3 stars out of 4 -- "The fakeouts are fun; Greg Kinnear, in the regular-guy role, is a perfect foil....Hope Davis is hilarious..." Premiere "Pierce Brosnan gives his best performance yet....It's fast, funny, and intoxicating....It's an almost obscenely entertaining look at two men on the verge of a nervous breakdown." Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "Writer-director Richard Shepard gives Brosnan his meatiest role ever, and he digs in with relish." Rolling Stone "[T]he cinematography is consistently hipster handsome, and the script is bracing in its lewdness..." -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly "The film's main asset is an astoundingly loose and energised performance by Brosnan....There's an undeniable charge to watching someone obviously having so much fun." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's some great, dark-hearted farce in the first hour....Shepard shoots with the freewheeling, laid-back charm of Soderbergh circa OCEAN'S 11..." Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ts best moments -- basically all scenes between Brosnan and Greg Kinnear -- are achingly enjoyable." Total Film22.69678
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3 stars out of 4 -- "The fakeouts are fun; Greg Kinnear, in the regular-guy role, is a perfect foil....Hope Davis is hilarious..." Premiere "Pierce Brosnan gives his best performance yet....It's fast, funny, and intoxicating....It's an almost obscenely entertaining look at two men on the verge of a nervous breakdown." Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "Writer-director Richard Shepard gives Brosnan his meatiest role ever, and he digs in with relish." Rolling Stone "[T]he cinematography is consistently hipster handsome, and the script is bracing in its lewdness..." -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly "The film's main asset is an astoundingly loose and energised performance by Brosnan....There's an undeniable charge to watching someone obviously having so much fun." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's some great, dark-hearted farce in the first hour....Shepard shoots with the freewheeling, laid-back charm of Soderbergh circa OCEAN'S 11..." Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ts best moments -- basically all scenes between Brosnan and Greg Kinnear -- are achingly enjoyable." Total Film22.69678
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3 stars out of 4 -- "The fakeouts are fun; Greg Kinnear, in the regular-guy role, is a perfect foil....Hope Davis is hilarious..." Premiere "Pierce Brosnan gives his best performance yet....It's fast, funny, and intoxicating....It's an almost obscenely entertaining look at two men on the verge of a nervous breakdown." Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "Writer-director Richard Shepard gives Brosnan his meatiest role ever, and he digs in with relish." Rolling Stone "[T]he cinematography is consistently hipster handsome, and the script is bracing in its lewdness..." -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly "The film's main asset is an astoundingly loose and energised performance by Brosnan....There's an undeniable charge to watching someone obviously having so much fun." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's some great, dark-hearted farce in the first hour....Shepard shoots with the freewheeling, laid-back charm of Soderbergh circa OCEAN'S 11..." Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ts best moments -- basically all scenes between Brosnan and Greg Kinnear -- are achingly enjoyable." Total Film22.69678
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3 stars out of 4 -- "The fakeouts are fun; Greg Kinnear, in the regular-guy role, is a perfect foil....Hope Davis is hilarious..." Premiere "Pierce Brosnan gives his best performance yet....It's fast, funny, and intoxicating....It's an almost obscenely entertaining look at two men on the verge of a nervous breakdown." Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "Writer-director Richard Shepard gives Brosnan his meatiest role ever, and he digs in with relish." Rolling Stone "[T]he cinematography is consistently hipster handsome, and the script is bracing in its lewdness..." -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly "The film's main asset is an astoundingly loose and energised performance by Brosnan....There's an undeniable charge to watching someone obviously having so much fun." Sight and Sound 3 stars out of 5 -- "There's some great, dark-hearted farce in the first hour....Shepard shoots with the freewheeling, laid-back charm of Soderbergh circa OCEAN'S 11..." Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[I]ts best moments -- basically all scenes between Brosnan and Greg Kinnear -- are achingly enjoyable." Total Film22.69678
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"...How refreshing..." -- Rating: A-Entertainment Weekly "...A terrific cast delivers director Brad Anderson's wry observations on life and love..."USA Today "...Quietly humorous and surprisingly soothing, the movie takes an honest look at the inanity of dating and the unpredictability of love..."Premiere "...[A] witty dissection of the perils in today's singles scene....[Davis] makes an utterly winning, more than slightly beleaguered heroine..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Beautifully acted....It creates and sustains an intelligent, seriocomic mood better than any recent film about the urban single life..."New York Times "...Enjoyable and accomplished..."Box Office "...Smart and beguiling, it manages the impressive feat of believing wholeheartedly in the power of love without checking its mind at the door..."Los Angeles Times22.56645
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"Visually, the film delivers, capturing breathtaking scenery and colourful animals..." Sight and Sound "Ballard connects you to the beauteous inner calm of the wild....The journey, at once wondrous and cute, has passages of enchantment..." -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly "[T]his has heart, humor, thrilling adventure and stunning visuals. Set in South Africa, the cinematography is breathtaking and the action expertly directed."USA Today22.34919
