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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  In GoodFellas, Scorsese, that connoisseur of mean streets and brutish, reflexive rage, has fashioned a stunning film that belongs on the same lonely, top shelf as Coppola's Mafia saga.

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text: The performances by everyone are stunning, standout.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  All of the performances are first-rate; Pesci stands out, though, with his seemingly unscripted manner. GoodFellas is easily one of the year`s best films.

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text: Scorsese's fast, violent, stylish mobster movie is a return to form.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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text: It is not a coincidence that Scorsese's three masterpieces all star Robert De Niro.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  Robert De Niro gives what has come to be a typical Robert De Niro performance -- understated, sly, ingratiating. Joe Pesci, as the hot-tempered Tommy, steals several scenes from his fellow performers.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  Anti-romantic, it nevertheless sweeps us into the allure of mob glamour -- then slams us with its cost of admission.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  GoodFellas is an appalling masterpiece of the kind that, along with New York's current well-publicized troubles, is likely to give pause to anyone planning to make a trip to the city.

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text: May well be the most accomplished thing Scorsese's ever done.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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text: Colorful but dramatically unsatisfying.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  One remains detached from the characters, but Scorsese succeeds in smashing all the foolishly romantic myths about the mob with this shocking, vigorously honest portrait of a slick yuppie gangster who couldn't stand being "an average nobody."

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  In GoodFellas, director Martin Scorsese does something simple and audacious: He takes the guilt out of organized crime.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  Is it a great movie? I don't think so. But it's a triumphant piece of filmmaking-journalism presented with the brio of drama.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  Spanning thirty years and running two and a half hours, the film bristles with the violent passion, howitzer wit and virtuoso style that made Scorsese's reputation with the gangster drama Mean Streets in 1973.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  You walk away, tantalized by a view into the darkest part of yourself, glad that that part is still behind bars.

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text: No finer film has ever been made about organized crime.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
text:
  GoodFellas, which somehow mixes its horrors with a deep vein of mordant humor, flows with the exuberance of a filmmaker who has every detail nailed and a few new lovely moves he wants to show us.

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text: Sure, it's a rush - but is that enough?
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:27
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text: Goodfellas looks and sounds as if it must be absolutely authentic.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:44
text:
  The action at the center of Chris Columbus' script occasionally falters and generally feels manufactured, but the kids go about their chores as if convinced that all their make-believe is true.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:44
text:
  It's a charmless exercise: director Richard Donner turns the kids into shrieking ferrets, and his jumpy cutting seems to lag behind the action deliberately in a curious attempt to make the film seem more chaotic and cluttered.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:44
text:
  While the pre-pubescents continually scream, their doting parents prove equally odious in a finale of astounding sentimentality.

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text: "The Goonies" is the kind of hyperactive peril-packed movie young audiences can't resist.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:44
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:44
text:
  The Goonies is a smooth mixture of the usual ingredients from Steven Spielberg action movies, made special because of the high-energy performances of the kids who have the adventures.

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text: A delightful, satirical comedy-drama.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  The emotional elevation of the film is due in no small measure to the extraordinarily engaging performances of Anne Bancroft as the wife-mother-mistress, Dustin Hoffman as the lumbering Lancelot, and Katherine Ross as his fair Elaine.

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text: Makes you feel a little tearful and choked-up while it is making you laugh yourself raw.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  The film itself is very broken-backed, partly because Anne Bancroft's performance as the mother carries so much more weight than Katharine Ross' as the daughter, partly because Nichols couldn't decide whether he was making a social satire or a farce.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  Be agog at Anne Bancroft's Mrs. Robinson in some of the most hilariously icky seduction scenes ever filmed. See Mike Nichols (with help from Simon & Garfunkel) take control of the Zeitgeist. See the mood go dark -- darker than you remember.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  The remarkably true ring of Webb's dialogue is preserved and augmented, the visual potential lifted to next power in absurdity.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  The light ribbing of conspicuous consumption in southern California and the Simon and Garfunkel songs on the sound track both play considerable roles in giving this depthless comedy some bounce.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  As it stands, the vacuum of that warped, moneyed Los Angeles society is too exaggerated, too incredible. But one can't help but believe in Hoffman if not in the disjointed character he portrays.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  It's consistently fleet and funny, even as it probes the heady abandon and looming hangover that typified the decade of discontent.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  Few movies have communicated with such dark hilarity all the anxiety and flamboyant misery of youthful sexual initiation

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  A simple romantic comedy whose "countercultural" message, insofar as it has one, is decidedly retrograde.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  It is a good topical movie whose time has passed, leaving it stranded in an earlier age. I give it three stars out of delight for the material it contains; to watch it today is like opening a time capsule.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:48
text:
  The Graduate gives some substance to the contention that American films are coming of age -- of our age.

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text: Feels as sly, modern and bracing as it must have in 1967.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  Gran Torino is the most obvious and least interesting of the four movies [Eastwood's] directed in the last two years.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  If you can survive the F-bombs and the near-constant ethnic invective, Gran Torino is not to be missed, if only as the gutsy, thoroughly unexpected valedictory of an icon fully willing to spend every bit of his considerable capital.

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text: Though the film feels like a requiem, Kowalski's heart is still defiantly beating.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  With Gran Torino, Eastwood has taken what might have been the likable last gasp of his iconic persona and turned it into the dullest, most heavy-handed sermon of his career.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  Eastwood's second film this year is a compelling study of anger and violence and the guilt and shame that shadow them. He has sat high in the saddle for decades, but rarely has he ridden so tall as in the driver's seat of Gran Torino.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  The comedy-drama on release is actually a rather wise, insightful exploration of family and friendship, violence and vengeance.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  Like Woody Allen, Clint Eastwood has reached the point where his movies are better when he's not in them.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  Ultimately, Gran Torino is not recommended for its moralizing or its scenery, but for Eastwood's compelling performance.

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text: If Mt. Rushmore were to make a movie, it would probably look a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  It is familiar, but only to a point. Suddenly, that point is past and much more serious questions come up, questions of responsibility, of vengeance, of the efficacy of blood for blood.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  This is among his lesser recent movies, which doesn't diminish its likability. In fact, it's pleasing to see Eastwood working the middle of the emotional register for a change.

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text: A brilliant commentary on a lot of earlier Clint Eastwood roles.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:44:59
text:
  Gran Torino grinds through its gears in an efficient if generally graceless manner, with occasional blasts of violence interrupting a film that is content to be the cutest movie Clint's done since his days of co-starring with an orangutan.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:45:38
text:
  The supernatural elements carry an undeniable emotional charge, but the solution to the underlying murder mystery is disappointingly tidy and trite.

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text: Moves with the suffocating deliberateness of a river of molasses.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:45:38
text:
  Much of the three-hour movie takes place in the prison, but the resonant characterization, expansive plotting, and judicious use of exterior locations and flashbacks turn the walls into windows.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:45:38
text:
  In its own old-fashioned way, Frank Darabont's style of picture making is well matched to King-size yarn spinning.

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text: To more than a few viewers, this one will feel like a life sentence.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:45:38
text:
  Three long hours of wind, an exercise in titanic self-importance intent on passing off klunky rhetoric as poignant drama.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  Chris Pratt, overflowing with charisma, plays the leader of the pack of misfits, and his blissed-out space cowboy (with a love for seventies music) is so full of good will that he buoys the film and its requisite whizbang special effects.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  It may be a mess, but it's an extremely good-natured mess, full of humor and warmth. More surprising still, the very elements that seemed most likely to ruin the movie-the tree-man, the talking raccoon-account for much of its improbable charm.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  Director and co-writer James Gunn brings a giddiness and a wondrous, endless sense of why-the-hell-not? possibility that's reminiscent of Star Wars.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  What sounds like a strained miscalculation turns out to be one of the most shamelessly enjoyable pranks ever pulled by a multibillion-dollar entertainment conglomerate. This is what happens when blockbuster filmmaking sits on a whoopee cushion.

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text: These meager pleasures are swallowed up in all the frantic action and overblown CG sequences.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  The people who made this movie must have had a swell time in the process, and it's nice to see a summer epic that takes itself so unseriously.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  If you're old enough to remember when sci-fi and comic books were fun, "Guardians of the Galaxy" will be your new favorite movie. If you're not, it will set a standard for everything you see.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  If Guardians of the Galaxy is an origin story, it is also a satire of the origin story, one that emphasizes the power of the "We" over that of the "Chosen One."

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  Blessed with a loose, anarchic B-picture soul that encourages you to enjoy yourself even when you're not quite sure what's going on, the scruffy Guardians is irreverent in a way that can bring the first Star Wars to mind.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  It's like the silly, superhero-loving kids goofing off in the back of the classroom looked at The Avengers and X-Men and declared, "Hey, how hard can it be to save the world? Let's do it too!"

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  Pratt is their prime asset for turning the comedy up to 11. With him playing Star-Lord, you never question what Quill brings to the team: a sparkling, cracked esprit de corps.

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text: The characters are great and the movie is often very funny.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  Though based on a comics series launched in 1969, "Guardians" comes on with a hip, absurdist humor that feels thoroughly modern.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  The lightly derisive, live-action-cartoon tone robs the movie of any majesty, even of the comic-book type, and the many violent deaths of their suitable gravity.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  "Guardians of the Galaxy" has wit, energy and zaniness to spare. It will pop your corn and leave you hungry for more.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  The motley crew's repartee makes for comedy that's surprisingly consistent, yet freewheeling and sharp enough to pinball from Kevin Bacon to Jackson Pollock and back.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:20
text:
  Gunn appears to remember the high of certain kinds of moviegoing, where when the credits are over, all you want to do is get back in line and enjoy the whole thing again.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  There's a thin line between just enough and too much, and "Guardians Vol. 2" trips over that line and never gets back up.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  [Yondu's] presence kicks the idling movie into gear, and into a final third act for which all of the previous meandering can be forgiven - and the talk of family finally accrues the weight the film has been trying to put on it.

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text: Mildly enjoyable while instantly forgettable ...
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Let's hope that Vol. 3 recaptures the fizz of the original, instead of slumping into the most expensive group-therapy session in the universe.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Often loud, occasionally obnoxious and so consistently convinced of its own awesomeness that it will not, it cannot, stop pointing out everything that makes it so utterly wonderful.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Vol. 2 doesn't take long to get moving, and once it starts, it just goes. There isn't a lot in the way of downtime and there aren't any moments of filler.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  "Vol. 2" might have been a bit more focused. Still, it's an imaginative romp that once again reflects Gunn's unique and irreverent sensibility.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  As Baby Groot's companions battle the tentacular horror in the background, we're treated to the delightful spectacle of the mini-veggie juking his way through "Mr. Blue Sky" in the opening credits.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  It's hyperbolic nonsense wrapped in the colors of a neon rainbow, bouncing from one artfully wacky scenario to the next. Here it's sleekly futuristic, there it's older than mud. It's the galaxy's silliest thrill show.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  In Marvel lingo, Guardians 2 feels like a great six-issue arc, the kind of storytelling that used to be the backbone of superhero comics.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Volume 2 can claim to be bigger and better than its predecessor, although it still suffers from some of the narrative sleight-of-hand issues that kept Guardians of Galaxy from achieving greatness.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Here's hoping the inevitable Vol. 3 rebuilds some of the first film's heart, because Vol. 2 feels like hollow spectacle, however gorgeously rendered.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  All sequels repeat the best tricks of their predecessors, but director James Gunn's choice of tricks is way more fun than most ...

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  "Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2" certainly has its attractions, but most of them are visual rather than narrative.

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text: Director James Gunn has a vision and he puts it across, but it ain't pretty.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Like a visit from amusing friends who stay a bit longer than expected, it's easy to forgive the indulgence.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  Like many a sequel to a slam-bang, much-liked mega-hit, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 isn't quite as much fun, not quite as clever, not quite as fresh as the original - but it still packs a bright and shiny and sweet punch.

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text: If it's overstuffed in the way of most sequels, well, at least it's stuffed with good cheer.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  The reunion of the Guardians cements Pratt's mega-stardom. He has a shaggy young Kurt Russell vibe (think Big Trouble in Little China,). And Russell himself is a great addition to the ensemble, providing a dose of kick-back, kick-ass action

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:33
text:
  The sharp comic timing and devil-may-care breeziness of the original only return intermittently, and the new film's emphasis is on family feuds and forgiveness. It's heavy on the feels. There are hugs.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  There is a sort of perverse brilliance or brilliant perverseness to be found in this story of a bachelor party gone terribly wrong.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  A strong cast, a quirky script with some unexpected twists and a steady hand from the director's chair make this a desert ride on the wild side a worthy road trip.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  This kind of 'one crazy night' tale relies on drum-tight structure to work. Without it, The Hangover sputters to a sentimental halt.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  Even though Apatow has no fingerprints over this movie, The Hangover follows in the same surprise-me tradition: It takes us to the dumb side but comes back with something unexpectedly affecting.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  Waking up with a hangover and no memory of what happened the night before is an experience most people can relate to, but it's also a surefire device for comedy.

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text: Amusing as it is, it never feels real.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
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text: Memento meets Old School? It's party time.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
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text: The funniest movie so far this year.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
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text: Surprisingly funny and smartly acted.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
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text: This is a bromance so primitive it's practically Bro-Magnon.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  The Hangover, like the condition for which it's named, has some spirited moments, but more often it stumbles and slurs, regurgitating earlier pleasures and praying for the fog to lift.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  You might be embarrassed by laughing at some of the silliness, but don't be: Everyone else will be cracking up, too.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  Phillips, with a script credited to Jon Lucas and Scott Moore (and with loads of loose-limbed interpretations from the cast), captures the amity among a group of grown men set loose without spouses, girlfriends, or sobriety to hinder them. (Or help.)

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
text:
  An intriguing, time-hopping set-up is wasted on obnoxious characters, celebrity cameos and crass attempts at humour.

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text: Superbly cast, well-written and so silly it makes your teeth ache.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  Allen's way of setting himself up as a fount of moral wisdom is as insufferable as ever, but at least the preachiness is alleviated by some genuine wit.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  Allen weaves together the complex narrative strands with ease, punctuating the many variations on betrayal and love with three festive Thanksgiving dinners.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  Hannah and Her Sisters is also filmmaking of consummate skill and emotional range. It encompasses brilliant comedy and almost unbearable poignance -- often in the same scene.

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text: Is Hannah and Her Sisters, the 14th movie written and directed by Allen, worth the wait? No.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  The marvel of Hannah and Her Sisters is just how many fully realized characters and relationships Allen is able to weave into the fabric of this extraordinarily well-written film. This script is one to be studied by aspiring filmmakers.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  Hannah and Her Sisters is structured ingeniously so that seemingly separate stories eventually merge in satisfying ways.

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text: Its plot has the elegant geometry of a Philip Barry play.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  Allen's writing and directing style is so strong and assured in this film that the actual filmmaking itself becomes a narrative voice, just as we sense Henry James behind all of his novels, or William Faulkner or Iris Murdoch behind theirs.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  Perfection is boring, but boring is the very last word to describe Hannah and Her Sisters, which just may be a perfect movie.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  One of Woody Allen's great films. Indeed, he makes nary a misstep from beginning to end in charting the amorous affiliations of three sisters and their men over a two-year period.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:46:50
text:
  A dramatic comedy not quite like any other, and one that sets new standards for Mr. Allen as well as for all American movie makers.

