frankier/processed_multiscale_rt_critics · Datasets at Hugging Face

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Upgrade	Thrillist	Scott Weinberg	It's not easy to combine action, horror, and sci-fi into one nifty little 95-minute package that actually works in all three departments, but this movie gets it right.	4.5/5	5	4.5	5	false	35	41	10	2,404
She Dies Tomorrow	Through the Trees	Katherine McLaughlin	Seimetz has crafted a hypnotic voyage into the unknown and the uncertain, that blushes with an intense stream of vivid colours, vast landscapes and fascinating characters.	4/5	5	4	5	false	3	5	1	2,405
6 Underground	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	Like a live-action "Team America: World Police." It's not the best thing Michael Bay has directed, but not quite the worst either.	2/5	5	2	5	false	2	9	2	2,406
Feels Good Man	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A compelling documentary about a man's quest to reclaim his creation from some of the worst people in the world.	3.5/5	5	3.5	5	false	5	9	2	2,406
In the Shadow of the Moon	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A deeply weird, but ultimately enjoyable mashup of several genres.	3/5	5	3	5	false	4	9	2	2,406
Judy	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A career-best performance from Renee Zellweger, the best screen treatment of Judy Garland's life to date, and the first awards bait of the fall to rise to the occasion.	4/5	5	4	5	false	6	9	2	2,406
Red Penguins	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A compelling documentary about the culture clash between Western and Eastern hockey, at the dawn of Yeltsin-era Russia.	4/5	5	4	5	false	6	9	2	2,406
Richard Jewell	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	Some decent moments and performances, but the character assassination of Kathy Scruggs all but ruins it.	2/5	5	2	5	false	2	9	2	2,406
Satanic Panic	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A mostly entertaining effort that finds a decent balance between gory horror and laughs, even if it does succumb a bit to cliche.	3/5	5	3	5	false	4	9	2	2,406
Spaceship Earth	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	An eye-opening look at an ambitious project that may have fallen short, but still provided illuminating lessons about the earth, the environment, human relations, and the limits of utopian dreams.	4/5	5	4	5	false	6	9	2	2,406
Tesla	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A delightfully freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla.	4.5/5	5	4.5	5	false	7	9	2	2,406
The Two Popes	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	A speculative dramatization of recent history that stars very skilled actors as recognizable world leaders while not necessarily shedding a huge amount of light on the people concerned	3.5/5	5	3.5	5	false	5	9	2	2,406
You Cannot Kill David Arquette	Tilt Magazine	Stephen Silver	Whether you were a pro wrestling fan in the '90s or not, this film will make you root for David Arquette in a way you never thought possible.	4/5	5	4	5	false	6	9	2	2,406
McQueen	Time Out	Cath Clarke	This intelligent, honest documentary explores McQueen's complex personality without getting tacky or tabloidy, or ignoring his dark side.	4.5/10	10	4.5	10	false	7	19	2	2,407
All or Nothing	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	If every artist's misfires were this strong, life would be almost too wonderful to bear.	62/100	100	62	100	false	61	100	1	2,408
Femme Fatale	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy, kinky fun.	52/100	100	52	100	false	51	100	1	2,408
24 Hour Party People	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Bracing wit and boundless energy.	68/100	100	68	100	false	67	100	1	2,408
All About Lily Chou-Chou	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	For all its impressive craftsmanship, and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos, Lily Chou-Chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam.	47/100	100	47	100	false	46	100	1	2,408
Auto Focus	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Combines the least appealing aspects of the biopic (episodic narrative, lack of imagination) with the least appealing aspects of the junkie's-downward-spiral genre (wearying repetition, lofty condescension).	41/100	100	41	100	false	40	100	1	2,408
Blood Work	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	A perfectly competent potboiler, made with Eastwood's usual professionalism, that ultimately feels rather anemic.	43/100	100	43	100	false	42	100	1	2,408
Bowling for Columbine	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Problematic yet essential, it arrives in theaters looking, if anything, even more caustic and timely than it did at its Cannes premiere.	66/100	100	66	100	false	65	100	1	2,408
City by the Sea	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Suffers from a schematic, overdetermined rigidity, as if screenwriter Ken Hixon had plotted the scenario on graph paper before setting it down in type.	50/100	100	50	100	false	49	100	1	2,408
American Experience	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Slowly but surely devolves into a fascinating, cringe-inducing portrait of cultural solipsism, climaxing in an emotional meltdown that wouldn't look out of place in mid-period Cassavetes.	80/100	100	80	100	false	79	100	1	2,408
