fine performances out of his actors."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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77%
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Peter Pan (2003)
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"It's not colourful, it's not fun, it's just a gaudy mess of bad aesthetic choices and cruddy CGI."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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77%
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Seabiscuit (2003)
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"TV-movie slush."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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93%
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Touching the Void (2004)
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"There's something amazing about looking in the eyes of the guys telling this story."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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40%
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Armageddon (1998)
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"Where things fall apart are the scenes that try to put in characterisation, and, God help us, comic relief."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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73%
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Pure (2005)
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"Talented performers, effectively dramatic."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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67%
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Cremaster 4 (1995)
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"Fairly straightforward, at least compared to the rest of the cycle..."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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83%
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Cremaster 5 (1997)
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"Lots of classy dark colours and soaring music..."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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75%
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Cremaster 1 (1996)
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"Beautiful..."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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64%
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The Shape Of Things (2002)
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"Some critics have called the film stolid and stagy. I think the way it sits still and looks hard is just the point, and the key to its effect."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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94%
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The Lord of the Rings - The Return of the King (2003)
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"Ultimately this journey has been about the endgame, and now that we're here, we get a shattering sense of all that is at stake."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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77%
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Cremaster 2 (1999)
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"It's a little longer than Cremaster 1, and it has extra room for more confusing craziness."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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65%
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Cremaster 3 (2003)
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"The endurance test of the Cremaster series."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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33%
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In the Cut (2003)
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"A movie that moves between pretentious and incompetent, a sleazy straight-to-video-style sex and violence crapfest which ends up simply laughable when it tries to go arty."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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36%
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The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)
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"There's a simple philosophy behind a movie like this: Add more squishing, add more screaming, and it'll be better. Or at least it'll make more money."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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86%
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Interstella 5555: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem (2003)
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"This is a film you go to for the pretty pictures, for the neon and the quirky shapes, for the mix of 80s retro style with the fashions of today."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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79%
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Gremlins (1984)
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"A movie that lives inside our memories of movies, and tramples all over them with a crazed, subversive joy."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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36%
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The Matrix Revolutions (2003)
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"It is not about conclusiveness, but about solving the immediate struggles of its own stupid sci-fi details."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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48%
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She's Having a Baby (1988)
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"It should have been the movie where Hughes got Oscar nominations; the Academy weren't going to award his comedies, but here is where he showed he could branch out and grow up."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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23%
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Bad Boys II (2003)
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"The Bad Boys movies are supposed to be about two cops, but all I see is a pair of actors reading descriptions of their characters."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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31%
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Underworld (2003)
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"The astonishing achievement of Underworld is that it's a movie without a single good moment, and they still managed to make one helluva trailer."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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94%
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Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
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"The dialogue of Preston Sturges shoots and shoots, never seems to miss, and convinces you of its genius in around about a minute."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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85%
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Kill Bill: Volume 1 (2003)
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"Has all the coolness and daring and wit through which Tarantino made his name. It delivers what we expected, and packs some shocking punches on top."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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74%
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Calendar Girls (2003)
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"Places itself in a tradition of films that are fairly easy to make, looks like it's doing a professional job and still ends up failing."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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63%
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Koroshiya 1 (Ichi the Killer) (2001)
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"There is a charm about the movie's crazy camera angles and insistence on grabbing for silly visual jokes, but you can't quite call it a success."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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90%
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Good Bye, Lenin (2004)
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"The backdrop is snatching at random political significance, and the plot just turns into a stupid and pointless comedy of errors."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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82%
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Matchstick Men (2003)
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"Matchstick Men is a lot more engaging than a circular argument, but it's about as frustrating."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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7%
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Gigli (2003)
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"It tries a valiant effort to be smart and edgy, and feels like something that's always edging at greatness but never quite managing to break on through."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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83%
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Beverly Hills Cop (1984)
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"One of the great popular entertainments of our time, a film that still has a place on the top 40 list of American box-office champs, and continues to look slick and full of energy almost twenty years after opening."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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24%
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Lara Croft Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life (2003)
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"The first movie had grey stone and blue light and orange beams, and it just looked cooler and more together."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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50%
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Luster (2002)
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"A character can be intelligent and provocative by pointing out the flaws of sophisticated people, but not by posing like a rebel and ripping into stereotypes."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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38%
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Agent Cody Banks (2003)
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"The movie is bouncy and colourful, and cheesy in a nice way, but it outstays its welcome in the last half hour."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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41%
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Freddy vs. Jason (2003)
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"Misses the chance of actually being a good movie, but it feels energetic and colourful."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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88%
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Roger Dodger (2002)
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"The dialogue addresses our expectations, gets us laughing and stops the movie from becoming too obvious a character study."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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55%
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American Wedding (2003)
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"It's not that the movie is bad, it just feels awkward and not quite right."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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72%
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Buffalo Soldiers (2001)
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"There's a high-energy look, powering a tone of sorta satirical deadpan comedy, but problems arise when the director tries to mix his hip cynicism with a fully rounded story."
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Ian Waldron-Mantgani
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