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text: Very likely the worst film of this year and quite possibly the next.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  Hannibal doesn't seem to be about anything but its own swank decadence. Hopkins, with his reedy voice and effete airs, is still quite delicious in the part that won him an Oscar. But 10 years later, Lecter has become more camp than terrifying.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  The story line of Hannibal is far less interesting than Silence of the Lambs and lacks the emotional subtlety of its predecessor. However, Hannibal is visually and aurally sumptuous, powered by Hans Zimmer's lovely score and brimming with flashy imagery.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  Hopkins, who is electrifying in almost anything he does, reprises the mastery he brought to Silence of the Lambs. Even in a movie as patchworky as this, he's always compelling.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  The weight-watchers script sensibly dispenses with several characters to serve a brew that's enjoyably spicy but low on substance.

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text: Not as good as you hoped, better than you feared.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  There are disgusting movies that are worth seeing -- Silence of the Lambs, for one -- and others that are merely disgusting. Then there's Hannibal, which exists in its own category.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  No tension, no rhythm and no sense of purpose ... unless you count helping "Faces of Death" fans feel more evolved.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  Hannibal definitely grabs at the emotions, but not the one it's after. You come in hoping to have the wits scared out of you and leave with your temper barely in check.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:05
text:
  It is not bad on its own terms, and it is certainly engrossing, but it comes nowhere near the power and sordid glory of the original.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  Harris, who adapted the screenplay, and director Peter Webber are faithful to his book. Strong production values, a lush score and scenic locations work seal the deal.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  What this nasty, brutish movie left me feeling was ashamed to be American. First of all: As a folk archetype, a supervillain for our times, this is the best we can come up with? A vaguely Eurotrash schoolboy who eats people's cheeks?

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  Hannibal Rising is basically a Steven Seagal vigilante movie with a hero who eats the people he kills. At least it's ecofriendly.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  Tilting his elegantly aquiline features downward while hoisting one eyebrow over a dark orb, curling his lips with Grinchian deliberation, he seems to be determined to kill people on the strength of his cologne alone.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  In the finest tradition of TV newsmagazines, Hannibal Lecter's penchant for serial murder turns out to be the result of a traumatic childhood.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  I can't name an actor who could have made young Lecter as interesting as the older one, but Ulliel does not come close.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  Thomas Harris is now hoodwinked by his creation's faux pedigree. He's scripted him a ridiculously Eurotrashy upbringing, one so silly, it'll remind you of Dr. Evil's memory-tripping: "Summers in Rangoon, luge lessons..."

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  If they were going to show how he got to be the brilliant, charming, exquisitely cultured, uh, vicious cannibal psychopath -- couldn't they have come up with something more interesting?

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  You can argue that prequels to great films simply shouldn't be made. But when they are, this is the right way to do it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  Lacking the wit to qualify as a sick joke, the ongoing saga of Hannibal Lecter has become the Grand Guignol equivalent of a shaggy-dog story.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  This Hannibal is a stick-in-the-mud altogether lacking in the wit, gourmet appetites and romantic flair required of any surrogate for Sir Anthony Hopkins.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:47:06
text:
  Director Peter Webber delivers all this with a painfully straight face, and the result is actually less interesting than your average horror movie of the week.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  The result lacks the tenacious bite of [Haneke's] finest work, and one can think of more difficult targets for his unerring aim than the moral indifference of the rich.

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text: Can't we have a little more life in a movie about death?
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  Haneke's technique is almost provocation, and it proves a fascinating intellectual exercise. But while you can admire the construction, you can't live in it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  The film both demands and rewards our close attention, but Haneke is such a master -- his framing so precise, his form so rigorous -- that it sucks you in by default.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  The film remains interesting, if not particularly eye-opening, until it reveals how the characters are related. Then it becomes the sort of sardonic chronicle of upper-middle-class discontentment that Claude Chabrol did better with less portentousness.

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text: It too often feels like Happy End is a bunch of ideas in search of a movie.
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text: "Happy End" is an art film in the classic sense - ambitious, provocative and hard to shake off.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  Happy End will likely go down as a minor film from a major filmmaker, which is enough to make it worth your while if you can take the emotional hit.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  The film proceeds like a melodrama, but you may leave the theater thinking you've just seen the blackest of comedies.

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text: Haneke's work here, as always, is unfailingly morose, haunting and impossible to resist.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  If we're to read anything into the diseased privilege on display, we should assume Haneke is talking about much more than just one family. This is a state-of-modern-Europe morality play.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  The movie belongs to Mr. Trintignant. ... he is both steely and vulnerable in a role in which he has almost no physical movements to perform.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  If "Happy End" is something of a bad-seed nightmare, it turns out to be an unpredictable one, marked by unexpected flashes of warmth, sympathy and blistering humor.

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text: An exceedingly clever, thought-provoking and dark reflection on life, death and family relations
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text: There's an implicit social critique here, as there often is in Haneke's work.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  It's not enough. It's not drama. It's not cinema. It's an endurance test, and there's no reason that anyone should take it.

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text: If you think the title is anything but a grim joke, you don't know Haneke.
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text: Beautifully photographed, well composed, but disappointingly superficial.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
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text: Old Haneke is back with a vengeance.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:04
text:
  Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke has made many a masterpiece. Sadly, his latest isn't one of them. Yet this cinematic poke in the eye about an upper class family imploding still exerts a perverse fascination.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  In its last third, The Goblet of Fire builds to a climax of such overpowering dread that you might just forget the rest. Harry grows up in an instant, and the film does, too.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  What will allow the remaining films to prosper, is the words that we hear at the start, from an elderly caretaker: "Bloody kids."

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Goblet of Fire is more effective in these smaller, more intimate moments than in the bloated bombast of its larger set pieces.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  The real hero of the fourth Harry Potter film isn't the teenage wizard but screenwriter Steve Kloves, who has magically transformed J.K. Rowling's bloated, 734-page novel into a more swiftly paced, entertaining script.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Kloves has streamlined J. K. Rowling's 700-plus-page opus into cinematic fighting form. And the special effects, which threatened to overwhelm the first two movies, are seamlessly integrated.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  It's always a treat to see what big-studio-franchise cash can produce in the way of top-flight British (and Irish) actors.

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text: Goblet is deliciously dark, wickedly funny and superbly mounted.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire is probably the most engaging Potter film of the series thus far.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  A marked disappointment after Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, this fourth installment in the franchise is a 157-minute holding pattern.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Goblet has enough sense of real kids maturing and believably facing problems to cast some genuine spells.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Frankly, the entire film felt like the cinematic version of Hamburger Helper -- too little meat trying to do too much.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Screenwriter Kloves deserves a tip of the wizard's hat for cutting Rowling's immense tome (636 pages) down to size, and for keeping the story moving despite a surfeit of characters and incidents.

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text: There's ample reason to stay with this series. When Harry says 'I love magic,' you believe it.
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text: Not just an efficient babysitter but a wizard of a movie.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:29
text:
  Whenever it hits its stride, it's a well-acted, vividly executed, full-speed-ahead special-effects extravaganza that puts as much bang as possible into every remaining scene.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  This one is a long, archetypal journey that screeches to a halt a few stops short of its destination.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  The seventh and penultimate entry in the franchise jettisons the humor and fizz of the earlier movies for a much bleaker adult tone.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  The trouble with Harry, as becomes clear from this seventh and penultimate installment, is not that we have lost the plot -- the film is as tangled and as corkscrewed as Bonham Carter's hair -- but that we are in danger of losing everything else.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Deathly Hallows I actually manages to be involving and kind of artful about the boredom and loneliness of heroism.

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text: By any measure, Deathly Hallows is a ripping thriller.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Radcliffe, Watson and Grint, having literally grown up in their characters, are ready for their close-up. They earned it, they deserve it and they nailed it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  The three young leads -- especially Emma Watson, who can do more with a still face than any actress her age -- are all terrific.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Maturing performances are a bonus, but the show's the thing, and by now it seems much richer than any theme park that could ever be made from it.

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text: Every two minutes the action whooshes sideways to someone somewhere else.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 is slower and stranger than any of the previous films, simultaneously raising hopes for a haunting finale while dimming hopes for a magical one.

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text: There is much to love in the latest offering from the Potter franchise.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Beautifully shot but a soulless cash machine, "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1" delivers no dramatic payoff, no resolution and not much fun.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Part 1, like its predecessors, has been made with great care, craft and attention to detail. It is also darker and more foreboding.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Alas, as directed by the returning David Yates, these big chase sequences are the usual compendium of ear-splitting noise and eye-glazing edits -- again, no magic required and none delivered.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  Menacing and meditative, Hallows is arguably the best installment of the planned eight-film franchise, though audiences who haven't kept up with previous chapters will be hopelessly lost.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:34
text:
  There's plenty of humor, plenty of magic and even a bit of romantic stress, although there's also quite a bit of mulling and standing about.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:47
text:
  While the screenplay, structure and rhythm are far from perfect, there's no denying that Jimenez is a talented director of actors and action and that he excels at getting the most out of each shot in terms of production value.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  This is the bleakest Potter installment to date, and under David Yates's choppy direction, Maggie Smith, Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, and David Thewlis have little more than walk-ons.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  By focussing the story on Harry (a leaner and slightly meaner Daniel Radcliffe) and his exploits, Yates dispenses with many of the novel's subplots and is able to push the story forward, ominously foreshadowing the dark times to come.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  The whole Hogwarts faculty is so beautifully cast, it reinforces the American impression that in Britain great actors must be piled up on the side of the road in heaps.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  [The filmmakers] have transformed J.K. Rowling's garrulous storytelling into something leaner, moodier and more compelling, that ticks with metronomic purpose as the story flits between psychological darkness and cartoonish slapstick.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  Director David Yates, who is new to the Potter franchise, moves the story along briskly, at the expense of texture and nuance.

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text: Installment five boosts his [Harry's] rebellion to enjoyable levels of British pique.
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text: Brought me straight back to one of the most enduring of childhood feelings: boredom.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  For all the action -- and there's plenty of it, even if it's only a portion of what was crammed into Rowling's 870 pages -- the most important stuff is what takes place in Harry's head.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  To their credit, new director David Yates and new screenwriter Michael Goldenberg never lose the heart of the tale. Even in the midst of an incredibly thrilling magical battle of whippeting wands, flashing light and furor, they focus on Harry's inner war.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  Yates, especially given the sinister subject matter on hand, does a rather workmanlike job of traffic-managing the action. But some of the magic effects are indeed magical.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  It seems that love and friendship are qualities worth rattling your wand over. En route, we can once more ooh-and-aah at the franchise's impressive array of acting talent.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  Whatever happened to the delight and, if you'll excuse the term, the magic in the Harry Potter series?

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  The darkest and most menacing by far of the five [films, [Phoenix] is also the only series entry outside of the third that feels like the product of a vivid cinematic imagination and not just a slavishly faithful transposition.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  Order Of The Phoenix feels a little too complacent at times, though it has moments of visual wit, and it doesn't soft-pedal the dark mood that has eclipsed the series.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  This is a gangly, confusing sprawl, and yet there are enough patches of beauty scattered throughout that it's impossible to reject it wholesale.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  There's still enough suspense built into the saga to keep us watching, but after five installments, this dazzling box office wizard is slowly running out of tricks.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:48:57
text:
  Performances are more mature, the soundtrack (by Nicholas Hooper) less grandiose, and Yates executes some thrilling set-pieces.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Johnson, Vaughan and Jackson were trailblazers whose fight deserves to be heard, and "Hidden Figures" honors them by turning their story into an audience-pleaser.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Solving institutional discrimination has proven to be harder than getting John Glenn to circle the globe. But Hidden Figures focuses on people, not numbers or policies or platitudes.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Executed with love and peopled with actors who breathe life into their characters ... "Hidden Figures" is precisely the delight it aims to be.

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text: "Hidden Figures" is a feel-good film of incalculable charm.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  "Hidden Figures" tells a singular story in textbook fashion, creating a conventional, feel-good, part-fictional history lesson that would fit in any high school.

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text: Of the formidable threesome, it's Monae who most stands out.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Hidden Figures provides an example of determination and talent triumphing over an unfair and repressive system - something that ... has relevance beyond the decade or the century in which it transpires.

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text: Hidden Figures is a mash-up of the space race and civil rights that serves both well.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  The film hews closely to the facts in important respects, and evokes the outrages of the Jim Crow era, as well as the feverish competition of the space race, through the fascinating work of its extraordinary heroines.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  For all that it tells a highly unusual story, Hidden Figures is a classic Hollywood feel-good movie.

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text: An assertion of humanity and civil rights that is pure cinematic nourishment for soul.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Melfi tends to paint too much in the broad, amiable strokes of a triumph-of-the-week TV movie. But even his earthbound execution can't dim the sheer magnetic pull of an extraordinary story.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Hidden Figures doesn't try to push many artistic boundaries, but it tells its story so well that it doesn't really have to.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  ... a rousing, powerful film that praises and celebrates Black women in a way that's far too uncommon in today's society. Good. They deserve it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer and Janelle Monáe serve both history and the demands of popular entertainment with serious performances that also have a good sense of humour.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  The story that Hidden Figures tells is so irresistible that you can almost forgive the fact that the movie itself is resistibly unoriginal.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  This untold story of African-American females who helped NASA conquer the cosmos features three incredible performances. Corny at times, sure, but you'll still want to stand up and cheer.

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text: Junior high and high school classes across the country should take field trips to see this movie.
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text: Both a dazzling piece of entertainment and a window into history ...
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:05
text:
  The film's made with more heart than art and more skill than subtlety, and it works primarily because of the women that it portrays and the actresses who portray them.

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text: We are not talking postmodern or even modern here, but the best kind of old-fashioned.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:06
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text: A film as rich in its visual presentation as it is in its emotional resonance.
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text: This has loads of craft and honor but never quite takes off.
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text: That lack of identifiable passion is The Horse Whisperer's most vexing problem.
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text: ...there is a magnificence in his treatment here that dignifies what is essentially a soap opera.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:06
text:
  As good as Redford and Scott Thomas are at the outset, they can't convey the passion necessary to make the affair believable.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:16
text:
  Home Alone seems to be nominating itself as a Christmas classic [and] the film does go some way toward getting the job done.

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text: Chris Columbus's junky, rambunctiously funny Home Alone is every kid's anarchical wish come true.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:16
text:
  This holiday contender from John Hughes is too crass, too loud and too violent to be added blithely to Christmas viewing traditions. But it is funny.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:16
text:
  The movie is quite enjoyable as long as it explores the fantasy of a neglected little boy having an entire house of his own to explore and play in, and it still manages to be fun when he exhibits superhuman ingenuity and resourcefulness.

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text: A lot of Hughes' hooray-for-suburban-misfits sensibility survives the milling process.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:16
text:
  The movie devolves into an egregious Three Stooges painfest: We're meant to giggle and clap along with Kevin as the crooks get their heads singed with blowtorches and walk barefoot on glass.