Derrida	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	As an introduction to the man's theories and influence, Derrida is all but useless; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man, however, it's invaluable.	66/100	100	66	100	false	65	100	1	2,408
Eight Legged Freaks	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Too silly to be frightening, too stolid to be funny, it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star, David Arquette.	45/100	100	45	100	false	44	100	1	2,408
Far From Heaven	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Visually ravishing, subtly provocative, both entertainment and dissertation.	67/100	100	67	100	false	66	100	1	2,408
Full Frontal	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Fails to cohere on a thematic level, but restless formal experimentation doesn't get much more accessible and entertaining.	69/100	100	69	100	false	68	100	1	2,408
The Happiness of the Katakuris	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Aggressively uneven and frequently humdrum, it also reaches cheerfully ludicrous heights to which few films even aspire.	65/100	100	65	100	false	64	100	1	2,408
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Once again, Chris Columbus stays out of J.K. Rowling's way, sticking to the text and hitting each narrative beat cleanly and vigorously.	57/100	100	57	100	false	56	100	1	2,408
Heaven	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise.	69/100	100	69	100	false	68	100	1	2,408
K-19: The Widowmaker	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Remember The Hunt for Red October, in which Sean Connery played a Russian sub captain without modifying his Scottish burr in the slightest? He's my hero.	50/100	100	50	100	false	49	100	1	2,408
Love in the Time of Money	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Absurdities and clichs accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel.	48/100	100	48	100	false	47	100	1	2,408
One Hour Photo	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Sy is so deeply disturbed that, paradoxically, he isn't very disturbing.	49/100	100	49	100	false	48	100	1	2,408
Personal Velocity: Three Portraits	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering, Miller's hand often feels unsure.	48/100	100	48	100	false	47	100	1	2,408
Pipe Dream	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	A singularly off-putting romantic comedy.	38/100	100	38	100	false	37	100	1	2,408
Possession	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Anybody who's ever been turned on by someone's use of an unfamiliar word will understand.	64/100	100	64	100	false	63	100	1	2,408
Punch-Drunk Love	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	The comedy here emerges not from personality but from aesthetics: the precise framing, the bravura camera movements, Jon Brion's insistently percussive score, Sandler's ridiculous blue suit.	68/100	100	68	100	false	67	100	1	2,408
The Ring	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Boasts a real heart-stopper of a finale-an uncanny phosphor nightmare that depicts a marrow-deep fear shared by every kid who grew up in the video age.	63/100	100	63	100	false	62	100	1	2,408
Road to Perdition	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	A crackerjack yarn delivered with more than enough conviction and panache to compensate for the occasional fit of self-importance.	75/100	100	75	100	false	74	100	1	2,408
Roger Dodger	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	It's a movie dominated by conversation yet devoid of theatricality or staginess: a pictorial gabfest.	70/100	100	70	100	false	69	100	1	2,408
The Isle	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up.	29/100	100	29	100	false	28	100	1	2,408
Sex and Lucia	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	So ridiculously overstuffed with rhymes, symbols, metaphors and mystical coincidences that you frequently feel as if you shouldn't be watching it so much as graphing it.	39/100	100	39	100	false	38	100	1	2,408
Simone	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	In the real world, an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a rsum loaded with credits like "Girl in Bar #3."	44/100	100	44	100	false	43	100	1	2,408
Solaris	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Whatever else one might say of Soderbergh and Clooney, they understand that clout is something you exercise, not something you safeguard.	63/100	100	63	100	false	62	100	1	2,408
Talk to Her	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	At heart, it's a sick, scandalous joke, but you can't quite bring yourself to laugh at something so deeply felt and so gravely elegant.	66/100	100	66	100	false	65	100	1	2,408
Ted Bundy	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art.	35/100	100	35	100	false	34	100	1	2,408
Undisputed	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	A lean, surprisingly artful programmer, closer in spirit to something like Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11 than to typical boxing fare.	60/100	100	60	100	false	59	100	1	2,408
The Weight of Water	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	Makes its belated arrival sporting the bloated, pruny appearance of something that's been floating aimlessly for longer than anybody cares to remember.	42/100	100	42	100	false	41	100	1	2,408
Welcome to Collinwood	Time Out	Mike D'Angelo	A skillful trifle.	64/100	100	64	100	false	63	100	1	2,408
