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A Tout de Suite (2005) |
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"Evokes the feel and the sensibility of the New Wave while retaining a decidedly contemporary tone." | |
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A.I. Artificial Intelligence (2001) |
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"Bursts under the weight of a tidal wave of ponderous schmaltz." | |
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Aberdeen (2001) |
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"The acting alone can't fill the motivational gaps." | |
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About Schmidt (2002) |
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"[Nicholson] makes Payne's film look better than it is, but he can't save it from being overlong, repetitious, and flat." | |
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Absolute Wilson (2006) |
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"Yet Otto-Bernstein's clips, though well-chosen, never convey what seeing Wilson live is like...Her book is much more stimulating." | |
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2/5 |
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The Accidental Tourist (1988) |
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The Acid House (1998) |
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Adaptation (2002) |
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6/10 |
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The Adventures of Rocky and Bullwinkle (2000) |
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"Rocky and Bullwinkle is too hectic to allow any breathing room for characterization." | |
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7/10 |
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An Affair of Love (2000) |
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"Baye is left stranded, a performance too strong for a film this slight to contain." | |
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Affliction (1997) |
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"...gripping, the downward spiral taking on genuinely tragic inevitability.
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After Life (1998) |
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After Stonewall (1999) |
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"a handsomely produced film that doesn't explore new territory or forge ahead with new insight, but is useful, nonetheless, as a primer on the history of the period" | |
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Aimee & Jaguar (2000) |
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"Watching Aimee and Jaguar is like having your eyes anxiously affixed on a cracked mirror on the wall, delicately held together, yet on the brink of violently shattering to the ground." | |
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Al Franken: God Spoke (2006) |
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"Always engaging, often insightful, [and] at times deeply moving." | |
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Alex and Emma (2003) |
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"Both ponderous and fluffy at the same time--a notably contradictory achievement" | |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"It's as if Stone deliberately were creating a parody of all the cornball biblical/historical spectacles in the history of the movies." | |
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Alexandra (2008) |
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" ... at times humorous, at times touching, and unfortunately, at times tedious and distancing." | |
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Alfie (2004) |
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"The fascinatingly complex character who inspired masterpieces from the wit of Moliere and the genius of Mozart draws only humdrum mediocrity from the remake mill of Hollywood." | |
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Ali (2001) |
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"Ali does the unthinkable: making its complex and dynamic subject smaller than life." | |
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Alias Betty (2002) |
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"An absorbing trip into the minds and motivations of people under stress as well as a keen, unsentimental look at variations on the theme of motherhood." | |
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Alice et Martin (1998) |
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"Its mystery resonates long after the film ends." | |
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Aliens of the Deep (2005) |
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"The crew ooos and aahs and talks like so many valley girls ("awesome," "freaky," etc.), leaving the viewer hungry for some more substantive science to back up the visuals." | |
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10/10 |
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All About My Mother (1999) |
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"All About My Mother marks an enormous leap forward for Almodovar." | |
Gary Mairs | |
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All In This Tea (2008) |
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"It's another beautiful, sensual film, and another homage to what makes life enjoyable." | |
Beverly Berning | |
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All or Nothing (2002) |
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"Leigh and his actors succeed in making these characters human and sympathetic and, thus, all the more profoundly sad." | |
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3/10 |
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All the Pretty Horses (2000) |
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"A series of emotionally stillborn incidents." | |
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All the Real Girls (2003) |
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"A sweet glimpse into young romance, delivered with...style, but, in the end, unsatisfyingly skimming the surface" | |
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8/10 |
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Almost Famous (2000) |
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"Such a dazzlingly entertaining mess that it's tempting to ignore the
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Gary Mairs | |
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Alone in the Dark (2005) |
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"None of it hangs together enough to make a coherent narrative." | |
Pamela Troy | |
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Along Came a Spider (2001) |
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"Spins its formulaic web like a black widow on automatic pilot." | |
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Along Came Polly (2004) |
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"Doesn’t represent cinema at its height, but it will evoke more than a chuckle or two." | |
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Amadeus (1984) |
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"Forman's direction is impeccable, sustaining the unique tone on which the production hinges." | |
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The Amazing Mrs. Pritchard |
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"the entirely entertaining tale of Ros Pritchard's rocket ride from West Yorkshire to 10 Downing Street ... " | |
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Amelie (2001) |
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"An effervescent world of unrequited love, suicidal goldfish, photo booth intrigue and elaborate courtship schemes." | |
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America's Prince - The John F. Kennedy Jr. Story (2003) |
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"Continue[s] after his death the opprobrious exploitation by the media that JFK, Jr. suffered during his life." | |
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America's Sweethearts (2001) |
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"Wide parched vistas of monotony separate scrabbly oases of amusement and the payoff for a gag almost never matches the time devoted to its setup." | |
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American Beauty (1999) |
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"Bitterly funny and beautifully crafted." | |
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American Experience - Daughter from Danang (2002) |
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"The filmmakers craftily intuit the emotional high points of the mother-daughter reunion." | |
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American Experience - Return With Honor (1999) |
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"Mock and Sanders have skillfully crafted a film that grows in intensity as the story unfolds" | |
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An American in Paris (1951) |
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"Every five or ten minutes the audience is treated to a riveting dance number set to some of the greatest tunes of George and Ira Gershwin." | |
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10/10 |
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American Movie (1999) |
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8/10 |
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American Pimp (1999) |
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3/10 |
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American Psycho (2000) |
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"American Psycho has all the trappings of a thoughtful film except profundity -- it's a swimming pool without a deep end." | |
Tom Block | |
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American Splendor (2003) |
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"Follows [Pekar's] journey with originality, humor and humanity" | |
Leslie Katz | |
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Amores Perros (2001) |
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"Cannily balances the melodrama with starkly naturalistic detail." | |
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Analyze That (2002) |
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"The premise of the successful original is essentially abandoned early on in favor of an uninteresting and predictable plot-driven story from which the laughs disappear all too quickly." | |
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Analyze This (1998) |
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"sizzling comic chemistry from the DeNiro-Crystal combination" | |
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Anatomy of a Murder (1959) |
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"The film breezily wears its two-hour-and-forty-minute running-time." | |
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