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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

by Jack Patrick Rodgers

[2.Apr.08] :. Burton indulges in meticulously designed, deliberately artificial sets, cinematography that makes the world monochromatic, protagonists with pale skin and sunken eyes – but it's that passion coursing beneath the surface that makes this film feel more alive than anything he's done in years.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Two-Disc Deluxe Edition (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[8.Nov.05] :. Tim Burton's movie is mostly perky, slightly edgy, and dully episodic.

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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[9.Oct.05] :. Cute but not aggravating. Witty but not arrogant. Wallace & Gromit is a clever send-up of classic horror movies.

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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (2005)

by Cynthia Fuchs

[15.Jul.05] :. This being a Tim Burton film, the celebration of childish pleasures is not simply joyous, but tweaked.

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The Heart of Me (2002)

by Kevin Devine

[19.Jun.03] :. Love is a many splendored thing. Unless, of course, it tears through your life like a cluster bomb.

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Fight Club (1999)

by Jonathan Beller and Rhonda Baughman

Does capitalism have you by the balls? If you're feeling a little limp lately, a little flaccid, emasculated, or impotent, then David Fincher's Fight Club may just have your number. This film kicks butt, and in doing so it also manages to suggest that your need for it and for other butt-kicking films is a late capitalist symptom of contemporary psychosis.

Novocaine (2001)

by Mike Ward

Novocaine's biggest concern seems to be with the act of lying, and Frank is far from the only guilty party.