The Princess and the Frog	Time Out	David Fear	Eye-candy-wise, the film plants a big wet smooch; everything else about this happily-ever-after tale, however, feels like a mere air-kiss.	3/4	4	3	4	false	2	4	1	2,409
Epic	Time Out	Sam Adams	So generic it might as well come in a black-and-white box: Animated Adventure TBD.	C-	long_letter	null	null	false	9	18	1	2,410
The Haunting in Connecticut	Time Out Chicago	Hank Sartin	Cornwell delivers shock-cut scares with metronomic regularity; all you can do is sit numbly, waiting for the next pummeling.	2/6	6	2	6	false	1	6	1	2,411
Nobel Son	Time Out Chicago	Anna King	Alan Rickman always plays odious but smart with sangfroid.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,411
A Wink and a Smile	Time Out Chicago	Raven Snook	Timmons shortchanges them by failing to show any of the graduating acts in their entirety. Talk about a strip-tease.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
Bob Funk	Time Out Chicago	Ben Walters	Bob Funk is terrifically cast and performed, with some good lines. Shame the story and character development are so clich and banal.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
Doubt	Time Out Chicago	David Fear	Doubt works best when the performers are simply allowed to spar.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,411
Gran Torino	Time Out Chicago	Joshua Rothkopf	The problem, a somewhat depressing one, is that Eastwood has grown into a director who thinks he's superior to his mentors. A hint of pretension has crept into his filmmaking, and his exchanges with his young cast feel overwrought.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
The International	Time Out Chicago	Ben Kenigsberg	Even classed up with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the story -- inspired by an actual late-'80s/early-'90s scandal -- seems slightly confused and dated.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
Madea Goes to Jail	Time Out Chicago	Monika Fabian	The predictable, even absurd twists that the movie takes to reach its happily-ever-after conclusion are amusing, as are the smart-ass quips and disposition of Perry's popular alter ego.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
The Merry Gentleman	Time Out Chicago	Hank Sartin	As a director, the star isn't especially polished, but there's something likable about his effort not to make yet another quirky, smirky film about a hit man in a funk.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
The Secret Life of Bees	Time Out Chicago	Melissa Anderson	Adapting Sue Monk Kidd's soft feminist 2002 best-seller, director Gina Prince-Bythewood generously showcases her ensemble cast's talents.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
Séraphine	Time Out Chicago	Joshua Rothkopf	Like Amadeus, Séraphine wants to get its hands dirty with the work itself. The movie understands creative types and their whims, even if it tips toward a long-telegraphed retribution.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
The Soloist	Time Out Chicago	Joshua Rothkopf	The tears it elicits are earned. But there's an element of fantastic fate that's discordant. Foxx is playing a miracle; Downey, a lapsed believer. Both are capable of more.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,411
Future Weather	Time Out Chicago	Sam Adams	Feels like the product of an explosion at the Sundance factory: a rural setting here, a wisp of mildly quirky indie rock there.	B	short_letter	null	null	false	4	6	1	2,412
Across the Universe	Time Out New York	Melissa Anderson	Goo goo g'joob; save your money for the Help! DVD.	1/5	5	1	5	false	0	5	1	2,413
The French Connection	Time Out New York	David Fear	William Friedkin's symphony of long, sharp shocks is memorable for any number of sequences.	5/5	5	5	5	false	4	5	1	2,413
The Air I Breathe	Time Out New York	Time Out Staff	The final installment teeters close to camp, a sensibility that might have actually rescued Air. Instead, the film wallows in pop-psych platitudes.	1/5	5	1	5	false	0	5	1	2,413
The Visitor	Time Out Sydney	null	Its mushy humanism is...insidious.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
The Duchess	Time Out Sydney	null	A mature, restrained portrayal from Knightley, a masterclass in passive aggression from Fiennes and a performance of tender seduction from Atwell.	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
Funny Games	Time Out Sydney	Wally Hammond	This new version adds nothing novel, but it lacks none of the original's bite.	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
Before the Rains	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	Has the moral overtones of an EM Forster story, but is curiously lacking in emotional force.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
Australia	Time Out Sydney	Angus Fontaine	A very loud, crazily colourful and delightfully strings-free romp -- fun while it lasted and fondly recalled, but not, alas, the big love we yearned for.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Big Stan	Time Out Sydney	Jonathon Valenzuela	Whether you love him or hate him, your opinion of Rob Schneider will remain unchanged by the end.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)	Time Out Sydney	Derek Adams	This writer can't remember witnessing a harder-hitting kids' movie denouement than the one that closes this microcosm of middle-class German family life in WWII.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Star Wars: The Clone Wars	Time Out Sydney	null	The action sequences are kinetic and hold the eye, the animation style is detailed and it remains within the boundaries of the canon.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button	Time Out Sydney	David Fear	For a melodrama concerned with emotional pain, this fairy tale favours formal trickery over human connection to a fault.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Doubt	Time Out Sydney	David Jenkins	Tense and teasingly ambiguous...	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
