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The Green Mile
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Laughter and tears are both subtly drawn out and jack-hammered home.
8/10
10
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10
1
1,984
Groove
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
In the process of enlightening the masses on the hipster party scene, Mr. Harrison forgot to make an interesting movie.
5/10
10
5
10
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4
10
1
1,984
Kikujiro
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
... when the adult is a lout and the child is a silent dullard, the formula loses its punch.
6/10
10
6
10
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5
10
1
1,984
Liberty Heights
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
A thoroughly grounded statement about the human condition.
9/10
10
9
10
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8
10
1
1,984
Love and Basketball
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
The entire production is dumbed-down.
6/10
10
6
10
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5
10
1
1,984
Magnolia
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
A stunning achievement.
10/10
10
10
10
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9
10
1
1,984
The Muse
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
The lead performances of Brooks, MacDowell, and Stone are critical to the story's success, and ultimately fall flat.
6/10
10
6
10
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5
10
1
1,984
Notting Hill
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Slick look, a bit of experimental camera work, and clever montages.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
1,984
Requiem for a Dream
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
A one of a kind, must-see, moviegoing experience.
10/10
10
10
10
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9
10
1
1,984
Run Lola Run
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Sheer, demented entertainment.
10/10
10
10
10
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9
10
1
1,984
Snatch
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Working with this brutal charmer will reap endless rewards.
10/10
10
10
10
false
9
10
1
1,984
The Talented Mr. Ripley
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Highly reminiscent of a taut Hitchcock thriller.
9/10
10
9
10
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8
10
1
1,984
The Love Letter
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
The chemistry between the age-challenged lovers is exceptionally sweet, and crucial to the success of the project.
8/10
10
8
10
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7
10
1
1,984
Toy Story 2
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
Those wizards at Pixar sure know how to put on a show.
9/10
10
9
10
false
8
10
1
1,984
The Dukes of Hazzard
Palo Alto Weekly
Jeanne Aufmuth
B-movie pabulum within an A-level marketing plan.
2.4/5
5
2.4
5
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21
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Aliens
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Un film clé en son genre.
8/10
10
8
10
false
7
10
1
1,986
Green Zone
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Cliquez pour lire la critique...
7/10
10
7
10
false
6
10
1
1,986
Alexandra's Project
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Manipulateur et de mauvaise foi.
4/10
10
4
10
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3
10
1
1,986
Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Cliquez pour lire la critique...
5/10
10
5
10
false
4
10
1
1,986
Spun
Panorama
Jean-François Vandeuren
Une bien mauvaise caricature.
3/10
10
3
10
false
2
10
1
1,986
Alexander
Panorama
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
À moitié réussi, à moitié raté.
B-
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18
1
1,987
The Manchurian Candidate
Panorama
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Ingal, mais efficace.
B-
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12
18
1
1,987
The Ring Two
Panorama
Louis-Jérôme Cloutier
Du gros, gros recyclage.
C+
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11
18
1
1,987
Spectre
Parade Magazine
Neil Pond
The 24th movie since 'Dr. No' began the franchise in 1962 may reflect on the past and even gaze into the grave, but it's vibrantly, expressively, emotionally alive and very much in step with today.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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Escape from New York
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Reagen-era horseshit.
0/5
5
0
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6
1
1,989
Witness
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
An offence to the Amish
0/5
5
0
5
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6
1
1,989
The Long Goodbye
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
One of the greatest detective films of all time.
5/5
5
5
5
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5
6
1
1,989
The Circus
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Hilarious-ness-ness
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,989
The Kid
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
A beautiful film.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,989
Pocahontas
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Horrible. Racist. An affront.
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,989
8 1/2
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Most overrated film of all time.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,989
Blood Simple
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Useless update
2/5
5
2
5
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2
6
1
1,989
Broken Flowers
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
"Broken Flowers" is layered with sophisticated symbolism, amusing wordplay and a strong cast, yet it remains an unsatisfying film.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,989
Death and the Maiden
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Weaver and Kingsley move.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,989
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Masterpiece
5/5
5
5
5
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5
6
1
1,989
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Funny the first time. Multiple viewings offer nothing.
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,989
The Exterminator
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Right-wing nonsense
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,989
Giant
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Essential viewing
5/5
5
5
5
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5
6
1
1,989
La Grande illusion (Grand Illusion)
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
One of the greatest films of all time.
5/5
5
5
5
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5
6
1
1,989
Let Him Have It
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
One of the best films on capital punishment ever.
5/5
5
5
5
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5
6
1
1,989
Lifeboat
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
One of Hitchcock's best
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,989
Look Who's Talking Now
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
For losers
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,989
Modern Times
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
A masterpiece.
5/5
5
5
5
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5
6
1
1,989
Phantasm
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Flat out stupid
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,989
Play It Again, Sam
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Amusing early Allen
3/5
5
3
5
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3
6
1
1,989
The Power of One
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Mushy
1/5
5
1
5
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1
6
1
1,989
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang
Pasadena Weekly
Jana Monji
In the fascinating documentary Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang, director Kevin Macdonald helps audiences understand the political and social forces that helped develop one of China's major artists and his journey.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,989
Soylent Green
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
The SNL skits are better
1/5
5
1
5
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1
6
1
1,989
Species
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Worthless
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,989
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II - The Secret of the Ooze
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
For losers
0/5
5
0
5
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0
6
1
1,989
Wild Strawberries
Pasadena Weekly
John Esther
Brilliant.
