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Get Smart

by Cynthia Fuchs

[20.Jun.08] :. Get Smart makes rudimentary efforts to update, with passing references to terrorists, profiling, and inter-agency competition.

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‘Smart’ Sucks

by Bill Gibron

[19.Jun.08] :. By its very definition, something that’s “generic” is seen as “having no particularly distinctive quality or application”. This doesn’t make the object in question...

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So I Married an Axe Murderer (Deluxe Edition)

by Andrew Winistorfer

[18.Jun.08] :. This has become more dated than either of the Wayne’s World movies, and is so seeped in ‘90s iconography it serves as a visual time capsule.

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Rendition

by Cynthia Fuchs

[19.Oct.07] :. Rendition is worried about torture. Specifically, it's worried about Americans torturing other people while saying they're not.

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Eros (2004)

by Zach Hines

[28.May.05] :. Wong Kar-Wai's section follows Miss Hua (Gong Li in some of the most gorgeous dresses ever photographed), a sultry but also wistful Hong Kong call girl.

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Big Trouble (1986)

by Chris Robé

[18.Aug.03] :. Flimsy and frustrating, Big Trouble suggests that Cassavetes finally gave up on reality.

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The Pentagon Papers

by Cynthia Fuchs

[3.Mar.03] :. Repeatedly underlines, at times subtly and others more plainly, the responsibility of living in a democracy.

 
 
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