Every Little Step	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	We're left with a deep sense of admiration for those who are prepared to face rejection routinely in pursuit of a dream.	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
Frozen River	Time Out Sydney	Hank Sartin	The points Hunt wants to make may not be profound (desperate people do desperate things; morality takes a backseat, but not forever), but Leo makes them seem fresh.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
Fugitive Pieces	Time Out Sydney	Joshua Land	Nuanced, scrupulous and powerful...	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past	Time Out Sydney	Lisa Varano	Quirky supporting characters enliven this by-the-numbers romcom.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
Inkheart	Time Out Sydney	David Jenkins	It's a familiar tale, but one told with gusto, wit and visual flare...	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
Knowing	Time Out Sydney	Hank Sartin	The film's final third [is] a mélange of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Christian eschatology that will make you wish the film had ended 15 minutes sooner.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
Persepolis	Time Out Sydney	Jonathan Messinger	This is 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.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Rachel Getting Married	Time Out Sydney	Tom Huddleston	Those who surrender to Demme's disarming, almost participatory technique will find themselves overwhelmed, exhilarated and inspired by the eternal possibilities of cinema.	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
The Reader	Time Out Sydney	Dave Calhoun	Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Revolutionary Road	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	While the theme of 'what are you doing with your life?' resonates, it's not much fun to watch, in spite of splendid performances from all concerned.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
RocknRolla	Time Out Sydney	Wally Hammond	Allowing for its air of laddish self-congratulation and its sad whiff of homophobia, Ritchie's film is arguably his most entertaining to date.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Seven Pounds	Time Out Sydney	Ben Kenisberg	Even by the standards of gotcha flicks, Seven Pounds seems especially somnolent and pretentious.	2/6	6	2	6	false	1	6	1	2,414
L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	A beautifully understated movie about family ties and the sadness and nostalgia that objects can evoke.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
The Dark Knight	Time Out Sydney	Ruth Hessey	There is an exquisite order in the chaos, a fascist formality and video game surrealism that resists the forces of disintegration with a sort of superhuman determination.	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
The Wrestler	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	Randy's climactic thank you to the fans who have stood by him sounds eerily like an Oscar speech; expect a reprise at the actual ceremony in February.	5/6	6	5	6	false	4	6	1	2,414
Towelhead	Time Out Sydney	David Fear	It makes sense that the scenes are pitched between icky and titillating, but the lack of delicacy reduces everything to stock sordidness.	2/6	6	2	6	false	1	6	1	2,414
Tropic Thunder	Time Out Sydney	null	Nothing but mild vulgarity mixed with explosions and entitlement, a piss-take on Hollywood excess that doubles as an example of it.	2/6	6	2	6	false	1	6	1	2,414
Valkyrie	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	X-Men fans may disagree, but this is Singer's best work since The Usual Suspects.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
W.	Time Out Sydney	David Fear	Endeavours this even-handed and entertaining shouldn't be "misunderestimated."	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
Wendy and Lucy	Time Out Sydney	Nick Dent	[Williams] doesn't have to say much to convey the deep wells of hurt that Wendy's carrying around, and they're all the more poignant for remaining unspoken.	4/6	6	4	6	false	3	6	1	2,414
X-Men Origins - Wolverine	Time Out Sydney	Jonathon Valenzuela	Newbies to the series will perhaps enjoy the relentless explosions and CGI action of X-Men Origins: Wolverine but as a prequel to the X-Men films -- and as an adaptation of the comics -- it fails dismally.	3/6	6	3	6	false	2	6	1	2,414
Hotel Transylvania	Time to Play Magazine	Cynthia Fuchs	Kids might be briefly entertained by the early onslaught of monsters, but the plot concerning the over-anxious father is soon tedious, especially as Sandler repeats the corny Dracula voice he's been doing since his Saturday Night Live days.	4/10	10	4	10	false	3	10	1	2,415
Ghost Rider	Times (UK)	James Christopher	The plot is as corny as a country and western song.	2/4	4	2	4	false	1	4	1	2,416

