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Marathon Man
Supercala.com
John Venable
Armchair dentistry! Ouch!
4/5
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The Ref
Supercala.com
John Venable
Pretty entertaining!
4/5
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Strange Brew
Supercala.com
John Venable
One of the greatest beer movies of all time!
4/5
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot
Supercala.com
John Venable
Remember seeing this as a kid and loving it. I don't know if it still holds up, but I loved it way back when.
4/5
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When Harry Met Sally
Supercala.com
John Venable
A classic romantic comedy.
5/5
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Captain America: The First Avenger
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
No clever messages here, just bang-on romance and action, with another fresh twist on 20th-century history woven in for the kids to dive into after the credits have rolled.
8/10
10
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Conan the Barbarian
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
A respectable (if unnecessary) reboot that's brutal, well acted and not overly serious.
6/10
10
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1
2,253
Cowboys & Aliens
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
There is nothing that fascinating about Favreau's treatment, nor his source material, but compared with similar blockbuster fare of recent months, this curious exercise in genre bending is very watchable.
7/10
10
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Katy Perry: Part of Me
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
Although the film dodges earlier personal issues - notably, the breakdown of her relationship with US rapper Travis McCoy - it does show the star as human.
7/10
10
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Paranoia
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
This boardroom blackmail romp feels as contrived and silly as anything Luketic has helmed in recent years.
4/10
10
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1
2,253
Senna
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
This is documentary filmmaking quite unlike any other: a tale of triumph over adversity, of victory and tragedy, visually presented as riveting, explosive drama. Senna is essential viewing.
10/10
10
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Star Wars: Episode II - Attack of the Clones
Sydney Morning Herald
Rob Lowing
Attack Of The Clones lacks the light heart of the "old" trilogy but this deliberate throwback to matinee movie serials is still fun.
7/10
10
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The Beaver
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
This is a wholly wasted opportunity for Gibson -- and a disappointing misfire from Foster.
3/10
10
3
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2,253
The Change-Up
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
We may have seen this stuff before but it could have been so much worse.
6/10
10
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The Guard
Sydney Morning Herald
Ed Gibbs
The film is foul-mouthed and not without its flourishes of violence but it's irresistibly likeable (and unpredictable).
8/10
10
8
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The Visitor
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
A beautiful, quiet, measured movie about the death of some American values since September 11, 2001.
4/4
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Funny Games
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
It's a tawdry kind of horror movie plot, given new meaning by Haneke's considerable intellect.
3.5/4
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High School Musical 3: Senior Year
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
A real, honest-to-goodness teen musical throwback, as if Andy Hardy had never died and James Dean had never lived.
4/4
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Baby Mama
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
The film is not exactly original but it is a lot of fun, thanks to the skill with which Fey and Poehler play to one another's strengths.
3.5/4
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Becoming Jane
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
It's all very spirited without getting anywhere near the spirit of Austen herself -- at least as we know her from her work.
3.5/4
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3.5
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
The film's director, Sidney Lumet, is 83 but he hasn't lost his feel for bleak New York stories programmed to end in tears.
3.5/4
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3.5
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Bonneville
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
Thank heavens for the practical presence and humour of Bates, and the quiet conservatism of Allen's performance as a pious woman scared of too much freedom.
3/4
4
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Burn After Reading
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
The whole thing is a triumphant exercise in the art of silliness for its own sake.
4/4
4
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8
9
2
2,254
Control
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Sam Riley, a newcomer to the big screen who portrays Curtis with eerie accuracy, has the stringy, underfed looks of a schoolboy in the midst of a sudden growth spurt.
4/4
4
4
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Death Proof
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
Death Proof is superbly made. There's a terrible tension watching these beautiful and spirited young women getting too close to the flame, followed by enormous relief when the mood changes in the second story.
3.5/4
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Devil
Sydney Morning Herald
Jim Schembri
Though the poster bravely boasts this movie as being ''from the mind of M Night Shyamalan'', Devil is actually not an over-long, near-unwatchable piece of badly directed high-concept dross, but a tight little killer thriller.
