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14,474 | [
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14,484 | [
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14,492 | [
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14,494 | [
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14,496 | [
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14,499 | [
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14,504 | [
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14,507 | [
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14,512 | [
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14,516 | [
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but this isn't a happy outing on its part due to the circumstances and life-changing dilemmas surrounding the premise. What eventuates is quite numbing, haunting and downright cold. However I was expecting something a little more powerful and effective and... | 1 |
14,518 | [
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14,522 | [
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14,533 | [
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14,534 | [
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14,544 | [
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14,549 | [
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14,552 | [
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14,556 | [
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14,572 | [
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14,575 | [
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feeling like Holden Caulfield. I was fifteen." Eventually, he ended up working as an usher at ... | 1 |
14,579 | [
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14,594 | [
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14,602 | [
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14,607 | [
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14,616 | [
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14,624 | [
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14,628 | [
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14,634 | [
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14,635 | [
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14,636 | [
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14,637 | [
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14,639 | [
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14,643 | [
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14,651 | [
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14,654 | [
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14,658 | [
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14,660 | [
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14,661 | [
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14,665 | [
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14,669 | [
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14,677 | [
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14,681 | [
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14,687 | [
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14,690 | [
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14,697 | [
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14,698 | [
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14,699 | [
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14,700 | [
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14,704 | [
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14,706 | [
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14,707 | [
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14,712 | [
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14,715 | [
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14,732 | [
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14,733 | [
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14,734 | [
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14,736 | [
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14,746 | [
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14,748 | [
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14,751 | [
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14,754 | [
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14,759 | [
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14,761 | [
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14,762 | [
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14,767 | [
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14,769 | [
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14,772 | [
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14,775 | [
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14,778 | [
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14,791 | [
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14,795 | [
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14,798 | [
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14,800 | [
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14,804 | [
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14,807 | [
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14,809 | [
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14,814 | [
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14,815 | [
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14,818 | [
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14,834 | [
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14,837 | [
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14,867 | [
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14,868 | [
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] | 193 | 276 | A lot of 'alternative' comedy in Britain in the 1980s was insular, misguided, overly-political, and unfunny, and the worst of the Comic Strip Presents... stuff fell into this category.<br /><br /> But this is at the other end - a remarkable film that works on different intellectual levels.<br /><br /> Is Dennis a crimi... | 1 |
14,869 | [
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] | 214 | 260 | This film is great! Being a fan of "The Comic Strip Presents..." I just knew I would love this film. And love it I do. I finally got round to buying a copy of this film early this year. However I was annoyed to find that it had been cut! So I'll keep looking at car boot sales for the original version.<br /><br />Anyway... | 1 |
14,877 | [