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Thrillist

Scott Weinberg

It's not easy to combine action, horror, and sci-fi into one nifty little 95-minute package that actually works in all three departments, but this movie gets it right.

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She Dies Tomorrow

Through the Trees

Katherine McLaughlin

Seimetz has crafted a hypnotic voyage into the unknown and the uncertain, that blushes with an intense stream of vivid colours, vast landscapes and fascinating characters.

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6 Underground

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

Like a live-action "Team America: World Police." It's not the best thing Michael Bay has directed, but not quite the worst either.

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Feels Good Man

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A compelling documentary about a man's quest to reclaim his creation from some of the worst people in the world.

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In the Shadow of the Moon

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A deeply weird, but ultimately enjoyable mashup of several genres.

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Judy

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A career-best performance from Renee Zellweger, the best screen treatment of Judy Garland's life to date, and the first awards bait of the fall to rise to the occasion.

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Red Penguins

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A compelling documentary about the culture clash between Western and Eastern hockey, at the dawn of Yeltsin-era Russia.

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Richard Jewell

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

Some decent moments and performances, but the character assassination of Kathy Scruggs all but ruins it.

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Satanic Panic

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A mostly entertaining effort that finds a decent balance between gory horror and laughs, even if it does succumb a bit to cliche.

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Spaceship Earth

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

An eye-opening look at an ambitious project that may have fallen short, but still provided illuminating lessons about the earth, the environment, human relations, and the limits of utopian dreams.

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Tesla

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A delightfully freewheeling take on visionary inventor Nikola Tesla.

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The Two Popes

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

A speculative dramatization of recent history that stars very skilled actors as recognizable world leaders while not necessarily shedding a huge amount of light on the people concerned

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You Cannot Kill David Arquette

Tilt Magazine

Stephen Silver

Whether you were a pro wrestling fan in the '90s or not, this film will make you root for David Arquette in a way you never thought possible.

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McQueen

Time Out

Cath Clarke

This intelligent, honest documentary explores McQueen's complex personality without getting tacky or tabloidy, or ignoring his dark side.

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All or Nothing

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

If every artist's misfires were this strong, life would be almost too wonderful to bear.

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Femme Fatale

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Boasts a handful of virtuosic set pieces and offers a fair amount of trashy, kinky fun.

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24 Hour Party People

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Bracing wit and boundless energy.

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All About Lily Chou-Chou

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

For all its impressive craftsmanship, and despite an overbearing series of third-act crescendos, Lily Chou-Chou never really builds up a head of emotional steam.

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Auto Focus

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Combines the least appealing aspects of the biopic (episodic narrative, lack of imagination) with the least appealing aspects of the junkie's-downward-spiral genre (wearying repetition, lofty condescension).

41/100

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Blood Work

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

A perfectly competent potboiler, made with Eastwood's usual professionalism, that ultimately feels rather anemic.

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100

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2,408

Bowling for Columbine

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Problematic yet essential, it arrives in theaters looking, if anything, even more caustic and timely than it did at its Cannes premiere.

66/100

100

66

100

false

65

100

1

2,408

City by the Sea

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Suffers from a schematic, overdetermined rigidity, as if screenwriter Ken Hixon had plotted the scenario on graph paper before setting it down in type.

50/100

100

50

100

false

49

100

1

2,408

American Experience

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Slowly but surely devolves into a fascinating, cringe-inducing portrait of cultural solipsism, climaxing in an emotional meltdown that wouldn't look out of place in mid-period Cassavetes.

80/100

100

80

100

false

79

100

1

2,408

Derrida

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

As an introduction to the man's theories and influence, Derrida is all but useless; as a portrait of the artist as an endlessly inquisitive old man, however, it's invaluable.

66/100

100

66

100

false

65

100

1

2,408

Eight Legged Freaks

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Too silly to be frightening, too stolid to be funny, it projects the same lazy affability as its nominal star, David Arquette.

45/100

100

45

100

false

44

100

1

2,408

Far From Heaven

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Visually ravishing, subtly provocative, both entertainment and dissertation.

67/100

100

67

100

false

66

100

1

2,408

Full Frontal

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Fails to cohere on a thematic level, but restless formal experimentation doesn't get much more accessible and entertaining.

69/100

100

69

100

false

68

100

1

2,408

The Happiness of the Katakuris

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Aggressively uneven and frequently humdrum, it also reaches cheerfully ludicrous heights to which few films even aspire.

65/100

100

65

100

false

64

100

1

2,408

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Once again, Chris Columbus stays out of J.K. Rowling's way, sticking to the text and hitting each narrative beat cleanly and vigorously.

