# taggings

text: No energy!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:36
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text: Rounders' script is pretty shabby going. Well, not shabby, really, just simplistic.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:36
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:36
text:
  The wholesome pup's poker face alone, however, hardly accounts for the film's failure to thrill. Damon's character doesn't really have that much stake in the story's outcome.

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text: Rounders cheerfully buys into compulsive gambling!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:36
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text: It's a movie of character and milieu, both of which it evokes brilliantly.
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text: A sure bet!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:36
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text: The end result is still short of a winning hand, since the screenplay is so utterly predictable.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:36
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:50
text:
  The writer-director of "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer, must have heard the phrase "moving pictures" at an impressionable age and taken it literally.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:50
text:
  Cleverly juggling the elements and encounters of a simple thriller scenario by using multiple viewpoints and a domino effect to create different destinies...

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text: ...it's the most fun I have had at any movie thus far in 1999.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:50
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text: Not only does Lola run, she takes this hyperkinetic pop culture firecracker of a film with her.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:50
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:50
text:
  ...the movie is a departure from the norm that will have audiences chattering well into the night...

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text: Run Lola Run is fun, fun, fun.
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text: A film of nonstop motion and visual invention.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:50
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text: Rogue One is at its best when it's at war .
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  Audiences once packed theaters to gawk at the future; now, it's to soak in the past. The emphasis is on packing in as much nostalgia as possible and tersely editing it together to resemble a film.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  With all the aerial dogfights, armored combat vehicles, grenades, flame-throwers and snipers, Rogue One feels like a film for those who think that most Star Wars movies are insufficiently like World War II flicks.

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text: "Rogue One" spins "Star Wars" into a whole new orbit.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  A a tense, well-made spacefaring war movie about a desperate and demoralized band of insurgents standing up against a rising authoritarian regime.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  Rogue One is largely free of the weight of myth and expectation that were borne by The Force Awakens, and this turns out to be both a good and a bad thing.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  The movie didn't rekindle the thrill of seeing, say, The Empire Strikes Back, but Rogue One will loom pretty large in the Star Wars galaxy - if only because there's so little competition.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  It was always one of 2016's most anticipated films and it doesn't let down the legions who have been waiting for it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  Except for a few jocose, fan-serving moments, the movie is a dour affair, lacking the charm and chills of J.J. Abrams's spirited Star Wars: The Force Awakens, not to mention George Lucas's founding trilogy.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  The good news is that Edwards' effort to make a storm-the-beach war film produces a tense third act that earns most of its big moments and also justifies much of what's come before.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  It's a downer. It's morally tangled. The characters are as depressed as the scenario, and Michael Giacchino's music can't make it better.

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text: Much more than a mere sideshow in the Star Wars saga, these rebels build on a brilliant legacy.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  [K-2SO] has all the good lines. I'm not sure if it's such a good thing that the best character in a sci-fi movie is a robot. But then again, the best character in 2001: A Space Odyssey was HAL, and that film wasn't half-bad.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  This spin-off/prequel has the same primitive, lived-in, emotional, loopy, let's-put-on-a-show spirit that made us fall in love with the original trilogy.

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text: Rogue One is a bright light in the Star Wars canon.
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text: "Rogue One" is definitive proof: "Star Wars" is back, baby.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
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text: Rogue One works best because its story is so narrowly focused.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:43:52
text:
  It offers more details of interoffice politics among the squabbling factions of both the Empire and the Rebel Alliance than probably anyone but a mid-level manager cares for. Yet you generally feel you're in good hands.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:08
text:
  This irreverent classic earns its cult status by brilliantly timed performances and a script as funny as it is observant.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Spielberg obviously decided that blood and guts meant just that, and so he arranged his violence into a semblance of pure disorder. The illusion holds, complete with severed limbs and wellsprings of blood, and it feels honorable.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Saving Private Ryan is Steven Spielberg's best war film and one of the two or three best movies the director has made.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  What Steven Spielberg has accomplished in Saving Private Ryan is to make violence terrible again. Nothing in the movie's melodramatic narrative can diminish the shocking immediacy of its combat scenes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Anyone who would like to know what superb filmmaking is all about need look no further than this overpowering movie.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  If Steven Spielberg's emotional intelligence matched his visual genius, his harrowing, passionately felt and honorably flawed new film might qualify for one of the greatest American movies ever made about World War II.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  [Saving Private Ryan] accomplishes something I had been taught was most difficult -- making an action-filled anti-war film or, at least, one that doesn't in some way glorify or lie about combat.

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text: War may be a faceless affair, but war movies shouldn't be.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  The cast functions as an effective and believable unit. And Hanks gives a strong, increasingly solemn performance as its mysterious leader.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  The film is directed by Steven Spielberg, and breaks new ground in content and style. It merges some of the most realistically disturbing battle footage ever included in a feature film with a touching human story.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Dramatic lapses notwithstanding, Saving Private Ryan goes beyond technical dazzlement to put a new, indelibly terrible face on war.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Spielberg goes a long, long way toward overcoming his tendencies toward the shallow, but the visceral punch of his not-quite-masterful film is softened by an almost neurotic slickness that keeps getting in the way of the [issues it raises].

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  The visual masterwork finds Spielberg atop his craft, weaving heart-pounding action and gut-wrenching emotion that will leave viewers silently shaken... If words occasionally fail the picture, the images speak indelible volumes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  The great Hollywood battle films have told us repeatedly that war is hell. Saving Private Ryan, more than any other, is the one that shows it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Spielberg accomplishes these goals with a technical virtuosity that no other director, arguably in the history of the cinema, can even approach.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Spielberg puts us through the hair-trigger terrors of combat in a way no other filmmaker has ever dared, and yet there's a gentleness to his enterprise. He's interested in the humaneness that comes through the horror.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Saving Private Ryan is a masterpiece. It cements Steven Spielberg's reputation as one of the seminal filmmakers of the era.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:29
text:
  Searing, heartbreaking, so intense it turns your body into a single tube of clenched muscle, this is simply the greatest war movie ever made, and one of the great American movies.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Spielberg ultimately remains Spielberg, finding his enduring themes within Thomas Keneally's novel and giving them the full Spielberg treatment.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Schindler's List is filmed in black and white, but the triumph of Neeson's portrait and Steven Zaillian's screenplay is that Oskar Schindler remains gray and enigmatic.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  For a movie -- or more accurately, a Hollywood-approved art movie -- this often-stunning work puts the Holocaust into bracing perspective.

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text: It's a noble achievement, and essential viewing.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Because this film touches us so deeply, the catharsis has a power that few -- if any -- other moments in film history can match.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Rising brilliantly to the challenge of this material and displaying an electrifying creative intelligence, Mr. Spielberg has made sure that neither he nor the Holocaust will ever be thought of in the same way again.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  What the visual immediacy of Schindler's List does is to prod each of us to fill in the gaps of emotion for ourselves. To put this another way, the more you are able to invest in this superb, demanding film, the more you are likely to get back.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  It's a stunning achievement, a film that re-creates the Holocaust not as something abstract, but as felt knowledge.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  More than any previous non-documentary Holocaust movie, this one convinces through the accumulation of such detail.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  The [film succeeds] at conveying some of the enormity of the Holocaust, as well as some of its banal details, in a fully accessible manner, at a time when much of our collective memory and understanding of it is rapidly slipping away.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Not only is the subject matter different for Spielberg, the way it is treated is a departure both for him and for the business as usual standards of major studio releases.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  With seemingly effortless grace and skill, Schindler's List balances fear and exaltation, humor and horror, love and death. It evokes, superbly, a time of savagery and grief, and the inexplicable, stunning compassion that rises within and against it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Schindler's List is a film whose meanings are to be found less in its uplifting outline than in its harrowing flow of images -- images of fear, hope, horror, compassion, degradation, chaos, and death.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Schindler's List is a ruthlessly unsentimental portrait of a German war profiteer's epiphany that inspires neither sorrow nor pity, but a kind of emotional numbness.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  What is most amazing about this film is how completely Spielberg serves his story. The movie is brilliantly acted, written, directed and seen.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  For this film Spielberg has done the best directing of his career. Much of his previous work has been clever and some of it better than that, but Schindler's List is masterly.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:42
text:
  Few American movies since the silent era have had anything approaching this picture's narrative boldness, visual audacity, and emotional directness.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  Van Sant seems unsure of what kind of movie he's making or what he's trying to say. It's best to just enjoy the scenery and look the other way.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  Gus Van Sant has made the weakest movie of his career, which is particularly unfortunate given that it stars Matthew McConaughey, who's been on quite the hot streak lately.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  The Sea of Trees uses depression, cancer and suicide as manipulative devices to tug at heartstrings instead of offering insight into the human condition.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  The most confounding element of Sea of Trees is that Van Sant has already made a far better movie about two men struggling to live another day in the middle of nowhere -- his minimalist 2002 drama Gerry.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  A stronger movie experience than one might expect. It's anchored by a fine, understated performance by Matthew McConaughey and a deeply felt, if at times melodramatic, story that proves strangely immersive.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  Resembles one of Japanese auteur Naomi Kawase's spiritualist tone poems brutally hijacked in the editing suite by M Night Shyamalan.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  This is Van Sant's nadir: a sophomoric metaphysical drama that benefits from the director's pictorial eye (the forest looks fittingly ominous), but succumbs to the sentimentalism that has long been his Achilles' heel.

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text: A numinous meditation on grief that's more likely to inspire laughter than tears.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  No wonder Watts rules the movie. She's playing the only remotely sympathetic character; the men seem consumed by grief and guilt and platitudes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  This risibly long-winded drama is perhaps above all a profound cultural insult, milking the lush green scenery of Japan's famous Aokigahara forest for all it's worth, while giving co-lead Ken Watanabe little to do.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  McConaughey and Watts seem to be reading from a tired script of unhappy, protracted matrimony. The dialogue feels rehearsed, and not in a good way.

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text: [A] soggy mess of a movie ...
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
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text: Woefully sentimental and maudlin.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:44:58
text:
  You know, artistically, that the news is going to be bad in the opening minutes when Van Sant feels compelled to provide a shot of the keys McConaughey's character leaves in the ignition. There are almost two hours left of that kind of filmmaking.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  An enervated, crass and gruesomely caricatured trip to nowhere [that] seems conceived primarily to find new and more cynical ways to abuse the loyalty of its audience.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  Thanks to writer-director Michael Patrick King, I now have a fair idea how it might feel to be stoned to death with scented candles.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  Though the 2 in the title implies a double shot of everything fans loved about the series, there is less.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  The stakes are so low that, during the girls' final madcap sprint through an outdoor market disguised in burqas, the unspeakable outcome they're trying to forestall is the possibility of having to fly home in coach.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  Sarah Jessica Parker is now 45 years old, and, frankly, I cannot stomach another moment of the simpering, mincing, hair-tossing, eyelash-batting little-girl shtick she's been pulling ever since L.A. Story.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  The movie completely unravels into a pastiche of wish-fulfillment, slapstick, and ham-handed social commentary.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  It has no plot to speak of, little in the way of wit or intelligence, and is about 50% longer than can reasonably be justified.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  Remember the old, boundary-breaking, taboo-toppling Sex and the City? Forget it. Neither sex nor the city plays any role in this film.

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text: It's an almost avant-garde adventure in aimlessness.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  The moment of dread. It comes for all beloved series, and in Sex and the City 2, it arrives with embarrassing suddenness.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  I realize that gaudy fantasy is essential to this franchise, but why does the fantasy have to be so stunted?

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  At two and a half hours, Sex 2 -- like its predecessor -- is a long sit in the shallows, the equivalent of five half-hour episodes strung together.

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text: It's worse than Sex and the City 1, and that alone is a remarkable achievement.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
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text: It's supposed to be Sex and the City. This is Sects and the Souk.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
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text: In the end it's the fun movie it's supposed to be. Raise your cosmos in a modest toast.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  Like a plastic surgeon, storyteller King keeps trying to find new ways to lift and tighten his characters, but they have become garish caricatures of themselves.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:17
text:
  Twelve years, one beloved HBO series, and two feature films on, the Sex and the City gals have been reduced to Bratz dolls for grown women.

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text: Downey's career is something of a game of shadows, but it's one still worth playing, for now.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
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text: Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows doesn't rip enough yarn.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  As Johnny Depp has done so brilliantly with his devilish Jack Sparrow, Downey has made this sly sardonic Sherlock stylistically all his own. Case closed.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  It doesn't take a master of deduction to see that Ritchie has decided to play it too safe with this sequel.

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text: It's complete trash and makes a mockery of Holmes's vaunted deductive reasoning.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  The game is now afoot with Holmes' arch-nemesis, Professor James Moriarity -- and that makes a notable difference. This time, Holmes is up against an equal, and it's elementary indeed that muscle and firepower alone won't carry the day.

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text: The chemistry between Watson and Holmes is spotty, and their banter grows tedious.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  Something of an overlong, overblown, disorganized mess, despite being slightly better than its predecessor.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  Ritchie's franchise - 7% classic formula, 93% adrenaline - is smart in a showoffy way that flatters its star as well as its audience.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  This new outing matches the original Sherlock in wit, action and the bromance between Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law.

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text: The skill level in the script is elementary school, my dear Watson.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  The production is still needlessly overlong and overblown, a far cry from your father's (or even your cousin's) conception of the master detective. But it's certainly lively and has clever moments that involve Holmes' keen powers of observation...

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  It's a modest improvement on bad-boy director Guy Ritchie's first tweaking of Arthur Conan Doyle's iconic detective.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  There's nothing here but wreckage. "Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows" is so ineptly made that the story is advanced solely through announcements.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  What this film really celebrates is crunch-and-thud video-game-style action, not especially well choreographed by director Guy Ritchie.

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text: I was let down by this loud and flashy but utterly empty sequel.
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text: This movie wants to be a horse but, even measured in box-office millions, it's just another nag.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:29
text:
  Downey may think this interpretation is an insight, or funny, but it pushes what was already a rude rewriting of the classic characters into eye-rolling camp. And it throws everything off balance.

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text: It's a gnarled, brutal, highly manipulative film that, at its center, seems morally indefensible.
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text: This is the grandest guignol Hollywood has produced in years.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Hopkins' cumulative screen image is one of civility and decency, and the association adds to the withering, macabre effect of his murderer. It is a remarkably lucid portrait of lunacy.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Hopkins' performance is spectacularly unnerving and should win him future award nominations. Holding her own against Hopkins' hare is Jodie Foster as the tenacious, tortoise-like trainee.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Foster's character, who is appealing, is dwarfed by the monsters she is after. I'd rather see her work on another case.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Understandably, much has been made of Hopkins' hypnotic Lecter, but the laurels must go to Levine's killer, admirably devoid of camp overstatement, and to Foster, who evokes a vulnerable but pragmatic intelligence.

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text: Anthony Hopkins is devastatingly demonic in Jonathan Demme's truly horrifying thriller.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Demme comes at Harris' material from another angle: His movie may deal with madness, but his perspective is mercifully sane.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs has everything you want in a popular thriller. It's stylish, intelligent, audacious rather than shocking, and stolen by a suave monster you'll never forget.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Jonathan Demme's hypnotic adaptation of the Thomas Harris novel has a seriousness and intensity that's been entirely lacking in horror movies lately.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  An accomplished, effective, grisly, and exceptionally sick slasher film that I can't with any conscience recommend, because the purposes to which it places its considerable ingenuity are ultimately rather foul.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  The movie, scary and graphic to cause timid souls (such as this writer) to close their eyes at certain points, has a vise-like grip on the audience.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  For all the unbridled savagery on display, what is shrewd, significant and finally hopeful about Silence of the Lambs is the way it proves that a movie can be mercilessly scary and mercifully humane at the same time.