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text: Home Alone delivers enough laughs.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:16
text:
  If Home Alone had limited itself to the things that might possibly happen to a forgotten 8-year-old, I think I would have liked it more.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:16
text:
  Pic boasts wonderful casting, with Culkin a delight as funny, resilient Kevin, and O'Hara bringing a snappy, zesty energy to the role of mom.

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text: There are many instances when the film is too obvious in its attempts at humor.
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text: This is a long way from the inspirations of Airplane!
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text: God help me, I laughed and slapped my thighs.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:19
text:
  One of the pleasures of watching a spoof like this is to spot the references; it's like a quiz on pop art.

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text: Unlike its grim predecessor, there are at least two chuckles this time round.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  "Hostiles" leaves a mark, and Bale gives the kind of smoldering performance that he's used to delivering. In a heavy film, he brings the weight.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  It ... engages the conventions of the genre - including ideas about male honor and egotistical frailty - in ways that feel alert and timely.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Cooper is known for his work with actors - he directed Jeff Bridges to an Oscar in "Crazy Heart" and got good work out of Johnny Depp in "Black Mass" - so it's not surprising that the performances are so strong.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Clearly influenced by classic Westerns, particularly the films of director John Ford, "Hostiles" is a worthy addition to the genre.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Along with another 2017 film, "Wind River," "Hostiles" is a welcome story that deals with Native American issues, though what would be even more welcome is Native Americans telling their own stories on the big screen.

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text: Bale does outstanding work, revealing unexpected depths of intelligence and sensitivity.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  As a handsome-looking western, Hostiles does the trick, but when it tries to probe deeper, it just comes up short.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  This harshly beautiful film is equally about his regeneration during the course of a journey that amounts to a parable of humanity trying to climb out of the pit of endless slaughter and retribution.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Bursts of intense violence are punctuated with sometimes tedious blocks of speeches and silence, but "Hostiles," despite its posture of brutal amorality, has a goodness at its core, of understanding and empathy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  The true standout is the achingly riveting Rosamund Pike. As Rosalie Quaid, Pike becomes a force greater than the script at hand.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  By turns deliberative and chaotic, brutal and merciful, definitely bleak and just maybe hopeful, Hostiles could have ended with its penultimate scene, but it would have been a very different movie.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  For "Hostiles" to fully make sense of its introductory on-screen D.H. Lawrence quotation ... we'd need a tougher, less comforting ending than the one Cooper provides.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  There's a thin line between depicting and inflicting misery, and "Hostiles" crosses the line with its dull characters, its almost-endless tedium and its nihilistic violence.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Bale and Pike find a strange kind of peace within their characters, intuiting how tough it would be to live in a world where death is easier to contemplate than life.

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text: ... a strong, if overlong and over-obvious, western...
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text: It offers shreds of hope, something we can cling to even now.
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text: Bale is as good as he's ever been, especially in the film's final 30 minutes or so.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Hostiles is a towering achievement. As a film, it's fine, but its importance lies in the current moment.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  Cooper intersperses scenes of bloodshed with long scenes where characters have Very Important Things To Say about racism, vengeance and soul-corroding guilt.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:20
text:
  The journey is beautifully shot by cinematographer Masanobu Takayanagi, but Bale's genius is wasted-he's often resigned to looking sullen and straining to recite the clunky dialogue.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  I Don't Feel At Home begins to resemble nothing so much as a Coen brothers imitation with thinner characters.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  Lynskey's shivering rage and Wood's Zen incompetence play off beautifully against each other, and Blair deftly juggles the suspense, humor and social overtones of his script.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  Manages an impressive balancing act in term of its tricky, quicksilver tone, which constantly oscillates between foreboding, menacing, hilarity and absurdity without ever feeling incongruous.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  It's one of those classic Sundance cases of a film being more 'promising' than anything else, although I suspect some will take to this gritty thriller as is, and forgive its flaws completely.

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text: [A] darkly comic thriller ...
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text: The film never loses its strong sense of character
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  Blair's film is like Blood Simple crossed with The Three Stooges-a clever, gritty tale of revenge at its most inept, anchored by performances that brim with goofy fury.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  It would be easy to look at the title of this stellar oddball indie -- a film buckling with distinctly American rage, splattery violence and plenty of dark laughs -- and find a certain timeliness.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  What's delightful about "I Don't Feel at Home in This World Anymore" ... is how consistently the film challenges our worst assumptions about humanity even as it confirms them.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  The film is worth seeing for its interest in eccentric but realistic people, in particular Ruth, who's played with great intelligence and exactness by Lynskey.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  If "No Country for Old Men" depicted a nihilistic sheriff's slow-dawning realization that society as he knew it has lost all sense of reason, then "I don't feel at home in this world anymore" is a young woman's equivalent existential crisis.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:49:45
text:
  The details are less important than the glee with which Blair twists the genre and whips up a concoction that gets increasingly weird, violent and over-the-top.

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text: Ms. Kruger ... leaves a vivid, haunting impression.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  "In the Fade" is a tragedy in three acts, their varying tone and effectiveness held together, however tenuously, by a powerhouse performance.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  [Kruger's] performance sustains interest in the movie when director and co-writer Fatih Akin ("Head-On"), after a highly promising start, takes it into C-grade Liam Neeson territory.

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text: Because of Kruger, In the Fade maintains a daunting level of emotional truth to the last.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  This German political-courtroom-revenge thriller features powerhouse work by Diane Kruger in a flawed package.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  Diane Kruger is in nearly every shot, and her wide, open face with its hollow eyes says more in silence than other actors do in lengthy perorations.

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text: Kruger's performance is grueling, heart-rending.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  To say that the many parts of "In the Fade" are held together by Kruger would be an understatement. As a cocktail of grief, fury and regret, [Dianne Kruger is] a remarkably original protagonist.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  In the Fade shows how the most devastating damage caused by terrorists sometimes isn't to those who die; it's to those who remain alive.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  Diane Kruger's raw, real-as-it-gets performance as a grieving woman bent on vengeance in the German thriller "In the Fade" grabs from the get-go and never lets loose its grip.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  Superb as Ms. Kruger is, there's nothing she can do to keep the taut, heartfelt narrative from going off the rails.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  It offers no easy solutions or quick uplift, yet there's still a movie-of-the-week feel to the proceedings, which seem to offer topicality without context.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  Akin was inspired to tell the story by real-life political events in Germany, and his skills as a filmmaker are such that escape from this unsettling film is not in the cards.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  A starkly intimate character study that swerves into vigilante thriller-dom, the German-language drama In the Fade is a flawed filmgoing experience, but still a viscerally affecting one.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  In the Fade boasts an assured sense of style and a meticulously constructed script. Moments that initially appear to be asides turn out to be essential, and the final scenes of the first two chapters are vivid and startling.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  It asks questions about grief and justice that resonate with these perilous times, all the more so in light of recent terror atrocities the world over.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  Contains many of the same inherent flaws as most movies of this type, and not even the genuinely good and powerful aspects on display are quite able to overcome the more troublesome elements.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  It's not hard to see why Kruger won the Best Actress prize at Cannes this year for her performance, and though the movie around her can at times feel like a standard-issue vengeance saga, the light in those soul windows of hers justifies the effort.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:06
text:
  A solid, sober, moving story and one, that like so many of Akin's pictures, mines the same deep vein - our deep, and apparently inexhaustible reserves of pain and anger, loss and regret.

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text: It's a deeply unsettling film - delivering a message that can't be ignored.
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text: Clever and unsettling.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:26
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:26
text:
  Niccol's zippy direction, joined to a sleek, rich production design, keeps the movie spinning like a shiny toy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:26
text:
  A movie so consistently flat-footed, with pauses between lines of dialogue so vast, that you begin to wonder if the whole thing might be a psychological experiment of some kind.

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text: In Time is so crammed with provocative ideas it begins to feel over-crowded.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:26
text:
  It's a little like Michael Bay's The Island in the way the narrative fails to live up to the promise of its back story.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  Niccol, whose excellent 1997 film Gattaca revealed a similar obsession with human genetics, is an above-average filmmaker who may simply lack the daredevil recklessness a project like this requires.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  'Ticktock on the clock, but the party don't stop.' So sang that great philosopher of our times Ke$ha, whose words are surely gospel to the ruling classes of Andrew Niccol's innocuous dystopian thriller.

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text: Niccol's movie demands a lot of explanation - too much.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
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text: A dystopian allegory with much on its mind and all of it wrong.
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text: Nothing more than a clumsily executed preach-a-thon.
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text: In Time owes as much to The Marx-Engels Reader as Bonnie and Clyde.
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text: All in all, "In Time" is not just stylish but surprisingly substantial.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  Not for one moment does Niccol compromise this serious sci-fi world, and yet he hits all the marks for crowd-pleasing mass entertainment: "In Time" never stops moving.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  The film is beautifully shot in chilly blues and grays by cinematographer Roger Deakins, and Los Angeles locales are well chosen for futuristic effect. Most of the time, however, I found myself glancing at the clock on my own wrist.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  In Time is filled with sly references and obvious puns, as well as sometimes heavy-handed parallels to class warfare.

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text: Happily, there are some laughs en route. More happily yet, a few of them are even intentional.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  Despite a terrific concept that could make for an Inception for 2011, we get Logan's Run meets Robin Hood. And not the good parts.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:27
text:
  Niccol's major problem is timing: action sequences and dialogue scenes lie flat on the screen, while his tendency to play around with pacing means that any tension quickly dissipates. Life's too short.

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text: Is it worth your time? Only if you have time to kill.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:54
text:
  Allen, whose comedies have been among the cheerful tonics of recent years, is astonishingly assured in his first drama.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  The Coen Brothers do provide enough of a diversion with bits and pieces of wacko casting, and with the deranged details of dress and makeup of their fleeting gargoyles, to make the proceedings at least moderately amusing.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  Smart, silly, splenetic and a bit smug, it's a movie that might put a viewer's teeth on edge were it not for its winning lead performances.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones square off deliciously, but this '30s-style battle of the sexes from the Coen brothers never catches fire.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  No different from most of the other dumb slapstick spoofs that pass for screwball comedy these days.

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text: Inventive and hilarious.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  If you're going to take comic aim at a target as big and obvious as Beverly Hills matrimonial combat, the least you can do is what Joel and Ethan Coen do in their neo-screwball anti-romantic comedy Intolerable Cruelty: spare no ammunition.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  The Coens do an efficient job of stamping their signature grotesquerie on sumptuous Beverly Hills and Las Vegas settings and ladling on gallows humor and malice, sometimes with the verve of early Robert Zemeckis.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
text:
  In its nasty, blackhearted take on contemporary coupling and uncoupling, Intolerable Cruelty has the distant though unmistakable ring of truth.

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text: This dim-witted, mean-spirited and brain-dead calamity should surprise no one.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:50:58
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text: Here's an anomaly: a comedy about smart people.
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text: Too slick but amusing marital farce.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  It delivers broad laughs and tugs at the heartstrings without delving too deep - the very definition of a crowd-pleaser.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  An exuberantly charming French buddy comedy that proves an audience will suspend disbelief and follow an unlikely story as long as it's superbly crafted.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  From "It Happened One Night" to "Trading Places," it's yet another entry in the category of "rich people need ordinary folks to show them how to live it up."

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  A box office phenomenon in France, this crowd-pleasing drama is based on a true story but sticks closely to the template for a Hollywood buddy movie.

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text: The film fulfills its feel-good promise, as long as it's seen as the fairy tale it was meant to be.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  The easygoing posture and strong casting keep The Intouchables from stumbling over vexing questions of race, class and disability.

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text: If you loved "The Bucket List," you'll be exclaiming, "Incroyable!"
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text: More than a little unrealistic.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  Some of the elements in the film are inexplicable and some are undeveloped, but there are a handful of nicely crafted set pieces.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  Movies in which black characters, however nuanced or well meaning, act in subservience to whites, often raise hackles. For me, it all depends on how it's done.

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text: It has warmth, humor and an understated sweetness that is not to be taken for granted.
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text: "The Intouchables" has an element of truth that it never quite recognizes.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  The Intouchables works as a crowd-pleaser not because it's true, but because it's a plausible enchantment.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
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  Two very different men, joined for purely businesslike purposes, finding their way to an intuitive, interdependent and quietly fulfilling union.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  It's the classic odd-couple buddy movie setup, only it'll pull at your heartstrings, whether you want it to or not.

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text: "The Intouchables" is actually quite touchable.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:16
text:
  I checked the production materials for "The Intouchables" and failed to find confirmation that any of this was inspired by 1987's "Disorderlies," in which the Fat Boys push old Ralph Bellamy around to his heart's content.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  Morgan Freeman doesn't play Mandela as much as inhabit the man, in a performance that seems to embody the very transcendence that Mandela himself has come to stand for.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  Loses steam in its last half-hour, but it has obvious virtues -- and it feels heartfelt, a generous elder's film about a generous elder's bequest to the world.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  [T]he epitome of Hollywood filmmaking in ways both good and bad: uplifting, overlong, ambitious in scope but simple in moral vision, well-crafted but inured to irony.

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text:
  Freeman-as-Mandela is an actor all dressed up with no place to go -- at least, nowhere we didn't already know he was headed.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  A noble and compassionate work that in its later scenes manages successfully to invest our emotions in the triumph of an important - if overlong! - sporting victory.

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text: Morgan Freeman's portrayal of Nelson Mandela creates a superb moment in time on the movie screen.
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text: Anthony Peckham's script is formulaic, woodenly reverent, and devoid of real dramatic tension.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  A win-win situation in which a mainstream feature works equally well as stirring entertainment and a history lesson about a remarkable convergence of sports and statesmanship.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  Morgan Freeman's performance as Nelson Mandela in Invictus is, like Clint Eastwood's film as a whole, constructed of deliberate decisions and never feels false.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  What Eastwood has done is to assemble a cast of American and South African actors and allow them to create something moving, exciting, and improbably true.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  The story of how Nelson Mandela chose the white-supported national rugby team, the Springboks, to become a symbol of national reconciliation is uncharacteristically optimistic for Eastwood.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  Depicts an unlikely intersection of sports and leadership in ways that manage to be inspiring and insightful without ever becoming schmaltzy or preachy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  It's never less than worthy and entertaining, but the importance of Invictus doesn't broaden as it goes along. It narrows.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  As always, Eastwood brings solid craftsmanship to the proceedings, with direction that allows the actors to breathe while remaining alert to small details that speak of greater wisdom.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:22
text:
  Eastwood's modest approach to these momentous events shames the usual Hollywood showboating. In a rare achievement, he's made a film that truly is good for the soul.

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text: A work of flawed majesty.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  Convinces me as nothing else so far that I have reached the point of diminishing returns with movies that pretend to be profound by having their pulpy, banal stories told backwards and sideways and upside-down.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  There is nothing moral about Irreversible -- only sneeringly superior and nihilistic, like Johnny Rotten at his most fatuous.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  Is there a point to this spew, a cry against the mongrel violence of men? Or is Noe merely a sadist who enjoys inflicting ugly, pitiless images on his audience?

