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Fresh Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid
Fresh California Split
Fresh The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Fresh Blood Simple
Fresh Birthday Girl
Fresh 2001: A Space Odyssey
Fresh Novocaine
Fresh The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition
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Rotten A Decade Under the Influence
Rotten Hart's War
Rotten Final
Rotten Impostor
Rotten Monster's Ball
Rotten Ocean's Eleven
Rotten Joy Ride
Rotten Broken Vessels
Rotten The Loss of Sexual Innocence
Rotten Following
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This critic agrees with the Tomatometer 74% of the time.

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"...it could've %u2014 should've %u2014 been [Peckinpah's] third or fourth masterpiece (that depends on who's doing the counting), and the movie he'd been building towards his entire career."
Posted Nov 19, 2006
 
Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid (1973)80%
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"...the big thing holding back American movies is that they aren't more like California Split."
Posted Nov 19, 2006
 
California Split (1974)90%
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"An extravagantly plotted epic propelled by waves of free-flowing emotion and a palpable love for the American past"
Posted Jul 4, 2003
 
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966)100%
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"A breezy but incomplete valentine to the most fertile period in American film"
Posted May 25, 2003
 
A Decade Under the Influence (2003)76%
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"The Coens’ trademark aloofness works to perfection in Blood Simple because only the audience has a bird’s eye view of the action."
Posted Apr 8, 2003
 
Blood Simple (1984)98%
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"A solid film...but more conscientious than it is truly stirring."
Posted Feb 14, 2002
 
Hart's War (2002)57%
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"A keep-’em-guessing plot and an affectionate take on its screwed-up characters."
Posted Jan 31, 2002
 
Birthday Girl (2002)57%
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"A lifeless vacuum."
Posted Jan 18, 2002
 
Final (2001)42%
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"What 'Blade Runner' would’ve looked like as a low-budget series on a UHF channel."
Posted Jan 3, 2002
 
Impostor (2001)15%
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"culturevulture.net's Ten Best Films of 2001"
Posted Dec 28, 2001
 
2001 Year-in-Review (2001)n/a
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"an Oprah-mistic movie in which people overcome a lifetime’s worth of bad habits by 'opening up.' "
Posted Dec 25, 2001
 
Monster's Ball (2001)86%
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"The man who helped spark the indie revolution is now making pictures that bow and scrape before the most depleted Hollywood conventions."
Posted Dec 7, 2001
 
Ocean's Eleven (2001)80%
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"A celestial alignment of man, medium, and material."
Posted Nov 19, 2001
 
2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)96%
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"a comically mordant tone that’s all its own"
Posted Nov 19, 2001
 
Novocaine (2001)38%
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"Frank Hurley's images by themselves make 'The Endurance' worth seeing."
Posted Oct 4, 2001
 
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition (2001)95%
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"...begins evaporating in your mind before it’s even over."
Posted Oct 4, 2001
 
Joy Ride (2001)74%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl (1999)96%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
My Son, the Fanatic (1999)75%
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"...a warm coming-of-age story that happens to be a coming-out story."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Show Me Love (1998)90%
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"weighted down by conventional morality and predictable storytelling"
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Broken Vessels (1998)67%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Desert Blue (1998)44%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Loss of Sexual Innocence (1999)43%
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"...offers more pleasure as a jigsaw puzzle than it does as a movie. "
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Following (1998)80%
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"...could have been a superb dark fantasy, but takes its own malarkey seriously."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Arlington Road (1999)60%
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"...more rewarding to analyze than it is to see."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)78%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Haunting (1999)17%
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"...the movie isn’t half as diabolical as its marketing plan. "
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Blair Witch Project (1999)85%
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"...entertaining and innocuous as a rhinestone."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Bowfinger (1999)80%
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"Michael Gambon gives the Jupiter Symphony of televised performances; sing praise for Dennis Potter's loving creation."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Singing Detective - Complete Series (1986)100%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Minus Man (1999)59%
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"...a no-frills but convincing execution of the end of the world."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Last Night (1998)85%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Get Bruce! (1999)71%
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"After wooing the likes of Hawks, Peckinpah, and Pontecorvo, 'Three Kings' decides in the end to go steady with Ron Howard."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Three Kings (1999)94%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Romance (1999)37%
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"...probes at our moral and psychological blind spots, at the limited and self-reinforcing nature of our vision."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter Jr. (1999)100%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Third Miracle (1999)68%
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"...puts a universal face on lives of noisy desperation"
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Les Bonnes Femmes (1960)n/a
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"'Rain Man' without all the bull."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Mifune (1999)74%
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"The best film released in America so far this year."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Not One Less (1999)95%
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"...a kitchen-sink drama that’s full of old dishwater."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Orphans (1997)44%
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"Blaustein and his film have at least put a human face on those monstrous countenances that snarl out from our television sets on Saturday afternoons."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Beyond the Mat (1999)82%
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"...all of the bad things that make up what we call 'independent film.'"
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Treasure Island (1999)33%
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"...sane and modest."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Southpaw (2000)69%
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"...the get-on-and-get-off attitude of a two-minute pop-song."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Human Traffic (1999)62%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
The Big Kahuna (1999)73%
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"...a two-ring circus that fails as entertainment and stinks as a sermon. "
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Gladiator (2000)77%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Bossa Nova (1999)74%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
8 1/2 Women (1999)43%
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"...a movie that sticks to your ribs."
Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Rififi (1954)92%
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Posted Sep 18, 2001
 
Legong: Dance of the Virgins (1930)n/a

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