2.5/4
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2.5
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The Edge of Love
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
Maybury at least makes it lush, which is a relief from the drab realism of other English lit biopics.
3/4
4
3
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Evan Almighty
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
For long after the waters have subsided, there remains a very wide gap between havoc and hilarity.
2/4
4
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The Good Shepherd
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Infused with that glow of earnest deliberation characteristic of liberal Hollywood when focusing its well-paid talents on a worthy cause.
2/4
4
2
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Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
The film is so even-handed and so diligent in its urge to offend that after a while I felt myself go numb.
2/4
4
2
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The Illusionist
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
It gives you a chance to warm to a couple of beautifully calibrated and engagingly understated performances.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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9
2
2,254
In Search of Beethoven
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
As good as the film is, Beethoven remains mysterious. He refuses to roll over, so to speak.
4/4
4
4
4
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8
9
2
2,254
In the Land of Women
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Kasdan's gift for the smart crack is consistently undercut by a well-developed taste for schmalz.
3/4
4
3
4
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6
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2,254
Listen Up Philip
Sydney Morning Herald
Jake Wilson
What gives Listen up Philip an edge is its willingness to defy this convention.
3/4
4
3
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2,254
Little Miss Sunshine
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
This is a likeable, funny road movie about a dysfunctional family, but you know you've been down the same road before.
3/4
4
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Live Free or Die Hard
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
One of the surprises of the fourth instalment, apart from how good it is (who expected that?) is that the threat is internal.
4/4
4
4
4
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2
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Madagascar
Sydney Morning Herald
null
Feels as if it has been created from an animator's template.
2.5/4
4
2.5
4
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2,254
A Mighty Heart
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Although it is impossible to erase the spectre of Brangelina from your mind altogether while watching Jolie inhabit the role of Mariane Pearl, you can manage it for surprisingly long stretches at a time.
4/4
4
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith
Sydney Morning Herald
Jim Schembri
It was precisely at the 70-minute mark, where Brad Pitt is repeatedly kicking Angelina Jolie in the stomach, that I figured, no. Stop hoping.
0.5/4
4
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2,254
Not Quite Hollywood: The Wild, Untold Story of Ozploitation!
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Hartley's own film is much livelier than most of those he is out to celebrate -- partly because of its abundance of genuinely hair-raising behind-the-scenes footage.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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Ocean's Thirteen
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
Plausibility is the first casualty in Ocean's Thirteen but it's unlikely anybody is going to care.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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Offside
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
It's a very frank film about the daily frustrations for women who just want to enjoy their lives. It's a comedy, but of a fairly bitter sort.
3.5/4
4
3.5
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Persepolis
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
The monochromatic palette and simple lines of Satrapi's drawings go with a lusty sense of humour.
4/4
4
4
4
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8
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2
2,254
Primer
Sydney Morning Herald
Philippa Hawker
It's easy (and exhilarating) to be caught up by its possibilities.
4/4
4
4
4
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2,254
Ratatouille
Sydney Morning Herald
Sandra Hall
It's always been Pixar's boast that it keeps its computers in their place -- at the service of the story -- and with Ratatouille, it has proved it yet again.
4/4
4
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The Simpsons Movie
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
The pace is breakneck, and the animation -- though still primitive -- makes good use of the full width of the screen.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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Surf's Up
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
It's fun for a while, but the script doesn't have the structure to sustain 85 minutes.
3/4
4
3
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2
2,254
Talk to Me
Sydney Morning Herald
George Palathingal
It's a visually and aurally riveting trip to an important time from a perspective few here will know, about a person worth meeting.
3/4
4
3
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Tammy
Sydney Morning Herald
Jake Wilson
[Something] in Tammy you wouldn't expect to see in a mainstream comedy [is] the romantic pairing of McCarthy with indie heartthrob Mark Duplass, reversing the formula of the male slob who gets the conventionally beautiful girl.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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2,254
Tropic Thunder
Sydney Morning Herald
Paul Byrnes
Ben Stiller's confidence as a director is growing; this is comedy on a grand scale, with huge effects and a big cast.
