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Rating Title | Year Quote Author
44%

Casanova (2005)

"Here is a Casanova true to the spirit of the legendary original %u2013 gorgeous, witty, flamboyant, seductive, and delightful company for an evening of pure enjoyment."

Jonathan F. Richards

80%

Electric Shadows (Meng ying tong nian) (2005)

"Ms. Xiang has made the kind of movie that her movie is about. It defies sophistication."

Jonathan F. Richards

87%

Brokeback Mountain (2005)

"Brokeback Mountain is about men and women, and how different they are from each other, and the ways in which they are different."

Jonathan F. Richards

87%

A History of Violence (2005)

"Director David Cronenberg (Crash) has a taste for violence, and here he gets to indulge in it to what we would hope is his heart's content."

Jonathan F. Richards

90%

Capote (2005)

"Capote is a tale of two monsters."

Jonathan F. Richards

35%

Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)

"What we get ... is a romance comic, richly illustrated but disposable."

Jonathan F. Richards

10%

Aeon Flux (2005)

"Aeon Flux is gaudily glamorous and riotously witless. At the same time, it's kind of fun."

Jonathan F. Richards

88%

Bad Education (La Mala educación) (2004)

"It is also the first movie from this noted celebrator of women in which the only girls are boys."

Jonathan F. Richards

83%

Heart of the Beholder (2008)

"It would be nice to report that the result is a little gem, but it wouldn't be true. It's told with enthusiasm, but with very little artistry."

Jonathan F. Richards

92%

Saraband (2003)

"Like much of Bergman's later work, Saraband has a guiltily confessional, autobiographical feel to it."

Jonathan F. Richards

59%

The Milagro Beanfield War (1988)

Jonathan F. Richards

90%

L' Amour l'Aprčs-Midi (Chloe in the Afternoon) (Love in the Afternoon) (1972)

Jonathan F. Richards

98%

Chinatown (1974)

Jonathan F. Richards

39%

The First Wives Club (1996)

Jonathan F. Richards

37%

Asylum (2005)

"Curiously, though, for a movie about psychiatrists and their patients and families, it fails conspicuously at getting inside the heads of its characters."

Jonathan F. Richards

80%

The Aristocrats (2005)

"So how can a joke that everybody knows, that has been told and retold at least since vaudeville was young, still get laughs? The secret is in the telling."

Jonathan F. Richards

92%

Tarnation (2004)

"For some audiences it will be electrifying and important. Others will find it wears out its welcome long before the closing credits roll."

Jonathan F. Richards

53%

The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou (2004)

"Anderson uses laconic the way the Three Stooges use pies"

Jonathan F. Richards

87%

The Aviator (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

55%

Ocean's Twelve (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

83%

Broadway: The Golden Age, by the Legends Who Were There (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

90%

Kinsey (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

96%

Sideways (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

92%

Vera Drake (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

36%

Touch of Pink (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

62%

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

81%

Friday Night Lights (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

84%

The Motorcycle Diaries (Diarios de Motocicleta) (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

96%

Festival Express (2003)

Jonathan F. Richards

90%

Mean Creek (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

66%

Bright Young Things (2003)

Jonathan F. Richards

83%

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

48%

De-Lovely (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

41%

Zhou Yu's Train (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

95%

Hero (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

88%

The Five Obstructions (2003)

Jonathan F. Richards

67%

The Door in the Floor (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

81%

The Manchurian Candidate (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

95%

Before Sunset (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

71%

Napoleon Dynamite (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

93%

Spider-Man 2 (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

83%

Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

96%

Control Room (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

27%

The Stepford Wives (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

45%

The Day After Tomorrow (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

62%

Young Adam (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

76%

Bon Voyage (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

44%

Connie And Carla (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

81%

Hellboy (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

55%

The Ladykillers (2004)

Jonathan F. Richards

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