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3/5
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Adventureland
(2009)
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Mike Bracken
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There are some funny moments in Adventureland (most of them in the first half). None of them are of the "laugh uncontrollably" variety, but the chuckles are there.
Posted Apr 03, 2009
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5/5
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There Will Be Blood
(2007)
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Chris Barsanti
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A bloody-fanged, no-prisoners take on Manifest Destiny greed ... In short: an all-American tale.
Posted Dec 20, 2007
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4.5/5
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Closely Watched Trains
(1966)
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Tony Pellum
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Posted Dec 01, 2007
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5/5
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United 93
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Nov 03, 2007
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4/5
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Revenge of the Nerds
(1984)
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John A. Nesbit
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Posted Oct 29, 2007
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3/5
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Ann Vickers
(1933)
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Stephen Murray
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Posted Sep 01, 2007
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4/5
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Sicko
(2007)
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Rachel Gordon
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Posted Aug 10, 2007
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1/5
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Transformers
(2007)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Jul 06, 2007
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2/5
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Fantastic Four: Rise of the Silver Surfer
(2007)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Jun 23, 2007
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3/5
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Waitress
(2007)
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Rachel Gordon
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Posted Jun 15, 2007
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5/5
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Spider-Man 3
(2007)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted May 07, 2007
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3.5/5
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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A passionate and pitiless piece of work that fails only near the end when its internal political dogmatism outstrips and undercuts the story itself.
Posted Mar 16, 2007
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4/5
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The Queen
(2006)
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Rachel Gordon
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Posted Feb 02, 2007
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4/5
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Sabotage
(1936)
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John A. Nesbit
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Posted Feb 01, 2007
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4.5/5
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Rocky Balboa
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Jan 06, 2007
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2.5/5
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Night at the Museum
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Dec 30, 2006
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4/5
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Nov 10, 2006
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3.5/5
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Twelve and Holding
(2005)
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Chris Barsanti
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With his modestly impressive young actors and moody lens, Cuesta finds the normal in the extreme.
Posted Oct 25, 2006
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3/5
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The Departed
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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It's a testament to the rest of the cast that Nicholson's self-worshipping train-wreck of a performance doesn't sink the entire film.
Posted Oct 12, 2006
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0.5/5
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All the King's Men
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Oct 07, 2006
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3/5
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Pretty in Pink
(1986)
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Chris Barsanti
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It is perhaps too much to ask that a John Hughes film bear the standard for class warfare in the 1980s, especially when the film was so tone-deaf in depicting its subculture's milieu.
Posted Sep 21, 2006
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3.5/5
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The Second Chance
(2006)
|
Andrew Hicks
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Posted Sep 16, 2006
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2/5
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World Trade Center
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Aug 11, 2006
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0/5
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Clerks II
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Aug 05, 2006
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1/5
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Miami Vice
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Aug 04, 2006
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2/5
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The Devil Wears Prada
(2006)
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Rachel Gordon
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Posted Jul 01, 2006
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3.5/5
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Click
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Jul 01, 2006
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4/5
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Superman II
(1980)
|
Daniel Briney
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Posted Jun 30, 2006
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1.5/5
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Superman Returns
(2006)
|
Daniel Briney
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Posted Jun 30, 2006
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4.5/5
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Superman: The Movie
(1978)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Jun 30, 2006
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2.5/5
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Who Killed the Electric Car?
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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Instead of producing an inflammatory piece of agitprop, Paine's film is more like an especially edgy Saturn commercial.
Posted Jun 29, 2006
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4/5
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Cars
(2006)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted Jun 24, 2006
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2.5/5
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The Road to Guantanamo
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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It's not enough to simply show what these men went through, we need to be made to understand it, something that The Road to Guantanamo is sadly unable to do.
Posted Jun 21, 2006
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3/5
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An Inconvenient Truth
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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This may be the first documentary in memory that will have audiences clamoring, "More hard data! More charts!"
Posted Jun 18, 2006
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3.5/5
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A Prairie Home Companion
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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A perplexingly kooky comedy about death, [it] manages to do what Altman has almost never done before: allow a different artist their own voice.
Posted Jun 16, 2006
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4/5
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Rude Awakening
(1989)
|
Travis Lowell
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Posted May 12, 2006
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4/5
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Batman
(1989)
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Daniel Briney
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Posted May 06, 2006
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2/5
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Batman Returns
(1992)
|
Daniel Briney
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Posted May 06, 2006
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2/5
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The Sentinel
(2006)
|
Daniel Briney
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Posted May 06, 2006
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4/5
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Clean
(2004)
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Chris Barsanti
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... sharply delineated, as though cutting its images from the chaotic muck of life with a chisel. In short, it's a very clean piece of work.
Posted Apr 28, 2006
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3/5
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Somersault
(2004)
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Chris Barsanti
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... says more about the potent mix of restless sexuality and troubled adolescence than a shelf-full of young adult novels.
Posted Apr 26, 2006
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3/5
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Friends With Money
(2006)
|
Chris Barsanti
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There's rarely a moment in this film that feels wrong, barely a moment wasted, and yet it all drifts rather serenely to a stop, with little to mark its passage.
Posted Apr 07, 2006
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5/5
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The New World
(2005)
|
Daniel Briney
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Posted Apr 07, 2006
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4.5/5
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Dave Chappelle's Block Party
(2005)
|
Andrew Hicks
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Posted Mar 31, 2006
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4/5
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V for Vendetta
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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This is pure post-9/11 Orwell, a great, angry screed against scapegoating and fearmongering in the seemingly endless war on terrorism.
Posted Mar 19, 2006
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3.5/5
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Freedomland
(2006)
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Chris Barsanti
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...a rare instance of big-budget adult drama in a business that seems about ready to give up on such things entirely.
Posted Mar 03, 2006
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4/5
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The Matador
(2005)
|
Rachel Gordon
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Posted Feb 25, 2006
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4.5/5
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Lady Vengeance
(2005)
|
Kevin Buffington
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Posted Feb 24, 2006
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2/5
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Firewall
(2006)
|
Daniel Briney
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Posted Feb 17, 2006
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3.5/5
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Little Tony
(1998)
|
John A. Nesbit
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very earthy and revolves around human nature%u2014sexual lust, power plays, and motherhood
Posted Feb 16, 2006
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