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B |
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A Scanner Darkly (2006) |
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"Would be significantly more wearisome...were it not for Linklater's ability to tap into his source material's atmosphere of unsettling paranoia." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C |
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Absolute Power (1997) |
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"Dunderheaded fantasy about noble thieves and corrupt commander-in-chiefs." | |
Nick Schager | |
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After the Sunset (2004) |
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"Behind the curve." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C+ |
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Agnes and His Brothers (2006) |
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"Fitfully engaging but narratively messy." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B+ |
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Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer (1994) |
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"A damning portrait of cold-hearted greed." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B+ |
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Akira (1988) |
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"A furious spectacle of lush colors and dynamic movement." | |
Nick Schager | |
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The Alamo (2004) |
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"Laborious mush." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B+ |
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Alice (1988) |
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"Svankmajer's surrealist adaptation is a welcome antidote to the cute and cuddly Disneyfication of Carroll's iconic tale." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C |
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Alien vs. Predator (2004) |
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"Unsurprisingly mediocre." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B- |
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All the King's Men (1949) |
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"While [Crawford's] full-bodied performance still holds up nearly six decades later, the rest of Robert Rossen's Best Picture winner has lost a good deal of its fierce luster." | |
Nick Schager | |
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D+ |
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Along Came Polly (2004) |
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"Inane, inorganic and predictable from the start." | |
Nick Schager | |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
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"Deserves to be locked up in a dank, water-filled dungeon and left to molder." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B+ |
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Andy Goldsworthy - Rivers and Tides: Working With Time (2003) |
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"An absorbing portrait of a unique artist’s professional and personal communion with nature." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C |
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Any Which Way You Can (1980) |
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"Perhaps the most disposable film Eastwood has ever made." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B- |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
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"Overflowing with hackneyed but thrilling blockbuster-familiar moments, the majority of which, in another context, could have proven entirely comfortable in a mid-'80s Schwarzenegger vehicle" | |
Nick Schager | |
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D |
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April Fool's Day (1986) |
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"I’ve seen this film before…as an episode of The Golden Girls." | |
Nick Schager | |
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A- |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force Colon Movie Film For Theatres (2007) |
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"There's ultimately something exhilarating -- and, dare I say, liberating? -- about the film's chaotic avant-garde energy." | |
Nick Schager | |
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B- |
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Art School Confidential (2006) |
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"Fails to find a suitably funny or illuminating target at which to direct [its] mordant negativity." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C- |
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Ask the Dust (2005) |
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"Generates all the heat of a snow cone." | |
Nick Schager | |
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950) |
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"A preeminent example of tough-guy cinema." | |
Nick Schager | |
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A- |
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Assault on Precinct 13 (1976) |
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"As formally compact and rigorously efficient as anything the genre filmmaker ever made." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C+ |
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Atonement (2007) |
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"A lushly shot, proficiently performed, and largely stultifying period piece that invites only mild, detached admiration." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C- |
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Audrey Rose (1977) |
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"A possession thriller...that replaces Christian claptrap for Hindi hokum." | |
Nick Schager | |
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C- |
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Awake (2007) |
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"Makes one want to assume a state of mind opposite to the film's title." | |
Nick Schager | |
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