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] | 164 | 214 | This neo-film noir is one of a genre of late twentieth century American films that all seem to involve corrupt characters, fast cars, a ribbon of highway and, of course, plenty of guns wielded by people who appear never to have taken a gun safety course. The actors are the best reason to see "Black Day, Blue Night." Th... | 1 |
14,881 | [
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] | 211 | 243 | I can remember seeing this movie when I was very young and several times on TV since then. I have always liked it. I have noticed on the print shown on local TV that one scene has reversed film. It is the one where they are hiding behind the rock outcrop(it looks like Vasquez Rocks near Los Angeles) watching the Indian... | 1 |
14,887 | [
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] | 242 | 268 | I liked this movie, the second Naruto feature film. I enjoyed the one in the snow a tad better though as I found the story here a bit disjointed as I was not sure where certain things were supposed to be happening or when. Still, like the first film this one too has a nice run time to it of a hour and a half, plenty of... | 1 |
14,891 | [
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] | 257 | 282 | I was lucky enough to see this film at a festival last year and had half expected it to get a release. The fact that it was shot on a digital camcorder has surely inhibited its success, but as i understand it was never the intention of the film maker to make it LOOK LIKE FILM in the first place, it was more about the s... | 1 |
14,902 | [
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] | 241 | 294 | There was a recent documentary on making movies, that featured a long list of actors and directors talking about what its like to make movies. One common theme was you can have a great script, great cast, the best director and lots of money and still create a bad movie.<br /><br />Down Periscope is proof of the corolla... | 1 |
14,904 | [
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] | 176 | 233 | Surprisingly good and quick-witted adventure that features Kelsey Grammer (supposedly in his first lead role in a feature) as an unconventional Navy sub commander who wants to run a nuclear sub of his own, however; he has earn it by competing against the U.S. Navy in a series of war-games with a crew of untested, quest... | 1 |
14,905 | [
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] | 202 | 265 | LCDR Tom Dodge, despite having a reputation among submariners as a renegade and maverick (*note to reader: Maverick does not mean "Tom Cruise". Maverick means "non-conformist".), is actually an intelligence operative for the Vice Admiral of his submarine fleet. The Vice-Admiral is concerned about our old friends the Ru... | 1 |
14,912 | [
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] | 218 | 278 | I saw the movie in the theater at its release, then watched the VHS tape over the years, and while strolling through Target saw this DVD bundled with "Pushing Tin" for the exorbitant sum of $5.50.<br /><br />There is something about this comedy that has really clicked with me - how Kelsey Grammar, "with a tattoo on his... | 1 |
14,915 | [
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] | 172 | 226 | Look, we rated this a 10 on entertainment value. It's a comedy sure, not an epic like Lord of the Rings, or Gone with the Wind. Still for comedy, particularly these days, it's a 10.<br /><br />Not a long movie, moves quickly and easily. Kelsey Grammar right at home is this role as a loose but brilliant captain of a die... | 1 |
14,929 | [
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] | 241 | 270 | Eros and Thanatos, Love and Death command the dialectics of Life. By the end of 19th century in a remote Japanese village a young man and a married woman, older than he, fall in love with each other and decide to kill her husband to be free to enjoy their love. But they never enjoy that freedom since Remorse begins to ... | 1 |
14,930 | [
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] | 209 | 298 | In 1895, in a small village in Japan, the wife of the litter carrier Gisaburo (Takahiro Tamura), Seki (Kazuko Yoshiyuki), has an affair with a man twenty-six years younger, Toyiji (Tatsuya Fuji). Toyiji becomes jealous of Gisaburo and plots with Seki to kill him. They strangle Gisaburo and dump his body inside a well i... | 1 |
14,931 | [
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] | 188 | 214 | A genuinely creepy ghost story, full of chills and sensuality, this movie just falls short of what it promises. It is apparently based on an old ghost story, and perhaps relies a little too much on a simple premise. For most of the way, its imaginative and genuinely gripping, but at the end its almost like Oshima just ... | 1 |
14,938 | [
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] | 185 | 212 | This almost documentary look at an enterprising boy who lives in the body shop area outside of New York is real all the way. Real lighting. Real sound. Less editing in the whole movie than in 1 minute of most movies. And while there is very little script, there is a story. Shot in primary colors, almost all red, white,... | 1 |
14,941 | [
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] | 198 | 242 | For the very reason that I love movies such as "Central do Brasil" ("Central Station", 1998), I really love "Chop Shop". There is no sugar-coating, there is no attempt to make these people's lives over to something more palatable or pretty. What you see is what you get, and that is often gritty and at times heartbreaki... | 1 |
14,942 | [
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] | 161 | 200 | I enjoyed Ramin Bahrani's Man Push Cart, and this film is equally good. This slice of life is almost a documentary about how life on the edges is lived.<br /><br />Alejandro Polanco and Isamar Gonzales do an excellent job as a 12-year-old brother and a 16-year-old sister who live in a small room over an auto shop. Ther... | 1 |
14,943 | [
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] | 196 | 236 | Can't say this wasn't made well. At a recent film festival the director admitted some scenes took 30 takes. And there isn't the slightest indication he didn't get exactly what he wanted. But this is an oddly non-Hispanic film in the same way West Side Story was many years ago. Both the leads, a brother-sister team, are... | 1 |
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