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  It's a gritty, vicious assault on the senses, one that very nearly evaporates due to writer-director Gaspar Noé's short-changing of the narrative.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  At once overwhelming and inconsequential, harrowing and banal, gimmicky and humourless, overheated and undercooked, this mega-hyped French movie may represent the ultimate triumph of cynicism in the global trade in non-English-language movies.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  So formally and stylistically aggressive that this aspect overpowers what it has to say, which isn't much.

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text: An integrated work whose form clearly mirrors its content.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  The reverse chronology makes Irreversible a film that structurally argues against rape and violence, while ordinary chronology would lead us down a seductive narrative path toward a shocking, exploitative payoff.

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text: A genuine outlaw work of art.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:23
text:
  Extremely difficult to endure, and if you choose to endure it, it could leave you feeling angry and upset. Nevertheless, this is serious filmmaking, and Noe is a gifted filmmaker.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  [Tarantino] wanted to give Grier a role worthy of her, and he has. If only he'd given her a movie worthy of her as well.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  The tale is filled with funny, gritty Tarantino lowlife gab and a respectable body count, but what is most striking is the film's gallantry and sweetness.

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text: Tarantino's finest, most mature movie to date.
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text: An entertaining diversion, but not a masterpiece.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  Surprisingly, Tarantino displays less confidence assembling it than he did in the earlier film. At more than two hours, it's simply too long, or at least it seems so.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  Quentin Tarantino puts together a fairly intricate and relatively uninvolving money-smuggling plot, but his cast is so good that you probably won't feel cheated.

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text: A leisurely and easygoing diversion that goes down easy enough but is far from compelling.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  Scene by scene, Jackie Brown is amusing, but after two hours, it seems sluggish, and at that point still has a half-hour to go.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  Between Jackson's opining and De Niro's hopeless alibis when he messes up, Jackie is good for a bundle of bloody ho-ho-hos.

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text: It's like a scuzz-bucket film noir directed by Stanley Kubrick at his most static-mesmeric.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:51
text:
  Beyond the grasp of most directors, this is tour de force stuff -- definitely meriting the price of admission and almost worth the three-year wait.

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text: This is the movie that proves Tarantino is the real thing, and not just a two-film wonder boy.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  While the killer clown Pennywise is the center of the film's marketing campaign, the image on the film's poster, it's the kids in this surprisingly robust adaptation of Stephen King's novel who give "It" its center.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  Even those unfamiliar with the book might wonder why this kids-only manifestation of IT feels strangely toothless on the horror front.

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text: If you're looking for a film that's guaranteed to have you gripping your seat, this is "It."
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  What we're left with is a solid but relatively conventional horror movie, above average but overlong.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  If a blood-gushing horror film were to mate with a whacking good screwball farce, this would be the gripping, R-rated result.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  I can't say the first half of It scared me senseless, but it built up enough goodwill toward its young heroes to make me curious about what they'll be like in their grown-up incarnations.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  This new It has more on its mind, and gives more body and voice to King's ideas of childhood anxieties and the corrosive power of fear.

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text: What is it about clowns, anyway?
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  "It" fills its 135-minute run time with enough impressive visuals to keep its audience rapt, if not as emotionally invested as the source material deserves.

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text: It is [a] study in trauma to match the best of them.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  It's such a great performance that you wish Muschietti had eased up on the CGI and just let Skarsgård do the talking.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  It, on the page or the screen, is a complex mix of coming-of-age elements with ideas about childhood fears, memory and human nature - good and bad.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  Horror's power here does not come from monstrous imagery, but from the encounter with evil... Muschietti seems to miss that, going for teeth over terror from the get-go.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  I'm writing this not so much as a critic but as an ordinary moviegoer, experiencing Proustian transport via an old-fashioned scary movie executed by a team of filmmakers and actors at the top of their game.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  I was so surprised by how funny the film was. It worked because you start to care more about these characters and their individual struggles.

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text: You'll scream bloody murder!
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  The movie is not terrifying but blandly edifying; its scares, foreshadowed as if by telegram, are delivered less effectively than its life lessons.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
text:
  Muschietti's It strikes a nice balance between sleepover-ready gross-outs (tiptoeing through raw sewage, for example) and tender coming-of-age storytelling.

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text: [It's] themes survive the mayhem that pops up with metronomic regularity, but just barely.
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text: Doesn't cut very deep and isn't very scary.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:51:58
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  The fast-moving 124-minute film engenders enormous suspense as the shark attacks a succession of people.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  Jaws is a grisly film, often ugly as sin, which achieves precisely what it set out to accomplish-scare the hell out of you.

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text: Perhaps the most perfectly constructed horror story in our time.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  It is a coarse-grained and exploitive work which depends on excess for its impact. Ashore it is a bore, awkwardly staged and lumpily written.

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text: Steven Spielberg's mechanical thriller is guaranteed to make you scream on schedule.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  Spielberg may be the man who created the new Hollywood, but in his first megahit he summed up what was best in the old -- the humor, the perversity, and the storytelling integrity of Alfred Hitchcock.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  I don't think there's a more exciting talent at work right now than Spielberg, an authentic moviemaking prodigy, and perhaps his worst problem from June 20, 1975, on will be preventing success from making a nervous or artistic wreck of him.

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text: What this movie is about, and where it succeeds best, is the primordial level of fear.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  A near Hitchcockian exercise in transference of guilt and making the audience pay for its illicit pleasures.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  When it comes to this kind of thriller, no movie has been able to top Jaws, although many have tried. And, as the years go by, it seems increasingly unlikely that anything will come close.

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text: Director Steven Spielberg has immeasurably improved the bestselling Peter Benchley potboiler novel.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  Spielberg had paced the film beautifully so that one is always on edge, tensed for those scary moments that turn out to be false alarms, and left somehow totally unprepared for the real shocks.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
text:
  Jaws is a sensationally effective action picture, a scary thriller that works all the better because it's populated with characters that have been developed into human beings we get to know and care about.

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text: It's no wonder a generation of holidaymakers still thinks twice before stepping into the water.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:23
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:35
text:
  You may also become permanently sick of goats. But after Jean, a rich residue of themes and images remains -- much as after reading a long but great novel or Greek tragedy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:35
text:
  The point of the film is not to create suspense, but to capture the relentlessness of human greed, the feeling that the land is so important the human spirit can be sacrificed to it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:55
text:
  With this 1961 film Truffaut comes closest to the spirit and sublimity of his mentor, Jean Renoir, and the result is a masterpiece of the New Wave.

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text: There is joy in the filmmaking that feels fresh today and felt audacious at the time.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:55
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:55
text:
  Truffaut's third film may not look the masterpiece it seemed 40-odd years ago, but it remains one of his most enjoyable movies.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:57
text:
  Damiens floats this enterprise with just the right amount of harried Everyman appeal. De France hits a bit too abrasive a screwball note at first, but her performance gains charm in equal measure to its chemistry with her co-star.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:52:57
text:
  A charming tale of multiple quid pro quos that's as light-hearted as its subject matter is deadly serious.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  At least at two hours -- brief by modern superhero standards -- Justice League doesn't overstay its welcome. But like most all-star games, it's better as fantasy than it is reality. Level your expectations to the league minimum.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  Everyone involved in making "Justice League," and everyone who will eventually see it, deserved something better than this.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  Gal Gadot's Wonder Woman got the tone right last time, which suggested things were looking up. But without director Patty Jenkins around, she's subject to the dismissive male gaze for which Hollywood's long been criticized.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  While Justice League endeavors to save the world -- and plant the seeds to do so again -- this is the sort of film, given DC's track record, that should celebrate small victories where it can find them.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  I went into Justice League with high hopes but low expectations. It exceeded the expectations, but didn't rise to the level of the hopes.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  A film in which solid storytelling is neglected in favor of grandiose but ultimately empty special effects.

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text: A C-grade B-movie wherein all involved fully satisfy their contractual obligations.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  The erratic and fatigue-inducing "Justice League" will leave moviegoers wondering where to assign the blame - and where to find the exits.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  The "new and improved" model looks claustrophobically like an over-priced TV pilot, and not in a good way. Say what you want about the tenets of brooding, art-school-fascist superhero worship, but at least it's an ethos.

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text: The movie is a clumsy steamer trunk of continuing story lines and returning stars .
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  The next time these characters band together, perhaps they will do so with stronger backgrounds, a real sense of purpose, and a story that's more than a cobbled-together mess.

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text: Justice League is a crowd-pleaser only if you're part of a comics-obsessed crowd.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
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text: Even the strength of Superman couldn't turn this ship all the way around.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  There's some welcome levity, some genuine conversation (as when Bats and Diana share a drink), and a few moments that feel like really good comic book panels (especially mid-credits). For some, that may be enough.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  Miller's weird, antiheroic Flash is one of the most refreshing breezes to blow through Justice League, making three years seem a long time to wait for the character's 2020 stand-alone film.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  The film is marginally better than last year's sour and dispiriting Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, but that's like saying that dental surgery is preferable to passing a kidney stone.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  Jason Momoa as Aquaman and Ezra Miller as Flash are bright spots in this fractured coming together of DC's heavy hitters, but the film takes so many happy pills it almost overdoses on them. Sometimes shadows need to fall to show us what to be scared of.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  A pointless flail of expensive (yet, somehow, cheap-looking) CGI that no amount of tacked-on quips, or even Gadot's luminescent star power, can rescue.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  Justice League is no magic carpet ride, no matter how hard it strives for multi-superhero awesomeness.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:24
text:
  The filmmaking is just slipshod, with action sequences that swing in and out of coherence and dialogue scenes framed for maximum awkwardness.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:40
text:
  It was Chaplin's first full-length film, and the action is perhaps too episodic; he hadn't yet mastered the structural demands of the long form. But several of the episodes... are sublime.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:40
text:
  As always, Chaplin's opulent Victorian sentimentality is made palatable both by the amazing grace of his pantomimic skills and the balancing presence of harsh reality.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:53:40
text:
  While it will move people to uproarious laughter and keep them in a state of uneasing delight, it also will touch their hearts and win sympathy, not only for the star, but for his leading woman, and little Jackie Coogan.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
text:
  Kubrick makes the most of flashback and dream sequences, and a surreal climactic fight in a warehouse full of mannequins.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
text:
  A noirish thriller with experimental trimmings that holds back most of the emotions, sensitive as well as otherwise, that threatened to make Kubrick's first feature mawkish.

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text: Kubrick's low-key lensing occasionally catches the flavor of the seamy side of Gotham life.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
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text: An engrossing little adventure.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
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text: Faultless and enjoyable.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
text:
  Characteristically Kubrick in both its mechanistic coldness and its vision of human endeavour undone by greed and deceit, this noir-ish heist movie is nevertheless far more satisfying than most of his later work.

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text: Arguably Stanley Kubrick's most perfectly conceived and executed film.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:05
text:
  [The film] at first tends to be somewhat confusing, soon settles into a tense and suspenseful vein which carries through to an unexpected and ironic windup.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  The King's Speech is a warm, wise film -- the best period movie of the year and one of the year's best movies, period.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  OK, sure, "The King's Speech" obviously is feel-good Oscar bait, but who cares? It's also a terrific movie with two fantastic performances at its heart.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  Let's say it without equivocation: Colin Firth deserves an Oscar for his lead role in The King's Speech as the stammering King George VI.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  Put aside the finery, eloquent dialogue and sublime acting, and you have a marvelous odd couple farce featuring Bertie and Lionel, a timid, tongue-tied king and a casual, self-assured commoner.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  Not merely a spot-on period piece; it's also a heartfelt study in the shadings of courage, a film about duty and friendship that's often warmly funny and sometimes painful to watch.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  The film is richly rooted, with splendid trappings, including pea-soup fogs. For all the pomp and protocol, it's an intimate story about a scared man who must find his voice if he is to rise, in regal stature, above his epaulets.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  A fully satisfying and uplifting period piece that achieves its dramatic potential without sacrificing historical accuracy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  The King's Speech is the epitome of prestige cinema, an impeccably crafted and emotionally compelling drama that deserves the many laurels it surely will receive.

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text: The King's Speech is simultaneously cozy and majestic.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
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text: The King's Speech is the rare work of art that's also an immense crowdpleaser.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  A powerful back story does not necessarily improve a movie, but The King's Speech has a pretty irresistible one. It might even end with a dramatic night at the Oscars in February.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
text:
  When you're telling a story about people as well-documented as the English royals, it's difficult to achieve a fresh outlook; and unfortunately Mr. Hooper and screenwriter David Seidler don't quite succeed.

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text: In The King's Speech, Colin Firth once again reminds us of what a great actor he is.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
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text: A charming, personal period drama.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:23
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  Overstuffed, over-busy and overlong, "Kingsman: The Golden Circle" is an exhausting, patience-trying assault that doesn't know when to say when.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  If the first Kingsman was a work of lol-nothing-matters provocation with a real mean streak, the second is a work of lol-nothing-matters laziness...

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  Exaggerated, cartoonish violence, deliberately cheesy CGI, and a buoyant pop soundtrack make this a stylish if overstuffed romp.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  If you thought that the anal sex joke at the end of 'Kingsman: The Secret Service' was the funniest bit, you're in luck.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  In almost every way, Vaughn's new Kingsman is an unwieldly inflation of the original, although not so much by single-minded design as if by studio committee.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  Kingsman: The Golden Circle ultimately delivers enough highlights along the way to merit the return engagement.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  110 minutes or so in the middle of this 141-minute hero sandwich ... are a guily, guilty, guilty-your-honor pleasure.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  The movie is too long, too violent, too silly-too everything. Yet for those who enjoyed the original Kingsman, it is a more than adequate second act. To put it another way: First time satire, second time farce.

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text: In this ultraviolent farce many innocent people suffer, especially in the audience.
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text: What a mess it is.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  For the most part, the movie is too busy with its ungainly, underwhelming plotting to be even stupidly fun.

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text: "Golden Circle" is too scattered and way overstuffed.
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text: It pulls off the impressive feat of feeling both hyperactive and lazy.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  The best moments are actually when it pays homage to the first film. The worst are when it takes itself too seriously, the trap of the very spy films it was designed to mock.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  If the first played like a simultaneous homage to and parody of Sean Connery's Bond, the second feels like a straight riff on the Roger Moore era: bloated, self-conscious, and smug, with only the occasional flash of nasty wit to put the edge on.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  It's James Bond on laughing gas and too much of everything. Those who hated the first film will be double irritated. Screw 'em. True Kingsman fans will appreciate that the sequel lays on the violence, sex and politics three times thicker.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  If a white towel had been handy as I screened the punishingly long and dreadful Kingsman: The Golden Circle, I would have thrown it at the screen and made a wish: Please make it stop.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  [Matthew] Vaughn hasn't only run out of things to say but people to hate, and without that underlying aggression, the movie feels like it's just going through the motions. Better luck next time, bruv.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
text:
  "Kingsman" is essentially a live-action cartoon, one that aims for an audible reaction and little else. That may not be the world's loftiest goal, but whether it results in a gagging eww or a chuckle, it's a plan that usually succeeds.