57/100

100

57

100

false

56

100

1

2,408

Heaven

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Far more successful, if considerably less ambitious, than last year's Kubrick-meets-Spielberg exercise.

69/100

100

69

100

false

68

100

1

2,408

K-19: The Widowmaker

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Remember The Hunt for Red October, in which Sean Connery played a Russian sub captain without modifying his Scottish burr in the slightest? He's my hero.

50/100

100

50

100

false

49

100

1

2,408

Love in the Time of Money

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Absurdities and clichs accumulate like lint in a fat man's navel.

48/100

100

48

100

false

47

100

1

2,408

One Hour Photo

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Sy is so deeply disturbed that, paradoxically, he isn't very disturbing.

49/100

100

49

100

false

48

100

1

2,408

Personal Velocity: Three Portraits

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Even on those rare occasions when the narrator stops yammering, Miller's hand often feels unsure.

48/100

100

48

100

false

47

100

1

2,408

Pipe Dream

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

A singularly off-putting romantic comedy.

38/100

100

38

100

false

37

100

1

2,408

Possession

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Anybody who's ever been turned on by someone's use of an unfamiliar word will understand.

64/100

100

64

100

false

63

100

1

2,408

Punch-Drunk Love

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

The comedy here emerges not from personality but from aesthetics: the precise framing, the bravura camera movements, Jon Brion's insistently percussive score, Sandler's ridiculous blue suit.

68/100

100

68

100

false

67

100

1

2,408

The Ring

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Boasts a real heart-stopper of a finale-an uncanny phosphor nightmare that depicts a marrow-deep fear shared by every kid who grew up in the video age.

63/100

100

63

100

false

62

100

1

2,408

Road to Perdition

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

A crackerjack yarn delivered with more than enough conviction and panache to compensate for the occasional fit of self-importance.

75/100

100

75

100

false

74

100

1

2,408

Roger Dodger

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

It's a movie dominated by conversation yet devoid of theatricality or staginess: a pictorial gabfest.

70/100

100

70

100

false

69

100

1

2,408

The Isle

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Its juxtaposition of overwrought existentialism and stomach-churning gore will have you forever on the verge of either cracking up or throwing up.

29/100

100

29

100

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28

100

1

2,408

Sex and Lucia

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

So ridiculously overstuffed with rhymes, symbols, metaphors and mystical coincidences that you frequently feel as if you shouldn't be watching it so much as graphing it.

39/100

100

39

100

false

38

100

1

2,408

Simone

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

In the real world, an actor this uncharismatically beautiful would have a rsum loaded with credits like "Girl in Bar #3."

44/100

100

44

100

false

43

100

1

2,408

Solaris

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Whatever else one might say of Soderbergh and Clooney, they understand that clout is something you exercise, not something you safeguard.

63/100

100

63

100

false

62

100

1

2,408

Talk to Her

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

At heart, it's a sick, scandalous joke, but you can't quite bring yourself to laugh at something so deeply felt and so gravely elegant.

66/100

100

66

100

false

65

100

1

2,408

Ted Bundy

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

An artsploitation movie with too much exploitation and too little art.

35/100

100

35

100

false

34

100

1

2,408

Undisputed

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

A lean, surprisingly artful programmer, closer in spirit to something like Don Siegel's Riot in Cell Block 11 than to typical boxing fare.

60/100

100

60

100

false

59

100

1

2,408

The Weight of Water

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

Makes its belated arrival sporting the bloated, pruny appearance of something that's been floating aimlessly for longer than anybody cares to remember.

42/100

100

42

100

false

41

100

1

2,408

Welcome to Collinwood

Time Out

Mike D'Angelo

A skillful trifle.

64/100

100

64

100

false

63

100

1

2,408

The Princess and the Frog

Time Out

David Fear

Eye-candy-wise, the film plants a big wet smooch; everything else about this happily-ever-after tale, however, feels like a mere air-kiss.

3/4

4

3

4

false

2

4

1

2,409

Epic

Time Out

Sam Adams

So generic it might as well come in a black-and-white box: Animated Adventure TBD.

C-

long_letter

null

false

9

18

1

2,410

The Haunting in Connecticut

Time Out Chicago

Hank Sartin

Cornwell delivers shock-cut scares with metronomic regularity; all you can do is sit numbly, waiting for the next pummeling.