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text: A pretty sharp new thriller.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  The popularity of Jonathan Demme's movie is likely to last as long as there is a market for being scared.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Hopkins' performance may be the film's bravura showpiece, but Foster's goes the whole distance, steadfast, controlled, heartbreakingly insightful, a fine addition to her gallery of characterizations.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  Jonathan Demme's thriller is artful pulp -- tabloid material treated with intelligence and care and a weird kind of sensitivity.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  The juiciest part is Hopkins,' and he makes the most of it. Helped by some highly dramatic lighting, actor makes the role the personification of brilliant, hypnotic evil, and the screen jolts with electricity whenever he is on.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:43
text:
  The Silence of the Lambs is pop film making of a high order. It could well be the first big hit of the year.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:44
text:
  Ford's eye for period detail is exact; brief cutaways, incisive dialogue, and charged glances telegraph the cold-war paranoia and sexual alienation of the early 60s.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:44
text:
  How fitting that Firth should carry A Single Man, a movie of quiet but potent emotional power, perfectly suited to his singular gifts.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:44
text:
  Two characters trying and failing to drown their hopes and regrets, and two strong actors refusing to be tight-laced by a director's exercise in style: here is a mood piece looking for a fight.

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text: One of the year's more satisfying films.
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text: It is as gorgeous as you would expect, and surprisingly large-hearted.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:44
text:
  Firth's portrayal of a man repressing his grief while being unable to repress his instinct for love and for life is excellent and moving, while Ford's balancing of depth and surface is precarious but ultimately winning.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:44
text:
  This is an important homosexual film based on a first-rate novel with a first-rate cast and probably a harbinger of similar movies to come. Many viewers will be disappointed that the movie only hints at intimacy rather than showcasing it.

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  It's a dirgelike odyssey sparked by Julianne Moore's overheated turn as George's best friend -- a welcome respite from Firth's clenched emoting.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:44
text:
  As Ford's first film, this story, based on a novel by Christopher Isherwood, must have had special meaning.

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text: Ford doesn't know when to quit: A Single Man is too beautiful by half...
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  A Single Man still stands as a vivid portrait of life behind a veil, and Firth certainly delivers one of the best performances of the year.

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text: Firth plays a drowning man who can't yell for help, and it's an awful thing to see.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  An effectively understated and moodily engrossing ghost film with a surprisingly satisfying jolt at the end.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
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  So transparent is Osment as an actor, and so rare, that the pain on his face stabs you in the heart.

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text: A delicate, emotionally attentive, but very scary ghost story.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
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  Osment's pinched, old-young face suggests an ancient's insight without an ancient's defenses -- a sensitivity so exquisitely morbid that you worry more for his emotional than physical well-being.

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text: Billed as a 'chilling, psychological thriller,' this movie is actually none of those things.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  Shyamalan's script is a clever construct, but also contains a great deal of sensitivity to the plight of the "different" child.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  M. Night Shyamalan neutralizes Willis's star presence with impressive plotting that's a fine excuse for the powerful atmosphere.

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text: A psychological thriller that actually thrills!
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  It's a rarity for a movie to be willing to try your patience like The Sixth Sense does and even more of one for your perseverance to be so amply rewarded.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  A poignant study of the searing pain caused by loss, this all-too-human horror film provokes tears as well as fears.

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text: Willis turns in a measured and understated performance.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  The Sixth Sense has a kind of calm, sneaky self-confidence that allows it to take us down a strange path.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:45:58
text:
  You leave slightly asquirm. You know it will linger. It becomes a clammy, chilly movie building toward a revelation that you cannot predict. As I say: I cannot tell you. You'd hate me if I did. I can only say, don't look now, but look sometime.

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text: Sixth Sense is scary -- and smart!
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text: As a stand-up routine it's a scream.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:04
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text: Plenty of one-liners, and it has the best banana-skin joke in film history.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:04
text:
  The film is loaded with throwaway literacy and broad slapstick, and while it fumbles the end, the parade of verbal and visual amusement is pleasant as long as it lasts.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:04
text:
  These days, comedy beggars can't be choosers. Woody Allen is about all we've got. And Woody, please stay healthy.

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text: Sleeper is the closest Allen has come to classic slapstick-and-chase comedy, and he's good at it.
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text: Sleeper is terrific.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:09
text:
  Self-consciousness infects Nora Ephron's sweet but perilously thin love story, Sleepless in Seattle...such are the perils of these postmodernist times: even our love stories feed off borrowed emotion.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:09
text:
  We fall -- and I think a lot of people will fall hard for this movie -- even though we know we shouldn't.

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text: This is a dreamy, romantic fantasy whose mood falls somewhere between magic and reality.
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text: A quick check of the exiting audience found many smiling -- and still clutching tissues.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:09
text:
  If one can ignore all the straining for lightness here, this is watchable enough, though hardly anything resembling a tearjerker.

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text: Mostly, Sleepless in Seattle leaves you feeling restless in the audience.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:09
text:
  Sleepless in Seattle is as ephemeral as a talk show, as contrived as the late show, and yet so warm and gentle I smiled the whole way through.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:09
text:
  Nora Ephron's Sleepless in Seattle is a feather-light romantic comedy about two lovers who meet for the first time in the last reel. It's a stunt, but it's a stunt that works far more effectively than anybody in his right mind has reason to expect.

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text: Small Time Crooks is appealing.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:16
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:16
text:
  This is an amiable and quite conventional comedy. The biggest problem is that it's not all that funny. The whole movie, with its rather antiquated notions of the lower classes, feels as if it were inspired by another era.

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text: A delicious comedy.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:16
text:
  I wish I could recommend Small Time Crooks more strongly, but the truth is that it's a weak (bordering on inconsequential) entry into the director's canon.

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text: Sweet and affirmative.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:16
text:
  The characters in Small Time Crooks are smarter, edgier and more original than the dreary crowd in so many new comedies.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:24
text:
  With this morbidly bouncy black comedy Ritchie finds a sneaky way to avoid sophomore slump: by passing his freshman tests all over again. And now for something completely different, please.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:24
text:
  Manages the trick of keeping the viewer entertained -- and aware of exactly who is where -- even when the movie is going in three directions at the same time.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:24
text:
  You'll laugh and have a good old rowdy time watching Snatch. But as soon as you walk out of the theater, you'll ask yourself what it was you were laughing at.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:24
text:
  Ritchie may be skilled at generating controlled chaos, but his surprise-a-minute strategy ultimately holds no surprises.

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text: The story motors like a car driven by a chatty maniac who somehow stays on the road.
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text: Fun moments are ultimately slight compensation for Snatch's overall staleness.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:24
text:
  Ritchie's follow-up to Lock, Stock is an even more craftily concocted underworld entertainment, helped no end by the casting of Pitt as the bare-knuckle boxer Mickey.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  Mr. Stone has made an honorable and absorbing contribution to the imaginative record of our confusing times.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  If Snowden's story wasn't real, Stone would have made it up. So why does Stone's movie feel so toothless?

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  "Snowden" is worth watching for the ideas and arguments it inspires, and for the layers of a still-mysterious character it reveals.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  While the drama here is straight forward and conventional, Stone turns a brilliant trick by visually showing how computer spying is conducted. We do not have to understand how it works to appreciate what it does -- because Stone skillfully shows us.

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text: Stone is so intent on making Snowden an icon that he scrubs him of his nuances, his individuality.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  Stone collects all of the silliest clichés about computing in a grab-bag aesthetic that tries every kind of pointlessly filtered or grainy look, but can't seem to fake a convincing webcam shot.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
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  Snowden isn't a liberal screed, or at least not an overt one. It's a sincere, straightforward biopic that, at its worst, verges on hagiography.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  Snowden could have been an important film. It certainly contains important elements. Sadly, unlike its subject, it's unremarkable and easily forgotten.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
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  [Joseph Gordon-Levitt delivers] an interestingly inward performance. Outwardly, however, there's almost no suspense, which, given the narrative possibilities, is a remarkably dubious achievement.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
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  "Snowden" could have been a character portrait, but instead it's like "The Bourne Identity" minus the chases and fights, which is like a ham and cheese sandwich minus the ham and cheese.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  Stone still evinces his old, hand-rubbing glee in exposing the vermin hiding under the rock marked National Security, and there are some fine scenes... but there's a slickness, and also a slackness, to the proceedings.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt sympathetically portrays the bespectacled title cipher, a Rubik's Cube champ with an IBM brain.

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text: It's a fawning piece of work.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
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  Joseph Gordon-Levitt is fiercely committed as Snowden, but director Oliver Stone sticks to the surface and buries the provocation.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
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  Stone's flashy filmmaking, including grand set pieces in enormous secret facilities, can't conceal his flat, thin, psychology-free depiction of a modest and self-sacrificing hero who single-handedly changed the politics of our time.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  Credit Joseph Gordon-Levitt -- first, for even playing Snowden, and also for attempting to mimic Snowden's unique cadence as well as his physical appearance.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
text:
  It never feels tedious, thanks to Stone's tremendous sense of story construction, the film's razor-sharp editing - and Gordon-Levitt's masterful performance.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:32
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  As Snowden, Gordon-Levitt is so muted, so cloistered, that it can be easy to miss that it's a very good performance.

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text: Snowden should be frothing at the mouth. Instead, the best it can work up is a weary sigh.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  What looks on paper like a static series of dead-end conversations comes to life as a vital, engaging, even urgent parable for our age.

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text: You will know The Social Network is something very special from its first scene.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  [P]roof that Fincher's directorial verve can imbue virtually any tale with urgency, be it the search for a killer or the search for a killer app.

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text: Fincher gives the story the vitality and clear, coherent tension of a thriller.
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text: What a joy to sit in a theater and be engaged, surprised, challenged, amused.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  Despite the fun of the parties, the intrigue of the legal wranglings and the humour of the dialogue, Fincher and Sorkin never let us forget that we're complicit in their story (or at least 500 million of us are).

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  The movie's lustrous, deep-focus frames and headlong pace are difficult to resist. Its an entertainingly cynical small movie.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  This is the 2010 Oscar season's first drama to live up to the hype and expectations associated with it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  This account of Facebook's founder, and of the website's explosive growth, quickly lifts you to a state of exhilaration, and pretty much keeps you there for two hours.

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text: Weeks after seeing it, moments from it will haunt you.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  Everyone involved went out and made the film they were trying to make, and it's often funny and generally captivating.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  At last, a movie you can actually discuss afterward. And not just on Facebook or Twitter. No, you'll want to chew it over in person, with friends, for hours.

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text: The writing is strong, and the drama -- the drama of betrayal -- is ever present.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  Despite the whiz-bang topicality, the headlong intelligence, and the many sharp collegiate scenes, this new-style movie hews pretty closely to an old-style playbook.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  Thanks to David Fincher's straightforward direction, Aaron Sorkin's Oscar-level script and a half-dozen sharp performances, this is one of the best movies of the year.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  It has the staccato wit of a drawing-room comedy, the fatal flaw of a tragic romance and the buzzy immediacy of a front-page headline, all powered by a kinetic engine typically found in an action flick.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:40
text:
  There's a cool precision and honesty to The Social Network, the story of the founding of Facebook, which guarantees its entertainment value even as it limits its emotional impact.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  This paranormal cops-versus-serial-killer procedural is never not ridiculous, but it's often entertaining as well ...

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  The chemistry [Anthony Hopkins and Colin Farrell] achieve is a powerful argument for giving Solace its chance on the multiplex circuit.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  End up being better than it probably deserves to be, but most of the time, that's because Hopkins can really do no wrong ... except in picking his movies.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  The directorial pyrotechnics keep Solace from "dragging" in a narrative sense; the very real boredom it nonetheless elicits is more existential.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  Staggeringly silly and visually disordered, this unfortunate misfire has been kicking around Europe and elsewhere for a couple of years under different titles, and it's easy to see why.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  An overly convoluted tale drowned in creepy but essentially meaningless violent images and dry performances.

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text: As leftovers go, "Solace" retains a fair amount of flavor, thanks to high-end ingredients.
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text: [A] reasonably clever genre entry ...
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:46:41
text:
  Solace isn't a Silence of the Lambs sequel in which Hopkins gets to reprise the role of Hannibal Lecter. But he comes pretty damn close in this ludicrous murder mystery, which is stuck somewhere between a bad season of Dexter and a dated crime flick.

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text: [Klapisch] forces us to notice the ordinary details we ordinarily sleepwalk through.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
text:
  It features four of the most erotically and emotionally delectable female performances I have seen in one film this year.

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text: It's an exhilarating, funny, very sweet movie.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
text:
  With such a large cast there's not a whole heck of a lot for everybody to do, but the characters are fleshed out well enough by the writing and the talented ensemble cast.

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text: Funny, smart and sexy, not to mention the best advertisement for the euro I've ever seen.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
text:
  Yet another example of writer/director Klapisch's way of finding fresh new insights within the most mundane of circumstances.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
text:
  Imagine the American students in The Real Cancun as if they were literate, cosmopolitan and not substance abusers, and you've got it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:03
text:
  There's a reason this warm, stylish human comedy was a big hit all across the Continent: It conveys a new generation's conviction that borders no longer matter.

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text: Invigorating moviemaking in every way imaginable, "Spotlight" is spot-on.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  It's not a stretch to suggest that "Spotlight" is the finest newspaper movie of its era, joining "Citizen Kane" and "All the President's Men" in the pantheon of classics of the genre.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  A remarkably assured and tight retelling of the Boston Globe's investigation into the Catholic Church's legacy of child abuse and cover-ups.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  "Spotlight" isn't quite as good as "All The President's Men," the gold standard of films about journalism. But it's close.

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text: It's a great story about getting the story.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  This is why Spotlight's moral of humility is so powerful. There are so many things that we don't know, so many assumptions that we don't recognize as such, so many questions that we haven't even thought to ask.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Like the story being reported within the film, Spotlight is simultaneously emotional and clear-eyed. It's an explosive yet necessary piece of journalism in and of itself. And it's easily one of the year's best.

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text: You don't need to be a news junkie to admire such sleek, adult entertainment.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  If there was a Best Ensemble acting category, the cast of Spotlight would be a frontrunner. The film has no lead actor but there are five or six strong supporting performances.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Spotlight is a mystery, a thriller and a human interest drama, but mostly it's a love letter to investigative journalism.