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text: Bodaciously entertaining ...
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:44
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  What Benton achieved with his screenplay he intensified with his direction. Each performance is a minor miracle of perfection - not only Hoffman's and Streep's, which dominate the picture, but each of the supporting roles as well.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  Kramer Vs. Kramer is a perceptive, touching, intelligent film about one of the raw sores of contemporary America, the dissolution of the family unit.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  Benton gives his film its depth and complexity by challenging the audience's preconceptions and snap opinions at every turn.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  A triumph of partisan pathos, a celebration of father-son bonding that astutely succeeds were tearjerkers like "The Champ" so mawkishly failed.

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text: A high class modern weepie.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
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text: Misogynistic claptrap.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
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text: Kramer vs. Kramer is greatly enriched by its exceptional cast.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  Kramer vs. Kramer is definitely a movie to watch together -- your kids may well seek shelter under your arm, glad to know their own families enjoy more peace.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  It's an interesting movie to look back on for its attitudes: In the guise of being a consciousness-raiser it plumps for male tenderness and demonizes the mother who can't recognize how far her workaholic ex-hubbie has come.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
text:
  Kramer vs. Kramer wouldn't be half as good as it is -- half as intriguing and absorbing -- if the movie had taken sides.

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text: Benton's direction must first be praised for his choice of actors and his collaboration with them.
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text: [A] fine, witty, moving, most intelligent adaptation of Avery Corman's best-selling novel.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:54:53
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text: Good show, lads.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
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text: Kingsman ... keeps finding new ways to surprise with well-trodden territory.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  Vaughn packs the frames with eye-popping detail, and there's an infectious creative energy to his violent action sequences, but the film's hatefulness is hard to stomach.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  If you can forgive the failings for at least some of the two-plus-hour running time, "Kingsman" serves up its share of entertaining froth.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  Kingsman is not a film for gentlemen. It's for us, the great unwashed, bloodthirsty audience. It's an immaculately engineered, laugh-out-loud appeal to our own depravity.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  Kingsman: The Secret Service is a lively, dashing and amusing motion picture that smartly spoofs and slyly celebrates the James Bond spy-film franchise.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  Frequently reactionary, bordering on retrograde, bordering on reprobate. But it's also a tremendous amount of fun.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  If ever there was a semi-entertaining movie that sabotages itself with tastelessness and misogyny, this is it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  Based on a comic book, Kingsman occasionally betrays its roots but Vaughn has adapted it to fit his unique approach.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  The problem is that Mr. Vaughn has no interest in, or perhaps understanding of, violence as a cinematic tool. He doesn't use violence; he squanders it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  The set pieces manage to be both bold and old. A bloody shoot-out set in a Kentucky church, however, is just cold.

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text: Camping it up, Jackson is hilarious.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  It sounds fun in theory, I guess, and there are some entertaining moments of rude irreverence here and there but the giddiness gets a bit tedious after a while.

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text: It relishes low-class ugliness.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  It's not necessarily trying to reinvent Bond, so much as reminding us that there are other games in town. And they can be just as enjoyable to play.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  The film tries so hard to be a clever, deconstructive meta-tale, forever winking at the audience about its silly story, that it metas itself into insignificance.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  "Kingsman: The Secret Service" is a youth-quaking riff bursting with affection for vintage 007 action and urbanity, yet one that feels wholly organic in the way it goes about selling this appreciation to a younger crowd.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:06
text:
  Any sense of triumph is purely at the level of stuntcraft. The rest feels less than the sum of the moving parts.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  A parlor game has already begun as to whether the supreme acting revelation in L.A. Confidential is provided by Mr. Crowe, Mr. Spacey or Mr. Pearce.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  Hanson's achievement as director cannot be overrated. He moves swiftly from scene to scene, yet he allows the actors space to define their characters. Producers will be adding his name to their most-wanted list.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  You have to pay close attention to follow the double-crossing intricacies of the plot, but the reward for your work is dark and dirty fun.

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text: Stop reading. Put this review on hold until after you've seen L.A. Confidential.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  There are so many things to enjoy here. Director Curtis Hanson... keeps a complex story coherent and absorbing -- if bloody at the end.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  At the center of the movie are three mismatched cops with separately fueled ambitions, ferociously played by Kevin Spacey, Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce. Their combined charisma almost smashes through the screen.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  Spicy and boiling-hot, this sensational early-'50s crime drama is a morality play disguised as pulp fiction -- a sprawling saga of corruption and redemption set against a flashy West Coast backdrop.

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text: Hanson has made the film noir setting virtually another starring character.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  This may be the best movie of the year; it's definitely one of the greatest crime films of all time.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  This movie restores genre elements to a level of potency that's disturbing, satisfying, and rare as hell.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  L.A. Confidential is a movie bull's-eye: noir with an attitude, a thriller packing punches. It gives up its evil secrets with a smile.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  With its plot that zigs and zags like knife slashes, its cynicism stoked to the melting point, the movie brings the thrill of corruption crackingly to life.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  The multi-layered plot keeps you riveted for the best possible reason -- you can't start to imagine where the story is leading you, and the fiercely intense payoffs are repeatedly worth the extra concentration.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  Against all odds, L.A. Confidential succeeds brilliantly, right down to Jerry Goldsmith's score, which evokes his haunting theme from Chinatown without being haunted by it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  Hanson delivers something ever rarer in film culture, not a new film noir but an old-fashioned total movie, somehow of a single piece.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  L.A. Confidential isn't quite up there with Chinatown, but it's the closest thing to come down the Santa Monica Freeway in the last 23 years.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:07
text:
  As the emotional nexus, a Veronica Lake lookalike trapped in a web of male desires, Basinger is arguably the pick of a perfect cast. Subtle, shocking, compelling and immensely assured.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:29
text:
  The characters are compelling enough to avoid turning into major clichés, while stars Camelia Jordana and Daniel Auteuil prove to be a winning pair.

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text: "La La Land" is a special, special experience, and movies like this don't come around too often.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  Working together for the third time, Stone and Gosling quickly establish an easy rapport with one another, their surpassingly attractive physical features the perfect foils for Chazelle's aesthetic approach of naturalism and extreme stylization.

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text: Almost anyone who happens to see it will be converted by minute three. Guaranteed.
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text: At a time when musicals seldom grace the big screen, "La La Land" is practically a miracle.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  Chazelle has reinvigorated the big-screen musical by embracing the present while paying tribute to the past, by balancing irony and innocence, novelty and nostalgia.

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text: It is joyful. It leaps off the screen.
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text: This is a joy to watch, with a rhapsody of love and lightness in the performances.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  La La Land is a worthy showcase for the magnificent Stone's talents, and she is heartbreaking throughout.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  It asks what the characters of a Cinemascope musical would have to dream about, and answers with a finale that lifts the film to a higher plane of wish fulfillment and melancholy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  The musical numbers are distinctly Minnellian in their sense of lovers being swept away by the whirlwind of their mutual regard.

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text: I have yet to meet someone who's watched it and come out in a bad mood.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  If you haven't already fallen for this gauzy romp through the city of Angels at this point, you surely will during the last scene, with its bittersweet homage to the way times goes by.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  Beyond the dazzling sheen of dance numbers and heartfelt solos, there's a deeper subtext-one that may be as old as time, yet feels so acutely modern and of this moment.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  It's just gorgeous, like a flipbook made of dreamy vintage postcards that are somehow about contemporary life in Los Angeles.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  Chazelle is a born filmmaker, and he doesn't settle for rehashing familiar bits from musicals we already love. He's too busy giving us reasons to fall for this one.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  People say the movie musical is dead. Tell that that to your tapping toes while watching the enchantment of La La Land, one of the year's best films.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
text:
  The movie comes off as a well-intended tribute to the fabulous MGM musicals of the great Vincente Minnelli, made by people who have never seen one.

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text: It's simply wonderful.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
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text: This is one crowd-pleaser worth getting behind.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
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text: A toasty splash of sound and color .
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:33
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
text:
  Henri Decae's (1915-1987) marvelously precise cinematography, inspiringly attuned to Melville's tragic vision of the lives and deaths of the most stoical criminals in the noir genre, is alone worth the price of admission.

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text: Stylish, meticulous and moody, thanks largely to the work of cinematographer Henri Decae.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
text:
  If you ever wanted to know how to look good wearing a trenchcoat, lighting a cigarette, handling a revolver, drinking a whiskey or overpowering an armed guard, Jean-Pierre Melville's 1970 gangster drama is your guide.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
text:
  Melville's special achievement was to relocate the American gangster film in France, and to incorporate his own steely poetic and philosophical obsessions.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
text:
  The antidote to every square tough-guy caper you've ever seen, and the inspiration for many great ones.

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text: A dazzling epic of love, guns, gangsters and cigarettes.
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text: One well-choreographed, beautifully shot and definitely cool cops-and-robbers film.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
text:
  A minor classic, mainly for reasons besides its crime story plot -- namely, the urbane fatalism of its cast and the overall mood of inevitability that hangs over every scene.

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text: There is one cool, understated scene after another.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
text:
  The movie wraps itself around you like a pleasurably constricting vise, so that long before its climactic heist ... you find yourself rapt, on the edge of your seat, unable to blink.

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text: The director's penultimate work.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:55:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:47
text:
  Laughs are rather few and far between in this episode, which, at least, has the merit of clocking in at only 92 minutes and flies by quickly enough.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  The most objectionable thing is Gary Oldman's performance, baroque in its awfulness. Almost as bad is the director's attempt to construct a visual style -- and, for that matter, characters -- by piling one mannerism on top of another.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  Besson fails to make much of New York's visual potential, and lazily asks that Leon's expertise be taken on trust. The shallowness was to be expected; the slackness is surprising.

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text: One pretty awesome action movie.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
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text: It is stylish, darkly humorous, and almost artsy in its approach to the genre.
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text: The Professional is strictly amateur-hour.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  Like Quentin Tarantino, Besson has a singular style and directorial sensibility that keeps you watching.

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text: Ultimately seems at once too deranged and too mechanical.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  While a wisp of a plot involving a crooked cop drives Léon from setpiece to setpiece, it's the central relationship between hitman Jean Reno and young charge Natalie Portman that makes the movie so memorable.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  Mathilda is like no New York City girl-child I've ever seen riding the subway. And I couldn't take my eyes off her.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  The sheer craziness and excessiveness of the movie -- no crazier, perhaps, than many of the American action movies it copies -- never finds a center of gravity.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  Besson has a gift for amoral sleaziness that should serve him well over here. In his very first American film, he has gone straight for the smarm.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  This is a Cuisinart of a movie, mixing familiar yet disparate ingredients, making something odd, possibly distasteful, undeniably arresting out of them.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  Always at the back of my mind was the troubled thought that there was something wrong about placing a 12-year-old character in the middle of this action.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:56:54
text:
  Ultimately, like La Femme Nikita, there may be less here than meets the eye. But what does meet the eye is pretty darn thrilling.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:12
text:
  By concentrating on the often frustrating, funny relationship between the three men, the film gains in humour but loses some of the momentum and panache which distinguished the original.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:12
text:
  You've got your chases, you've got your explosions, you've got your destruction of property and death of innocent bystanders -- all this and bonding too.

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text: A film with the same off-center invention and wild energy as the original.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:12
text:
  It's fun stuff -- crackling, playfully escapist summer fare that doesn't make you feel taken advantage of later.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:12
text:
  Loaded with the usual elements, Lethal Weapon 2 benefits from a consistency of tone that was lacking in the first film.

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text: The story, which proceeds with inevitability, is enlivened by Donner's rousing action sequences.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
text:
  Unfortunately, while Black's assembled all the parts, he's not locked in the conflict early enough, and the good scenes simply aren't enough good to make up for the plot's too-late lock.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
text:
  [Gibson and Glover] make a great team, and some of their early adventures are exciting. But the film runs out of gas as it turns into an extended chase sequence.

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text: In this classy all-action thriller, Mel Gibson oozes charm the way his victims ooze blood.
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text: From a distance, Lethal Weapon might appear generic, but a closer look reveals something special.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
text:
  As action-adventure, it's pointlessly puerile, a movie where the heroes are so childish they try to one-up each other with fancy shots at the pistol range.

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text: At center is the first big, juicy mythic-hero part Gibson has had since Mad Max.
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text: Empty glitz in search of a style.
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text: A vivid, visceral reminder of just how exciting an action film can be.
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text: What a concept! Mad Max meets The Cosby Show
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text: A pistol-packing, snap-crackling blow-out.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
text:
  I'm a guy who is bored by shootouts and chase scenes. I've seen it all. But this movie thrilled me from beginning to end.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:13
text:
  Lethal Weapon is a film teetering on the brink of absurdity when it gets serious, but thanks to its unrelenting energy and insistent drive, it never quite falls.

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text: ... an amusing movie, viciously well-written and brilliantly acted.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
text:
  The funniest and most gracefully written, acted and directed dysfunctional-American-family farce comedy of the year thus far.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
text:
  Unlike so many films that force life lessons down your throat, Little Miss Sunshine weaves them into the fabric of the story.

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text: Hilarious, profane and as much fun as you are going to have in a theater this summer.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
text:
  ... this isn't much more than a glorified sitcom, but it deftly dramatizes our conflicting desires for individuality and an audience to applaud it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
text:
  All indie-movie families may start out unhappy in their own way, but by the time the final credits roll, everyone remains complacent, confident of their brood's superiority.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
text:
  If you think you've seen it all before in a family road movie, you owe it to yourself to see what happens when somebody actually comes up with a few bright ideas.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
text:
  Dayton and Faris satirize our win-win culture, but they don't miss a trick promoting Little Miss Sunshine for the winner's circle.

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text: You'll be delighted, if a bit breathless from laughing, to be along for the ride.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
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text: Little Miss Sunshine makes you want to gather all the kooks in your life and take a road trip.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:40
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
text:
  Guy Hamilton's direction lacks enthusiasm and pace, while even the art direction -- long the Bond films' real secret weapon -- seems to have fallen to a shrunken budget.

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text: The only thing about Live and Let Die to weather the test of time is its title song.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
text:
  Setting aside an allright speedboat spectacular over land and water, the film is both perfunctory and predictable -- leaving the mind free to wander into the question of its overall taste. Or lack of it.

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text: It doesn't have the wit and it doesn't have the style of the best Bond movies.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
text:
  Live and Let Die has been especially well photographed and edited, and it makes clever and extensive use of its good title song, by Paul and Linda McCartney.

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text: The comic book plot meanders through a series of hardware production numbers.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
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text: Two hours long and anti-climactic, but Bond fans won't be disappointed.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:57:57
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text: Confused plot and digressive globe trotting notwithstanding, the best Bond in years.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
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text: As with other Bond movies, the locations in The Living Daylights are more remarkable than its plot.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
text:
  In The Living Daylights, Dalton establishes his claim to the role; in the films that will follow, he'll have the chance to dig deeper.

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text: Dalton, with his athletic sort of Brit-yuppie work ethic and romantic streak, comes out all right.
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text: The result is a film that is not so much bad as mechanical and uptight.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
text:
  Has there ever been a weaker Bond villain than Whitaker? A more fatuous performance than Joroen Krabbe's Koskov? A less endearing Bond girl than Maryam D'Abo's Kara?

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
text:
  Dalton shows a serious side that's been missing from the role since Sean Connery's earliest 007 days. And as a whole, the new picture is less of a special-effects affair than most of Roger Moore's Bond films.

