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ARTHUR RYEL-LINDSEY
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• Slant Magazine
• Stylus Magazine

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Total Reviews: 42


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" A different way of tackling the sons-and-fathers story, but right up there with the best of them--and a tremendous western comedy as well." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2008
 
City Slickers (1991)88%
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3.5/4
 
" A comedy that was and is ambitious and counterintuitive." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 2, 2008
 
City Slickers (1991)88%
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" Change, or the struggle to make change fit into the established system, is Lee's most familiar chord. He struck it loudest in The Ice Storm." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
The Ice Storm (1997)80%
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3/4
 
" As in any joke, destiny is a major character." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Mar 24, 2008
 
The Ice Storm (1997)80%
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" One of cinema's greatest cinematographic performances combines with a director's epic vision and superb craftsmanship to create a visual masterpiece. Restored by Criterion, this set is well worth remembering." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
The Last Emperor (1987)90%
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4/4
 
" The Last Emperor is most decisively a lesson of nobility." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Feb 27, 2008
 
The Last Emperor (1987)90%
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" A fascinating subject that deserves all the intelligent attention it gets. Just, with The Celluloid Closet or Pornography: A History of Civilization, there have been better efforts." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 28, 2008
 
Indie Sex ()n/a
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" "You'll be what you are, self-reliant." A ringing quote that defines a film, a movement, a director, and a tremendous DVD set." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2008
 
This Sporting Life (1963)100%
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4/4
 
" This Sporting Life is a quintessential entrant in Britain's kitchen-sink realism of the late-'50s and '60s." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jan 21, 2008
 
This Sporting Life (1963)100%
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" Hitchcock and film lovers alike should not pass up this worthy copy of one of the director's British-made masterworks." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Lady Vanishes (1938)96%
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3.5/4
 
" What separates Lady Vanishes39 Steps, and makes it more remarkable, is its genuine sense of purpose." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 26, 2007
 
The Lady Vanishes (1938)96%
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" A hyper-violent, foul-mouthed war movie that outpaces Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and a dozen others for sheer motive force. This disc, packaged with so many other Kubrick classics, only makes it better." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2007
 
Full Metal Jacket (1987)96%
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4/4
 
" Somehow after the decadence of Barry Lyndon and a philosophical look at horror in The Shining, Stanley Kubrick settled into a film of unrestrained vitriol and aggression." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 19, 2007
 
Full Metal Jacket (1987)96%
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" Lacking the commentaries and home video footage that graced previous The Princess Bride DVD releases, and short any comment from Reiner or Goldman, this pedestrian set hardly excites." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
The Princess Bride (1987)95%
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3.5/4
 
" A film of remarkable forwardness, honesty, and humor, built, like all fairy tales, around one message, summed up late in the script: "True love is the greatest thing in the world."" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 13, 2007
 
The Princess Bride (1987)95%
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" Branagh's film suffers when that boldness does not go far enough, creating an adaptation that trades depth and cultural exploration for a few quick fireworks; it is not so much Kurosawa's Macbeth as Memoirs of a Geisha." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Sep 25, 2007
 
As You Like It (2006)31%
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" The Hustler reaffirms your faith in the movies." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
The Hustler (1961)97%
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4/4
 
" This is the purest examination of an athlete's internal struggle ever mounted for the screen." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 29, 2007
 
The Hustler (1961)97%
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" Sure, the film is about change, but did new culture come from Glastonbury, or did Glastonbury adapt to the culture? Without an answer to this or many similar questions, Glastonbury is a pretty spectacle with no documentary weight." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2007
 
Glastonbury (2007)78%
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2/4
 
" It's hard to pin down the intent and even the honesty of the filmmaker." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 12, 2007
 
Glastonbury (2007)78%
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" Marshall's film is gold." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
Big (1988)96%
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3/4
 
" The consummate '80s film about kid-dom and growing old too fast." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Jun 7, 2007
 
Big (1988)96%
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" Get this edition if you like the movie, but stick to the theatrical release available as a feature on the first disc." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 9, 2007
 
That Thing You Do! (1996)91%
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" A cold, hard caper." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2007
 
The Guns of Navarone (1961)95%
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3.5/4
 
" David Niven is the subservient but stylish chemist Miller, rounding out a film that ranks among the best war movies." -- Slant Magazine
Posted May 7, 2007
 
The Guns of Navarone (1961)95%
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" Cagney's well worth remembering, and this set is a good start to a specific corner of his career." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 21, 2007
 
James Stewart - Signature Collection (2006)n/a
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" With baseball season underway, it's perfect timing to bring back this quotable classic. Remember The Ueck: "Just a bit outside!"" -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2007
 
Major League (1989)86%
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3/4
 
" Consider Ward's comic framework and Major League is a top-tier baseball film." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Apr 4, 2007
 
Major League (1989)86%
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" Thirty-one years, plus well over a decade since I was abruptly introduced to the film. It is, as it was then, extraordinary." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2006
 
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)94%
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3.5/4
 
" A wonderful charm filters through these almost collegiate efforts, as if these underfunded Brits, in doing their best, did it better." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Dec 1, 2006
 
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)94%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
The Da Vinci Code (2006)25%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Scoop (2006)38%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
A Scanner Darkly (2006)67%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Ice Age: The Meltdown (2006)56%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Why We Fight (2006)79%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Conversation(s) with Other Women (2006)74%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Inside Man (2006)86%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
All The King's Men (2006)11%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Nacho Libre (2006)39%
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Posted Nov 4, 2006
 
Joyeux Noël (2006)77%
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" Surfing. Bank robbery. Skydiving. Johnny Utah. If you can stomach the contents, Point Break is a dumbly entertaining treat." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 1, 2006
 
Point Break (1991)68%
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2.5/4
 
" In terms of Hollywood history, Bigelow's film is the perfect document of its time." -- Slant Magazine
Posted Nov 1, 2006
 
Point Break (1991)68%

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