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text: Don't miss this crackling - and deeply important - film about the power of the press.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  A touching ode to the old-fashioned notion that some things simply need reporting; never mind the effort, the expense, or the effect on circulation.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Ruffalo gets top billing in the movie, and he brings some wonderfully lived-in behavioral details to his performance -- the quick, terrier-like movements of the head and the bitten-off sentences.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  The movie finds drama, not in telling the audience what it doesn't know, but in showing us people finding out the scope and dimension of what we already know, and then letting us see them react with shock, horror and a firm sense of purpose.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Though "Spotlight" is definitely a reporter-as-hero story (and, along the way, a bittersweet love letter to the kind of investigative journalism that's increasingly disappearing), the film doesn't let its characters off the hook.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Inspiring stuff, the stuff of Hollywood all the way back to Frank Capra and before: a story of scrappy underdogs, determined to get to the truth, and toppling the mighty in the process.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Spotlight serves as a helpful introduction to how impactful investigative journalism is accomplished. It's not glamorous; in fact, the triumph of the film is making the painstaking work of investigative journalism dramatic.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:26
text:
  Spotlight manages the seemingly impossible task of wooing journalists with authenticity while still elevating reporters to hero status, as they battle a formidable and corrupt institution with righteous determination.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:31
text:
  The film has its moments -- Kiel's indestructible heavy racks up a good score -- but the rest is desperately weak.

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text: Never did top that first stunt.
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text: The ostensible hero is just a fleshy blur.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:31
text:
  [The Spy Who Loved Me] gets off to a promising start but proves seriously deficient in staying power.

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text: Of Roger Moore's seven James Bond pictures, The Spy Who Loved Me stands out as the best.
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text: As always, story and plastic character are in the service of comic strip parody.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  A film that smuggles in a delightfully dorky high school saga under the banner of a too familiar superhero one.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  What makes this homecoming fun is [Tom] Holland, who seems as excited about Spider-Man as his classmates even though he is Spider-Man.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  Just as the character's primary goal here is about proving himself, in terms of Marvel injecting a rejuvenating vitality into its wayward wall-crawler, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" clears that bar and then some.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  The costumed antics of Homecoming are a joy to watch, with tense set pieces and well-choreographed action, but some of the movie's brightest spots are in its more down-to-earth moments.

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text: If they're going to be as fizzy and funny and warmhearted as this, keep 'em coming.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  An utter gas, a fast and very funny superflick that inserts Spidey into the larger Marvel Cinematic Universe without ever losing sight of what makes him unique and beloved.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  The newest star system in the Marvel Cinematic Universe is packed with surprises, excitement and quick-witted laughs.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  Even those of us who regard the Marvel aesthetic as a plague on world cinema can find much in Spider-Man: Homecoming to be charmed by.

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text: No cobwebs on Spidey - Spider-Man: Homecoming feels breezily, pleasingly fresh.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
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text: It delivers eye-popping spectacle in spades, but it's the characters that make it count.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
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text: Against considerable odds, "Spider-Man: Homecoming" finds its pace and rhythm by the end.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  What are the odds that a film with six credited screenwriters and a director (Jon Watts) with more Onion content than anything else could recapture the youthful thrill of superhero movies in general and the youthful appeal of Spider-Man in particular?

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  If "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is to be judged solely on its ability to unite a diverse audience behind a fun motion picture, it seems to have succeeded wildly.

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text: An authentic, refreshingly nerdy and high-spirited reboot of the well-worn Marvel franchise ...
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  The movie's not flawless, but it is fun, a big improvement on the non-wowing The Amazing Spider-Man and its sequel of recent years.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  Watts and his five other screenwriters are better at the small stuff - the jaunty high school scenes - than the kapowie CGI battle sequences.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  A strangely oblivious film, one that undercuts its story with exactly the sort of praise-hungriness that its hero learns to overcome.

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text: "Spider-Man: Homecoming" is breezy fun.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
text:
  Beginning with a score that riffs on the late-'70s cartoon and closing with a slyly funny after-credits scene, it's as sure-footed as its arachnid namesake.

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text: This is the Spidey movie we've been waiting for. It's also the best Spider-Man movie of the bunch.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:36
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:47:47
text:
  Mr. Lucas is not without a certain technocratic sagacity, but I don't think he's communicating even with the young as astutely as he once did.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  It's still a rush to sit in a packed theater (equipped with THX, naturally) when that first blast of John Williams' fanfare sounds. Then you have to endure the rest of the movie.

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text: Allowing for some dull moments, this movie has considerable visual style.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  The scale of the enterprise is thrilling; it's too bad the movie is so muddled on so many different levels.

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text: The Phantom Menace and Attack of the Clones have reduced the franchise to, well, a franchise.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  Christensen is a winning mix of sultry and sulky as the now older Anakin, while McGregor is finally beginning to relax as the mentor who understandably refuses to treat his moody pupil like a grown-up.

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text: Takes itself on a dazzling, digital tear.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  The good news? Star Wars: Episode II -- Attack of the Clones is eons better than Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. The bad news? It's still not very good.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  Lucas' obsession with digital technology has obliterated the saga's last remnants of human purpose and turned his once mesmerizing space opera into a pure, dehumanized cartoon.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  You can't blame actors, particularly young ones, when the words put in their mouths are almost unspeakable and the direction seems to suck them dry of energy or spontaneity.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  The technical wizardry of the action scenes are ultimately more important than the story and reason enough for nonbelievers to see and enjoy the movie.

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text: This time the exposition is so thick that everyone except acolytes may tune out.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  Unlike the first Star Wars, made for a general audience in search of a good time, Attack of the Clones is pitched to a cult audience.

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text: A commendable example of the sort of movie we once loved and then outgrew.
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text: Hold on to your No-Doz: Another Star Wars is here.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  Watching Attack of the Clones is like getting rapped on the head with a rubber mallet -- no lasting damage (I pray and hope), but bad enough to bring on an acute bout of dizziness and disorientation.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  In lieu of a proper climax, Attack Of The Clones ends with a tantalizing cliffhanger for the next episode, but Lucas' lumbering series is presenting fewer and fewer reasons to tune in.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:18
text:
  His characters, as is now his norm, are plastic puppets, even in the confectionary love scenes. Most of their dialogue is so doughy that it could be spooned into comic-strip balloons. Lucas simply has no interest in these people.

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text: To borrow from Yoda-speak: Much to desire we still have.
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text: Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage should be ashamed to have written such nonsense!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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text: Half-baked mess!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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text: Is there an eighth deadly sin called 'narcissistic direction'?
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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text: Stigmata is an unusually intelligent and original thriller.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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text: A shameless guilty pleasure!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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text: A derivative, pretentious rock video with a half-cocked, quote-unquote religious melodrama.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
text:
  A leaden exercise in what can go wrong when movies attempt to explore mysterious forces with dated special effects and easy symbolism.

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text: Stigmata is possibly the funniest movie ever made about Catholicism.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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text: A bloody mess!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:35
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  It's not just a comment on Disney's inescapable marketing barrage, but a sincerely intended complement that the fresh-faced heroes and antiheroes The Force Awakens introduces feels like future friends you've heard a lot about but are only just meeting.

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text: The new movie, as an act of pure storytelling, streams by with fluency and zip.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  All you really want to know is whether it's good, right? Well, in fact, it is better than it had to be.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  We get to spend a lot of fun and/or dramatic time with Ford's Solo, while Ridley's Rey and Boyega's Finn give us a pair of dynamic new heroes to follow in future Star Wars Episodes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  With The Force Awakens, Abrams has begun one of the most important reclamation projects of our time: the complete erasure from cultural memory of The Phantom Menace and its sequels.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  That's what's so impressive about the tricky balancing act Abrams has pulled off with The Force Awakens: He's made a movie that's simultaneously gripping and a huge release. We are in good hands, at last.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  Like their Star Wars forebears, Boyega's Finn and Ridley's Rey are brave, funny, and admirable but also imperfect, uncertain, and sometimes afraid. That is to say, they're genuine, multisided characters with believable motivations.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  I bet you'll have fun - I did, mostly. But it's the fun of seeing something fairly successfully redone, with the promise of more of the same to come.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  As with other installments, this is less a movie than an exercise in massaging a juvenile-minded audience that wants the experience to be new and familiar at the same time.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  It's a solid space opera spectacle with enough nostalgia to overpower even the most hard-hearted child of the '70s and '80s but it relies a little too much on recycling old plot elements.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  Thrilling and knowing in all the right places, it's sure to satisfy fans that have breathlessly awaited its arrival for years. Unfamiliar with Jedi lore? You too will give in to the force of cinematic greatness.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  What [Abrams has] done is to remake Star Wars: A New Hope; tweaking it for the passage of time; improving on the acting, the effects, and the dialogue; and tossing in some bits from its sequels.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  It's both nostalgic and fresh, a tender homage to, especially, the initial Star Wars ("Episode IV: A New Hope"), as well as a bridge to help those of us stuck in the splendor of Hoth edge into the future.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  There is, of course, CGI in The Force Awakens, but it's comparatively minimal. The film looks handmade, and this allows for a greater range of human emotion, too. When tragedy strikes, you feel it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  Despite the copious servings of tragic threats and good feelings, the production sinks under the weight of its emotional calculation.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:48:50
text:
  Somewhere along the way, Abrams begins delivering everything we expect, as opposed to those nebulous wonders we didn't know we wanted.

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text: The Force Awakens is half reboot, half remake, and all fun.
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text: Literate and smirky in its assault on liars and fools across the map.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
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text: A fun, smart film. But you can't help but wish Thank You would bare its fangs a little more.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
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text: To watch the film is to feel the delicious discomfort of being seduced by a devilish charmer.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  The story of Thank You for Smoking resides in that libertarian netherworld where the far left and the far right march shoulder to shoulder.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  Aiming at all targets and hitting none of them, the movie is as harmless and inconsequential as a candy cigarette.

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text: The book had a fearlessness that the movie version so lacks.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  Thank You for Smoking is a glib satire with a slick surface, lots of snappy patter and nothing to sell but its own cleverness.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  Reitman, still in his 20s, knows something that many more seasoned directors never figure out: how to make audiences laugh along with a film that's laughing at itself.

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text: It's a movie that isn't afraid to inhale, and to do so deeply.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  We know that cigarettes are dangerous for our health. The surprise is that, with a movie supposedly about freedom of thought, too much thinking can be dangerous for our superficial enjoyment.

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text: [Jason] Reitman makes an amazingly confident feature debut. Thank You for Smoking is funny stuff.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  In the end, Nick and the world in which he traffics ends up a comic interpretation of a serious situation, and while the amoral ambiguity of the entire film is intriguing for a while, in the end you realize this patient has no pulse.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:24
text:
  Like its protagonist, the movie is smart, soulless, glib, and utterly charming -- just the thing to warm up a movie season that's been late to bloom.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  For a movie that pretends to address issues of what it means to be human, "Ted 2" is soulless at its core, a pure product.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  "Ted 2" is a loosey-goosey stoner road trip with an irrelevant, appealing blend of innocence and sweetness ...

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text: Less a spirited defense of tolerance and equality than a facile, only fitfully funny burlesque.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  MacFarlane and co-writers Alec Sulkin and Wellesley Wild have a gift for referential riffs, but the plot is the thinnest of narratives just to connect all the comedy bits.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  If you liked the original Ted, Seth MacFarlane's 2012 surprise smash about a pot-smoking, potty-mouthed teddy bear, then you will probably like Ted 2. It is essentially the exact same movie, and more - and less.

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text: Wisenheimer advice! Don't miss this one, it's a riot.
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text: The movie is so indifferently plotted that it soon becomes a bore.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  The film fumbles its lame narrative and, although some of MacFarlane's jokes are hilarious, they're just blips on the radar.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  Some films aspire to high insanity. "Ted 2" aims low and hits the target, but also manages, in its scattershot way, to be gleefully resonant with our fevered times.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  Because one man's mirth is another man's poison, this critic can only consult his belly as the barometer. On a gut level, "Ted 2" is a funny film.

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text: In a way, it's pitiable more than anything.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  I laughed a lot, if infrequently. Is a ballplayer who whiffs four balls but knocks the fifth one 500 feet worth watching? I say yes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  Mr. MacFarlane can be funny, but "Ted 2" is insultingly lazy hack work that is worth discussing primarily because of how he tries and fails to turn race, and specifically black men, into comedy fodder.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  When Ted sits on his couch watching a clip from "Roots" and compares his situation to that of Kunta Kinte getting whipped, you may want to sink into your seat.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  If you didn't see and laugh at the first Ted, and maybe also at MacFarlane's button-pushing TV series Family Guy, then another movie deserves your entertainment dollars.

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text: If you're ready to go with the hit-and-miss flow, you'll laugh your ass off.
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text: While "Ted 2" is absurd and occasionally disgusting, it is also wickedly funny.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:25
text:
  [Seth MacFarlane's] sense of humor generally bodes about as well for moviegoers as a dorsal fin does for swimmers.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  A drama that's so potent and persuasive yet also natural and intimate that it almost has the heft of a documentary.

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text: Until the final scene of Meadows' edgy, uneasy film, the suspense is killing.
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text: Don't expect a history lesson: Shaun's story is more than enough to grab and hold your attention.
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text: Humane and complex.
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text: Turgoose, in his first film role, is entirely convincing.
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text: This Is England may be set in 1983 but it's as relevant today as it was then.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  It may be the best work to date from the talented 34-year-old writer-director of Twenty Four Seven (1997).

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text: Masterfully charted and acted, as are the boy's early forays into sex.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  The writer-director brilliantly juxtaposes the personal and the political, bookending a stirring coming-of-age drama with the provocative opening and an equally affecting end sequence.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  How sad and predictable is the fate of those who counsel violence as a means to an end. And yet how poignant it all seems when viewed through Shane Meadows' thoughtful lens.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  The movie is taut, tense, relentless. It shows why Shaun feels he needs to belong to a gang, what he gets out of it and how it goes wrong. Without saying so, it also explains why skinheads are skinheads.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  There is scarcely a false note in writer-director Shane Meadows' semi-autobiographical drama about a withdrawn, fatherless boy coming of age in Thatcherite England.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  A movie about the allure of groupthink and how the warm comfort of being surrounded by peers wilts all sense of balance.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:36
text:
  There's a gutter pride taken in how aggressively Shaun confronts the world, but there's also a blunt, no-nonsense analysis of where the kid goes wrong.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
text:
  Remarkable for all the sick and politically incorrect sight gags it gets away with in its rule-breaking romp through the supposedly sacred laws of what makes people laugh, and what doesn't.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
text:
  Losers competing against one another (and even bigger losers) for a dishy woman: That's the setup for [the Farrellys'] wrackingly funny new farce There's Something About Mary, maybe the ultimate nerd masochistic fantasy.

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text: Crude, offensive, sexist -- and embarrassingly hilarious.
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text: I haven't laughed this hard at any 1998 offering to-date.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
text:
  Despite my earlier reservations about Bobby and Peter Farrelly, they're progressively winning me over, partly because they keep getting better.

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text: A giddy symphony of rude and raucous low humor.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
text:
  If the sight of a large chunk of a man's private parts caught in the teeth of a zipper is funny -- and I'm not saying it isn't -- then have I got a movie for you.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
text:
  There's Something About Mary doesn't approach the witty anarchy of movies like Animal House, The Naked Gun, or Hairspray.

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text: What a blessed relief is laughter.
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text: This one is dumbest. And funniest, as if that matters even a little bit!
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:49:40
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:50:21
text:
  A white-knuckle adventure that combines the suspense of great drama with the veracity of documentary.