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"Visually, the film delivers, capturing breathtaking scenery and colourful animals..." Sight and Sound "Ballard connects you to the beauteous inner calm of the wild....The journey, at once wondrous and cute, has passages of enchantment..." -- Grade: B Entertainment Weekly "[T]his has heart, humor, thrilling adventure and stunning visuals. Set in South Africa, the cinematography is breathtaking and the action expertly directed."USA Today22.34919
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film22.34919
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] an extraordinary turn from Dennis Quaid as Bill Clinton..."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Morgan gifts us a backstage pass to the corridors of power."Total Film22.34919
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"[Reynolds] here proves that he's an incisive actor....John August directs it briskly, as a gossip-era TWILIGHT ZONE of images and reality." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly "[A] philosophical mind teaser with satirical fangs..."New York Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "The film features excellent performances....THE NINES is best as an examination of the responsibilities an artist bears to his or her creations."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "The result plays like Todd Solondz's take on THE MATRIX, providing much needed provocation and genuine food for thought."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "August's puzzle-box plot packs in three tales each starring the increasingly, rightly bankable Ryan Reynolds."Total Film "[With] fine performances from Hope Davis and Melissa McCarthy..."Sight and Sound "A puzzle film in the vein of MULHOLLAND DRIVE....The stories have a vivid, hyperreal quality of them..."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[O]riginal, witty, enigmatic and highly recommended....Ryan Reynolds, in his first proper acting challenge, shines throughout..."Ultimate DVD19.90313
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"...The acting and direction in FINAL give it an air of quiet, dignified ambition..." New York Times19.6859
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"...This may be Nicholson's boldest performance. It's certainly one of his best..."Rolling Stone "...The power of this great movie -- part comedy, part tragedy, part satire, mostly masterpiece -- is in the details..." Entertainment Weekly "...Instead of flash, what Mr. Nicholson brings to his role is a sorrowful awareness of human complexity whose emotional depth matches anything he has done in the movies before..." New York Times "...[Nicholson's] restraint is superbly on the mark..." USA Today "...[Nicholson's] acting is at once edgy and restrained, holding his natural exuberance on a tight leash, festering with dormant energies..." Sight and Sound "...The film is a gutsy, truthful, deeply rooted vision of contemporary American life, scaled to the size of an ordinary man....Payne has become the most gifted comic social satirist to hit our movies since Preston Sturges..." Los Angeles Times "...Payne elicits one of Nicholson's finest autumn-years performances in this excellent black comedy..." Total Film "[T]his is a film of ostensibly modest but utterly effective directorial touches." Uncut19.6859
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"SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is beautiful....It makes an irrefutable case for the universality of the individual human experience."Los Angeles Times "SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness. It's extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now..."New York Times "[F]or viewers up for the challenge, it may be the film most likely to stick with you."Premiere "This is a film with the richness of great fiction....The subject of SYNECDOCHE is nothing less than human life and how it works."Chicago Sun-Times "Kaufman provides juicy roles for his actors, including Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest and Tom Noonan, who get caught in the time war as art imitates something resembling existence."Rolling Stone "[W]hile deadly serious in theme, the film is frantically playful in its construction, introducing a new surrealist gimmick in nearly every other scene..."Film Comment 4 stars out of 5 -- "Kaufman's meta-cinema must be applauded....He's presented here something intricate enough to put furrows in the brows of Borges or Baudrillard."Uncut19.55554
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"SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is beautiful....It makes an irrefutable case for the universality of the individual human experience."Los Angeles Times "SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK is as much a cry from the heart as it is an assertion of creative consciousness. It's extravagantly conceptual but also tethered to the here and now..."New York Times "[F]or viewers up for the challenge, it may be the film most likely to stick with you."Premiere "This is a film with the richness of great fiction....The subject of SYNECDOCHE is nothing less than human life and how it works."Chicago Sun-Times "Kaufman provides juicy roles for his actors, including Michelle Williams, Dianne Wiest and Tom Noonan, who get caught in the time war as art imitates something resembling existence."Rolling Stone "[W]hile deadly serious in theme, the film is frantically playful in its construction, introducing a new surrealist gimmick in nearly every other scene..."Film Comment 4 stars out of 5 -- "Kaufman's meta-cinema must be applauded....He's presented here something intricate enough to put furrows in the brows of Borges or Baudrillard."Uncut19.55554