4/5
5
4
5
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4
6
1
1,989
Death by China
Paste Magazine
Jay Antani
As a wake-up call... Navarro scores points.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
false
3
7
2
1,990
Pusher
Paste Magazine
Jay Antani
a perfectly serviceable race-against-the-clock thriller thanks to a powerful lead performance from Richard Coyle.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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3
7
2
1,990
The Crash Reel
Paste Magazine
Calum Marsh
Walker's strategy yields drama on par with a scripted thriller ... But what's missing, I think, is a moral sense.
2/4
4
2
4
false
2
7
2
1,990
The Kid with a Bike
Paste Magazine
Jay Antani
continues the Belgian writing-directing brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's extraordinary run of charting the lives of European down-and-outers navigating difficult moral and spiritual terrain.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
false
5
7
2
1,990
Tonight You're Mine
Paste Magazine
Jay Antani
A prime example of a movie whose setting must compensate for an absence of any actual merit.
1/4
4
1
4
false
0
7
2
1,990
Trishna
Paste Magazine
Jay Antani
dismal and unconvincing
2/4
4
2
4
false
2
7
2
1,990
Undefeated
Paste Magazine
Jay Antani
In introducing us to [Coach] Courtney...Undefeated finds its voice
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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3
7
2
1,990
10,000 B.C.
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
But the folks who made 10,000 B.C. have filled their film with a sub-Disney plot and inserted a few measly slivers of action that hardly warrant all the mystical hubbub and romantic angst.
1.5/5
5
1.5
5
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1,991
Married Life
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
It's elegant, unhurried, and, if you meet it half way, softly satisfying ... like the muffled clap of a velvet-covered ring box snapping shut.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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15
41
10
1,991
The New World
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
[Malick's] characters must consider their lives, consider each other, and resolve the situation like adults. And when they do, a story that seemed to be irredeemably broken snaps back together.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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35
41
10
1,991
Free Zone
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
There's an art to ambiguity -- there really is... Left to their own devices, viewers will fill in the blanks, but when the movie starts filling them in itself, you have to wonder about the mismatch.
3/5
5
3
5
false
20
41
10
1,991
Akeelah and the Bee
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Akeelah and the Bee is the kind of movie you want to recommend to every 11-year-old you know.
4/5
5
4
5
false
30
41
10
1,991
Art School Confidential
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Unfortunately, the tender observations Zwigoff and Clowes specialize in are largely missing from Art School Confidential, which spends its energy on the zany people who'd usually pepper the edges of their films.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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15
41
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1,991
Batman Begins
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Not only do we see Gotham in the daylight, but Christian Bale may also be the first Bruce Wayne who's more at home crouching in a monastery with his hair in his eyes than attending a dinner party for which he'd have to trim his nails.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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25
41
10
1,991
Be Kind Rewind
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
But with a skill that is difficult to pinpoint, Gondry seems to stumble like a fox from this paper-thin plot into a precious little ode to community.
3/5
5
3
5
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20
41
10
1,991
Caché
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Michael Haneke's aptly named Caché (Hidden) is the kind of movie that fully engages the mind of the viewer. It's a multi-layered, open-ended thriller, an onion sliced by taut piano wire.
4.5/5
5
4.5
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35
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1,991
The Corporation
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
As a clever joke, the filmmakers run down a list of the traits of a psychopath and find a corporate action to match each one. Diagnosis: psychopath. It's cute, but it's a logical fallacy.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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25
41
10
1,991
Dogville
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
These elements come together to form a movie that is clinically ironic but also unique, inspired, and quite sublime.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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25
41
10
1,991
Eros
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The chatter in the lobby, I predict, will be from people wondering how and when [Antonioni] flipped his lid... The film is a failure, no matter how grandiose its title or the names above it.
2/5
5
2
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10
41
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1,991
Girl With a Pearl Earring
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The movie benefits greatly from Johansson's gift for understated delivery, but she's less assured in this demure, largely non-verbal role than she was as a modern young woman in Ghost World and Lost in Translation.
2.5/5
5
2.5
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15
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A Good Year
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
[Russel Crowe's] supply of quips and pratfalls is inexhaustible, even when he's trapped at the bottom of a swimming pool surrounded by peat and dry leaves. Alas, he escapes.
2/5
5
2
5
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10
41
10
1,991
Grace Is Gone
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The power of the ending comes from the inherent pain of loss, but it's no feat to recognize how emotional this would be, to tell us it's coming and to dangle it in front of us for an hour and a half.
2/5
5
2
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10
41
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1,991
Hero
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
In what may be the movie's most spectacular set piece ... Zhang pits the sword against the pen and fends off war with knowledge and non-violence.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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25
41
10
1,991
In the Shadow of the Moon
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
It never hurts to be reminded of our potential and our insignicance, and who better to do the reminding than clean-cut American boys who've covered up the entire world with their thumbs.