2/6

6

2

6

false

1

6

1

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Nobel Son

Time Out Chicago

Anna King

Alan Rickman always plays odious but smart with sangfroid.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

1

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A Wink and a Smile

Time Out Chicago

Raven Snook

Timmons shortchanges them by failing to show any of the graduating acts in their entirety. Talk about a strip-tease.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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Bob Funk

Time Out Chicago

Ben Walters

Bob Funk is terrifically cast and performed, with some good lines. Shame the story and character development are so clich and banal.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

1

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Doubt

Time Out Chicago

David Fear

Doubt works best when the performers are simply allowed to spar.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

1

2,411

Gran Torino

Time Out Chicago

Joshua Rothkopf

The problem, a somewhat depressing one, is that Eastwood has grown into a director who thinks he's superior to his mentors. A hint of pretension has crept into his filmmaking, and his exchanges with his young cast feel overwrought.

3/6

6

3

6

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2

6

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The International

Time Out Chicago

Ben Kenigsberg

Even classed up with Clive Owen and Naomi Watts, the story -- inspired by an actual late-'80s/early-'90s scandal -- seems slightly confused and dated.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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Madea Goes to Jail

Time Out Chicago

Monika Fabian

The predictable, even absurd twists that the movie takes to reach its happily-ever-after conclusion are amusing, as are the smart-ass quips and disposition of Perry's popular alter ego.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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The Merry Gentleman

Time Out Chicago

Hank Sartin

As a director, the star isn't especially polished, but there's something likable about his effort not to make yet another quirky, smirky film about a hit man in a funk.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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The Secret Life of Bees

Time Out Chicago

Melissa Anderson

Adapting Sue Monk Kidd's soft feminist 2002 best-seller, director Gina Prince-Bythewood generously showcases her ensemble cast's talents.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

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Séraphine

Time Out Chicago

Joshua Rothkopf

Like Amadeus, Séraphine wants to get its hands dirty with the work itself. The movie understands creative types and their whims, even if it tips toward a long-telegraphed retribution.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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The Soloist

Time Out Chicago

Joshua Rothkopf

The tears it elicits are earned. But there's an element of fantastic fate that's discordant. Foxx is playing a miracle; Downey, a lapsed believer. Both are capable of more.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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Future Weather

Time Out Chicago

Sam Adams

Feels like the product of an explosion at the Sundance factory: a rural setting here, a wisp of mildly quirky indie rock there.

B

short_letter

null

false

4

6

1

2,412

Across the Universe

Time Out New York

Melissa Anderson

Goo goo g'joob; save your money for the Help! DVD.

1/5

5

1

5

false

0

5

1

2,413

The French Connection

Time Out New York

David Fear

William Friedkin's symphony of long, sharp shocks is memorable for any number of sequences.

5/5

5

false

4

5

1

2,413

The Air I Breathe

Time Out New York

Time Out Staff

The final installment teeters close to camp, a sensibility that might have actually rescued Air. Instead, the film wallows in pop-psych platitudes.

1/5

5

1

5

false

0

5

1

2,413

The Visitor

Time Out Sydney

null

Its mushy humanism is...insidious.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

1

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The Duchess

Time Out Sydney

null

A mature, restrained portrayal from Knightley, a masterclass in passive aggression from Fiennes and a performance of tender seduction from Atwell.

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

1

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Funny Games

Time Out Sydney

Wally Hammond

This new version adds nothing novel, but it lacks none of the original's bite.

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

1

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Before the Rains

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

Has the moral overtones of an EM Forster story, but is curiously lacking in emotional force.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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2,414

Australia

Time Out Sydney

Angus Fontaine

A very loud, crazily colourful and delightfully strings-free romp -- fun while it lasted and fondly recalled, but not, alas, the big love we yearned for.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

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Big Stan

Time Out Sydney

Jonathon Valenzuela

Whether you love him or hate him, your opinion of Rob Schneider will remain unchanged by the end.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

1

2,414

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas)

Time Out Sydney

Derek Adams

This writer can't remember witnessing a harder-hitting kids' movie denouement than the one that closes this microcosm of middle-class German family life in WWII.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

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Star Wars: The Clone Wars

Time Out Sydney

null

The action sequences are kinetic and hold the eye, the animation style is detailed and it remains within the boundaries of the canon.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

1

2,414

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Time Out Sydney

David Fear

For a melodrama concerned with emotional pain, this fairy tale favours formal trickery over human connection to a fault.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

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Doubt

Time Out Sydney

David Jenkins

Tense and teasingly ambiguous...