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"...Poignant....[Hopkins] does a lovely job with his quietly delivered monologues..."Variety "...Hicks gets exemplary performances from his leads....Davis is intriguing..." USA Today "...A pure slice of sentimental comfort food..."Entertainment Weekly "...Anthony Hopkins performs with a refreshing lack of fuss....Hope Davis looks like an Edward Hopper portrait made flesh..." Sight and Sound0.3982539
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"...A stylish throwback to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970's..."New York Times "...The movie generates real excitement..."Rolling Stone "...The underlying insights of the movie will make you think....ARLINGTON ROAD is a thriller that contains ideas..."Chicago Sun-Times "...Builds to a beautifully plotted -- if totally preposterous -- parlor trick of an ending....Cusack scares the bejesus out of Hope Davis [and viewers]..." -- Rating: B+Entertainment Weekly "...ARLINGTON ROAD is diabolically clever....An edgy, action-filled entertainment, sustained by Bridges' enduring ability to project thoughtful men of decency and courage..."Los Angeles Times0.3186031
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"...Hilarious, moody and cantankerous....Enjoyable..." New York Times "...This soon-to-be minor classic is the best movie about society's untrendiest since GHOST WORLD..." USA Today "...[Pekar is] played with lyrical desperation by Paul Giamatti..." Los Angeles Times "...Hope Davis is perfection in the role....Giamatti and Davis are a dream team, sparking this unlikely love story with a touching conviction..." Rolling Stone "...One of the best movies of the year, advancing the careers of Berman, Giamatti and Davis in the process..." Entertainment Weekly "...It succeeds beautifully, and it's one of the funniest, smartest and most moving pictures of the year..." Premiere "[T]he film brilliantly blends cynical humour with justified pathos. Splendid." Uncut0.3186031
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"...A stylish throwback to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970's..."New York Times "...The underlying insights of the movie will make you think....ARLINGTON ROAD is a thriller that contains ideas..."Chicago Sun-Times "...The movie generates real excitement..."Rolling Stone "...Builds to a beautifully plotted -- if totally preposterous -- parlor trick of an ending....Cusack scares the bejesus out of Hope Davis [and viewers]..." -- Rating: B+Entertainment Weekly "...ARLINGTON ROAD is diabolically clever....An edgy, action-filled entertainment, sustained by Bridges' enduring ability to project thoughtful men of decency and courage..."Los Angeles Times0.3186031
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"...A stylish throwback to the paranoid thrillers of the 1970's..."New York Times "...The underlying insights of the movie will make you think....ARLINGTON ROAD is a thriller that contains ideas..."Chicago Sun-Times "...The movie generates real excitement..."Rolling Stone "...Builds to a beautifully plotted -- if totally preposterous -- parlor trick of an ending....Cusack scares the bejesus out of Hope Davis [and viewers]..." -- Rating: B+Entertainment Weekly "...ARLINGTON ROAD is diabolically clever....An edgy, action-filled entertainment, sustained by Bridges' enduring ability to project thoughtful men of decency and courage..."Los Angeles Times0.3186031
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"As he showed in CHICAGO, Richard Gere is far more energetic playing con men and hustlers than he ever was in more heroic roles."Movieline's Hollywood Life 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lasse Hallstrom's film is a spry escapade, swept along by Richard Gere's infectious self-aggrandisement as Irving." Total Film "THE HOAX is a tricksy tale, tricksily told, but with enough zing, ebullience and delight in its own narrative sleight of hand to carry us along with it."Sight and Sound "[B]riskly entertaining....THE HOAX gestures beyond the particulars of the case, toward a pervasive social unease..."New York Times 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Gere gives 'em the old razzle-dazzle with his roguish charm and sharp comic timing. The surprise is the unexpected feeling he brings to this challenging role."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]e're treated to a character study of a confident but increasingly desperate man, surrounded by a superb gallery of bit-players..."Empire "Gere reveals hidden talents, asserting himself with a confident swagger as the Machiavellian figure whose charisma and plausibility pull others along in his wake."Box Office "THE HOAX expands and darkens, in the sophisticated script by under-the-radar screenwriter William Wheeler, to comment on the deception and power games that defined Watergate-era America." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "THE HOAX is a highly entertaining tale....Gere is brilliant as the shamelessly manipulative and jauntily glib Irving."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "With Gere relishing Irving's crazed denial and great comic turns by Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci and Eli Wallach, the film is accessibly smart..."Uncut "[A] compelling and entertaining real-life whimsy....Fast, smart and surprising right to the end."Ultimate DVD0.3077585
