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Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story (2007) |
"The events that unfold in the new documentary Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story could have been told as fiction, but they would have seemed too much -- too unbelievable, too merciless." |
Anthony Lane |
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Adventureland (2009) |
"The story is semi-autobiographical, but has a gentler touch than his prior work on Superbad, and certainly relies less on slapstick episodes." |
David Denby |
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After the Life (2002) |
Click here to see the review. |
Anthony Lane |
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Aileen: The Life and Death of a Serial Killer (2003) |
Click here to see the review. |
David Denby |
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Alexander (2004) |
"Sluggish, unsmiling, and almost as limp as the feather fans with which our heroes are gently aerated on their trip to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon." |
Anthony Lane |
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All The King's Men (2006) |
"The director can’t seem to find a natural rhythm for the movie -- it’s portentous and vague at the same time." |
David Denby |
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An Amazing Couple (2002) |
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Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
Amazing Grace (2007) |
"As square as this movie is, it has been made with eloquence and jaunty high spirits, and it tells a good story that is virtually unknown here." |
David Denby |
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Amelia (2009) |
"Amelia is handsome yet predictable and high-minded -- not a dud, exactly, but too proper, too reserved for its swaggering subject." |
David Denby |
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American Casino (2009) |
"The Cockburns have finally made a movie about a nuclear disaster that actually happened -- their subject is the social ecology of financial meltdown." |
David Denby |
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American Dreamz (2006) |
"Any attempt to defend American Dreamz for its political venom, or for the surfeit of its surreal conceits, is doomed to founder on a single, obstructive fact: this picture ain’t funny." |
Anthony Lane |
Tomato |
American Gangster (2007) |
"It’s Super Fly -- which also had a drug-dealer hero -- without the cartoon cruddiness and the put-on violence and with an enormous increase of range and detail." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
An Education (2009) |
"I have a feeling that Sarsgaard could have stretched the role a lot further if the script had allowed him to, but, still, what he does is surprising." |
David Denby |
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Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004) |
"The plot is impressively free of anything that does not smell of unpasteurized melodrama." |
Anthony Lane |
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Angels & Demons (2009) |
"If these movies made any damned sense, the public response might be no more than a yawn." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Antichrist (2009) |
"A word to the squeamish: there is no shame in leaving as the tools—and I use the word advisedly—come out. In a way, you will be getting the best of Antichrist, which until now has been a film of awkwardness, confusion, and great beauty." |
Anthony Lane |
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Anvil! The Story of Anvil (2009) |
"The most stirring release of the year thus far." |
Anthony Lane |
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Apocalypto (2006) |
"[Gibson] has learned how to tell a tale, and to raise a pulse in the telling. You have to admire that basic gift, uncommon as it is in Hollywood these days, though equally you have to ask what obsessions goad it on." |
Anthony Lane |
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Appaloosa (2008) |
"In all, Appaloosa is good as far as it goes -- everything in it feels true -- but I wish that Harris had pushed his ideas further." |
David Denby |
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The Aristocrats (2005) |
"Exudes cheerfulness and expansive joy." |
David Denby |
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Army of Shadows (1969) |
"[Those] with a weakness for dry heroism, dark-toned humor, and storytelling of pantherish pace and grace -- in short, lovers of cinema -- should reach for their fedoras, turn up the collars of their coats, and sneak to this picture through a mist of rain." |
Anthony Lane |
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) |
"It is no mean feat to make a boring film about Jesse James, but Andrew Dominik has pulled it off in style." |
Anthony Lane |
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Asylum (2005) |
"The premise of the tale is thus grounded in an experience of some grit, yet the result, onscreen, is a loose compound of the predictable and the implausible." |
Anthony Lane |
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Atonement (2007) |
"I hardly believed a word of it." |
Anthony Lane |
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Australia (2008) |
"Luhrmann is drawn to kitsch as inevitably as a bear to honey." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
Avatar (2009) |
"James Cameron's Avatar is the most beautiful film I’ve seen in years." |
David Denby |
Tomato |
The Aviator (2004) |
"Superbly demonstrates, with abundant humor and obvious sympathy, that this very odd bird once soared on golden wings." |
David Denby |
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Away From Her (2007) |
"The movie, [Sarah] Polley’s feature début, is a small-scale triumph that could herald a great career." |
David Denby |
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Away We Go (2009) |
"Some of the episodes are ripely satirical, others almost heartbreaking." |
David Denby |
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