3.5/4
4
3.5
4
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2,254
Milk
Sydney Morning Herald
Dave Calhoun
Penn is a revelation as Milk. He's always been a no-holds-barred actor, but this is another departure: his energy drives the story.
5/6
6
5
6
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
Sydney Morning Herald
Natalie Hambly
C+ is for camp, which this movie, unfortunately, is too often. It also loses marks for length -- 115 minutes. Even the most hardcore fans would struggle through to the end on this one.
C+
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Us
Syfy Wire
Jonathan P. Higgins, Ed.D.
This movie proves that if you are not wise, you can be tethered to the darker parts of yourself.
10/10
10
10
10
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1
2,257
Bloodshot
Syfy Wire
Jonita Davis
It is a shame that 'Bloodshot' doesn't work, because all the elements the fans want are there. Too bad the story couldn't hold up its end of things.
2.5/5
5
2.5
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The Company
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
A plotless vanity vehicle for Canadian star and co-producer Neve Campbell, The Company is an endurance test.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
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2,259
The Snow Walker
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Smith's respect and love for the wilderness is clear in every frame, and allows the viewer to become fully immersed in the characters' predicaments.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
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1
2,259
50 First Dates
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Despite its absurdist premise, and the danger of falling into Groundhog Day repetitiveness, 50 First Dates is convincing and works remarkably well.
4/5
5
4
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3
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2,259
Against the Ropes
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
An awfully contrived and awkward "true-life" drama, film tries desperately to be a crowd-pleaser without delivering the necessary narrative punch or action.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
5
1
2,259
Barbershop 2: Back in Business
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
A more serious but equally entertaining comedy than its predecessor, film provides enough food for thought and laughs to satisfy diehard fans.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
5
1
2,259
The Big Bounce
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Obviously incomplete, The Big Bounce has at least 20 more minutes of footage lying around on the cutting-room floor making this whimsical comedy unsatisfying.
3/5
5
3
5
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2
5
1
2,259
Bratz: The Movie
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Sean McNamara's cheesy Bratz: The Movie is ludicrous and almost perverse. Even more upsetting is the fact that no effort was made whatsoever in hiding ideas appropriated by teen films.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
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1
2,259
The Butterfly Effect
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Supernatural nonsense delivered to us in a pretty but vacuous package.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
5
1
2,259
Derailed
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
The director's unfocused hand and the actors' aloof performances derailed my expectations.
3/5
5
3
5
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2
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1
2,259
Dogville
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Pretentious, conceited, and terribly longwinded, Lars von Trier's Dogville is unappealing and horribly depressing.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
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1
2,259
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
a seductive, intelligent, and engrossing love story that has the viewer in love with its quirky concept.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
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1
2,259
Good Bye, Lenin!
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Wolfgang Becker's dramatic comedy humorously dissects the social turmoil that followed the unification of Germany in 1989.
4/5
5
4
5
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3
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1
2,259
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" will satisfy the older fans who have read the book:
3/5
5
3
5
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2
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1
2,259
Hidalgo
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Starts like Last Samurai, looks like Mummy, and ends a la Seabiscuit; gorgeous-looking hokey horsey drama high on ambition but low on plausibility despite its true-life tale.
3/5
5
3
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1
2,259
Kill Bill: Volume 2
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
While Vol. 1 was energetic and entertaining, Vol. 2 is elegant and intelligent making the overall experience powerful and memorable.
5/5
5
5
5
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4
5
1
2,259
Miracle
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
A heartwarming tearjerker that'll melt even the staunchest anti-American.
3/5
5
3
5
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1
2,259
The Passion of the Christ
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Emotional, violent, extreme and very gory, Mel Gibson's controversial The Passion of the Christ is a difficult and grotesque experience for most viewers.
3/5
5
3
5
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2,259
The Republic of Love
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
The lack of vitality and dramatic storyline renders this tale about faith in love underwhelming and artificial.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
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1
2,259
Starsky & Hutch
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
More of a spoof than a stand-alone comedy, film barely moves beyond the 70s hair and clothes, delivering a flat and not particularly funny picture. Shame.