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Gere gives 'em the old razzle-dazzle with his roguish charm and sharp comic timing. The surprise is the unexpected feeling he brings to this challenging role."Rolling Stone "As he showed in CHICAGO, Richard Gere is far more energetic playing con men and hustlers than he ever was in more heroic roles."Movieline's Hollywood Life "THE HOAX is a tricksy tale, tricksily told, but with enough zing, ebullience and delight in its own narrative sleight of hand to carry us along with it."Sight and Sound "[B]riskly entertaining....THE HOAX gestures beyond the particulars of the case, toward a pervasive social unease..."New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lasse Hallstrom's film is a spry escapade, swept along by Richard Gere's infectious self-aggrandisement as Irving." Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]e're treated to a character study of a confident but increasingly desperate man, surrounded by a superb gallery of bit-players..."Empire "Gere reveals hidden talents, asserting himself with a confident swagger as the Machiavellian figure whose charisma and plausibility pull others along in his wake."Box Office "THE HOAX expands and darkens, in the sophisticated script by under-the-radar screenwriter William Wheeler, to comment on the deception and power games that defined Watergate-era America." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "THE HOAX is a highly entertaining tale....Gere is brilliant as the shamelessly manipulative and jauntily glib Irving."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "With Gere relishing Irving's crazed denial and great comic turns by Hope Davis, Stanley Tucci and Eli Wallach, the film is accessibly smart..."Uncut "[A] compelling and entertaining real-life whimsy....Fast, smart and surprising right to the end."Ultimate DVD "An actor with a quick wit and a nimble mind, Mr. Gere gets at his character's sociopath energy..."Wall Street Journal0.2679332
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4 stars out of 4 -- "The acting is as good as it gets....This is classic filmmaking."Rolling Stone0.1738105
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4 stars out of 4 -- "The acting is as good as it gets....This is classic filmmaking."Rolling Stone0.1738105
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"[T]he story is enormously affecting, and director John Madden guides the four stars to matchless performances."Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s a daughter wracked with grief at the death of her father and fearful of having inherited both his genius and condition, Paltrow excels."Total Film "PROOF proves undeniably that the intimacy of a stage play can be re-created powerfully on screen....This is a moving portrait of an intense bond between a father and daughter, an eloquent and resonant story about the ties that bind."USA Today "PROOF works because it adds layers of pathos and suspense to its square roots." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly0.1303579
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"[T]he story is enormously affecting, and director John Madden guides the four stars to matchless performances."Movieline's Hollywood Life 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]s a daughter wracked with grief at the death of her father and fearful of having inherited both his genius and condition, Paltrow excels."Total Film "PROOF proves undeniably that the intimacy of a stage play can be re-created powerfully on screen....This is a moving portrait of an intense bond between a father and daughter, an eloquent and resonant story about the ties that bind."USA Today "PROOF works because it adds layers of pathos and suspense to its square roots." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly0.1303579
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3 stars out of 5 -- "A hangdog Nic Cage ladles out his put-upon Everyman shtick in Gore Verbinski's tasty twist on the male menopause."Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Cage] is excellent, making Dave empathetic and sometimes just downright pathetic, but never losing the audience's sympathy."Ultimate DVD "Steven Conrad's script is studded with brutal, blackly comic moments..."Uncut0.1086316
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"...[The] cast, direction and production are all very good..." Variety "[A] harrowing depiction of the torment of an American serving time in Turkey..." Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "The performances are good, especially John Hurt as Hayes' prison confidant..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Parker's film is powerful and harrowing, with fine performances from Brad Davis as Hayes and John Hurt as his frail Brit fellow-prisoner."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[G]rippingly well-made stuff."Uncut6.860584
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"...[The] cast, direction and production are all very good..." Variety "[A] harrowing depiction of the torment of an American serving time in Turkey..." Premiere 4 stars out of 5 -- "The performances are good, especially John Hurt as Hayes' prison confidant..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "Parker's film is powerful and harrowing, with fine performances from Brad Davis as Hayes and John Hurt as his frail Brit fellow-prisoner."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "[G]rippingly well-made stuff."Uncut6.860584
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"...Affecting scenes which Lean accomplishes with all his old panache..." Sight and Sound "...Very much a full theatrical meal....Remarkably faithful to the novel..." New York Times "...Impeccably faithful, beautifully played....Magnificently crafted in the expected Lean manner and full of old-fashioned virtues..." Variety6.741699
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"...Affecting scenes which Lean accomplishes with all his old panache..." Sight and Sound "...Very much a full theatrical meal....Remarkably faithful to the novel..." New York Times "...Impeccably faithful, beautifully played....Magnificently crafted in the expected Lean manner and full of old-fashioned virtues..." Variety6.741699
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"...Affecting scenes which Lean accomplishes with all his old panache..." Sight and Sound "...Very much a full theatrical meal....Remarkably faithful to the novel..." New York Times "...Impeccably faithful, beautifully played....Magnificently crafted in the expected Lean manner and full of old-fashioned virtues..." Variety6.741699
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