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

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Every Little Step

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

We're left with a deep sense of admiration for those who are prepared to face rejection routinely in pursuit of a dream.

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

1

2,414

Frozen River

Time Out Sydney

Hank Sartin

The points Hunt wants to make may not be profound (desperate people do desperate things; morality takes a backseat, but not forever), but Leo makes them seem fresh.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

1

2,414

Fugitive Pieces

Time Out Sydney

Joshua Land

Nuanced, scrupulous and powerful...

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

1

2,414

Ghosts of Girlfriends Past

Time Out Sydney

Lisa Varano

Quirky supporting characters enliven this by-the-numbers romcom.

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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Inkheart

Time Out Sydney

David Jenkins

It's a familiar tale, but one told with gusto, wit and visual flare...

3/6

6

3

6

false

2

6

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Knowing

Time Out Sydney

Hank Sartin

The film's final third [is] a mélange of Close Encounters of the Third Kind and Christian eschatology that will make you wish the film had ended 15 minutes sooner.

3/6

6

3

6

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2

6

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Persepolis

Time Out Sydney

Jonathan Messinger

This is 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.

4/6

6

4

6

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3

6

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Rachel Getting Married

Time Out Sydney

Tom Huddleston

Those who surrender to Demme's disarming, almost participatory technique will find themselves overwhelmed, exhilarated and inspired by the eternal possibilities of cinema.

5/6

6

5

6

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4

6

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The Reader

Time Out Sydney

Dave Calhoun

Its issues are infinite and moveable. It's a bold and challenging work.

4/6

6

4

6

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3

6

1

2,414

Revolutionary Road

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

While the theme of 'what are you doing with your life?' resonates, it's not much fun to watch, in spite of splendid performances from all concerned.

3/6

6

3

6

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2

6

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RocknRolla

Time Out Sydney

Wally Hammond

Allowing for its air of laddish self-congratulation and its sad whiff of homophobia, Ritchie's film is arguably his most entertaining to date.

4/6

6

4

6

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3

6

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Seven Pounds

Time Out Sydney

Ben Kenisberg

Even by the standards of gotcha flicks, Seven Pounds seems especially somnolent and pretentious.

2/6

6

2

6

false

1

6

1

2,414

L'Heure d'été (Summer Hours)

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

A beautifully understated movie about family ties and the sadness and nostalgia that objects can evoke.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

1

2,414

The Dark Knight

Time Out Sydney

Ruth Hessey

There is an exquisite order in the chaos, a fascist formality and video game surrealism that resists the forces of disintegration with a sort of superhuman determination.

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

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The Wrestler

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

Randy's climactic thank you to the fans who have stood by him sounds eerily like an Oscar speech; expect a reprise at the actual ceremony in February.

5/6

6

5

6

false

4

6

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Towelhead

Time Out Sydney

David Fear

It makes sense that the scenes are pitched between icky and titillating, but the lack of delicacy reduces everything to stock sordidness.

2/6

6

2

6

false

1

6

1

2,414

Tropic Thunder

Time Out Sydney

null

Nothing but mild vulgarity mixed with explosions and entitlement, a piss-take on Hollywood excess that doubles as an example of it.

2/6

6

2

6

false

1

6

1

2,414

Valkyrie

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

X-Men fans may disagree, but this is Singer's best work since The Usual Suspects.

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

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W.

Time Out Sydney

David Fear

Endeavours this even-handed and entertaining shouldn't be "misunderestimated."

4/6

6

4

6

false

3

6

1

2,414

Wendy and Lucy

Time Out Sydney

Nick Dent

[Williams] doesn't have to say much to convey the deep wells of hurt that Wendy's carrying around, and they're all the more poignant for remaining unspoken.

4/6

6

4

6

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3

6

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X-Men Origins - Wolverine

Time Out Sydney

Jonathon Valenzuela

Newbies to the series will perhaps enjoy the relentless explosions and CGI action of X-Men Origins: Wolverine but as a prequel to the X-Men films -- and as an adaptation of the comics -- it fails dismally.

3/6

6

3

6

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2

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Hotel Transylvania

Time to Play Magazine

Cynthia Fuchs

Kids might be briefly entertained by the early onslaught of monsters, but the plot concerning the over-anxious father is soon tedious, especially as Sandler repeats the corny Dracula voice he's been doing since his Saturday Night Live days.

4/10

10

4

10

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3

10

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Ghost Rider

Times (UK)

James Christopher

The plot is as corny as a country and western song.

2/4

4

2

4

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1

4

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