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"[I]f you take the film on its own terms, as a kind of Elvis movie dipped in guacamole, it's quirkily engrossing. Ferrell is a good straight actor for the same reason that he's an inspired comedian: He commits himself to every moment." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "The movie is a jolly send-up of horse operas on Telemundo....It's fitfully amusing..."Wall Street Journal "[A] south-of-the-border BONANZA with faux-schlocky production values a goofy mix of cornball earnestness, telenovela melodrama and, for good measure, magical realism with stuffed animals."Los Angeles Times 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "It's surrealist, elbow-to-the-ribs humor....By nature, Ferrell's just so sincere that he pulls the movie off..."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This very funny spoof of telenovelas and classic Mexican westerns is decidedly offbeat and absurdly daffy....The over-the-top melodramatic story, written by Andrew Steele is ridiculously funny..."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "Veterans of sketch comedy, director Matt Piedmont and scripter Andrew Steele keep the laughs flowing..."Total Film33.54034
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3 stars out of 5 -- "Korine has come up with a surreal, absurdist fantasy about fame and faith. It's every bit as idiosyncratic as his earlier movies, but more obviously open-hearted and less given to sensationalism."Total Film "[W]hat's most striking, and most surprising, about MISTER LONELY in the context of Korine's other work is the uplifting experience it offers..."Sight and Sound "MISTER LONELY is enigmatic, its moods and meanings sometimes elusive, but nearly every frame is an image of arresting clarity and beauty."New York Times "Harmony Korine revives his signature surrealism in MR. LOVELY....Full of arresting, indelible images..."Los Angeles Times33.47935
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"[I]f you take the film on its own terms, as a kind of Elvis movie dipped in guacamole, it's quirkily engrossing. Ferrell is a good straight actor for the same reason that he's an inspired comedian: He commits himself to every moment." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "The movie is a jolly send-up of horse operas on Telemundo....It's fitfully amusing..."Wall Street Journal "[A] south-of-the-border BONANZA with faux-schlocky production values a goofy mix of cornball earnestness, telenovela melodrama and, for good measure, magical realism with stuffed animals."Los Angeles Times 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "It's surrealist, elbow-to-the-ribs humor....By nature, Ferrell's just so sincere that he pulls the movie off..."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This very funny spoof of telenovelas and classic Mexican westerns is decidedly offbeat and absurdly daffy....The over-the-top melodramatic story, written by Andrew Steele is ridiculously funny..."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "Veterans of sketch comedy, director Matt Piedmont and scripter Andrew Steele keep the laughs flowing..."Total Film33.47935
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"[S]ufficiently original and engaging..."Los Angeles Times "Garai, ardent and argent as always, brings the same lusty sweetness to her character as did Grey." Box Office "[E]ndearing..." Entertainment Weekly33.41835
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"Garai, ardent and argent as always, brings the same lusty sweetness to her character as did Grey."Box Office "[S]ufficiently original and engaging..."Los Angeles Times "[E]ndearing..."Entertainment Weekly33.41835
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"RUDO Y CURSI scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural....Cuaron's rich narrative courses through an array of personal obstacles, all of them universal and readily identifiable."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a pleasure to watch the chemistry and engaging humor between actors who clearly enjoy each other's company....Such is the case with the Mexican stars of RUDO Y CURSI..."USA Today "[T]he arrival of the puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy RUDO Y CURSI deserves a hearty welcome....RUDO Y CURSI pulses with life..."Los Angeles Times "RUDO Y CURSI is a sly miniaturist pleasure on its own terms, a piquant fable about the bouncing ups and downs of success, failure, competition, and comradeship." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "RUDO Y CURSI lives up to its name, as do its sweet and scrappy heroes....With a winning measure of swagger and style."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This isn't a sports movie, but a human comedy, and depends on the effortless chemistry between Luna and Garcia Bernal, who evoke, like real brothers, the ability to love and hate each other and push all the right buttons."Chicago Sun-Times "RUDO Y CURSI begins as delightful satire of the tackiness and crass excess of the nouveau riche, blessed with the same loose, improvisational, French New Wave-inspired chemistry of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "Soccer provides the backdrop for this rowdy, ramshackle comedy....[G]ood-natured fun..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n agreeably ramshackle football farce, directed by Cuaron's screenwriting partner and brother, that still says a surprising amount about the state of South America..."Uncut29.44691