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text: Macdonald has done an astonishing job of recreating the climbers' saga of disaster and triumph.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:50:21
text:
  While some of the moviemaking looks very conventional, I have enormous respect for the camera operator and wouldn't blame him a bit if at times he worried more about stepping into a 300-foot crevasse than in getting the most original angle.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:50:21
text:
  British filmmaker Kevin Macdonald has blended elements of docudrama and documentary into a satisfying whole that will keep even the most stoic movie-goer gripping the armrest throughout.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:50:21
text:
  Touching The Void takes us to both heaven and hell, and knowing the final result only serves to increase our sense of awe at the achievement.

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text: An amazing, mind-boggling story.
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text: An edge-of- the-seat, what-else- could-go- wrong thriller with the building momentum of fiction.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:50:21
text:
  As a meditation on extreme human endeavour, character, friendship and the mysteries revealed by facing death, it provides much food for thought.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  The real reason to see the film is the work of the Coens' regular collaborators, cinematographer Roger Deakins and composer Carter Burwell, who supply the visual and auditory landscapes that are True Grit's most notable achievement.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
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  Joel and Ethan Coen have pulled off an impressive feat: repurposing a classic film with their idiosyncratic blend of dark, deadpan humor and palpable suspense, while remaining ultra-faithful to the novel.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  It's a tonal mash-up no one but the Coens could deliver, the finest, most intelligent Western since "Unforgiven," with the funniest public hanging since "Blazing Saddles."

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text: Just saddle up and see it yourself.
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text: It could be the Coens' most straightforward film, but it's also one of their best.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  This remake by Joel and Ethan Coen is being positioned as a truer True Grit, and though they take their own liberties with the plot and tone, they preserve Portis's impeccably authentic dialogue.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  Joel Coen and Ethan Coen fill the film with self-conscious good humor-hey, it's the Coen brothers-and the charmingly old-fashioned locutions of the Charles Portis novel.

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text: "True Grit" proves to be as funny and heroic as any other legend, and tells an expert tale to boot.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  The big names in the cast all do excellent work, but the biggest surprise is all but unknown Steinfeld.

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text: A great film that will stand the test of time.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
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  Though handsomely made and well acted, the film never completely escapes the sense that it's an exercise in genre excavation.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  My only reservation about the movie, not a serious one but a nagging one, is that watching the film it's hard to see why the Coens wanted to make it.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  In choosing not to reinvent the wagon wheel with True Grit, the Coens ironically seem radical by being conformists. There's truth and beauty in their faithfulness, though, and a reminder never to presume too much about these sibling ciphers.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  The tense verbal comedy of Mattie's early negotiation with a Fort Smith merchant should win you over to this movie's high linguistic wit.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:03
text:
  True Grit isn't so much a major film as a good time, and there's nothing wrong with that. Maybe this movie can get westerns back in the saddle again.

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text: A good, intelligent, insightful movie...
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  Carrey is on his mettle, but you wonder why thirty years of close observation have made Truman so funny; shouldn't he be a regular guy gone mad?

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  Most movies are lucky to have one idea rattling around inside. The unusually resonant Truman positively vibrates with themes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  The movie might have been a soulless exercise without [Carrey]. With him, it has an authentic tremulousness, and also a dread, as if Pinocchio needed to take on Gepetto and Jiminy Crickett to become a real boy.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  In the end, Weir's movie is more a capitulation than a challenge to television, and a vulgar one at that. Truman turns out to be more Burbank than he is True-man.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  The premise of Peter Weir's The Truman Show is both reasonable and ludicrous, its execution sublime.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  The important thing is that Carrey and the filmmakers have taken pains to give Truman that soul -- which, in itself, provides a kind of depth. In any case, it gets you to care about how it's going to end.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  Its essential strengths are more dramatic and emotional than topical or satirical. Truman is a touchingly gallant creation, the hero of someone else's existential burlesque.

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text: Adventurous, provocative, even daring.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  To be sure, the movie has plenty of laughs, but like sunlight on the deceptively calm surface of the sea, its light humor dances fitfully over dark and dangerous undercurrents.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  It's a satire/comedy/fantasy about the future of television and the people caught in its omnipresent electronic net: a supremely intelligent jape about a man named Truman Burbank.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  The Truman Show will probably be the most thought-provoking "big" movie to come out this summer, and that says a whole lot more about other movies than it does about this one. You should, however, see it for Carrey's newly unveiled charms.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  The Truman Show finds a near-miraculous balance of humor and feeling in the keen intelligence of the script by Andrew Niccol and the prodigal inventiveness of Dead Poets Society director Peter Weir at his very best.

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text: The result is a rarity on any screen: intelligent fun.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  One of the smartest, most inventive movies in memory, it manages to be as endearing as it is provocative.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:12
text:
  The underlying ideas made the movie more than just entertainment. Like Gattaca, the previous film written by Niccol, it brings into focus the new values that technology is forcing on humanity.

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text: One movie you can pronounce a modern classic with absolute confidence.
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text: The film's first act is full of mixed messages that lead to an unsteady, fluctuating tone.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:27
text:
  Gilliam gives the material a lunatic poetry of his own, but remains impervious to the requirements of narrative pacing.

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text: A consistently engaging motion picture.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:27
text:
  While all of Gilliam's movies are worth seeing, there's a fair amount of his designer grimness here mixed in with the cabaret comedy.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:27
text:
  Mystifying, intriguing, even infuriating, it shows what happens when an unconventional talent meets straightforward material.

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text: [Gilliam] turns a world falling apart into a funky, dizzying spectacle.
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text: A potent glimpse of doom with a jarringly familiar ring.
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text: As an entertainment, it appeals more to the mind than to the senses.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:27
text:
  What's remarkable about 12 Monkeys is that, despite its decade-hopping abandon, the film makes a chilling kind of narrative sense.

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text: Neither as visually compelling as Brazil nor as emotionally gripping as The Fisher King.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  The sheer size of the thing works against it: The effects are absolutely spectacular, but they blow the goofy-cheesy quotient straight through the roof.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Disney may be looking for a merchandising bonanza with this long-gestating sequel to the groundbreaking 1982 film, but someone in the corporate offices forgot to add any human interest to its action-heavy script.

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text: For a far more thought-provoking tale about the virtual realm, try The Social Network.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Tron: Legacy is the kind of sensory-onslaught blockbuster that tends to put me to sleep, the way babies will nap to block out overwhelming stimuli.

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text: Aside from conceptually unimaginative, the film is also derivative... and curiously humorless
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Despite all the gloom and grandiosity, this can be a fun movie, particularly for those willing to sit back and let it wash over them.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  The only way to see "Tron: Legacy" is in IMAX 3-D, so the full visual freakiness can engulf you and be appreciated the way you used to light up at the thought of a laser show set to "Dark Side of the Moon."

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  It's a triumph of streamlined design, but TRON: Legacy never enters the fourth dimension where it's worth a plugged nickel to humans.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  For all of its buggy storytelling, "Tron: Legacy" plugs into your cerebral cortex and makes it sizzle.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Tron: Legacy shows off a world where everything is eye candy, and absolutely nothing is brain candy.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Another weak story with sub-B-movie dialogue, partly compensated for by intensely conceived geometric design and special effects.

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text: "Tron: Legacy" may be nice place to visit, but you wouldn't want to live there.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Was it really necessary to wait 28 years for a sequel that wasn't worth attempting in the first place?

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Director Joseph Kosinski has a recipe for adventure that should delight gamers. Non-techies are on their own.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:29
text:
  Like the original, Tron: Legacy obsesses over technology and style but forgets important details like character and plot.

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text: All the money in its budget was unable to buy the filmmakers a single original idea.
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text: Lots of sizzle, not much soul, and very little sense.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:33
text:
  If you, under any circumstances, see Little Indian, Big City, I will never let you read one of my reviews again.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
text:
  Delirious in its excess, but never less than ferociously intelligent and operatically emotional, Underground represents one of those rare, exhilarating moments when an outsize artistic vision is fueled by an apparently unlimited budget. Not to be missed.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
text:
  There's no denying Kusturica's technical virtuosity as he mounts one hectic, large-scale set-piece after another, but in the end it's hard to fathom the exact purpose of this epic allegory.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
text:
  A rich, vibrant, visually spectacular survey of the changes the place has gone through during the past 50 years.

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text: A triumph of mise en scene mated to a comic vision that keeps topping its own hyperbole.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
text:
  Underground is a bizarre, often repellent anti-war parable that takes forever to state the obvious but hits some scattered high notes on the way.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
text:
  A sprawling, rowdy, vital film laced with both outrageous absurdist dark humor and unspeakable pain, suffering and injustice.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:47
text:
  Kusturica takes us from wacky farce to harrowing grief to lyrical fantasy to bloody horror. To ignore any side of Underground is to do it injustice.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  In a season of fat blockbusters, a picture as brainy, bitter, and compact as this one comes as a shock and a treat.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  After following the beckoning twists and turns, you're left trapped and more than a little disappointed for getting in so deep.

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text: An imaginative, entertaining crime mystery with plenty of nerve and vigor.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  Singer creates a classy, thought-provoking mystery that is pleasingly old-fashioned and absolutely modern in the sly, slightly self-conscious play it makes with myth and methods of storytelling.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  The twist at the end is a corker, but crucial questions remain unanswered. What's interesting, though, is how little this intrudes on our enjoyment.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  For many true movie fiends, noir is the key American movie type, and the most fun when it's done right. The Usual Suspects is done right.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  The Usual Suspects is an accomplished synthesis of noir elements and, as such, is an entertaining entry to the genre.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  If the pleasures of The Usual Suspects are the more superficial ones of ingenuity and style, those are abundantly available. The twists and turns of the plot are an awful lot of fun, while the ending is genuinely satisfying and surprising.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  I didn't believe this story for a minute, even in movie terms -- though it's less offensive than a piece of junk like Apt Pupil, Singer's subsequent feature.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  But like a tale from the Arabian Nights, told for the sheer pleasure of storytelling, this elegant puzzle not only enjoys showing off, it also has something to show.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  It's a nerve-shredding suspense movie about corruption, a bravura actor's show full of deliciously twisted cops and robbers, and a complex riddle packed with unexpected turns.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  As entertainment, the film is a lukewarm experience. But as a piece of construction, The Usual Suspects is a slick bit of business.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:51:54
text:
  Once again, my comprehension began to slip, and finally I wrote down: 'To the degree that I do understand, I don't care.'

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
text:
  Vanilla Sky is nearly identical to the 1997 Spanish film it's based on, except it's set in Manhattan instead of Madrid and has a much better soundtrack.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
text:
  The real mystery here is why a filmmaker as talented and unique as Crowe would want to devote several years of his life to recreating someone else's movie.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
text:
  The film's aim -- to dazzle and inspire -- is sapped by Cruise's vein-popping, running-the-marathon performance.

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text: What works in a quirky foreign film can look silly with expansive Hollywood treatment.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
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text: If Crowe's eyes are open, he seems to have directed most of Vanilla Sky with his mind wide shut.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
text:
  It's not really a bad film -- it couldn't be, given the high level of talent involved -- but it is a rather pointless one.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
text:
  A good example of what self-destructive cinematic havoc can be wrought by handing over millions of dollars to movie stars to produce their own ego trips.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:09
text:
  A film that, despite intriguing ideas, cleverly tricky structure and some remarkable imagery, just doesn't work.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  The City might be an interesting place to spend some time if a busy and chaotic story didn't keep getting in the way, and if we were allowed to hang out for a little while longer with Ethan Hawke and Rihanna.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  You come away admiring the effort while lamenting the execution, but swinging and missing is always better than not swinging at all.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  You don't watch The Fifth Element for its storytelling, you watch it for its joyous, ridiculous sense of place and style, and that's doubly true for Valerian -- a movie that isn't nearly as memorable, but that works just fine as a tribute.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  This is a movie that will make you scream - in confusion, in delight, in anger, in ecstasy. Sometimes all at once.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  If nothing else, those who lament Hollywood's over-reliance on special effects have a shiny new example of such excess by way of Europe, situated in a faraway galaxy that mostly makes one yearn to escape into the sunlight of planet Earth.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Valerian is sci-fi at its most fantastical. It's a shame that the dialogue, acting and anything involving humans too often feels stilted and unbelievable.

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text: "Valerian" has some cool visuals. But there's more to science fiction than pretty pictures.
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text: As a complete motion picture experience, it falls considerably short.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Technology can't generate verve -- at least not yet -- or the sort of chemistry that's entirely absent in the pairing of these attractive performers.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Much is wrong with Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets, but just looking at this thing is such an astonishing trip that you'll hardly notice.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Valerian is exuberant, extravagant, and generally likable. Yet many parts of the movie just don't work. Sticklers for things like acting and dialogue are likely to be dissatisfied.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Utterly unreal space story from Luc Besson (he of The Fifth Element fame), who seems to have watched James Cameron's Avatar and decided he could make it sillier, more scattered, and less emotionally engaging.

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text: There is more candy here, of the retinal variety, than a jumbo bag of Airheads.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Besson's commercial instincts for sleek, violent fantasy are often sound, but "Valerian" is more sedative than show.

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text: [A] bizarre and bloated and clunky pop sci-fi epic.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  Besson's trying to cram in as much as he possibly can, but the more he overstuffs the movie, the emptier it feels.

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text: Besson styles him as a cocky space rogue, but Valerian is weak sauce. And so is this movie.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  The plot is beside the point. Besson loads the picture with enough loopy visual splendor to keep us pleasurably distracted for long stretches.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  A ripe visual adventure of limitless imagination hamstrung by an undercooked plot propelled by lackluster heroes.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:13
text:
  The movie's wonderful, dopey high-summer space nonsense ... that allows the writer-director to match his fizzing visual sensibility to the source's camp (but not really) "Flash Gordon" sci-fi head-trip.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  It's doubtful that Vertigo can take equal rank with the best of the Hitchcock studies -- it has too many holes -- but it assays high in visual confectionary of place, person and celluloid wiles.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  There! No more hints! Coming or not? What more's to say? Well, nothing, except that Vertigo is performed in the manner expected of all performers in Hitchcock films.

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text: One of the landmarks -- not merely of the movies, but of 20th-century art.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  Why is this movie Hitchcock's masterpiece? Because no movie plunges us more deeply into the dizzying heart of erotic obsession.

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text: Do yourself an aesthetic favor: Take the plunge.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
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text: Slow but totally compelling.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
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text: From a craft standpoint, Vertigo represents the director in peak form.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  The lure of death, the power of the past, the guilty complicity of a clean-cut hero, the near-fetishistic use of symbol and color: these Hitchcock hallmarks are all mesmerizingly on view.

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text: Hitchcock's most tender story.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  In its dark heart, the film is a sorrowful contemplation of love and the veils that manipulate sexual passions.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  It's as much a wonder of suspense as it is a catalogue of the director's themes and an allegory for his own art of enticement-and for the erotic pitfalls of his métier.

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text: It is about how Hitchcock used, feared and tried to control women.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:30
text:
  James Stewart, on camera almost constantly, comes through with a startlingly fine performance as the lawyer-cop who suffers from acrophobia.

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text: Alfred Hitchcock's "Vertigo" is an artistic triumph for the master of mystery.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  Compelling but punishing -- an artful ordeal. The best way to process it may be as unintended camp, rolling your eyes in amazement at its litany of misery and heaps of histrionics.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  This isn't the first time Piaf's life has been brought to the screen and it probably won't be the last, but Cotillard makes this particular version stand apart.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  Marion Cotillard tears up all the available scenery in this overblown, achronological biopic of French pop singer Edith Piaf.

