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| 77 42% | This Is Spinal Tap (1984) - Rated 16 May 2010
"It's a seminal movie, and the performances are really great. My only complaint is that somehow the efficient, low-key humor doesn't really jive with the rest of the film for me, and I very rarely laugh out loud when I watch this movie. That said, it has too many moments of brilliant writing and improvisation (both music and dialogue) to write off, and in the end this is pretty close to being a great film. Maybe the only comedy I know of that has ever made me happy without making me laugh."
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| 81 50% | The Birdcage (1996) - Rated 15 May 2010
"I can't understand the mediocre reviews so many people give this film. Every performance is outstanding, and this is a beautifully shot and designed movie... it's no surprise that the brilliant Emmanuel Lubezki, who recently shot The New World and Children of Men, was running the show on that end. Sure, the entire film is one huge contrivance and that comes out in a lot of the writing, but if you're worried about that watching a movie like this you shouldn't be watching it in the first place."
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| 0 3% | Manos: The Hands of Fate (1966) - Rated 13 May 2010
"Indispensable. Keep your Plan 9 and your Ray Dennis Steckler. There is absolutely no film to compete with Manos for the title of worst ever. Very useful for calibrating the low end of your rating scale. The MST3K is amazing."
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| 93 80% | The New World (2005) - Rated 12 May 2010 |
| 53 26% | Monster (2003) - Rated 12 May 2010
"A harrowing masterpiece of a performance housed in a so-so movie. Theron is, of course, stupendous, but I don't think Christina Ricci is as bad as everyone else seems to think -- she actually gives a very strong rendition of a character that's both badly written and extremely unlikeable. The screenplay and direction are just a couple steps up from Lifetime movie of the week, but this is an actor's movie, and Charlize is so good that most of the time that stuff just doesn't matter."
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| 86 65% | Gone with the Wind (1939) - Rated 11 May 2010
"Everything it's supposed to be: unwieldy, lavish, and hugely memorable. Leigh, de Havilland, and McDaniel all give great performances, and the film has a great sense of storytelling. But it is a bit of a slog, and the second half gets wildly uneven and can even feel arbitrary at times. A deserved classic, and definitely unique, but the older I get the less I respond to it."
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| 61 34% | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975) - Rated 11 May 2010
"Like all of Forman's films about brilliant weirdos who just can't fit in (Mozart, Andy Kaufman, Larry Flynt, McMurphy), this is just too ordinary for me. Most of the first half of the movie is, frankly, blah. Jack is just fine and very charismatic, but is this really a great performance? Louise Fletcher and especially Brad Dourif are magnificent, the screenplay is mostly sharp and Forman directs the most intense scenes with energy and ingenuity. But in the end this film doesn't stick to my ribs."
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| 52 19% | Green for Danger (1946) - Rated 11 May 2010
"Keeps all the plates spinning well enough to keep it engaging, even if the "who" is much more of a mystery than the fairly obvious "how." Alastair Sim is quite good, and I liked Trevor Howard as a leading man -- in fact, between his performance early in the film and the surprising sharpness of some of the early dialogue, part of me wishes I could see a version of this film without the murders that simply focused on the doctors' relationships. That interest faded, but it's still worth a watch."
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| 98 96% | Fargo (1996) - Rated 11 May 2010
"Just about perfect. McDormand gives one of the great performances of all time as one of the great characters (dare I say heroes?) of all time, an exhilaratingly normal (who knew that was even possible?) celebration of the triumph of the mundane. Nearly every other performance -- Buscemi, Stormare, even Mr. Mohra who's interviewed in his driveway -- is a perfectly cast gem, but this is so much more than just an actors' film. Grandly desolate visuals and a miraculously economical screenplay."
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| 49 11% | Philadelphia (1993) - Rated 10 May 2010
"Lays it on so thick I almost suffocated, especially the first half. Hanks saves the movie (but I hate the opera monologue), and Denzel and Steenburgen aren't bad either. But, even allowing for the film's significance at a time when AIDS in a wide-release film was a novelty, the blacks are too black and the whites too white. The evil of discrimination usually has nothing to do with evil men, but with the evil of the system they inhabit -- why not expose that instead of creating cartoon villains?"
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