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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"[A] real-world movie that's essentially been spray-painted, Scanner has turned its back on one of animation's greatest strengths: the playful elasticity that allows characters to stretch and soar in impossible ways." | |
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Alexander (2004) |
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"The picture is so thoroughly ridiculous, it's hard to know where to begin in listing its infelicities. But I'll try.
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5/5 |
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Alpha Dog (2007) |
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"There are in fact no bad performances in this picture. The events depicted are often ugly and sometimes repulsive, but Cassavetes never flinches from depicting them fully" | |
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Amazing Journey: The Story of The Who (2007) |
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"The documentary is straightforward in its chronology, and plump with concert footage" | |
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3/5 |
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American Cannibal - The Documentary (2006) |
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"The picture is mesmerizing, in a crash-on-the-highway sense; but the fact that your worst suspicions about the people who cook up some of this stuff are confirmed is in no way gratifying." | |
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American Gangster (2007) |
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"If nothing else, American Gangster exposes Brian De Palma's Scarface -- the most popular drug saga among gangster wannabes -- as the crude cartoon that it is." | |
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1/4 |
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The Amityville Horror (2005) |
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"The movie's only aspiration is to be a jacked-up re-jiggering of a name-brand horror 'classic.' It sets out to be not just schlock, but pre-chewed schlock." | |
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Anamorph (2008) |
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"On a scale of one to Se7en, Miller's doomed rip barely rates." | |
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Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy (2004) |
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"Steve Carell Would Totally Make Anchorman 2" | |
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4/5 |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
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""Apocalypto" isn't a movie for everyone, Lord knows. Those who dislike even the thought of a big, black jungle cat chewing the face off a fallen warrior should probably see another movie." | |
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Apollo 13 (1995) |
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"I would never have pictured myself as a guy that could have played an astronaut," Tom Hanks interview, along with Apollo 13 talents Brian Grazer and Ron Howard" | |
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Arrested Development - Season 1 (2003) |
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"Jason Bateman Confirms Arrested Development Movie" | |
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Assassination of a High School President (2008) |
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"The flick plays like "Rushmore" meets "The Usual Suspects," alongside shout-outs to everything from "Sixteen Candles" to "Chinatown" to "Fast Times at Ridgemont High."" | |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
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"If I were inclined to wheel out cliches like "Oscar-worthy," I'd certainly wheel them out in support of this movie, on several counts." | |
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1.5/4 |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (2005) |
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"The central problem with this [film] is its essential uselessness. It does its job, I guess. But the job was already done a lot better a long time ago." | |
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August (2008) |
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"...the picture ... provides Josh Hartnett with one of his most interesting roles, and it elicits one of his sharpest performances." | |
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Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997) |
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"More Austin Powers, Meet the Parents Sequels?" | |
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Avatar (2009) |
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"MTV Interview with Laz Alonso" | |
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The Aviator (2004) |
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"Another of [Scorsese's] masterpieces, crowded with superb performances. It may be two and a half hours long, but it comes at you like a B-52 bomber, and it flies by.
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