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"RUDO Y CURSI scores from every angle -- comic, personal and cross-cultural....Cuaron's rich narrative courses through an array of personal obstacles, all of them universal and readily identifiable."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 4 -- "It's a pleasure to watch the chemistry and engaging humor between actors who clearly enjoy each other's company....Such is the case with the Mexican stars of RUDO Y CURSI..."USA Today "[T]he arrival of the puckishly entertaining, fleet-of-foot drama-comedy RUDO Y CURSI deserves a hearty welcome....RUDO Y CURSI pulses with life..."Los Angeles Times "RUDO Y CURSI is a sly miniaturist pleasure on its own terms, a piquant fable about the bouncing ups and downs of success, failure, competition, and comradeship." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly "RUDO Y CURSI lives up to its name, as do its sweet and scrappy heroes....With a winning measure of swagger and style."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "This isn't a sports movie, but a human comedy, and depends on the effortless chemistry between Luna and Garcia Bernal, who evoke, like real brothers, the ability to love and hate each other and push all the right buttons."Chicago Sun-Times "RUDO Y CURSI begins as delightful satire of the tackiness and crass excess of the nouveau riche, blessed with the same loose, improvisational, French New Wave-inspired chemistry of Y TU MAMA TAMBIEN." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3 stars out of 5 -- "Soccer provides the backdrop for this rowdy, ramshackle comedy....[G]ood-natured fun..."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A]n agreeably ramshackle football farce, directed by Cuaron's screenwriting partner and brother, that still says a surprising amount about the state of South America..."Uncut29.32493
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"This macabre caper is laced with enough sly black humor to make it a treat for connoisseurs of nihilistic entertainment." Movieline's Hollywood Life "[A] cool, stylish Mexican heist-gone-wrong comedy."Los Angeles Times29.26393
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"...[Costner] has studied the great old westerns closely, and his reverence pays off in the grandeur of the images..."New York Times "...An authentic old-fashioned epic likely to generate rooting interest from moviegoing traditionalists..." USA Today "...The rush of events combines with the acting and the sense of place to propel and validate Costner's efforts to a surprising extent..." Los Angeles Times "...Costner shows an exacting instinct for how to build a shoot-'em-up from the ground up..." Entertainment Weekly "A deeply involving and beautifully made Western."Chicago Sun-Times "Costner's sedate, painstakingly naturalistic, squarely traditional Western striding into town to deliver a masterclass in cacophony and choreography." Total Film "What makes the film seem fresh and new is a host of deft little touches....Costner is likeable as a good and honest man, and Annette Bening splendid..." Sight and Sound0.1829811
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"Wahlberg has a way of making lethal look neighborly and necessary, which he does here....Those qualities go a long way to keep CONTRABAND afloat."Los Angeles Times "This is an uncommonly well-crafted action adventure..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "This Americanized version of the 2008 Nordic thriller REJKJAVIK ROTTERDAM transfers the original's gritty, violent action into an entertaining and intense starring role for Mark Wahlberg..."Box Office "[I]nvolving, atmospherically grungy....The camerawork remains alert and alive to the alarming events that punctuate the characters' lives with all-too-frequent regularity."Hollywood Reporter "[A]n obligingly tense, scruffy addition to the one-last-crime genre."Movieline "[The] Mark Wahlberg smuggling drama CONTRABAND benefits from elegant simplicity."A.V. Club0.1829811
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"Wahlberg has a way of making lethal look neighborly and necessary, which he does here....Those qualities go a long way to keep CONTRABAND afloat."Los Angeles Times "This is an uncommonly well-crafted action adventure..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "This Americanized version of the 2008 Nordic thriller REJKJAVIK ROTTERDAM transfers the original's gritty, violent action into an entertaining and intense starring role for Mark Wahlberg..."Box Office "[I]nvolving, atmospherically grungy....The camerawork remains alert and alive to the alarming events that punctuate the characters' lives with all-too-frequent regularity."Hollywood Reporter "[A]n obligingly tense, scruffy addition to the one-last-crime genre."Movieline "[The] Mark Wahlberg smuggling drama CONTRABAND benefits from elegant simplicity."A.V. Club0.1829811