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text: Expect the expected.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
text:
  This Bond is as fast on his feet as with his wits; an ironic scowl creases his face; he's battle ready yet war-weary.

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text: A snazzy spy thriller.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
text:
  The raw materials of the James Bond films are so familiar by now that the series can be revived only through an injection of humor. That is, unfortunately, the one area in which the new Bond, Timothy Dalton, seems to be deficient.

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text: I feel just rotten about this, but I'm afraid I've outgrown James.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:10
text:
  Timothy Dalton, the fourth Bond, registers beautifully on all key counts of charm, machismo, sensitivity and technique.

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text: The picture has a rare power, a garbled but often moving push toward an off-beat communication.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:18
text:
  Where Nabokov was witty, Kubrick is sometimes merely snide, but fine performances (particularly from Peter Sellers, as the ominous Clare Quilty) cover most of the rough spots.

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text: Far more satisfying than his later works (one hesitates to call them mere movies).
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:35
text:
  It is hard to think of a picture, aimed and constructed as this one was, doing any more or any better or leaving one feeling any more exposed to the horror of war than this one does.

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text: Over-long and laden with the usual national stereotypes.
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text: A solid and stunning war epic.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:35
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text: Love and Death is an almost total treat.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:50
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:50
text:
  Love and Death has been mapped out as a fully thought-through film. It's a lot more mature than the anything-goes style of earlier Allen movies like Bananas.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:50
text:
  Besides being one of Woody's most consistently witty films, "Love and Death" marks a couple of other advances for Mr. Allen as a film maker and for Miss Keaton as a wickedly funny comedienne.

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text: Its best moments burn with irony.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:52
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:52
text:
  Lord of War has a hip, gonzo energy to it and it's often transfixing to watch and listen to. But it's finally just as empty as the man it's about.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:52
text:
  Niccol is no stranger to hot-button issues, but he outdoes his previous efforts by injecting this satire of war profiteering in the Halliburton age with a wicked arsenic wit.

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text: A caustic satire masquerading as an action adventure.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:52
text:
  There are the makings here of a really good feature or an even better documentary, but as it stands, Lord of War is not quite either.

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text: Lord of War tosses grenades and then fearfully runs from them.
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text: It's just a well-intended essay, a movie when necessary but not necessarily a movie.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:52
text:
  His heavy-handedness and inability to humanize and explain his hero mean that even the choir Niccol is preaching to won't be moved by Lord of War.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:58:52
text:
  Even though Niccol sometimes puts unnecessary homilies in the mouths of his characters, he mostly pulls off the tricky feat of being direct and breezy at the same time. "Lord of War" skims along like a dance routine.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
text:
  If punk is a sensibility as well as an adjective, Mad Max is a punk movie. Its Australian setting enhances it, authenticating its futuristic aura.

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text: Some of the most determinedly formalist filmmaking this side of Michael Snow.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
text:
  The tone sometimes wavers into self-parody, and there are occasional crude patches, but overall this edge-of-seat revenge movie marks the most exciting debut from an Australian director since Peter Weir.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
text:
  Overnight, Mad Max went from being a U.S. cult hero to a mainstream figure, and Mel Gibson's place in the firmament was secured.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
text:
  [The] film has been consigned to the grind houses, where audiences are responding as Miller wants them to. From there Mad Max will find its way to the film schools and revival houses, where its tough-gutted intelligence may be appreciated.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
text:
  Mad Max is ugly and incoherent, and aimed, probably accurately, at the most uncritical of moviegoers.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:21
text:
  Stunts themselves would be nothing without a filmmaker behind the camera and George Miller, a doctor and film buff making his first feature, shows he knows what cinema is all about.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  The punky energy of the earlier films has given way to a self-conscious striving for significance, obscuring Miller's considerable kinetic talents in favor of a lumpy didacticism.

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text: Enough imagination, wit and ingenuity to put recent Spielberg to shame.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  This middle portion of the picture becomes dangerously preachy, but just before we and Max are bored, director Miller returns Max to his roots, a screaming chase sequence through a desertlike Australian landscape.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  Miller never falls back on the formulas that have become the bane of too many recent action films, and his sustained cuts lend a clarity to the proceedings.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome isn't a bad movie. It has entertaining sections, decent performances and more than a few provocative images. But it also has a major shortcoming: It's too darned sane.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  Beyond Thunderdome is the third in George Miller's Mad Max series, and it closes the trilogy like a lightning blast followed by the ominous, resonant drone of thunder.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  It's comic books in a Cuisinart, all costumes and cute monikers and no story, a sort of case history of just what's wrong with sequelitis.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  An astonishing display of virtuoso cinema that is destined to take its place among the most vivid and freshly imagined fist-to-groin contests in the medium's history.

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text: More visionary and more entertaining than the first two.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:30
text:
  Gibson impressively fleshes out Max, Tina Turner is striking in her role as Aunty (as well as contributing two topnotch songs, which open and close the picture) and the juves are uniformly good.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:47
text:
  Depardieu makes the most of it. Because of him, such surreal Gallic scuzziness has rarely seemed so sweetly tender.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:47
text:
  The gauche humour of 'Mammuth' camouflages a sweet torch song to the struggles of the working class in the face of private- and public-sector indifference.

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text: Too limp and scattershot to warrant anything stronger than indifference...
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:47
text:
  "Mammuth" has the distressed, gritty look of a 1970s movie. (It was shot on Super 16 reversal film.) But it takes its cues from some of the less-appealing aspects of that era's freewheeling style, in particular a sort of curdled whimsy.

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text: What this film may have needed to get on its feet is some honest-to-goodness violence.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:52
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text: One of the most enthralling and exhilarating American movies in ages.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:52
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text: A wonderful mess.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:52
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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:52
text:
  An impressive piece of work with some fine acting that makes holding our interest for three-plus hours seem easy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:52
text:
  The botanical implications are apt: Paul Thomas Anderson's big, showy flower of a movie unfurls brilliantly.

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text: Sprawling mess of a film.
created_at: 2018-10-31 14:59:52
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Fury Road is also one of the best action movies of the decade, a punk Last Judgment with manic invention and depraved wit on display in every frame.

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text: Happy end of the world.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  For anyone who denied that Titus Andronicus could ever be mashed up with The Cannonball Run, here is your answer, and we are only too happy to follow Nux as he cries, "What a lovely day!," and accelerates into a whirlwind of fire.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Even after two viewings, I feel as though I've only scratched the surface of Mad Max: Fury Road. George Miller's action fantasy is astonishingly dense for a big-budget spectacle, not only in its imagery and ideas but in the complex interplay between them.

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text: A gorgeous, scrap-metal demolition derby of a popcorn picture.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  A kinetic, hallucinatory, boldly feminist chase flick that, with its vibrant color palette, harrowing stunt work and show-don't-tell style of yarn-spinning, leaves every Marvel movie and every Fast & Furious in its irradiated dust.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Mad Max: Fury Road provokes the same question from its audience again and again: What can you show me next? The answer is always the same: Something even more outlandish and imaginative than what you just saw.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  An A-plus B-movie that at times feels almost like a tone poem to early-'80s excess, a cross between a monster-truck rally and a Plasmatics concert.

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text: Believe all the hype: This movie will melt your face off.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  I saw it twice and liked it vastly more the second time around, when I'd adjusted my expectations and had my bearings from the get-go. Then it became about digging the spectacle - not to mention the hilarious sexual politics.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  A double-barrelled shotgun enema straight to the senses, George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road is an exercise in relentless, pedal-to-the-metal momentum that can only qualify as savagely pleasurable.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Mad Max: Fury Road delivers. There's no clearer or more succinct way to put it. 30 years after last appearing on the big screen, Max roars back with a vengeance.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  A gleefully violent -- and improbably feminist -- phantasmagoria that turns epic road rage and long stretches of vehicular omnicide into an eye-boggling joy ride.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Miller ... dreamed the mighty dream that is this film for more than a decade before being able to bring it to life. It has been worth the wait.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  There's enough horror remixed here -- of the Heart of Darkness version -- to engage our current moment. That should be one of the obligations of a reboot.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  It's a pitiless, primitive, primal world [Miller's] built - from its medicine to its religion to its tribal diplomacy - and it's wondrous to behold.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  The "Mad Max" franchise was never for everyone, yet it clearly benefits from fresh blood, too. Propelled by Miller's nitro-burning aesthetic vision and an entertaining cast, this turbo-charged new model is a gas, gas, gas.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Two hours of action scenes that are well crafted and entirely lacking in suspense, and with some clever but fake-looking special effects.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  Miller has the dubious distinction of essentially creating the post-apocalyptic action genre, and in this film, set some 40 years after the fall of the world, he outdoes himself.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:08
text:
  There's no great meaning here - it's a basic story of rebellion and redemption. But there's such energy and visual invention in a world so fully realized and dazzling that the roller coaster ride is more than enough on its own.

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text: Kaufman always wanted to keep us guessing, and this movie respects his wishes.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
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text: We're constantly kept guessing as to what's real or false. Intriguing.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
text:
  I figured that if anyone could make a flick about the even more objectionable Kaufman, these three were the guys for the job. I was wrong.

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text: A brilliant, almost terrifying impersonation.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
text:
  As drama, it's a near miss. Yet as an introduction -- or a reminder -- of a singular talent, it has its appeal.

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text: A brilliant, maniacally funny, and dizzying experience.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
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text: Superficially clever yet profoundly shallow.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:20
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:35
text:
  Roger Moore is a pastry chef's idea of James Bond; but Christopher Lee as the archetype of the evil antagonist makes this 007 outing just about bearable.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:35
text:
  The Man with the Golden Gun certainly isn't worth $1 million, but it's fine for the price of a video rental.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:35
text:
  The best Bonds, like the car that twirls, were sly without quite getting silly. The best Bonds also had Sean Connery, whose absence is sorely felt here.

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text: If you enjoyed the early Bond films as much as I did, you'd better skip this one.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:35
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text: The comparatively spare arrays of mechanical devices seem more a cost-cutting factor.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:35
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text: Roger Moore's interpretation of Bond is blandness personified.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:35
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text: Woody Allen's gem of comic kvetching.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
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text: Woody Allen's great leap forward into character development and dramatic integrity.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
text:
  With Manhattan, a sparkling romance about the overspecialized anxieties of overintellectualized New Yorkers, Woody Allen has bounced back from the sobriety of "Interiors" to an exhilarating new comic high.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
text:
  If Manhattan was only a romantic comedy, it would be a very good one, but the fact that the movie has so much more ambition than the 'average' entry into the genre makes it an extraordinary example of the fusion of entertainment and art.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
text:
  Allen serves up a nostalgia that was utterly of its time; he incarnates an idea of the city that, even now, remains as strong as its reality and refracts his disappointed ideals into high existential crises.

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text: Seeing it again I realize it's more subtle, more complex, and not about love, but loss.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
text:
  What George M. Cohan did with the Stars and Stripes in 1919, Allen is doing with neurosis in 1979: waving it, telling us that as long as we're proud of it, we're all pretty damned OK. That's the real romance of Manhattan.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
text:
  Allen has, in black and white, captured the inner beauty that lurks behind the outer layer of dirt and grime in Manhattan.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:46
text:
  Mr. Allen's progress as one of our major filmmakers is proceeding so rapidly that we who watch him have to pause occasionally to catch our breath.

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text: It's painful and tragic, yet it's cut with elements of humor and laughter. Just like life.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  There's a funny sequence when Lonergan surprise-reveals that Lee fathered one, then two, then three children, who tumble out from the corners of the screen like squashed clowns.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  "Manchester By the Sea" is a film of surpassing beauty and heart. Even at its most melancholy depths, it brims with candid, earnest, indefatigable life.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  "Manchester by the Sea" is a masterpiece in a minor key, an exploration of grief that never lets its characters - or its audience - off the hook.

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text: "Manchester by the Sea" is one of the best films of the year.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  A drama of rare power-a tale of human suffering that succeeds because of its love for its characters, rather than for their misfortunes.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  Unforced acting couples with a nuanced, insightful script to tell a story that, although seemingly simple, is achingly complex.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  Its initial enigma seems to need no explanation; yet, once deciphered, the film does not falter but moves only deeper into the emotional territory it charts.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  It's a masterful, all-American tale that delves deep into the black hole of grief. At times, it can all be emotionally overwhelming - but isn't that a characteristic of a great movie?

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  It's Affleck's movie to quietly own as layer upon layer of Irish impassivity is stripped away from his visage until the unspeakable can be spoken.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  Affleck is magnificent, but the movie is something less than that, because it can't completely overcome some built-in challenges. Even so, Manchester by the Sea deserves honors for being so different, and for working on the mind in a particular way

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text: Not everything broken, this wise movie reminds us, can be mended.
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text: One of the year's best pictures.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  A heart-wrenching drama anchored by Affleck, who notches up yet another subtle, stunning performance.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  "Manchester by the Sea" is the latest installment in a body of work from an artist fascinated by how life marches on, with or without us, and how we scramble to keep up. Not everyone can, though.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  It's less a movie of aesthetics than of synesthesia, transmitting an unbearable burden of inner coldness and emptiness by means of warmhearted wonder.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  If you open yourself to the experience, Lonergan's movies allow you to live with characters until they feel like people you know. Sometimes they're people you don't like very much. But somehow, by the end, they're your people.

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text: An achingly graceful, heartfelt, working-class story about loss, grief, and family obligations.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  Lonergan found the right man in Affleck, standing stony-faced while others weep, his performance a master class in submerged feeling... But it's Williams who stuns, in the course of a single, astonishing dialogue toward the end of the film.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:00:47
text:
  The sadness of "Manchester by the Sea" is the kind of sadness that makes you feel more alive, rather than less, to the preciousness of things.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:33
text:
  As a work entirely dedicated to revealing the artistry of its lead performer, Gallienne's sophomore effort ultimately does the trick, and by the time the curtain falls one longs to see what d'Hermy will do next.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:45
text:
  In every scene, Allen's direction is unflinchingly clear-eyed, and it's a pleasure being walked through London at the same unhurried pace that he's taken through Manhattan all these years.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:45
text:
  The change of locale from New York to London has done Woody Allen a world of good. As has oft been said, Match Point is his best movie since ... fill in the blank.

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text: The arrival of Match Point is good luck for movie fans.
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text: Allen has finally emerged as something of a storyteller and a stylist.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:45
text:
  Philosophically and plotwise, it's right in line with some of his previous work. Yet Match Point breaks new ground in a handful of significant ways.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:45
text:
  Match Point isn't one of his truly great films, like Annie Hall or Manhattan, but it's a very good one; a sign that a career that seemed stalled is purring along once more.

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text: This is a wonderfully provocative film with complex characters and breathless twists and turns.
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text: ... a nifty little crowd pleaser ...
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:45
text:
  It has Woody's humor and subtlety; no British bluntness here. The acting is first-cabin all the way. And it's genuinely moving. Move it to the top of your must-see list.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:01:45
text:
  This is Woody beyond Woody, his best work in more than a decade and the antithesis of most fans' expectations.