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text: This 140-minute biopic feels more like an ordeal than a celebration.
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  This kind of heightened drama might not work in most movies, but it suits its larger-than-life subject: Dahan's La Vie is the movie equivalent of a torch song.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  For all its florid pretensions and epic length, the film's overwrought take on its subject's not-so-rosy life leaves behind no lasting insight.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  Olivier Dahan's film is both faithful to and freewheeling with the facts of Piaf's life. Much is left out, but the essentials are there.

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text: ... one of the best biopics I've seen ...
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  Yes, she sings 'Je ne regrette rien', and, yes, we cry. Yet the tears are for the song and the memory of a remarkable artist. They're very little to do with this strenuously crafted yet ultimately bungled 140 minutes of celluloid.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:37
text:
  ... La Vie en Rose uses perceptive filmmaking, as opposed to turgid exposition, to explain its subject's psyche and to cleverly capture the spell she cast over audiences.

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text: Once 007 was licensed to kill; now he not only eats quiche, he cooks it himself.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  This one, directed by John Glen, just follows the numbers, plodding from one unimaginative set piece to the next.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  The film also fails on other traditional Bond levels. For example, the gadgets. Zorin and his gang have an inflatable dirigible, but so what? The key to the best Bond gadgets has been that they were something you might want to own yourself.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  A View to a Kill is often numbered among the worst of the series, but, upon closer inspection, this film is a vast improvement over Octopussy.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  Moore is worth every wrinkle on his face in "A View to a Kill," the seventh movie he has made in the Bond series and the most enjoyable since "Moonraker" back in the '70s.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  As lavishly escapist as they are, the latest James Bond films have become strenuous to watch, now that the business of maintaining Bond's casual savoir-faire looks like such a monumental chore.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  Hard as it is to justify Bond films on intellectual grounds, there's something invigorating -- and strangely reassuring -- about this sort of picture.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  It's not double-oh-seven anymore, but double-oh-seventy, the best argument yet for the mandatory retirement age.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:52:48
text:
  While Bond pics have always traded heavily on the camp value of its characters, A View to a Kill almost attacks the humor, practically winking at the audience with every move.

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text: You'll laugh, you'll cry, you'll drive home. As Wayne or Garth would say, it's schweeeet.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
text:
  Whoever catered this set must have served extra good donuts and stuff because the acting is real good and we're not just talking about Lowe's deep-smoothie performance.

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text: Very silly but enjoyable.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
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text: The movie has a pleasing daftness.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
text:
  Hollywood surely accepts the movie's message: laughter is the least expensive therapy. And audiences may happily parrot another Wayneism to Myers: 'He shoots! He scores!'

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
text:
  Like the Bill & Ted movies, this one works on its intended level and then sneaks in excursions to some other levels, too.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:24
text:
  Director Penelope Spheeris, with her first major studio assignment (and eight-figure budget), delivers a colorful but uneventful picture.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:26
text:
  There are some worthwhile moments in Wayne's World 2, but not enough to justify a feature-length movie.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:26
text:
  The sequel to last year's breakaway hit offers more of the same, but it's somehow fresher, funnier and more endearing than the airheaded original.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:26
text:
  Carvey is such a lovable doofus and Myers such a well-intentioned naif that it's hard to get down on them, especially considering that the heirs to their niche in pop iconography are Beavis and Butt-head.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:26
text:
  The secret to the comedy of the Wayne's World movies is their goodwill... and in Wayne Campbell and Garth Algar the series has created two characters it is impossible to dislike.

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text: Somewhere in the proceedings there were sane and skillful artisans at work.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:32
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:32
text:
  Clive Donner's stylish direction harmonizes well with Woody Allen's inspired screenplay to yield an elegant entertainment, proving once again that Allen is a better scenarist than a director.

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text: It goes overboard in pressing for its goal and consequently suffers from over-contrived treatment.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:32
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text: On its own terms, it works; that is, each ending is well thought-out and vaguely logical.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
text:
  I've seen more convincing drama (with nearly as much bare flesh) on that pinnacle of narrative quality, Baywatch.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
text:
  What I'm supposed to find 'satisfying' is predicated on the idea that almost everyone in the world is trash.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
text:
  Sure it's an exploitation movie, but this twisted Technicolor orgy is also a thriller in the original sense of that word.

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text: Call it gratuitous annoyance.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
text:
  It's like a three-way collision between a softcore sex film, a soap opera and a B-grade noir. I liked it.

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text: Wild Things gets into trouble when it aspires to be more than a sex exploitation movie.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
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text: The movie is as tawdry as someone else's lingerie, yet not without a certain prurient watchability.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:42
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  Imagine watching cartoon characters and relating to them as if they were flesh-and-blood instead of paint-and-ink. This is the slap-happy effect of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, and - please - a 24-carrot salute to director Robert Zemeckis.

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text: Technology has advanced significantly since 1988, but Roger Rabbit doesn't just hold up, it wows.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  More than a technological wonder, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? is brilliantly funny, bracingly smart and surprisingly moving.

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text: Not only a technical tour de force, it crackles with entertainment.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  This is a movie that demands to be seen twice. The first time, one is likely to be dazzled to the point of exhaustion; the second time, one can appreciate the artistry and good humor more easily.

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text: Supremely entertaining -- especially for adults.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  If the pleasures of Who Framed Roger Rabbit are mostly incidental, they are certainly more than considerable.

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text: The opening cartoon upstages the movie that emerges from it.
created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  A mix of live action and animation, the $45 million movie is as cunning as Wile E. Coyote and chipper as a flock of cartoon bluebirds.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  Sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last -- a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  For audiences who grew up with cartoons as a natural part of their moviegoing, the shock may not be the mix of live and animated folk--it may come from the truly revolutionary sight of great icons of rival studios cheerfully rubbing shoulders.

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created_at: 2018-11-01 16:53:43
text:
  The real stars are the animators, under British animation director Richard Williams, who pull off a technically amazing feat of having humans and Toons seem to be interacting with one another.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  A less-muddled script could have rescued "The Equalizer 2" from the summer blahs, but as it is, we'll just have to accept it for its strengths while acknowledging its flaws.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  Betrayal, loss, grief, redemption - it's the stuff great characters are built on. And it makes all those thrilling knife fights and broken bones actually mean something.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  I'm not sure audiences are getting what they deserve with this plodding, so-so action-thriller, but they'll get what they'll pay for...

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  Anchored by Denzel Washington's steely presence, it's a spare, brutal vigilante exercise, with an element of righteous revenge mixed into the balance.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  A reasonably well-written and (of course) beautifully acted serving of geriatric-virility violence porn...

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text: "Equalizer 2" is the kind of raise-the-bar sequel that can convert a franchise skeptic into a fan.
created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  With the secret behind his formidable skills out of the bag, all we have is a good guy who is good at things, and a sense of obligation to conjure up a convoluted syndicate of straw men for him to chop down.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  The film's slow-burn approach matches that of the original. Fuqua is in no hurry and understands that building a story gradually pays dividends later in the proceedings.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  "The Equalizer" should be locked in a room with "The Terminator." Then this lousy series would finally be killed off.

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text: Even with Washington at the top of his game, "The Equalizer 2" just doesn't deliver the thrills.
created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  The film is effective where it needs to be, and if there is an "Equalizer 3," in line to see it is where you'll find me.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  Like all great actors, Mr. Washington commits to the performance, but every so often he also breathes fire, imbuing a scene with such shocking ferocity and bone-deep moral certitude that everything else falls blissfully away.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  It's not much of a movie - more a parade of rah-rah triumphs obscuring a batch of logical oddities - which makes Washington's committed performance stand out like the heavenly host in the night sky over Bethlehem.

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text: Once it's over, you won't necessarily be itching for an Equalizer 3.
created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  McCall, for all his high-minded talk, seems to take a little too much sick glee in all the bloodletting he engages in.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  A movie that's watchable and intermittently pleasing. But not enough time was spent getting the substance right.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  Washington is a pleasure to watch on the screen. The two-time Oscar winner is able to tap into his own surplus of moral righteousness even when the script is pulling the carpet out from under him.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  Denzel returns to lay on rough, R-rated justice. Yeah, the two-time Oscar winner is punching below his weight in a vigilante movie. But nothing dims his star power. Nothing.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  There's not much effort to tie it all together with any kind of plausible, big-picture cohesion, but no matter. All we need to know is some very bad people have crossed Robert McCall, and that's almost always a deadly mistake.

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created_at: 2018-11-07 11:14:24
text:
  A narratively and visually muddled disappointment, one that regularly confuses numbing brutality with vicariously thrilling righteous vengeance.

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  Luhrmann labors to frame his work as a grandiose social problem film -- rarely has a movie tried so hard, and so fruitlessly, for our love

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  A wildly ambitious, luridly indulgent spectacle of romance, action, melodrama and historic revisionism, Australia is windy, overblown, utterly preposterous and insanely entertaining.

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text: It's trying so hard to be epic instead of just being epic.
created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
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text: Australia tries to be a sprawling, romantic epic. Instead, it's a melodramatic exercise in tedium.
created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  "Australia" is a shameless-and shamelessly entertaining-pastiche. It works because Luhrmann, a true believer in movie-movie magic, stamps it all with the force of his own extravagant, generous personality.

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text: Luhrmann is drawn to kitsch as inevitably as a bear to honey.
created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  The result is mostly a woodenly derivative melding of '40s maternal melodramas, oaters and World War II actioners.

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  It looks great, but the same comment can be made about Michael Bay's Pearl Harbor, which shares more than a passing resemblance.

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  Sometimes Luhrmann seems to be living in a Dreamtime of his own; his movie is all over the map. But what a gorgeous map it is.

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  [Luhrmann] veers from earnest drama to brisk comedy and then tries to hold it together with awkward voiceover narration. Within five minutes, Australia seems headed for trouble. It gets there and stays there.

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  It's a fine romp, epic in both ambition and visuals if not narrative - and if director Baz Luhrmann had stopped at the end of the love story's trajectory, the audience would have left entirely happy.

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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  At once sprawling and intimate, melodramatic and comic, magnificent and utterly bonkers, it bears entertaining witness to Luhrmann's love of old movies and his Down Under homeland.

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text: Australia delivers with real panache.
created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
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created_at: 2018-11-10 21:22:14
text:
  Long in the making -- and almost as long in the watching -- Baz Luhrmann's Australia is epic piffle.

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text: The romance between them is touching at its best moments, corny at its worst.
created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  At best, I Love You Phillip Morris may be hailed as a necessary step in Hollywood's fearful crawl toward sexual evenhandedness; the film upholds the constitutional right of every gay man to be as much of a liar, a crook, and a creep as the rest of us.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  [Both] stars prove to be enormous fun in a gay love story played straight in a thoroughly crooked context -a comic crooked context, mind you...

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  A delirious comedy that remains on track largely thanks to Jim Carrey's goofy but grounded performance.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  Phillip Morris isn't a perfect movie by any means, but it's irresistibly self-assured in its weirdness.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  Russell was a fascinating character and a real puzzle box; but the filmmakers have turned his life into a broad farce with one wocka-wocka gag after another.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  Perhaps the most disappointing aspect of I Love You Phillip Morris is its inability to maintain the high level at which it begins -- a withering lampoon of wholesome, middle class values.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  The movie wants us to overlook its implausibility by insisting that it's all true. We believe it, we just don't care.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  Carrey is truly great in one of those rare risky roles that prove he can do more than pull faces, although the frank portrayal of an alpha male who is also "gay, gay, gay, gay, gay" is sure to make some percentage of his fan base squirm.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  There's plenty to scratch your head about here. Is it a drama? A comedy? And if it's a farce, what's it making fun of?

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text: This is the most interesting role Carrey has had in a long while.
created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  The movie, at its best, is compellingly odd, which is also the most accurate description of Carrey's performance.

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text: Carrey makes the role seem effortless; he deceives as spontaneously as others breathe.
created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  With his manic glare, ferociously eager smile, hyperkinetic body language and talent for instant self-transformation, Mr. Carrey has rarely been more charismatic on the screen.

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created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
text:
  Yes, some familiar Carrey tactics are on display, but the star's performance has real heart - it's easily the best thing he has done since Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind.

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text: This isn't great farce, but it's more than good enough. And Carrey is more than good enough in it.
created_at: 2018-11-13 20:22:02
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text: The production is top shelf.
created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
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created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
text:
  Throughout his fey, simpering performance, Depp seems to be straining so hard for weirdness that the entire enterprise begins to feel like those excruciating occasions when your parents tried to be hip.

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text: The summer's most visually arresting escapist adventure.
created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
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text: Opulently entertaining.
created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
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text: Much more faithful [to the source material].
created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
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text: In Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, director Tim Burton does his best work in years.
created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
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text: A beautifully executed, visually astounding film about love and family.
created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
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created_at: 2018-11-22 09:11:37
text:
  The movie weighs a ton, as expensive Hollywood kitsch usually does, and it's to Burton and Depp's credit that it doesn't completely buckle under its own mass.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  The film is engaging, propulsive, cut with rare brio, chockablock with consummate tough-guy business.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  It may prove too slow for some and the meandering can be a little maddening, but overall it's worth the effort.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  Jimenez's sprawling cat-and-mouse thriller loses momentum and focus in the homestretch, but until then its '70s sun-and-sin-on-the-Côte d'Azur vibe is electric.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  While the story lacks focus here and there, the film never feels overplayed. It's a work of bloody style and solid substance.

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text: How can you dislike a film that signals a killing with "Bang Bang" and a villain with "The Snake"?
created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  A procedural epic whose complicated narrative is propelled by visceral action sequences and an unusually thrilling soundtrack.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  A byzantine, if ultimately conventional, heroic tale that feels like a guided tour down a familiar alley.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  There is ample photographic evidence that the '70s were not, in fact, the best-looking, coolest decade ever. But you wouldn't know it from watching The Connection.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  Riveting from its first moments, "The Connection" is fascinating in its presentation of character, as well as for its glimpse into the workings of an international drug empire and into the ways an imaginative cop found to chip at its power.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  Jimenez, making his second feature, fails to provide the regular jolts of electricity this material needs.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  Jimenez adopts a vintage-kitsch sensibility, taking a disappointingly generic approach to his hard-to-follow narrative.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  A common problem in crime-centric movies: The bad guys are almost always more fascinating than the good guys... Dujardin's bull-necked, hard-charging performance makes Pierre a worthy adversary.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  While the results inevitably pale in comparison to "The French Connection"-which could be said about virtually every other film currently in release-they do make for an above-average work that offers viewers a new perspective on a familiar story.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  Despite the pedestrian screenplay (by Jimenez and Audrey Diwan), Dujardin and Lellouche are magnetic performers who slip easily into their antagonistic roles.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  It starts with gunshots - a Mercedes and its driver are riddled by motorcycle-riding assassins in broad daylight - and the pace of "The Connection" is bang-bang brisk most of the rest of the way.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  "The Connection" isn't all that different from a lot of police procedurals that have come before, but there's something about this particular gritty true-crime story that still fascinates all these years later.

