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"Morgan Neville’s illustrated history of the painters and sculptors associated with Venice’s Ferus Gallery (1957–1967) is at once lively and analytical."
Posted Jun 21, 2007
 
The Cool School (2007)n/a
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"An arresting, balletic performance by Damian Delgado powers this vividly imagined, elegantly paced mystery play beyond period exoticism to a bona fide illumination of social, and sacred, history."
Posted Jun 6, 2007
 
The Other Conquest (2007)83%
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"Go, by all means, but be prepared to take a beating."
Posted Aug 10, 2006
 
Edmond (2006)46%
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"The pain and the contradictions and the ironies are manifold, and Dick...does justice to all."
Posted Jul 21, 2005
 
Twist of Faith (2005)100%
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"A prolonged, maddening, predictable -- yet curiously pleasurable -- descent into incomprehensibility."
Posted May 5, 2005
 
One Missed Call (2003)48%
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"Haunting and provocative documentary."
Posted Mar 17, 2005
 
Game Over - Kasparov and the Machine (2003)75%
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"Following an arc from whimsical detachment to profound engagement, this is a remarkable document from a filmmaker who enters -- deeply, personally and, above all, tactfully -- into the lives of all her subjects."
Posted Mar 4, 2005
 
Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill (2005)95%
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"Chetwynd and company at least attempt to score their points honestly, avoiding the spurious or ad hominem attacks of those for whom many little lies somehow constitute fair play in November’s battle against the Big Red One."
Posted Oct 21, 2004
 
Celsius 41.11 (2004)11%
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"A good horse kick, or a fistful of Valium, may help you get through this relentlessly sadistic exercise with your soul more or less intact."
Posted Oct 14, 2004
 
Hillside Strangler (2004)17%
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"[There is] a final revelation which, however anticipated, however contrived, stings just enough to make it feel like life."
Posted Oct 7, 2004
 
Around the Bend (2004)29%
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"Boilerplate stuff, though livened by flashy editing and cinematography."
Posted Oct 7, 2004
 
Friday Night Lights (2004)81%
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"Nair's turgid, melodramatic travesty of Thackeray's gimlet-eyed satire."
Posted Sep 2, 2004
 
Vanity Fair (2004)50%
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"Blood, flies, maggots, ravenous hyenas, power failures, grave-digging and much ineffectual voodoo ensue."
Posted Aug 26, 2004
 
Exorcist: The Beginning (2004)10%
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"Occasionally scary, never coherent Ring wannabe."
Posted Jul 21, 2004
 
Ju-On: The Grudge (2004)55%
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"The problem, of course, is that the president himself was neither [hero nor martyr], and no amount of hand wringing -- however justified -- can make him one."
Posted Jul 21, 2004
 
The Hunting of the President (2004)73%
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"With all those heads talking, there's precious little time for singing and dancing, though more than enough for a consensus to form around cherished memories of the bigger personalities."
Posted Jun 30, 2004
 
Broadway: The Golden Age (2004)82%
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"Great pains have been taken -- in mostly intelligible interviews and voice-overs -- to make absolutely clear what’s involved in pushing these hunks of metal, rubber and plastic to the limit."
Posted Jun 4, 2004
 
Faster (2004)50%
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"Falls, finally and irrevocably, flat."
Posted Mar 31, 2004
 
The Prince & Me (2004)27%
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"The cast's sometimes capable, sometimes gross mugging is overwhelmed by lavish costumes, shiny vintage cars, hordes of meticulously directed extras."
Posted Mar 25, 2004
 
Bon Voyage (2004)77%
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"The devil -- and the delight -- here is in the detours."
Posted Oct 30, 2003
 
Suspended Animation (2003)50%
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"Whether altered for the sake of incorporating superfluous extra material (cat fight!) or for reasons even less compelling, the editing rhythms here are way off."
Posted Oct 30, 2003
 
Alien: The Director's Cut (2003)94%
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"Those seeking anything resembling a real discussion of the issues had best seek elsewhere."
Posted Oct 29, 2003
 
The Party's Over (2003)56%
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"Potter's script pares down to virtual nothing the very narrative threads that allowed us, in the full-length version, to identify with his prickly protagonist."
Posted Oct 23, 2003
 
The Singing Detective (2003)39%
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"Sheer simplicity of the idea gets overwhelmed by, of all things, production values."
Posted Oct 23, 2003
 
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)35%
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"... more or less take the Hughes line, evoking, through testy dialogue and alternately claustrophobic and idyllic mise en scene, the continuing challenge, and occasional delirium, of marriage to a brilliant manic-depressive."
Posted Oct 22, 2003
 
Sylvia (2003)36%
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"The fruit of the HBO 'reality' series' second season, while decidedly green, at least isn't mealy or tasteless."
Posted Aug 20, 2003
 
The Battle of Shaker Heights (2003)44%
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"Maxwell illuminates the processes of denial and the cultivations of self-image by which these famously decent men, in defense of indefensible prerogative, sent thousands upon thousands ... to their deaths."
Posted Feb 20, 2003
 
Gods and Generals (2003)8%
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"The fun here is not so much in the solid if stolid performances from Bale and co-stars Taye Diggs and Emily Watson ... or in Wimmer’s overpolished plot devices as it is in the production values."
Posted Dec 5, 2002
 
Equilibrium (2002)35%
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"Heavy-handed exercise in time-vaulting literary pretension."
Posted Oct 31, 2002
 
The Weight of Water (2002)32%
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"A bowel-curdling, heart-stopping recipe for terror."
Posted Oct 2, 2002
 
Red Dragon (2002)68%
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Posted Oct 1, 2002
 
Adrenaline Drive (1999)71%
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"It all plays out ... like a high-end John Hughes comedy, a kind of Elder Bueller's Time Out."
Posted Sep 12, 2002
 
The Singles Ward (2002)50%
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"[Yvan] mugs his way through any number of low-comic situations ... leaving Charlotte -- and this critic -- ever more exasperated and unsure about whether it’s going to be worth hanging in for the long haul."
Posted Jul 19, 2002
 
My Wife is an Actress (2002)65%
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"Although Olivier Assayas’ elegantly appointed period drama seems, at times, padded with incident in the way of a too-conscientious adaptation ... its three-hour running time plays closer to two."
Posted Jun 1, 2002
 
Les Destinees (2002)61%

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