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"Wahlberg has a way of making lethal look neighborly and necessary, which he does here....Those qualities go a long way to keep CONTRABAND afloat."Los Angeles Times "This is an uncommonly well-crafted action adventure..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "This Americanized version of the 2008 Nordic thriller REJKJAVIK ROTTERDAM transfers the original's gritty, violent action into an entertaining and intense starring role for Mark Wahlberg..."Box Office "[I]nvolving, atmospherically grungy....The camerawork remains alert and alive to the alarming events that punctuate the characters' lives with all-too-frequent regularity."Hollywood Reporter "[A]n obligingly tense, scruffy addition to the one-last-crime genre."Movieline "[The] Mark Wahlberg smuggling drama CONTRABAND benefits from elegant simplicity."A.V. Club0.1829811
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"Wahlberg has a way of making lethal look neighborly and necessary, which he does here....Those qualities go a long way to keep CONTRABAND afloat."Los Angeles Times "This is an uncommonly well-crafted action adventure..."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "This Americanized version of the 2008 Nordic thriller REJKJAVIK ROTTERDAM transfers the original's gritty, violent action into an entertaining and intense starring role for Mark Wahlberg..."Box Office "[I]nvolving, atmospherically grungy....The camerawork remains alert and alive to the alarming events that punctuate the characters' lives with all-too-frequent regularity."Hollywood Reporter "[A]n obligingly tense, scruffy addition to the one-last-crime genre."Movieline "[The] Mark Wahlberg smuggling drama CONTRABAND benefits from elegant simplicity."A.V. Club0.1829811
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"...Mr. Lerman creates an intimate power play to contradict the jagged sharpness of the material..." New York Times "...A droll, quixotic film about happenstance....SUDDENLY works its charms slowly but steadily..." Los Angeles Times "[A] trip that is rich and strange even by the accomplished standards of a new and prolific generation of Argentine film-makers." Sight and Sound14.72766
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Musician (4/94, p.90) - "...Luna masterfully deconstructs the Velvets sound to its main components: Cale's avant-garde rhythms, Tucker's tribal stomp, Morrison's twisted roots sensibility and Reed's pop songwriting ambitions..."14.40187
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Alternative Press (p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The keyboard-based trio channel a heady flower-power ebullience that demonstrates a freewheeling ethos recalling their former incarnation as members of the Beta Band."Mojo (Publisher) (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[LUNA] keeps the faith, beginning with 'Bobby's Song,' a 10-minute trawl through every paisley-patterned '60s psych trick, embracing proggy pyrotechnics, sunshine pop and accordion hoedowns."Clash (magazine) (p.66) - Ranked #16 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" -- "[T]heir retro-active futurism, chrome finished pop hooks and starlit vision of skewed alternative pop are as inviting and direct as the morning sun."14.34145
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Alternative Press (p.108) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "The keyboard-based trio channel a heady flower-power ebullience that demonstrates a freewheeling ethos recalling their former incarnation as members of the Beta Band."Mojo (Publisher) (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[LUNA] keeps the faith, beginning with 'Bobby's Song,' a 10-minute trawl through every paisley-patterned '60s psych trick, embracing proggy pyrotechnics, sunshine pop and accordion hoedowns."Clash (magazine) (p.66) - Ranked #16 in Clash's "The 40 Best Albums of 2008" -- "[T]heir retro-active futurism, chrome finished pop hooks and starlit vision of skewed alternative pop are as inviting and direct as the morning sun."14.34145
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JazzTimes (p.139) - "[A]n album that replicates the raw, uninhibited energy of their live shows....The ability of each to fire the other's imagination is laid bare in a dozen different ways..."Global Rhythm (Publication) (p.43) - Ranked #8 in Global Rhythm's "Top 10 Albums Of 2006" -- "Sarr explores her own Wolof background while drawing upon jazz phrasing, gospel intonation and bit of introspective Western pop."14.32098
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