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text: You just feel like you're dragging a set of dumbbells around with you while you're watching it.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  The sequel is terrible and all my original criticisms for the first film still stand, but at least it's a more entertaining kind of awful.

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text: The young leads lack charisma, and the veteran supporting players seem to be phoning it in.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  Director Wes Ball's film is a mad dash from one place to the next, with little time in between for rest, recuperation or plot development.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  Maze Runner's action, suspense and twists give movie fans of all ages a chance to embrace their inner on-the-run teenager.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  "Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials" crams in more lore, supporting characters, backstories and motivations to the extent that it becomes difficult to get a grasp on anything.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  Action overflows, some of it neatly staged but none of it telling us anything beyond "Go! Go! Go! Run! Run! Run!" Stay home, stay home.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  With minimal plot development and far too much running around in dark corridors, The Scorch Trials has a poor story:filler ratio. And much of what happens is poorly thought-out.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  There's no flare of strangeness or freshness here, just a pile of images and ideas stolen from smarter people's second-hand bin banged into each other for a numbingly dull 132 minutes.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  If it sounds like there isn't an original thought in The Scorch Trials' scripted head, you're right. But at least you won't be smacking yourself in the head trying to figure out what's going on.

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text: The many chases and ludicrous narrow escapes offer respectable doses of adrenaline.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  To wait a movie and a half for a big reveal and have it turn out to be a zombie plague is like waiting until March for your Christmas present, and it turning out to be a three-pack of white Hanes T-shirts.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  Resist the temptation to count the number of times people urge each other to "Go, go, go!" and "Come on!" It will only lead to grief.

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text: It's exhausting, yet emotionally unengaging.
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text: The material may be cardboard, but the actors do what they can.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  The first "Maze Runner" film was a wilderness saga refitted with robotic monsters. "The Scorch Trials" is a "Mad Max" film on foot.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  The teen dystopian franchise continues to play rough, and now even rougher, with satisfying results.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  This time around, the kids have been turned into wind-up figures whose only function - taking the title a tad too literally - is to RUN!

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  After an hour and a half of mechanical 10-minute action cycles that start with, "Maybe we're safe now, for the moment," and end with "Aaaah! Run!" the pattern gets as wearying as the level of emotional brutality.

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text: This story was better off back in the maze.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:08
text:
  The movie may feel tonally consistent with the first, but it's also overlong and thoroughly routine.

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text: The most composed and beautiful and conspicuously adult film of [von Trier's] career...
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  A masterwork of grandeur, millennial angst and high romantic style, "Melancholia" takes themes that have marked the best films of 2011 and spins them into a blast of cosmic sparkle dust.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  "Melancholia" is a hauntingly beautiful meditation on depression that is as likely to exasperate as many people as it moves.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  It's a planet that can't come soon enough for her, but one that I kept willing away. Not, I'm a little embarrassed to say, to save humanity from Melancholia, but simply to stay in this remarkable movie's presence just a little longer.

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text: A severe and ecstatic work of art.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  Melancholia floats in an air of supernatural malaise and tension, a melancholy mirrored in everything and everyone.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  No moviemaker I know creates psychodramas so hard to watch and difficult to forget. If we esteem Sylvia Plath, Vincent van Gogh and Samuel Beckett, Von Trier deserves our attention, too.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  There's something about the solemn, gloomy, often overwhelmingly powerful experience of watching Melancholia. I'll give it this much: This is a hard movie to forget.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  It's a credit to the director's persistence of vision that he finds such eerie images to adorn this wispy tree of death. Like a newborn planet, "Melancholia" is magnetically beautiful, but it's also an unformed mass of hot air.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  In Melancholia, von Trier has created a mission statement of a masterpiece, one that reminds us that nihilism itself can serve as a legitimate form of creation, a means as well as The End.

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text: One of the year's most emotionally resonant art movies.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  Dunst gives a strong, hard-bitten performance even though she is playing an attitude rather than a character.

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text: Melancholia will haunt you for days, maybe weeks.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  Von Trier has thought his conceit through, and his vision was thorough enough to attract a superb cast to join him on his one-way joyride to hell.

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text: Bizarre, sometimes tedious, occasionally amazing.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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text: The apocalypse has never looked better.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
text:
  Pain isn't the path to sainthood but, often, only more misery. There's nothing beautiful about it at all. Except, perhaps, to von Trier, who continues to find it inspiring -- particularly when it's being visited upon pale, pretty, naked young women.

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text: The end of the world, von Trier-style, is a middling thing as a film.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:18
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Is the true enemy this all-testosterone Lord of the Flies clan? Nah, faulting your fellow kids is so 1950s. For the millennials, adults gotta be to blame

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text: By keeping its cards so close, "The Maze Runner" remains compelling.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
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text: A well-acted and intelligent thriller/futuristic sci-fi romp.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
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text: It's all familiar territory, but it's realized with flair.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Teenagers are getting it in the neck again, in the latest dystopian Young Adult literary sensation to get the Hollywood treatment.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Having not read the book, I was hoping for a more satisfying payoff than the one I got. Then again, maybe the filmmakers are saving the answers for the sequel.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Director Wes Ball and his outstanding young cast work unusually hard to counter the derivative feel.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Teens should eat up this fantasy's scenery-chewing angst and doom, and the hopeful tale of survival and empowerment (to be continued in the inevitable sequel or sequels).

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Despite a strong opening and riveting first 45 minutes, The Maze Runner devolves into one of the weakest post-apocalyptic Young Adult movies to reach theaters in recent years.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  The premise seems both smart and intriguing, but the film directed by Wes Ball bears many of the cruder markings of YA fiction.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  It's burdened with banal dialogue and a laughably dumb endgame that squeezes the life out of its superior parts.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Sure, "The Maze Runner" unravels a few mysteries, but it spins even more. Thomas, as it happens, isn't the only one dying of curiosity here. As the closing credits roll, you likely will be, too.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Ball is deft, though, at evoking claustrophobia of every kind, whether in the open-air prison of the Glade or the actual tight spaces of the Maze. And he elicits a hair-trigger performance from O'Brien.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Though it sometimes feels calculated and mechanical, it's also solid, well crafted and entertaining.

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text: "The Maze Runner" isn't based on a video game, but you could be forgiven for thinking otherwise.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  Gets the vision and the grit of the source material but finally feels more like a long trailer than an involving movie.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  It's bleak business, and as it hurries toward its explosive, expository conclusion, the film becomes nonsensical, too.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:19
text:
  I think I have a touch of apocalepsy -- excessive sleepiness caused by prolonged exposure to three- and four-part series in which adolescents rebel against oppressive governments represented by esteemed actors.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  Its attitude is poised somewhere between the deadpan ghoulishness of the Coen brothers and a Letterman-like sense of the absurdity of life in New York's rich ethnic stew.

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text: The smartest, funniest, and best-looking sci-fi comedy since the movies learned to morph.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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text: It's just the best yuk of the week.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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text: A smart, funny and hip adventure film in a summer of car wrecks and explosions.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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text: There's a playfulness, here, that you don't often find in a special-effect flick.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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text: As ragged as the humor is, there still are more hits than misses.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  Men in Black is moderately amusing, well-constructed and mercifully short, but it fails to deliver on the zaniness of its first half.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  The cool wit and fun (derived partly from the premise that the cheap tabloids are the only newspapers telling the truth) are deftly maintained, and Sonnenfeld provides a bountiful supply of both fanciful beasties and ingenious visuals.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  Though its charm is in its attitude and premise (and Danny Elfman's rousing score), Men in Black does have a serviceable plot that kicks in when a rusty flying saucer crash-lands in a rural area.

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text: At times, it may succeed at manipulating you, but you won't like it.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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text: Every time the film makes you chuckle, you may also feel it's zapped you with a neuralizer.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  Men in Black is the wryest, sharpest, most entertaining special effects film in recent memory, a simultaneous participant and mocking parody of the more-bang-for-your-buck behemoth genre.

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text: Director Barry Sonnenfeld loads the bases with action, fantasy and laughs, and hits a grand slam.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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text: The result is a rich picture with a winning personality, as modest in theme as it is in style.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  Men in Black continues this summer's tradition, already established by Con Air and Batman and Robin, of big-budget action pictures that at least have the wit to know how silly they are.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  Men In Black deserves credit for supplementing its special effects with a breezy script and genuinely charismatic performances by Will Smith and Tommy Lee Jones.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:25
text:
  It's so much fun, in fact, that it's almost over before you realise that you've been watching a great idea for a movie in desperate search of a plot.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
text:
  "Midnight in Paris" finds Allen in a larky, slightly tart and altogether bountiful mood, giving filmgoers a movie that, while unabashedly funny and playful, provides a profiterole or two for thought.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
text:
  What's Wilson doing in a Woody Allen movie about a B-list screenwriter who time-travels from the present to the Jazz Age? Disarming the audience with his wistful joie de vivre, that's what.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
text:
  Woody Allen's beleaguered heroes have never been reluctant to indulge in a little fantasy to get what they want.

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text: "Midnight in Paris" makes you yearn for the time when brainy larks weren't a once-a-year occasion.
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text: It's fun and it's most welcome.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
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text: Woody Allen attracts promising players and does nothing with them.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
text:
  There is breezy comedy to be made of a YouTube-age writer meeting the icons and idols of a bygone, classical era, but Allen goes deeper, expanding on his time-travel device to make unexpected and unexpectedly generous observations.

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text: I find this upfront fantasy to be his funniest, most agreeable comedy in years.
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text: "Midnight in Paris" is a bonbon to ease the craving for Allen's earlier, funnier films.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
text:
  A delicious trifle for anyone who has ever dreamt of bantering about the cinema with Luis Buñuel or lounging at the piano to hear Cole Porter sing "Let's Do It."

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text: A movie that's loving and wistful and often hysterically funny.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:29
text:
  Our hero has found his groove among the Lost Generation and, for us, there's some amusement to be had in sharing Gil's thrills -- it's like stepping into a Classic Comics version of A Moveable Feast.

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text: Woody Allen must have had a great time writing this screenplay.
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text: Midnight in Paris is a loving embrace of the city, of art and of life itself.
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text: A sweet-natured trifle, as flavorful and as thin as a crepe.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:49
text:
  It's Allen's refusal to bask in the spotlight -- his willingness and determination to preserve and enhance the ensemble -- that makes Sex Comedy the delight that it is.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:49
text:
  It's funny and sweet in spots, though the light moments get lost in the haze of imitation and ambitiousness.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:49
text:
  There doesn't seem to be a driving idea behind it, a confident tone to give us the sure notion that Allen knows what he wants to do here.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:02:49
text:
  A pleasant disappointment, pleasant because he gets all the laughs he goes for in a visually charming, sweetly paced picture, a disappointment because he doesn't go for more.

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text: The mechanical feeding sequence in Modern Times is probably the funniest routine in cinema history.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
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text: It's the coldest of [Chaplin's] major features, though no less brilliant for it.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
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text: Chaplin's political and philosophical naivety now seems as remarkable as his gift for pantomime.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
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text: Good physical comedy will always be funny, and Chaplin was a master.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
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text: Do you have to be reminded that Chaplin is a master of pantomime? Time has not changed his genius.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
text:
  The opening sequence in Chaplin's second Depression masterpiece, of the Tramp on the assembly line, is possibly his greatest slapstick encounter with the 20th century.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
text:
  Modern Times is an ungainly masterpiece, but Chaplin's ungainliness is something one can grow fond of.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
text:
  One of the many remarkable things about Charlie Chaplin is that his films continue to hold up, to attract and delight audiences.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
text:
  Chaplin's sentimental politics and peerless comic invention dovetailed more perfectly in this film than in any other he made.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:03:32
text:
  The picture is grand fun and sound entertainment, though silent. It's the old Chaplin at his best, looking at his best -- young, pathetic and a very funny guy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:13
text:
  Facing it squarely, My Uncle is perceptibly contrived when it lingers too long and gets too deeply into the dullness of things mechanical. After you've pushed one button and one modernistic face, you've pushed them all.

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text: Unforgettably funny, wonderfully observed, and always technically brilliant.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:13
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text: No less a masterpiece than its Gallic-tongued cousin.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:13
text:
  Jacques Tati is the great philosophical tinkerer of comedy, taking meticulous care to arrange his films so that they unfold in a series of revelations and effortless delights.

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text: Python's delightful and, on the whole, consistent reductio ad absurdum of the Grail legend.
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text: Silly, sophomoric, and slapped together -- but would you want it any other way?
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text: Represents one of the best and brightest comedies ever to shine from the silver screen.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  For all its shenanigans, Monty Python and the Holy Grail has a sense of humor that is intellectual, even academic, at heart.

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text: Has been so quoted and requoted that the scenes and words feel tattooed onto the psychic membrane.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  Ah, bless the Pythons, back after 26 years to get medieval all over again on the legend of King Arthur and his knights of the round table.

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text: An incredibly silly film of great humor, brilliant design and epic insanity.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  Grail is as funny as a movie can get, but it is also a tough-minded picture -- as outraged about the human propensity for violence as it is outrageous in its attack on that propensity.

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text: The funniest movie of 1975 and probably the silliest movie ever made.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  Here is Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which is neither as sparkling as it is said to be nor as bad as it seems to be at the start. But it's pretty good.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  Really smart people improvising really silly gags and bits, most of which work, some of which don't.

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text: Monty Python and the Holy Grail still stands as a gloriously silly and twisted send-up.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  The new Holy Grail is no revelation, just hilarious confirmation that the old days were in fact better.

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text: So unnecessarily gorgeous, there are moments where it feels like Tarkovsky with drag and farting.
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text: Brimming over with unforgettable gags and baroquely nonsensical insults.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:04:53
text:
  Monty Python's Flying Circus, the British comedy group which gained fame via BBC-TV, send-up Arthurian legend, performed in whimsical fashion with Graham Chapman an effective straight man as King Arthur.

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text: A marvelously particular kind of lunatic endeavor.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:22
text:
  Whether this is an argument for or against marriage probably depends on the viewer's own experience.

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text: A trite story of loosening up.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:22
text:
  Isabelle Huppert may be approaching self-parody as an icon of Gallic frigidity, yet the talented writer-director Anne Fontaine puts that to excellent use in this broad, obvious, but consistently funny bedroom farce.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:22
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  No one loves a broad comedy like the French, but Gallic touches of restraint tend to keep such light entertainment pleasing rather than blundering.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:22
text:
  [Huppert] can't get laughs where there are none, and she can't buy a laugh in the movie's second half.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:22
text:
  Its tepid satire of art world pretensions culminates with a visual dirty joke that is mildly amusing but still not worth the wait.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:22
text:
  "My Worst Nightmare" isn't great, but it isn't apologizing for anything, either. Plus, I laughed out loud at least three times.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:59
text:
  These are two great actors giving top-notch performances, and the restrained romance they project is fascinating.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:59
text:
  It's one sign of Sautet's success that, though he presents neither character as especially admirable or exceptional, he makes us care about them a great deal.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:59
text:
  It glows with sorrowful humor in its look at two people who seem just right for each other but don't have time on their side.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:06:59
text:
  It is a matter of great erotic fascination when two people are intrigued by the notion of becoming lovers, but are held back by the fear of rejection _and_ the fear of involvement.

