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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"About middle-aged angst; about an American malaise; about an American original; about Shmidt" | |
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4/5 |
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Aguirre, the Wrath of God (1973) |
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2/5 |
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Anna and the King of Siam (1946) |
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1/5 |
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Beaches (1988) |
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1/5 |
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Blind Fury (1990) |
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Capturing the Friedmans (2003) |
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"Capturing the Friedmans captures a time when greed was good, mullets were cool, and hysteria was everywhere." | |
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3/5 |
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Carrie (1976) |
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Catch Me If You Can (2002) |
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"The modern master of the chase sequence returns with a chase to end all chases" | |
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Chicago (2002) |
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"Chicago glorifies murder, glamorizes sex & death -- in other words it is just right for today's unsunny times." | |
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1/5 |
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Dances with Wolves (1990) |
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Down With Love (2003) |
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"A not-so-innocent romp that is part Mills & Boon and part Hustler." | |
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The Eye (2003) |
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"Oh yeah, I was scared -- scared that I'd wake up before the credits rolled." | |
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Fellini I'm a Born Liar (2003) |
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"Born liar or windbag? Either way, Fellini clearly likes telling women to spread their legs. Wider." | |
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Final Destination 2 (2003) |
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"The most well-rounded character in this movie is Death himself." | |
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Finding Nemo (2003) |
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"A clown fish without a punchline, a blue tang without a memory, a scarred prison hero fish, and a stoner dude sea turtle make for this summer's tallest fish tale." | |
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Frida (2002) |
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"The canonization of St Frida informs and diminishes the movie." | |
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The Good Girl (2002) |
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"An unlikely black comedy where the humor is relentless, the satire is grim and the jokes are born out of inertia." | |
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The Hours (2002) |
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"Where suicide is a heroic act rather than a permanent solution to a temporary problem" | |
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How to Draw A Bunny (2002) |
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"How do you make a movie about the most famous unknown artist in the world?" | |
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How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003) |
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"How to lose an audience in 10 ways" | |
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2/5 |
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Hud (1963) |
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0/5 |
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I Love Lucy - Season 1: Vol. 1 (2002) |
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Igby Goes Down (2002) |
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"Salinger meets the heroine chick with the heroin chic" | |
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In Praise of Love (2001) |
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"Waiting for Godard can be fruitful: 'In Praise of Love' is the director's epitaph for himself." | |
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Invincible (2002) |
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"The invincible Werner Herzog is alive and well and living in LA" | |
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Lilya 4-Ever (2003) |
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"Repeatedly hammers home the message that this is a vile world filled with vile men and women; and that children are the main victims of their perpetual evil." | |
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1/5 |
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Living Out Loud (1998) |
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1/5 |
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The Magnificent Seven (1960) |
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Masked and Anonymous (2003) |
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"Even a stone Dylan fan -- and I've been one since my early teens; I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now -- would find it difficult to sit through this moldy exercise in evasion and bloat." | |
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5/5 |
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Minority Report (2002) |
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"Spielberg has managed to marry science fiction with film noir and action flicks with philosophical inquiry." | |
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1/5 |
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Oh, God! (1977) |
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2/5 |
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Paper Moon (1973) |
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The Pianist (2002) |
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"Roman Polanski's autobiographical gesture at redemption is better than 'Shindler's List' - it is more than merely a Holocaust movie." | |
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Possession (2002) |
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"Throwing it all away for the fleeting joys of love's brief moment." | |
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2/5 |
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S1m0ne (2002) |
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"Simone tells us about the sweet opium of movies and how much we crave it." | |
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Secretary (2002) |
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"I have seen the future and her name is Maggie Gyllenhaal." | |
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The Shape of Things (2003) |
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"Little more than a clever undergrad thesis gone awfully wrong, it turns on the less than shocking proposition that women are as unlikable as men." | |
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Signs (2002) |
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"Shyamalan should stop trying to please his mom." | |
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Solaris (2002) |
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"If Steven Soderbergh's 'Solaris' is a failure it is a glorious failure." | |
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3/5 |
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Soylent Green (1973) |
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Spider (2003) |
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"Spider owes everything to its two British stars, Ralph Fiennes and Miranda Richardson, whose sexually charged ballet is its centre, as is the question: Mother or whore?" | |
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3/5 |
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The Spirit of St. Louis (1957) |
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Spun (2003) |
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"A white-knuckle ride to the edge of town, I liked it in a sick and twisted sort of way." | |
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The Stone Reader (2003) |
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"Stone Reader is the story of a Quixotian quest by a man who is more than an ideal reader. Mark Moskowitz is the sort of reader writers live for." | |
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Sunshine State (2002) |
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"Edie Falco sparkles as a mermaid on dry land" | |
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Talk to Her (2002) |
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"Call him twisted. Call him sick. But call Pedro Almodovar a master. And call 'Talk To her' a masterpiece." | |
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3/5 |
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The War Room (1992) |
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XX/XY (2003) |
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"An empty passion play with the sort of druggy glamour you would expect from a movie about growing up privileged and stoned in NYC." | |
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