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text: Sports the most schnozz-tacular array of craggy-faced macho men this side of Easter Island.
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text: Gangster movies should not be mildly interesting.
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created_at: 2018-11-26 21:39:48
text:
  It's a stylish affair, very solidly made if not exactly breaking new ground in our understanding of events or in the way the movies depict them.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  The animation is expressive, as lush and detailed as tapestry. Harsh landscapes shimmer with beauty, even when littered with the bones of landmines and abandoned tanks.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  Children must grow up fast under such circumstances, and The Breadwinner derives its lasting sense of tragedy from its consideration of how they've been stripped of their childhood. There's a sad undercurrent to Parvana's fairy tale.

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text: The picture sings and inspires.
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  The Breadwinner is a well-crafted and inspiring story with an important message about female empowerment, embodied in heroic Parvana, something people of all ages should embrace.

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text: Distressing as it is, the film draws you into the characters' lives.
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  Harsh disappointments befall the characters, and they are depicted frankly, but in a way that encourages young viewers to form an affinity with the characters rather than cringe at terror.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  In its power and its beauty, "The Breadwinner' reminds us that animation can be every bit as much of a medium for adults as it is for children.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  One can only salute the filmmakers' ambition and seriousness of purpose, but it's hard to see who "The Breadwinner" audience is.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  It directly confronts the misogyny and chauvinism of contemporary Afghanistan, while powerfully suggesting that storytelling is both a means of coping and a solution for change.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  While the film may suffer when it comes to the details, it does have a certain undeniable power in its broad strokes.

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text: This is a day-to-day survival story that stirs the heart and fires the imagination.
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text: Jewel-bright and heart-wrenching.
created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  On the heels of Ann Marie Fleming's joyful animated indie Window Horses comes Nora Twomey's thematically similar but far darker The Breadwinner.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  The Breadwinner is a glorious demonstration of the power of myth to deal with brutal reality, and the power of truth to animate myth.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  Visually captivating even when it's narratively uneven, the animated film "The Breadwinner" tells the story of a brave girl living in Afghanistan under the Taliban in the lead-up to the 2001 U.S. invasion.

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text: The film is honest enough not to exaggerate the beneficial results of Parvana's courageous act.
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text: A wonderful cast are sadly wasted on this screeching melodrama.
created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
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text: A disappointment, even for the Dolan faithful.
created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  This is one of those dysfunctional-family angstfests that one finds either powerfully cathartic or nigh-well intolerable. I fall into the latter camp.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  Dolan has found a way to exasperate and exhaust his audience, but he has also achieved a completely unexpected catharsis at the end of an agonizing hour and a half. Standing there on the grave of dreams, he knows why the caged bird sings.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  It maintains an almost unbearable tension throughout its 95-minute running time, as an A-list cast of French actors tear into each other over long-simmering family conflicts, the camera just inches from their faces.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:42
text:
  A stellar cast of French actors is mainly left to run lines and hyperventilate in Xavier Dolan's turgid yet occasionally affecting melodrama.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Call me a prude, but it's not sexy watching an erotic thriller in which every time a couple does it, one of them gets it with an ice pick. I don't care how many firmly toned tummies and tushes are bared.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Verhoeven does not explore the dark side, but merely exploits it, and that makes all the difference in the world.

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text: A predictable, surprisingly uninvolving affair.
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  The film's problems begin with its story, which is constructed with relentless manipulation in mind. It never plays fair with the audience.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  The harsh, politically incorrect truth about Basic Instinct is that it's a tantalizing, suspensefully correct thriller.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Slick, clever and entertainingly overheated while you're watching it, Basic Instinct starts to evaporate the second you leave the theater.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Despite (or maybe because of) his obligatory nods to Hitchcock, this is slick and entertaining enough to work as thriller porn, even with two contradictory denouements to its mystery.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Basic Instinct is a reminder of the difference between exhilaration and exhaustion, between tension and hysteria, between eroticism and exhibitionism. The line may be fine, but it is real enough to separate the great thrillers from the also-rans.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Sharon Stone, in her first major-league role, comes on like a postfeminist Grace Kelly. She turns her haughty, slightly blank, cheerleader sexiness into something vampish and ominous -- an all-American beauty mask.

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text: [The film has] a smug faith in the ability of its own speed, smartness and luxe to wow the yokels.
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text: These actors seem driven less by real emotions than Eveready bunny batteries.
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  The film is like a crossword puzzle. It keeps your interest until you solve it. Then it's just a worthless scrap with the spaces filled in.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  Douglas and Stone are superb, and George Dzundza (as sidekick Gus) delivers another classic hard-boiled cameo.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  A vicious, grindingly manipulative urban mystery that uses a thick atmosphere of S&M kinkiness to distract the audience from the story's thinness and inanity.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:47
text:
  This erotically charged thriller about the search for an ice-pick murderer in San Francisco rivets attention through its sleek style, attractive cast doing and thinking kinky things, and story, which is as weirdly implausible as it is intensely visceral.

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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:50
text:
  If the world is going to hell in any number of handbaskets -- as Judge so acutely demonstrates that it is -- you might as well hitch a ride in his.

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text: The whole film has a drab, somnambulant rhythm. Intentional or not, this is part of its genius.
created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:50
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:50
text:
  Judge has a gift for delivering brutal satire in the trappings of low comedy and for making heroes out of ordinary people whose humanity makes them suspect in a world where every inch of space, including mental, is mediated.

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text: The movie is bracing for its bile but ultimately more frustrating than funny.
created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:50
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text: Ow! My brain!
created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:50
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created_at: 2018-11-26 22:01:50
text:
  Working on a sprawling canvas, Judge fills the screen with visual jokes, throwaway gags, and incisive commentary on the ubiquity of advertising.

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created_at: 2018-11-28 20:59:30
text:
  Director Robert Zemeckis displays such dazzling cinematic know-how that it's genuinely depressing when this 1984 film falls off into the usual self-ridicule.

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text: The set-up in "Romancing the Stone" is poorly contrived to sustain a chase thriller.
created_at: 2018-11-28 20:59:30
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created_at: 2018-11-28 20:59:30
text:
  The script is sharp and funny, the direction sure-footed on both the comedy and action fronts, and the whole thing adds up to rather more concerted fun than Indiana Jones' flab-ridden escapade in the Temple of Doom.

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created_at: 2018-11-28 20:59:30
text:
  After all the Raiders rip-offs, it's fun to find an adventure film that deserves the comparison, that has the same spirit and sense of humor.

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created_at: 2018-11-28 20:59:30
text:
  Turner is like a lot of unwitting screen heroines ahead of her, guaranteed that her drab existence is about to be transformed -- probably by a man, preferably handsome and adventurous.

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created_at: 2018-11-28 20:59:30
text:
  An elaborately produced, mostly charmless adventure-comedy that intends to make fun of a kind of romantic fiction that's one step removed from what the movie is all about.

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text: Let your conscience be your guide.
created_at: 2018-11-28 21:01:07
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text: This movie's a nice little treasure.
created_at: 2018-11-28 21:01:07
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created_at: 2018-11-28 21:01:07
text:
  Offensively racist and too gormless even for the kids at whom it is evidently aimed: Third World cinema of a quite... uncommon kind.

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created_at: 2018-11-28 21:01:07
text:
  Film's main virtues are its striking, widescreen visuals of unusual locations, and the sheer educational value of its narration.

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created_at: 2018-11-28 21:01:07
text:
  The film's initial sequences, in which the simple, no- nonsense manners and mores of the bushmen are shown on the screen accompanied by rather coy voice-over narration, are terribly patronizing.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  What makes it work is its youthful vitality, the tremendous energy and imagination expended on its virtually wall-to-wall song and dance number.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  Its flashy opportunism (nostalgia pitched squarely at an audience too young to even recall the era) quickly becomes very irritating.

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text: It's a winner.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  The friskiness of the performers, the choreography by Patricia Birch and most of all Travolta's phenomenal charm give it its value.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  Travolta is a riot. Alternately swaggering to prove his "coolness" and re-affirming his ability on the dance floor, the actor gives the kind of performance that's perfect for the role.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  The screenplay is a prepubescent shambles, the direction is by acne out of disposable douches, the dubbing and looping of the songs is painfully obvious, the characterizations are generally repulsive and the whole thing is utterly without style.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  Couldn't the makers of "Grease" have unearthed one person who was alive in that time, perhaps even one who attended an American high school then, and checked their information?

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  Grease holds up for new generations because it captures the enthusiasm of youth and the vibrancy of California's sunshine-and-cars culture.

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text: Grease has energy and a total commitment to pleasing its audience.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
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text: Just an average musical, pleasant and upbeat and plastic.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  It has no kind of focus in atmosphere or tone, it doesn't even have a look. It's just sort of floating insult, shopping for a subject to light on.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  Grease has got it, from the outstanding animated titles of John Wilson all the way through the rousing finale as John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John ride off into teenage happiness.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:05:35
text:
  Its sensibility is not tied to the past but to a free-wheeling, well informed, high-spirited present.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  All in all, I thoroughly enjoyed the movie until, in the end, it went somewhat bonkers with what amounted to a communal love fest on Christmas Eve.

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text: If listing the cast of Love Actually is exhausting, it's even more tiring to watch it.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  Love Actually , Curtis' holiday-themed directing debut, abandons any pretext of sophistication for gloppy sentimentality, sugary pop songs and bawdy humor -- an approach that works about half the time.

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text: Love Actually is irresistible.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  [Curtis] is nothing if not capable of creating merry, madcap romantic comedy, and he punctuates the purposely hackneyed developments and labyrinthian structure with sly wit and sprightly pacing.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  Love Actually is alternately beguiling and bloated, witty and warmed over, smart and pandering. The majority is likely to swoon.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  It's terrific fun for an hour, but by the last of its 129 minutes you might find yourself going into insulin shock.

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text: A form of emotional hardcore.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
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text: This is cloying, deceitful, and more or less irresistible.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
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text: There's enough that's right about Love to compensate for what's wrong with it.
created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  It's no hardship whatsoever to sit through Love Actually ... But if Curtis could have sharpened his focus, and trusted his actors a bit more, Love Actually could have been splendid.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 08:11:28
text:
  This movie is so unfunny, uninspired and unoriginal I swear it could have started out as a club-footed Coen Brothers vehicle for George Clooney.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  Jonze teases out what's genuine emotion and what's just programming. Her occurs in what Jonze calls the "slight future," but that's clearly a question for the ages.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  The science fiction supports the story without overpowering it (and without forcing you to make those pesky "would this really work?" calculations in your head), and the romance is genuine - even if it's virtual.

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text: A keeper of a film, quietly dazzling
created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
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text: A stinging romance for our solipsistic techie-centric times.
created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  Her is a remarkably ingenious film but, more important, it is a film that transcends its own ingenuity to achieve something akin to wisdom.

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text: Jonze encourages our awe at the mysteries of life even if they arrive in the form of technology.
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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  The movie has earned critical acclaim for capturing the zeitgeist of gadget-based narcissism, though it strikes me as the sort of thing made by someone who could use some actual problems to worry about.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  Her uses a familiar idea to sci-fi fans - machine sentience - and spins it in a new and exciting direction.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  In a dark theater, surrounded by the wondrous world Jonze creates in Her, it's difficult to avoid getting emotional.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  It's an odd, sad love story, combined with a meditation on technology as an accelerator of social loneliness. Not a small part of it seems to be an allegory of lonely guys and their fear of women.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  A sublimely original film about human connections that feels personal - yet makes a haunting statement about all of society.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  The best things in the movie aren't transporting or diverting but merely incite intellectual recognition: Yes. OK. That's amusing.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:21:10
text:
  Jonze is an adventurous filmmaker who's never afraid of falling flat on his face and whose risks often pay off. In "Her" he is a wise observer for a modern conundrum.

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text: Her is a wistful, wonderful meditation on where we are and where we might be going.
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text: Delightfully entertaining, if slightly unnerving ...
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text: You've heard of fables for our time? "Her" is a fable for the near future.
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text: Spike Jonze doesn't simply direct. He innovates.
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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  It strives to bring cinema's past, especially the rip-roaring, edge-of-the-seat thrillers Hollywood used to make, into its technological, weightless, oxygen-free future.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Doctoral theses will be penned on the breath-catchingly realistic, gorgeously choreographed, entirely mesmerizing opening ...

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text: An existential action movie that unashamedly embraces the sensation of awe.
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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Unfolding as a series of terrifying object lessons in Newtonian physics, the movie lends new meaning to the phrase "spatial geometry."

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Believe the hype: Gravity is as jaw-droppingly spectacular as you've heard - magnificent from a technical perspective but also a marvel of controlled acting and precise tone.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Gravity is the kind of enthralling, all-encompassing, giddy cinematic experience that surfaces once in a blue moon.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Gravity is not a film of ideas, like Kubrick's techno-mystical 2001, but it's an overwhelming physical experience -- a challenge to the senses that engages every kind of dread.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Words can do little to convey the visual astonishment this space opera creates. It is a film whose impact must be experienced in 3-D on a theatrical screen to be fully understood.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Gravity, a weightless ballet and a cold-sweat nightmare, intimates mystery and profundity, with that mixture of beauty and terror that the Romantics called the sublime.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Nerve-racking, sentimental and thrilling, Gravity honors terra firma even as it reaches for the stars with Sandra Bullock and George Clooney.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  The most surprising and impressive thing about "Gravity" isn't its scale, its suspense, or its sense of wonder; it's that, in its heart, it is not primarily a film about astronauts, or space, or even a specific catastrophe.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  This enthralling tale of survival in space will open up young audiences' eyes to the excitement of out-of-this-world exploration -- and make older audiences remember the wonder they felt at 2001: A Space Odyssey.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  Cuarón and his cinematographer, Emmanuel Lubezki, keep the audience in weightless suspension right along with the astronauts. For most of us, Gravity is the closest we will ever get to the real deal.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  It's a rare combination of jaw-dropping special effects and visual artistry, and it also works as slam-bang entertainment with just two actors and a swift running time of 90 minutes.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  A wildly suspenseful zero-g tale of survival 350 miles beyond the ozone layer, Alfonso Cuarón's space saga is emotionally jolting - and physically jolting, too.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  In the end "Gravity" has only the most basic things to say, but it says them so well and presents them so marvelously that it's a cinematic wonder.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 10:26:59
text:
  The movie isn't perfect. But it provides a perfect moviegoing experience, and that's almost as good. The second time I went I watched a lot of the faces in the audience, and they looked just as I imagine mine did the first night I saw it: Whoa.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  With "Due Date," director Todd Phillips perfects the particular brand of comic alchemy that made his 2009 comedy "The Hangover" such an unexpectedly huge hit.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  This is a disappointing turn coming from Phillips, particularly since "The Hangover" was such a fresh, bracing brew of black comic fun.

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text: "Due Date" is pregnant with possibility; it's the delivery that disappoints.
created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  It's Downey's signature sarcasm and distinctive slow burn that make the movie. Galifianakis, in a perm that makes for comic gold, plays an expanded version of his Hangover character.

