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Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953) |
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"What the movie lacks in coherence, it almost makes up in schtick." | |
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Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948) |
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"All together, the presence of the real stars, even past the prime of their franchises, makes the humor that much funnier." | |
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951) |
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""Contrived" covers pretty much everything here, because when you come right down to it, Bud and Lou have no real reason to be involved in the story in the first place." | |
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Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) |
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"The Powers That Be realized that people don't come to these movies for the plot; they come for the schtick." | |
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Abomination: Evil Maker 2 (2003) |
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"While the technical deficiencies were annoying, I'd forgive or gloss over them if it seemed that there was a compelling story somewhere in there trying to get out." | |
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Abraxas: Guardian of the Universe (1990) |
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"It's not an ambitious premise, but jeez, it shouldn't be a trial to squeeze ninety minutes of painless distraction from it, should it?
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5/5 |
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The Addams Family (1991) |
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Addicted to Murder (1995) |
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"There's such a thing as being too clever, and I think that's what we're seeing here." | |
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Adrenalin: Fear the Rush (1996) |
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"That's not to say that it's a good movie, but rather that it's bad in ways that are different from the ways in which a Pyun movie is usually bad." | |
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Adventures in Dinosaur City (1991) |
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"Of all of the damnable memes in Tinseltown, this is one of the most pernicious: "It's just for kids -- it doesn't have to be good."" | |
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4/5 |
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The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984) |
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The Adventures of Galgameth (1997) |
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"There's nothing really original in this story, but it is an interesting synthesis." | |
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The Adventures of Hercules |
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"And the icing on the case is the set of vintage Atari 2600 sound effects which accompany these special effects.
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Aftershock (1988) |
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"Short version: Steaming pile of dog poo." | |
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Alicja (1982) |
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"Keeps pulling surreal setpieces out of a rabbithole." | |
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The Alien Agenda: Endangered Species (1997) |
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"What the whole tape ends up being is the middle of a story." | |
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Alien Agenda: Under the Skin (1997) |
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"Made by people without much professional (i.e., paid-for-it) experience, and it was made for the hell of it because someone loves to make movies." | |
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The Alien Dead (1980) |
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"It's the kind of amateur auteur movie that were produced in every locale of the U.S., and which usually fade into complete obscurity." | |
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Aliens in the Wild Wild West (1999) |
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"I can't imagine that market research showed an audience clamoring for a second cheap Canadian-Romanian sci-fi western production aimed at adolescents." | |
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All Souls Day: Dia de los Muertos (2005) |
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"Though it does acknowledge and draw from the larger tradition of living dead movies, it also tries to be at least moderately original, and succeeds with mixed but generally positive results." | |
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All the Colors of the Dark (1977) |
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"There are a couple of effective moments, but not enough to justify the payoffs without setups and the setups without payoffs that fill the script." | |
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Alone in the Dark (1982) |
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"Quite the undiscovered little gem of a flick here." | |
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Alphaville (1965) |
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"Far more concerned with impressing us with the director's sophistication than with actually communicating." | |
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Altruist (2004) |
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"Stands up against movies with a hundred times its budget and takes them without breaking a sweat." | |
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3/5 |
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Always (1989) |
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The Amazing Spiderman (1977) |
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"Wasn't made of the right material to attract much of a spark, and quickly became yet more fodder for fanboy jokes about Marvel media properties." | |
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Amazon Warrior (1997) |
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"I spend far too much time thinking about subtext when watching silly post-apocalyptic movies." | |
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America's Deadliest Home Video (1994) |
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"The brilliance here is that the entire story quite naturally fills a normal videotape, told in the sequence in which it would naturally be shot." | |
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American Movie (1999) |
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"More than a portrait of a filmmaker, this movie becomes a portrait of a sorry life, with other sorry lives as supporting characters." | |
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American Nightmare (2001) |
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"American Nightmare rises above the recent slasher resurgence and makes itself a movie worth watching." | |
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3/5 |
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Angels In the Outfield (1994) |
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3/5 |
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The Angry Red Planet (1959) |
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4/5 |
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Anne of Green Gables (1985) |
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The Apple (1980) |
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"Hell is entertained exclusively by bad musicals. And this one is showing on the infernal IMAX, 24-7." | |
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Aquanoids (2003) |
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"There's absolutely nothing here that you haven't seen better before, and the movie knows it; in fact, it revels in it." | |
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Arcade (1993) |
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"This movie does not suck to an incredible level. It is, however, pretty depressing in its not-goodness.
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Armageddon: The Final Challenge (1995) |
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"Whatever story writer/director Michael Garcia thought he was telling, someone should have told him that it thoroughly escaped being captured by the film he shot and edited." | |
Nathan Shumate | |
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Armed Response (1986) |
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"Nothing more than an imitation of your average Golan-Globus movie (which were themselves fairly ambition-free action genre filler "product")." | |
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The Arrival (1990) |
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"The most engrossing character in the entire video was a parrot with two lines." | |
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The Astro-Zombies (1969) |
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"It's a dumb movie, and a bad one, but I enjoyed it far more than I can justify." | |
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Asylum (1972) |
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"This is quite an enjoyable little piece." | |
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The Atomic Cafe (1982) |
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"There's something about watching a nuclear explosion that still grips me right in the intestines and makes me gulp my air." | |
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Auntie Lee's Meat Pies (1992) |
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"The plot is thinner than the fabric of the girls' outfits, unless you're using "plot" as synonymous with "stuff that happens, followed by other stuff that happens."" | |
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