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text: Only Woody Allen seems to have understood what is possible in a featurette.
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text: Allen's contribution is the only one that can be counted as a genuine success.
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text: A novel and fascinating foray into highly stylized, highly personal filmmaking.
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text: New York Stories consists of three films, one good, one bad, one disappointing.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:27
text:
  It's still too early to tell whether the cheering New York Stories will be a box-office hit, but one can hope.

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text: [It] just might be the Coen brothers' singular mythic masterwork.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  The Coens stir up more panic by quietly flicking off a light switch than Michael Bay did with a fleet of Decepticons.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  For a film that traffics in implacable malice, this movie remains remarkably grounded in the everyday.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  Working from a Cormac McCarthy novel that has the heedless, headlong force of an action movie screenplay, Joel and Ethan Coen have improved upon the original by giving it a visual lyricism to match McCarthy's verbal barrage.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  McCarthy's ferocious tale gives the Coens room to unleash their cinematic gifts, but keeps them from wandering too far afield and losing themselves in the marshes of technical prowess or easy irony.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  A masterly tale of the good, the deranged and the doomed that inflects the raw violence of the west with a wry acknowledgement of the demise of codes of honour, this is frighteningly intelligent and imaginative.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  No Country for Old Men looks into the unfathomable depths of evil and poses existential questions about human destiny. Meanwhile, it takes your breath away.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  The storytelling is fluid, especially when directors Joel and Ethan Coen start eliding some of the murders and ask us to imagine them for ourselves.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  The Coen brothers' screenplay is faithful to McCarthy without being obsequious. In filming it, they play it straight, and the touches of signature humor that are there don't seem like flashes of style, but organic and right.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  The mood is darker and quieter than the Coens usually present, though some of the dialogue has a deadpan humor.

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text: No Country for Old Men may just be the year's best picture.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  With its dizzying alternations of comedy and horror, the film is unmistakably a Coen brothers movie -- albeit a much better one than they've made in a while.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  The Coens are wintry and dead calm ironists, and their movie is finally less an assault on our sensibilities than a subtle -- and possibly permanent -- insinuation into our consciousnesses.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  The story is vintage McCarthy in its sense of place and its poetic voice. And it is vintage Coens for some of those same traits, and its cruel, graphic violence.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  Played by Spanish actor Javier Bardem, Chigurh is the most original bogeyman to bloody up the screen in a while.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:07:51
text:
  A cold, rough look at the dissolution of just about everything. It will bother you afterward. It should.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  The problem with "Nymphomaniac: Volume II" lies not in its display of erect penises and reddened buttocks, but rather in its dull narrative and overworked ideas.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  There's no doubt that von Trier knows how to deploy cinematic language for maximum effect - he is, quite simply, a superb filmmaker. But in this case, he confuses challenging audiences with simply leaving them in the dark.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  This is a good movie, but it lacks the visual wonder of the first, along with the sense of play at which von Trier, even at his most controversial, is so good.

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text: The Lars von Trier you know and love (or love to hate) is back: cynical, misanthropic, punishing.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  This episode includes so many lavish close-ups of bloody flesh that it seems as if Von Trier is making a "Saw" film.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  The shocker ending struck me as both gimmicky and ill motivated, but up until then this confirms von Trier as the cinema's most accomplished provocateur, turning his attention here to the eternal conflict between pleasure and morality

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text: Here we go again.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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text: For better or worse, the whole exercise in lurid leg-pulling goes out with a bang.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  This is a frustrating, fundamentally flawed movie, but if one must consider it two separate animals, this latter one is demonstrably better.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  Von Trier is such a masterful filmmaker that every new project comes on with the expectation and air of a totalizing masterwork. "Nymphomaniac: Volume II" creates the unsated sensation of having too much and wanting more.

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text: "Vol. I" works. "Vol. II" works you over, and von Trier likes it like that.
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text: No one has ever made sex look like less fun.
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text: A notch more watchable than Volume I.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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text: "Volume II" is no more fulfilling than "Volume I."
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  Vol. I felt much wider in scope, crazier, satirical, goofy even. Vol. II narrows the lens, and has more of a desire to explain, to diagnose, to wrap things up.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
text:
  True, von Trier films all the ugliness beautifully - with occasional breaks for mystic images, and bad jokes. But to what point?

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text: A long plod ...
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text: It's very weird, given, but it's also effective.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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text: Misery loves company, and no one loves both more than this director.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:29
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  The picture, which never stops moving, is dense with information and feeling. Barbs of satire pop up and are washed away on streams of strong emotion. It's all marvelously preposterous and yet, at the same time, something important is at stake.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  Okja unfolds like a fable about a child and their nonhuman pal that's been warped into something bleak and outrageous -- E.T. by way of Upton Sinclair's The Jungle.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  The film shares Bong's casual ping-ponging of tones, his fascination with picking at society's many scabs, and the way his films frequently skid into violence and cruelty without warning.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  What makes the jumble cohere, as usual with Bong, is his extraordinary grasp of space and speed, especially in the Korean half of the film.

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text: To me the idea that it will be largely confined to people's living rooms seems absurd.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  A strange, well-intentioned but heavy-handed girl-and-her-animal story that merely demonstrates Netflix still has a lot to learn about the movie business.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  On its surface, Okja is a sweet, heartwarming fable about a young girl and her pet pig. But don't let that thumbnail synopsis fool you, we're galaxies away from the kid-friendly entertainments of Babe and Charlotte's Web here.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  One of Okja's great charms lies in its director's ability to vary tone, pacing, and style between scenes without losing the viewer's patience and sympathy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  It's a sublime tale of the value of humanity, and the horrors we often have to suffer through to hold on to that.

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text: This movie takes all sorts of chances and, for the most part, scores big.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
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text: Okja moves seamlessly between fairy tale, action caper and crime drama.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  With his latest work, Bong has created a heroine for our times, an indelible movie creature, a story that balances heart and head and a movie that engages with the boundaries of technology both on-screen and off.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  A work of melancholy enchantment, by turns sweet, raucously funny, scary and sad, and -- in the manner of all good science fiction movies -- thought-provoking.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  Pitch-black satire, heartwarming devotion, over-the-top performance, and subtle drama are engineered into something decidedly (if improbably) delicious.

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text: The best parts of the movie are also the least wacky.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  Bong Joon-ho's all-star eco-fable of a girl and her giant pig Is wacky, weird and wonderful. It's also part kiddie treat and part horrorshow, but hang on-it's worth it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  Okja is an uneven but never complacent mix of fantastic fairy tale; social satire; heavy-handed commentary on corporate greed and our consumer-crazed culture, and bizarro action film.

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text: Chilling, subversive ...
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  No one, but no one, makes movies like Bong, a South Korean master who combines baroque concepts, epic visuals, international casts, and a sense of humor that can make you laugh out loud in the middle of the darkest doings.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:08:43
text:
  It's a testament to Bong's sprawling ambition that Okja manages to be so many things at once -- a caustic satire of corporate evil, an intercontinental action/adventure epic, a coming-of-age narrative for the girl.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:26
text:
  What are Bond's problems now? They're too numerous, as usual, to hold the constant attention of anyone other than a charter member of Her Majesty's Secret Service.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:26
text:
  It offers supremely satisfying versions of all the conventions we expect from the series ... and then it does the one thing you don't expect a James Bond movie to do: It breaks your heart.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:26
text:
  Director Peter Hunt manages to inject some life into this 1969 exercise with a wonderful ski chase, but otherwise the film is a bore.

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text: The Bond films were bad enough even with the partially ironic performances of Connery.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:26
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:26
text:
  Even featuring an inferior 007, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is a landmark change-of-pace, and an exhilarating and affecting piece of entertainment.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:26
text:
  Film of break-neck physical excitement and stunning visual attractions in which George Lazenby replaced Sean Connery as James Bond.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  Jack Nicholson stars in an outstanding characterization of Ken Kesey's asylum anti-hero, McMurphy, and Milos Forman's direction of a superbly-cast film is equally meritorious.

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text: There's a lot here. But with a classic like Cuckoo's Nest, too much is never enough.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  Set in an insane asylum, the film involves the oppression of the individual, a struggle spearheaded by an ebullient Nicholson, turning in a star performance if ever there was one.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  Jack Nicholson plays McMurphy as if he were born to it, and the supporting cast provides fine, detailed performances.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  Viewed 30 years after its release, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest remains a very good motion picture, although one that perhaps just misses the pinnacle of greatness where its reputation suggests it resides.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  Nicholson explodes on the screen in a performance so flawless in timing and character perception that it should send half the stars in Hollywood back to acting school.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  One Flew over the Cuckoo 's Nest is an earnest attempt to make a serious film. But in the end the movie backs away from both the human reality and the cloudy but potent symbolism that Ken Kesey found in the asylum.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  It does go wrong, insisting on making larger points than its story really should carry... And yet there are those moments of brilliance.

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text: Unlike its frontman, this multi-Oscar-winning drama hasn't aged particularly well.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:09:28
text:
  Even granting the artist his license, America is much too big and various to be satisfactorily reduced to the dimensions of one mental ward in a movie like this.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  "Outside the Law" is an epic film about Algeria's fight for liberation from France, with three outstanding performances and a grand, sweeping feel.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  A gripping French-Algerian coproduction that makes Algeria's epic struggle for independence from France look like a gangster movie.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  It's a ham-handed "issue" movie that preaches to the converted, but the mid-century threads look cool and those Coppola moments remain effective all these years later.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  It's a big, bold film defined by a reserved passion, a stately style and strong performances from its three leads.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  A potentially inflammatory story about Muslim freedom-fighters/terrorists in France during the Algerian independence war gets the generic gangster-epic treatment.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  Bouchareb's intensely dramatized, passionately partisan story of militancy in the struggle for Algerian independence from France after World War II makes effective use of Godfather storytelling theatrics.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  Extremely well-acted, suspenseful and produced on a lavish scale, "Outside the Law" may oversimplify the complex politics, but it's a worthy companion piece to "Army of Shadows."

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  The production design is nice enough, but Bouchareb's four-country co-production isn't an epic-it's just long.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  Think The Godfather II as told through France vs. Algeria tensions, and you have the essence of Rachid Bouchareb's vivid combo crime saga, action movie and historical drama.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  Brings significant historical events memorably to life, largely through the galvanizing force of a trio of committed and thoughtful performances.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
text:
  "Outside the Law" is at the very least a superior action film, in which the action sequences are plausible and grounded in reality.

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text: The movie is impressively made but finally feels rote and, at 138 minutes, outstays its welcome.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:03
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text: As for the picture's significance, it comes to an inconclusive point.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
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text: Kirk Douglas gives one of his finest performances as the intelligent and courageous Col. Dax.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  The final scene, in which Kubrick presents close-ups of soldiers watching a captured German girl being forced to sing for their pleasure is nothing short of masterful.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  The sardonic rhetoric may be laid on a little heavily at times, but the movie is blunt and scornfully brilliant.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  More than 20 years after Mr. Cobb's novel was first published, Mr. Kubrick reminded us that human folly is rarely checked for long. A half-century on, he is still right.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  This masterpiece still packs a wallop, though nothing in it is as simple as it may first appear; audiences are still arguing about the final sequence, which has been characterized as everything from a sentimental cop-out to the ultimate cynical twist.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  Both a terrifying, grim look at battle and an excruciatingly tense courtroom thriller. Together, it's a devastating indictment of war as conducted by opportunists and liars.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  Songs at the ends of dramas usually make us feel better. They are part of closure. This song at the end of this movie makes us feel more forlorn.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:50
text:
  While the subject is well handled and enacted in a series of outstanding characterizations, it seems dated and makes for grim screen fare.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  The People vs. Larry Flynt is ultimately a worse disappointment than an out-and-out stinker would be, because of its lively, entertaining first half.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  A brave, spectacularly entertaining -- and unexpectedly stirring -- account of Flynt's life that asks us to regard the publisher of Hustler magazine as an invaluable champion of our First Amendment freedoms.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  We're really celebrating Hollywood's freedom to create biographies of anyone, no matter how high or low on the social ladder, and still come up with the same banal characteristics, messages and conclusions.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  The exploitative misogyny of Flynt's output is never examined, the prurient hypocrisy and intolerance of his persecutors seriously overplayed, plus Larry and Althea's odd romance lacks bittersweet conviction.

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text: You don't have to like the man to support his struggles and enjoy this dramatization of them.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
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text: Woody Harrelson plays Flynt with energy, and Courtney Love does at least as well as his wife.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  In its excesses and extravagances, its fascination with sex, religion, celebrity, bad taste and making a whole lot of money, there is no more American story than that of combative pornographer and Hustler magazine publisher Larry Flynt.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  It's a modern-day Capra film, about an unorthodox businessman who's persecuted for his originality but eventually is recognized for the lovable, rugged American individualist he truly is.

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text: An exultant comedy of American repression and revolt.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  Thanks to the light humour, it's consistently engaging; yet minus that darker shading, it's never fully convincing.

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text: An enormously entertaining and surprisingly touching bio-pic.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:52
text:
  Love proves she is not a rock star pretending to act, but a true actress, and Harrelson matches her with his portrait of a man who has one thing on his mind, and never changes it.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  A film as personal and eccentric as Satrapi's original book, a black-and-white, hand-drawn memoir of growing up and away from Iran.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  The film's nuanced view of social issues is complemented by lovely black-and-white animation work that blends Islamic motifs into a sort of Yellow Submarine-ish world.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  A riveting odyssey in pictures and words. It's unlike any journal you've read or any animated movie you've seen.

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text: The subtlety of the interplay among the three generations of women is extraordinary.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  A delightful, curious film that indulges in both the personal and the political and provides a potted history of modern Iran through one woman's experience.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  The story's greatest value lies in its elegant twining of the universal and the obscure: Satrapi's coming-of-age should be familiar to all, but along with it come startling glimpses of everyday life under the heavy hand of a Muslim theocracy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  More than just the first film in recent memory to be considered a must-see, Persepolis begs for a second viewing, if only to chart the way it so delicately weaves together the different stages of Marjane's life.

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text: The movie sparkles with witty self-awareness.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  It's striking how much emotion Satrapi is able to convey through these blocky drawings, which are simple but powerfully chosen.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  Persepolis is a superb film about a young girl's coming of age amidst war, fascism and family tragedy.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  Marjane Satrapi's acclaimed 2003 autobiographical graphic novel series has been turned into one of the most complexly moving animated films I've ever seen.

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text: It's a mind-blower.
created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  It might seem that her story is too large for one 98-minute film, but Persepolis tells it carefully, lovingly and with great style. It is infinitely more interesting than the witless coming-of-age Western girls we meet in animated films.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:10:59
text:
  Marjane Satrapi, with co-director Vincent Paronnaud, has taken her work and turned it into a vigorous, revealing and tragic film.

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text: An exuberant autobiographical film and dark-horse contender for an animated feature Oscar.
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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:11:04
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  Philadelphia may not be the film Demme's fans expect--its emotionalism is unfiltered by cool. But it has the power to open more than a few blinkered hearts.

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created_at: 2018-10-31 15:11:04
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  This AIDS courtroom drama is so pumped full of nitrous oxide, you could get your teeth drilled on it.

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