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text: For a road movie, "Due Date" generates hardly any momentum.
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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  The most offensive bodily fluid being hurled around in Due Date are the tears that Phillips dishonestly tries to wrest from the audience's eyes.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  Those hoping for another "Hangover" may be disappointed by Todd Phillips' punch-drunk followup, which is basically "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" for the road-rage generation.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  Phillips seems to have forgotten that bawdy comedy is only deemed "edgy" if it's funny. When the seedy jokes fall flat, the result is crass.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  The basic problem is the script, which is credited to three writers plus the director -- seldom a good sign. Never mind that it's a retread of "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" minus the trains, and minus John Candy.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  As in the most useless sitcoms, the laffs depend entirely on someone behaving as ridiculously as possible, in uninteresting ways devised by the dullest minds.

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text: Films like Get Him to the Greek have already done a far superior job with madcap this year.
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text: For all its supposed comedy, there's very little joy in Due Date.
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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  It has laughs. Take any scene at random, and it will probably have something mildly funny in it. But the comedy never really takes off because it's phony.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  Watching Downey's vein-popping discomfiture in the company of Galifianakis is the best and possibly only reason for seeing the film.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  Downey is not entirely comfortable playing straight man and a little of Galifianakis's antics goes a long way.

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text: Is Due Date the new Hangover? It is not. But it has its own rewards.
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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
text:
  Under the nuanced direction of John Hughes, Candy made annoying seem hilarious and his broad girth endearing. As amped up by director Todd Phillips, Galifianakis makes annoying seem annoying.

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text: Todd Phillips needs to get off the road.
created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
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text: Due Date is funny enough, but it should have been funnier.
created_at: 2018-11-30 21:14:33
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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:16:41
text:
  The movie is enlightening, not because it transmits new information, but in the way that movies enlighten, through a synergy of images and rhythms that makes us sense the world in a new way.

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:16:41
text:
  Welcome to Natural Born Killers, Stone's empty, manic meditation on society's glorification of violence and the ugly heroes it loves to hate.

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text: The main problem with Killers...is that it degenerates into the very thing it criticizes.
created_at: 2018-11-30 21:16:41
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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:16:41
text:
  Stone...doesn't know the meaning of moderation or subtlety, and opts instead for something that is excessive and self-indulgent. It's as if he wants to shout out the statement: 'Look at what I can do! I'm an artist!'

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created_at: 2018-11-30 21:16:41
text:
  Seeing this movie once is not enough. The first time is for the visceral experience, the second time is for the meaning.

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text: Shame has a lolling pace and stunning visual clarity. Structurally, it's close to perfect.
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  What movies so often relegate to the margins of pornography or sophomoric titillation is radically redefined here, stripped of its erotic charge and depicted as a numbing erasure of life and emotion.

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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  [Fassbender is] so good as a man completely lost to his baser impulses that it makes "Shame" worth sitting through. Enjoying? That's a relative term. But you'll certainly appreciate it.

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text: The film is a raw, unsparing look at the downside of humanity.
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  McQueen finds the exquisite tension between the brother wanting to disconnect and the sister longing for connection.

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text: [A] graphic and spontaneous portrait of a spiraling sex addict.
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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text: It reconfirms McQueen as a filmmaker with an unflinching, microscopic gaze on the world.
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  The film's numb attitude assumes that Brandon's problem is beyond reach or rescue. So why are we watching, except for high-tone misery and something close to pornography?

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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  Despite the impression you may have gotten strolling some of the Internet's more giggly avenues, the most riveting part of Michael Fassbender's anatomy in Shame is his face.

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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  Few filmmakers have plumbed the soul-churning depths of sexual addiction as fearlessly as British director Steve McQueen has in Shame.

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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  This is an undernourished drama likely to leave most viewers muttering a puzzled "huh?" as they exit the theater.

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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  It was frantic sex that earned Shame an NC-17 rating, but this arty drama is mostly slow and methodical. And thoroughly unsexy.

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text: You don't just watch Shame: You feel it, too.
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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text: On a par with "Midnight Cowboy."
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  Yes, this is an affecting picture that leaves the viewer as wrung out as the protagonist. No doubt you'll be seduced but, in the end, you may also feel abandoned.

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created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
text:
  "Shame" is all about weakness and compulsion. It's not about the joy of sex. It's about the utter despair it can't conceal.

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text: Shame is something of a dirty date that leaves you wondering what went wrong.
created_at: 2018-12-03 20:52:18
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text: Several bravura suspense sequences - can't help but recall slasher convention.
created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  There are no tidy, last-minute plot twists to make you feel good in Fincher's Zodiac, just focus -- to keep an audience focused -- and the most disciplined filmmaking you've seen in forever.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  The most perverse thing about Zodiac isn't that its Hollywood's umpteenth serial-killer flick, when such crimes are rare in reality. It's that Zodiac, though based on actual crimes, is one of the dullest of these films to date.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  [W]here Se7en, with its stygian gloom and theatrical executions, inflated the serial killer genre to gothic proportions, Zodiac lets the air back out. It is methodical rather than macabre, clinical rather than cruel.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  Zodiac is long -- over two and a half hours -- but when it's over, you almost wish it had gone on for another 20 minutes.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  Any honest neurotic could probably tell you: the emotional payoff of an obsession is not attaining some longed-for goal -- it's the obsession itself, which fulfills certain needs.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  It makes you want to study it even more closely, in search of things you might have missed, trailing after leads that flash by in the relentless momentum of going nowhere fast. If you're not careful, it might make you obsessed.

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text: Without a persuasive ending, Zodiac is an exercise in frustration.
created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
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text: A modern American masterpiece.
created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
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created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
text:
  Fincher, more subdued ... and aching for a return to smart suspense films from the likes of Sidney Lumet and Alan J. Pakula, pulls us by the collar into the frame and cranks the sense of menace taut without cheap tricks or cop-out gimmicks.

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text: For all its dramatic flaws, Zodiac deserves praise for not choosing the easy route.
created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
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text: Low-key but all the more compelling for it, Zodiac is the first must-see movie of 2007.
created_at: 2018-12-11 18:58:11
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created_at: 2018-12-11 19:28:56
text:
  A half-baked tragic love story so desperately engineered to tear-jerk that it ceases to resemble anything human.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 19:28:56
text:
  Wohl never manages to achieve the proper tonal blend. The result is neither sufficiently funny nor moving, lacking the truly daring humor that might have made the film a bracing dark comedy.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 19:28:56
text:
  The movie, directed by Stephanie Laing, tries too hard and too implausibly to fulfill what proves an uncomfortable, unworkable concept.

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created_at: 2018-12-11 19:28:56
text:
  "Irreplaceable You" uses an assortment of slight incidents to impart a lesson that, from the outset, is patently obvious to everyone except the too-dim-to-be-believed person for whom it's intended.

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text: The film itself seems to be in denial about its own story.
created_at: 2018-12-11 19:28:56
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created_at: 2018-12-14 08:27:13
text:
  In the title role, Roberts carries the film in the best sense, by taking us on a human journey of genuine discovery and growth.

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created_at: 2018-12-14 08:27:13
text:
  What Soderbergh can do as well as anyone is bring restraint, intelligence and subtlety to mainstream material, and what a difference that makes.

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text: There is never a dull moment.
created_at: 2018-12-14 08:27:13
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created_at: 2018-12-14 08:27:13
text:
  The arc of the tale may be conventional, but Roberts, in her most forceful dramatic performance, allows us to take in every moment through fresh, impassioned eyes.

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created_at: 2018-12-14 08:27:13
text:
  The film lacks focus and energy, the character development is facile and thin, and what about those necklines?

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  Moonlight is both a disarmingly, at times almost unbearably personal film and an urgent social document, a hard look at American reality and a poem written in light, music and vivid human faces.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  "Moonlight" is a film of rare grace - a tender, compassionate, restrained look at a life lived in the shadows.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  "Moonlight" is a minor miracle, a movie that mines beauty out of the ugliest situations, and a glimmer of hope from heartbreak.

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text: Basking in this "Moonlight" is one of the cinematic joys of the year.
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text: Touching and disturbing, avoiding clichés, shattering stereotypes and succeeding from every angle.
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  This is a humane movie, one that's looking to prompt empathy and introspection most of all. On those terms, Moonlight is one of the year's most gripping viewing experiences.

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text: An intimate and haunting drama.
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  Although Barry Jenkins' film is indeed about the struggles and difficulties of a person embracing his culturally reviled sexuality, the story is universal in scope and intent.

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text: Barry Jenkins's excellent Moonlight is a film filled with bittersweet ironies.
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text: "Moonlight" arrives as a gift, one worth keeping - and regifting.
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  The indie drama touches on themes of race, sexuality and isolation in ways that are rarely depicted in cinema.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  It's less a story than a collection of moments, which leaves its viewer feeling moved and changed, as if you've spent time in someone else's dreams and woke up understanding who they are.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  It just needs to be watched and embraced, as an entirely fresh example of the power that great movies can exert on our lives.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  So few unexploitative movies are made about young black men, especially young black gay men, that the overpraise for this frail, sweet, discursive fantasia is understandable -- and forgivable.

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text: A deeply personal and visually mesmerizing drama that just might be the year's best movie.
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  Bullying, poverty, closeted sexuality, drug abuse, and racial strife combine to form an overworked agenda of cultural woes that's more concerned with rubber-stamping issues than telling an original story.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  If you think art should challenge us, then you will embrace writer-director Barry Jenkins' exquisitely crafted drama Moonlight. It's a true American masterpiece and one of the best films of the decade.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  In its quietly radical grace, it's a cultural watershed - a work that dismantles all the ways our media view young black men and puts in their place a series of intimate truths.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:57:46
text:
  Moonlight - ground-breaking cinema - is both expansive and deeply personal; a must-see for all lovers of the silver screen.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  By the end they've acquired a measure of self-knowledge at a cost dearer than they expected, which reminds us that what we think we know can be just the beginning of an existential journey.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  Villeneuve's telling of her story - and of her children's - is painful, searing and something close to brilliant.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  The storytelling in Incendies strikes me as primal the way Greek tragedy is primal. Shattering. Cathartic. It is a breathtaking film.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  Rage has no expiration date in Incendies, director Denis Villeneuve's gripping, era-jumping drama about a family melded to its war-torn past.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  If you think of Canadian films as the movie equivalent of cucumber sandwiches and chamomile tea, hold tight.

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text: A strong film based on a weak story.
created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  This is the film that should have won an Oscar in its foreign-language category this year and didn't.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  Filled with striking images and the ghosts of lives lived in hardship and war, "Incendies" is tough but impactful.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  Villaneuve knows how to stoke a hot debate about the legacy of violence. But in this case, where there's smoke, there's not enough air.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  A kind name for this attitude is false moral equivalence, or perhaps post-imperial cringe. A less kind one is Western self-hatred, or an urgent plea to tolerate the intolerant.

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text: It is no surprise that it was nominated for a Best Foreign Language Film Oscar.
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text: Azabal, a Belgian actress, has a feral, mesmerizing power.
created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  Most people do not choose their religions but have them forced upon themselves by birth, and the lesson of "Incendies" is that an accident of birth is not a reason for hatred.

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text: Villeneuve has a sober eye and a steady hand.
created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  A deeply resonant literary quality gives what might otherwise seem like a dubious series of coincidences a profound sense of plausibility.

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text: It's a powerful, disturbing film. May there be a day when such works seem less relevant.
created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
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created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
text:
  A mystery, a melodrama, a prison film, and a love story, "Incendies'' is foremost a scream of rage at a society destroyed by religion and by men.

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text: Overplays its hand, piling tragedy on tragedy until we feel browbeaten with misery.
created_at: 2018-12-15 18:58:32
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text: The whole family can feel comfortable watching C.R.A.Z.Y.
created_at: 2018-12-15 19:06:40
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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:06:40
text:
  The French Canadian import is also wildly entertaining in its views of Catholicism, music and especially family.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:06:40
text:
  A full-to-bursting picture that shouts and whispers and darts and meanders and fascinates and frustrates and teems at the seams with raw vitality.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:06:40
text:
  The subject matter may be deep and the family conflicts serious, but Vallée leavens his story with gentle satire and outright humour.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:24:31
text:
  Collector for the Poor #2 / Ghost of Christmas Present (Willie the Giant) / Ghost of Christmas Future (Pete) / Santa Claus (Big Bad Wolf) / Weasel #2 (voice)


created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  McConaughey delivers the performance of his career, characterized not just by an astonishing physical transformation but by a wellspring of deep compassion and fearlessness.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  Vallee, working from a script by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, infuses the film with some humor - Woodroof's posing as a priest as he smuggles drugs from Mexico is a hoot - but he never lets us forget that the stakes are deadly serious.

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text: One of the best films of the year.
created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  The movie, based on a true story, shows how empathy has the power to destroy intolerance where it stands.

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text: This is the performance of McConaughey's newly resurgent career.
created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  However creaky this might be as drama, it's a fascinating look at an underground economy and the politics of medicine.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  In many ways, the film is all about Matthew McConaughey, and Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee is wise enough to train his focus on the actor.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  A trio of terrific performers imbues a riveting AIDS drama with heart and mind as well as pertinence.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  "Dallas Buyers Club" takes audiences back to the worst of the AIDS crisis, where the disease was a death sentence, and the public's terror and hostility were at its height.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  A solid biopic is made transcendent by McConaughey, who shed nearly 50 pounds and deserves to gain an Oscar for his ferocious, funny performance.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  The screenplay by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack doesn't yield to pat pronouncements or solutions, refusing to turn Woodroof into a huggable savior, even when his views about gays shift.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  Once we get past McConaughey's stunning transformation, we're transfixed by a performance that reminds us of why this guy became a movie star in the first place.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  Just about everything is right with Dallas Buyers Club, beginning with Matthew McConaughey's literally transformative portrayal.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  The AIDS epidemic was not a happy-ending story. But it was certainly a test of the human spirit. Ron Woodroof passed that test.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 19:29:51
text:
  The movie's often touching and very watchable, but what gets you past the script's sincere calculation is the growing sense of rage toward a medical-industrial complex that saw AIDS sufferers as guinea pigs and sources of profit.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  This debut feature by French writer-director Thomas Cailley is the rare romantic comedy that's satisfying as genre entertainment but also inspires serious thought on pertinent social issues.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  Love at First Fight is overflowing with relentlessly acerbic humor that shapes the way the film's two young protagonists contend with not just each other, but also with the uncertainties of the world they're emerging into as adults.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  Director Thomas Cailley conjures up a vivid, unusual world, offering a playful reversal of usual gender roles.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  All in all, this film is refreshingly original, an existential, boy-meets-survivalist romantic comedy.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  There's a better movie floating around the edges of the French import "Love at First Fight" than first-time feature director Thomas Cailley has allowed to surface.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  Even when it's slowing down, Fight shows beguiling confidence in both its filmmaking and its characters-enough to make its smallest romantic moments feel significant.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  A sort of grown-up version of "Moonrise Kingdom," France's "Love at First Fight" has some youthful free-range charm but not nearly as much as its predecessor.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  Rejuvenating the romantic comedy through its unusual premise - in which training for an elite army unit releases a flood of pheromones - Cailley's film is also buoyed by its enormously appealing leads ...

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  Aggression, not affection, sparks romance in Les Combattants, a promising feature debut that already had members of the French film establishment touting newcomer Thomas Cailley as the next big thing.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  For a movie about bodily endurance and rugged adventure, Cailley's direction is oddly detached-he lets the script (which he co-wrote with Claude Le Pape) suggest the tough work and hardly bothers to film it.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  What matters in a movie like this is the relationship. Cailley understands that, and keeps his approach simple and transparent.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  What starts out as a promisingly unique tale of a macho woman and the meek guy who falls for her turns into something else once Madeleine leaves for training camp and Arnaud follows.