3/5
5
3
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2,259
Taking Lives
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Elegant, good-looking and well-performed, D.J. Caruso's psycho-thriller is an enthralling and engaging drama that works well thanks mostly to its sexy cast.
3/5
5
3
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2
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2,259
Touching the Void
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Invigorating and exciting, Kevin Macdonald's docu-drama is excruciating in its emotional involvement.
5/5
5
5
5
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4
5
1
2,259
Twelve and Holding
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Twelve and Holding is a tale of young friends who deal with death and family crises.
3/5
5
3
5
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2
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1
2,259
Twisted
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
An awfully tedious thriller that makes great waste of the talent involved Twisted is awkward, predictable, convoluted and terribly implausible.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
5
1
2,259
Welcome to Mooseport
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Short on laughs despite being an easy concept for witty writers, the film flaunts an over-extended running time and lame dialogue.
2/5
5
2
5
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1
5
1
2,259
Zathura: A Space Adventure
Sympatico.ca
Angela Baldassarre
Most of the film's 101 minutes is an onslaught of explosions, attacks, escapes and infighting.
3/5
5
3
5
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2
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2,259
About Schmidt
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Payne also understands what it has taken me most of a lifetime to comprehend: that the Schmidts of this world are not to be easily dismissed.
4/4
4
4
4
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2,260
The Secret World of Arrietty
TIME Magazine
Steven Snyder
Unlike most Ghibli escapes that liberate us from reality, Arrietty brings the same magic to the mundane, elevating the ordinary confines of daily life into sumptuous surprises
4/4
4
4
4
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3
4
1
2,260
Dead Man Walking
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Its final moments leave us awash in emotion.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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7
9
2
2,261
Life Is Beautiful (La Vita è bella)
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Sentimentality is a kind of fascism too, robbing us of judgment and moral acuity, and it needs to be resisted. Life Is Beautiful is a good place to start.
1/5
5
1
5
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0
9
2
2,261
The Hurricane
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
A thoughtful and even inspiring film.
4/5
5
4
5
false
6
9
2
2,261
Tumbleweeds
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Keep it authentic, keep it modest, keep it hopping. That's what happens in Tumbleweeds.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,261
Malena
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Bereft of the more richly textured sentiments of Tornatore's Cinema Paradiso.
2/5
5
2
5
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2
9
2
2,261
Traffic
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
It leaves one feeling restless and dissatisfied.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,261
Hannibal
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Corrosive and haunting.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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7
9
2
2,261
A.I. Artificial Intelligence
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Spielberg laid the burden of the film on Osment like a backpack, and the young trouper carries it.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,261
American History X
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
A confused, randomly compelling family melodrama.
3/5
5
3
5
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4
9
2
2,261
Amores Perros
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
[The] sense that even hair-trigger lives, always poised on the edge of self-destructive lunacy, deserve to be sympathetically understood is Amores Perros' redeeming grace.
5/5
5
5
5
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8
9
2
2,261
Central Station (Central do Brasil)
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
[Salles'] imagery, like his storytelling, is clear, often unaffectedly lovely, and quietly, powerfully haunting.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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9
2
2,261
Chuck & Buck
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Any movie that sentimentalizes stalking ought to be shunned.
1.5/5
5
1.5
5
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1
9
2
2,261
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
High art meets high spirits in a rapturously romantic epic that really kicks butt.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,261
The Deep End
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
Elegantly made, romantically doomy, curiously affecting.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
false
7
9
2
2,261
Divided We Fall
TIME Magazine
Richard Schickel
A lovely movie, one that allows its characters unexpected spurts of growth and regression, darkness and grace.
4/5
5
4
5
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6
9
2
2,261
Ed Wood
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
This Ed Wood is dead wood.
1/5
5
1
5
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0
9
2
2,261
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
The picture isn't inept, just inert.
2.5/5
5
2.5
5
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3
9
2
2,261
Hero
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
Zhang Yimou may have dipped his cinematic pen in mere genre, but in doing so, he has inscribed a masterpiece.
5/5
5
5
5
false
8
9
2
2,261
The Insider
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
When Crowe gets to command the screen, The Insider comes to roiled life.
4.5/5
5
4.5
5
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7
9
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