4/5
5
4
5
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30
41
10
1,991
Jumanji: The Next Level
Paste Magazine
Oktay Ege Kozak
Skip The Next Level and hope for some form of originality in the next one instead.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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25
41
10
1,991
Little Miss Sunshine
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The chaotic dinner scene pops like syncopated jazz, setting the tone for a warm, funny film that has more smiles than belly laughs.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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41
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1,991
Manderlay
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
It doesn't offer much insight into America's race issues, which might seem at first to be its target, but it works very well as a metaphor for America's intervention in Iraq.
4/5
5
4
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30
41
10
1,991
Meet Dave
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
I doubt many kids will follow the bit about using an orb to desalinate the earth's water, but that's just the MacGuffin of a film whose nature is to whiff across the top of a kid's head and then evaporate, which it does, leaving almost no residue.
2/5
5
2
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10
41
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1,991
Monster
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
As impressive as [Charlize Theron's] transformation is, it's likely to spawn more discussions about acting than about the topic at hand.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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25
41
10
1,991
My Summer of Love
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The film reaches a point of high drama, for sure, but when Edith Piaf's voice rises over the final minutes, the gothic climax curls into a wicked grin.
4/5
5
4
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30
41
10
1,991
A Prairie Home Companion
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Altman's star-studded cast is natural and energetic -- with the exception of a surprisingly detached Keillor -- and the Hollywood folks mingle easily, in character, among the real show's performers, a technique Altman perfected in Nashville.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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Protagonist
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
[Jessica Yu] combines the interviews with such skill that themes begin to emerge, a tangled thicket of men seeking to define themselves through strength, discipline and self-transformation.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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25
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Millennium Mambo (Qianxi Manbo)
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
We get far too few opportunities in the U.S. to see Hou's gorgeous films on the big screen. If this one comes to your town, don't pass it up.
4/5
5
4
5
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30
41
10
1,991
Saraband
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Bergman has a sharp talent for observing human conflicts without claiming to fully understand them.
4/5
5
4
5
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30
41
10
1,991
The Savages
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Oddly being marketed as a comedy by its distributor, The Savages is best approached as a drama with an intermittently light touch that's generally more of a curse than a boon.
3/5
5
3
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20
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1,991
Super Size Me
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
I'm willing to believe Spurlock's hypothesis ... but someday I'd like to see a well-researched documentary as lively as this one on the harmful effects of pseudo-science in the media.
3/5
5
3
5
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20
41
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1,991
The Counterfeiters
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Karl Markovics is exceptionally well cast. He's not wildly expressive, but his physicality -- a small frame, a nose that bends northwest due to events we can only imagine -- is enough to carry the film's ambiguities.
3.5/5
5
3.5
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25
41
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The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu seems effortlessly observed, even improvised, but it's actually a wonder of choreography, rhythm and social commentary.
4/5
5
4
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30
41
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1,991
The Grudge
Paste Magazine
Andy Crump
Each thread could have functioned as a standalone film about the terrible consequences of presuming safety in a world menaced by invisible dangers.
2.5/5
5
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The Nines
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
August is on solid ground when he's riffing on Stephen King and celebrities, but he's stretching when he tries to be David Lynch, which would require a distinctly different kind of brain damage.
2.5/5
5
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Thriller
Paste Magazine
Joelle Monique
Thriller at best qualifies as an interesting attempt at bringing additional perspectives to horror. Given the potential of this particular niche of the horror genre, that also makes it quite the wasted opportunity.
4.7/5
5
4.7
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Twentynine Palms
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Twentynine Palms is another in a string of recent French movies in which the body is no longer sacred, a churning, jerking, oozing machine. But Dumont seems to be working toward human discovery.
2.5/5
5
2.5
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Twice Born
Paste Magazine
Brent Simon
The type of cinematic slog one watches and thinks, 'This would actually be much more interesting as a book.' And that makes sense, really, since that's its original medium.
2/5
5
2
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10
41
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V for Vendetta
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
The details of V's beef with society are hazy, but the film has a certain purity of spirit.
3.5/5
5
3.5
5
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41
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1,991
Vantage Point
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
[Vantage Point is] a puzzle cut by a drunken, three-fingered jigsaw operator who lost a few pieces and chewed on a few others.
1.5/5
5
1.5
5
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5
41
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Waitress
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
It's a love letter of the first degree, the kind that rises out of trepidation and confusion, almost by accident, with a sudden force of absolute clarity.
4/5
5
4
5
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30
41
10
1,991
Wordplay
Paste Magazine
Robert Davis
Similar in structure to the recent movie Spellbound, Wordplay is a fun documentary about an American institution and national habit.
3/5
5
3
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41
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1,991
12 Strong
Paste Magazine
Will Leitch
The movie has its moments. But Thor wrestling with the Hulk is more realistic and, frankly, more relevant to the current facts on the ground.
C
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22 July
Paste Magazine
Will Leitch
Essentially "United 93" with "The 9/11 Commission Report" tacked onto the end of it.
B-
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