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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:22:36
text:
  For its first two-thirds, the film, written and directed by Thomas Cailley, seems to be groundbreaking. Then it slides into comforting familiarity.

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text: It's Whoopi and the girls who keep this confection tasty.
created_at: 2018-12-15 20:24:38
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text: It's kind of frightening that it took three writers to come up with this "plot".
created_at: 2018-12-15 20:26:56
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text: This shoddiest of sequels should be the last act for these sorry Sisters.
created_at: 2018-12-15 20:26:56
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text: I hope what they all got paid made it worth the bother.
created_at: 2018-12-15 20:26:56
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text: Shamelessly contrived pap.
created_at: 2018-12-15 20:26:56
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created_at: 2018-12-15 20:26:56
text:
  This is another one of those dreary retreads about a bunch of kids with no faith in themselves, and about how an inspiring teacher coaches them into the State Finals, where they upset the snobs from the rich school.

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text: Bouncy musical numbers and plenty of social concern, but the star, regrettably, is on autopilot.
created_at: 2018-12-15 20:26:56
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text: It gets almost everything right, but it's also strangely underwhelming.
created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  "First Man" never quite connects at a gut level. For a story that shoots for the moon, it has trouble leaving the ground.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  This is a movie that - flag or no flag - doesn't need to take a political stance to make a political statement. ●

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  Using every modern tool at its disposal, First Man has again presented just how harrowing that frontier was at the time, in the process planting its flag among the year's best movies.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  Like space flight, filmmaking is created to take people beyond what they already know to see what they don't. With stunning realism and detail, the astronaut blockbuster "First Man" does just that.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  A movie that's as fascinated by the remote inner landscape of its hero as he is by the unexplored surface of the moon.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  First Man is about Armstrong's landmark achievement, but it's just as much about a country's grinding, maniacal fixation on getting him there.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  For those who can get past the shaky-cam aspect that infects the cinematography, this is an involving look back in time at one of the most significant human endeavors of the last century.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  First Man,... is a worthy successor not only to Chazelle's Whiplash and La La Land, but to the astronaut films that precede it, like Apollo 13 and especially The Right Stuff.

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text: Most movies aim to take us out of ourselves. This one goes to majestic extremes.
created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  Even when First Man stumbles as historical psychodrama, it still represents a giant leap forward for movies about the physical and emotional experience of flight.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  Ryan Gosling's impassive visage must have the gravitational pull of a black hole, because Chazelle can't seem to keep his camera from being pulled loose from its moorings and drawn in thisclose for more than one or two scenes at a time.

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text: The drama of the real-life history overcomes the weakness of the lead character.
created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
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text: When the Eagle finally lands on the moon in First Man, the picture truly soars.
created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  As long as First Man is airborne, it's a marvel. I can't recall another movie that conveyed with such punch the perils and exhilarations of spaceflight. It's when the film is earthbound that it falls down.

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text: Unmissable and unforgettable.
created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  What the movie does do is give you a hair-raising feeling of what it really felt like inside the space craft, where every hour was life-threatening and the outcome was always perilous.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  A historical film in which the historical element is so grossly distorted as to detach the hero from humanity.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  What makes the movie so memorable, so good, so strong, is the unvarnished, warts-and-all perspective.

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created_at: 2018-12-16 01:34:01
text:
  It's a movie that shows how the most personal moments can coexist within and alongside the most momentous events. It's a film that insists history is made from private lives.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Lawrence and Pratt are both big movie stars and they look good, fulfilling the minimum requirements of holiday movie fare. But "Passengers" is a missed shot at something more worthy of their talents.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  "Passengers" hinges on a morally dubious act that the filmmakers gloss over in a series of creepy justifications and a sudden third-act reversal.

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text: Disappointing at best, problematic at worst.
created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  The film eventually runs out of rocket fuel, piling on the special effects but arriving at a disappointing conclusion.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Passengers, a fairy tale set aboard a luxury spaceliner, has billion-dollar ideas and five-cent guts.

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text: Ironically, Passengers is at its most evocative when capturing a state of utter tedium.
created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Passengers is an odd movie but its central questions and dilemmas are compelling and there's enough here of substance for the impressions to linger. Problems aside, it's a journey worth taking.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Who knows why Mr. Pratt and Ms. Lawrence signed up for this production; still, they're both pros and they do what they can with the wretched material.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  At best, Passengers is glib and cutesy in the face of otherwise serious themes. At worst, it's an argument that men can do whatever they want with the knowledge that things will always work out for them.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  The major creative players either didn't realize that they were essentially making a feature-length ad for Stockholm syndrome, or that they didn't really care.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Ostensibly we're supposed to like Pratt and Lawrence together, yet Pratt's character does something so unforgivable to Lawrence's at the outset that their ensuing interactions simmer with a mix of horror and disbelief.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Fixing the malfunctioning Avalon requires addressing the fundamental damage, but the film seems to argue that the same does not hold true for the human heart.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Despite the confinement and the limited cast, "Passengers" has moments of intense drama that take the actors to places of extreme feeling.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  Perhaps as a well-written play for a cast of three, "Passengers" might have been first class. Instead, it's just another mediocre thrill ride.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  If the filmmakers had delved into the direness of their situation and mined it for more than just a grand-scale lovers' spat in outer space, the movie might have been more than a sleek, well-designed curiosity.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  The spectacle feels lifeless and what could have been a challenging moral provocation dissolves into sappy, feel-good pandering. Lawrence and Pratt deserve better. So do audiences.

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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  This is a well-designed, initially intriguing, visually interesting sci-fi romance torpedoed by a premise -- and a payoff -- so creepy and misogynistic, it's amazing nobody... raised concerns about [it].

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text: Inside this failed picture there's a sicker, darker, more truthful one crying to get out.
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created_at: 2018-12-31 18:45:51
text:
  "Passengers" increasingly succumbs to timidity and begins shrinking into a bland science-fiction adventure whose feats of daring and skill feel stale and secondhand.

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text: As serious science fiction, Passengers falls seriously short.
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text: The film is especially comforting if you love old movies, as Kaurismaki does.
created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  "Le Havre" is a small bit of movie magic, a story that plays more as a fable even as it deals with something as topical as immigration.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  No one looks at the world quite like Kaurismäki, and his deadpan sentimentality is worth discovery. This is a good place to start.

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text: Le Havre is utopian precisely because it shows everything as it is not.
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text: "Le Havre" stands on its own fragile but considerable merits.
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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  Endearingly quirky, just this side of precious, but so warm and deftly executed that you go along with it.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  If the name Aki Kaurismäki doesn't mean anything to you, it should, and "Le Havre" may be the film to make it happen.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  A contemporary fable set in a place constructed from blocks of French cinematic history, Le Havre is one of Aki Kaurismaki's warmest, most engaging films.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  The Finnish director's sense of humor is dry and dark as pitch, as he consistently finds moments of absurdity in the midst of strife and tragedy.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  You almost become a citizen of Le Havre, watching this film and rejoicing at the end as two newfound, unexpected friends share a drink.

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text: We are so held by the film's impact that its ending, surprise or not, is like a bonus.
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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  If the bummers and ambiguity of some of this season's movies are getting you down - or, hey, just the bummers and ambiguities of life - make your way to Le Havre. You won't be sorry.

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text: "Le Havre" is a passing fancy of a film, but it passes quite nicely indeed.
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created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
text:
  "Le Havre'' is warm-hearted and uplifting, without being schmaltzy or preachy. And, with its illegal-alien theme, it's dead-on timely.

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text: A slog of old-fashioned ideals and utter non-whimsy.
created_at: 2019-01-06 22:58:10
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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:00:24
text:
  A gentle, surprising little movie whose rewards lie in what its characters don't say as much as in what they do.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:00:24
text:
  Wry, whimsical and sure of tone, dry in all of the right ways and without an ounce of condescension.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:00:24
text:
  This underclass fable is slight, finally, but its miserable/waggishly optimistic worldview leaves you feeling a little more alive.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:00:24
text:
  [Kaurismaki] trusts us to find the humor and the humanity that coexist in his world and in the process retains a purity of style and intent.

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text: That rare thing: a movie that makes you feel good by sharing some of your pain.
created_at: 2019-01-06 23:00:24
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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:00:24
text:
  [Kaurismaki's] a humanist bearing witness to the human parade. To be part of that parade is to be touched by his perspective, and to have your world altered -- magically, fleetingly, memorably.

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text: At the end of The Man Without a Past, I felt a deep but indefinable contentment.
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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  It's at once honest and artful, a touching and clearsighted declaration of faith in people and in movies.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki delivers his timeliest and most heartfelt film, mixing humor, pathos, and anger.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  While Kaurismaki's deadpan sense of humor remains, his humanist side feels more prominent than ever before.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  Finnish films have been generating buzz lately. "Tom of Finland" and "The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Maki" have found a small, if enthusiastic, audience...Aki Kaurismäki's charmingly deadpan "The Other Side of Hope" should follow a similar path.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  This kindhearted, unsentimental movie is a good way to celebrate Finland, which celebrated its 100th anniversary as a free nation last week.

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text: A deeply humane film, as well as a quietly hilarious one.
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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
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  This is a world that reeks of cigarette smoke and cheap vodka, yet as always in the work of Finland's maestro of droll melancholy, the perfume that lingers longest is empathy.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  The movie expands upon Kaurismäki's central mode of observation and delivers some trenchant, upsetting truths about the immigration experience from the side of those seeking asylum.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  Kaurismäki ... remains committed to dinge, tunelessly drowsy twang-rock, and self-plagiarizing shaggy-dog plots.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  The guiding ethic of The Other Side of Hope is as much topical as it universal: that altruism is not especially brave or courageous, but just the basic principle governing relations between human beings.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  Kaurismaki unashamedly believes in brotherhood, and among other things his film celebrates people who do the right thing without making a big deal about it.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  It's refreshing to see a film about the refugee crisis that doesn't rely on cliche, but the fact remains: The mundane is mundane.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  Despite its serious subject - the refugee crisis hitting Europe - The Other Side of Hope is also very funny, never losing sight of the droll, comic upside to life, but never making light of tragedy, either.

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text: The filmmaker's universe is both deeply ordinary and just a little uncanny.
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text: The Finnish auteur's compassion and absurd wit [are] once again abundantly evident.
created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  [Kaurismäki's] pessimism, always mercurial, seems to have mellowed, and that makes this film both more pleasing and less powerful.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  Running gags about oddball twists in the restaurant business serve little purpose but don't detract from the movie's essential quasi-documentary power.

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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  One couldn't help but think of the obvious, heavy-handed messaging we'd be spared if all directors followed Kaurismäki's expert smuggling techniques.

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text: Blues musicians in Finland. Who know there was such a thing?
created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
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created_at: 2019-01-06 23:03:59
text:
  The deadpan irony and seemingly dispassionate air of Finnish director Aki Kaurismäki's movies certainly aren't for everyone, but they are a taste worth acquiring.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  It's a fault of the script, not the actors, that "The Wife" hangs on such a preposterous through line.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  "The Wife" offers viewers a chance to observe one of the finest - and most criminally underpraised - actresses of her generation working at the very top of her shrewd, subtle, superbly self-controlled game.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Slater gives what could have been a stereotypical role plenty of spark, and his scenes with Close are riveting.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  "The Wife" pulls off the not inconsiderable feat of spinning a fundamentally literary premise into an intelligent screen drama that unfolds with real juice and suspense.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Because the performances are so calculated, the emotional outbursts on which the story hinges fail to make a dramatic impact. And for a film about a novelist, The Wife conveys very little sense of what it's like to read or write.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  The story is fine, but the movie features a terrific performance by Jonathan Pryce and a flat-out brilliant one from Glenn Close, who dials up a slow burn for the ages.

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text: With Glenn Close in the lead role, it's... unexpectedly poignant and powerful.
created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Swedish director Björn Runge's approach is no-nonsense and workmanlike, perhaps to give these esteemed actors room to swagger and shine, but a bit more imagination and artistry wouldn't have hurt.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  The Wife is that increasingly rare offering, a commercially viable film that also makes you rethink your assumptions about talent and who gets to wield it.

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text: By the time the dramatic fireworks start popping off, each one feels earned.
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text: I wish there were more movies like this one.
created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Watch Close's face in these early scenes; imagine what she's feeling because you will imagine something much different by the end.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  It's Close's wonderfully subtle characterization of Joan that lifts The Wife above its cliché setups and neat role reversals, which is really rather ironic. Once again, it's the wife doing all the hard work. At least this time, she gets top billing.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Strong acting, especially by Close, helps the film overcome an uncertain premise and create characters that hold our attention absolutely.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Runge is very good with actors. It's a pleasure simply to watch Close and Pryce establish such minute and careful gradations of happiness, desolation and exasperation in their scenes together.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Close owns this movie, from beginning to end; it's a performance of such intelligence and subtlety that only when the movie is long over do you start wondering about whether the plot holds up.

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text: Close might well receive a seventh Academy Award nomination for The Wife.
created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  Other than the performances, there is nothing here audiences haven't seen more times than they have their own feet.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  What unites the film's two halves - what makes it worth watching, period - is the road Close's Joan travels as she decides whether to reclaim authorship of her own life.

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created_at: 2019-01-07 09:32:35
text:
  It would be wrong to say Close's performance in "The Wife" is wasted, but it certainly deserves a better movie.

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text: There's enough high-octane, heart-racing excitement for a dozen movies.
created_at: 2019-01-08 01:00:24
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created_at: 2019-01-08 01:00:24
text:
  An exercise in stylish lunkheadedness. It's gorgeous but dumb as a post; watching it is a bit like shooting the tube and then getting cracked on the head by your board.

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text: We might as well be watching a blissed-out Bill and Ted caper.
created_at: 2019-01-08 01:00:24
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created_at: 2019-01-08 01:00:24
text:
  The plot of Point Blank, summarized, invites parody (rookie agent goes undercover as surfer to catch bank robbers). The result is surprisingly effective.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  If this is indeed the end for Day Lewis, it is a fitting final bow. It's a treat to watch him drink your milkshake one last time.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  It's an enchanting, eventually mischievous meditation on the lengths to which we go to control and camouflage our most intimate, undefended desires.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Despite everything, we continue to cling to the problems and pursuits of this obsessive dandy. And why? Simply because there has never been an actor as obsessive as Day-Lewis.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Phantom Thread, as much as it is a meditation on the very real hunger that drives a madman, offers not quite enough in the way of emotional or character nourishment.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  The movie takes a kind of gothic turn by degrees - it sneaks up on you and before you know it, it's arrived. And it's immensely satisfying.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  "Phantom Thread" is the kind of film that's rarely made anymore - uncompromising, sophisticated and smart.

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created_at: 2019-01-19 15:18:49
text:
  Reynolds is the perfect role for Day-Lewis, who is likewise famous both for his obsessive meticulousness and for the lengthy sabbaticals he has used to recharge between films.

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  If you go in expecting a Daniel Day-Lewis movie, you'll walk away with a Vicky Krieps movie, and we're all the better for it. The Luxembourgian actress will sweep you off your feet.

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