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The Wire (12/02, p.51) - "...[The] many exquisite touches reveal themselves with each listen....[Balke] has succeeded magnificently in creating genuine compositional structures for improvising musicians to work in..."109.9952
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Mojo (Publisher) (p.92) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Hales steps away from outright pop, emerging from his despond with mature songs about relationships both romantic and platonic, but always heartfelt."10.05232
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Q (Magazine) (p.105) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] finds the trio gently corralling hushed acoustic, choral and symphonic laments, served with lashes of strings, into songs as gloriously haunted as the land that spawned them."Mojo (Publisher) (p.86) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] seamless tone poem, with orchestration that evokes Gavin Bryars and elegiac melodies that drift like the winds buffeting the islands."Uncut (magazine) (p.77) - "At times the results are stunning. 'Bay Of Skaill' has a pulsing elemental power, 'Betty Corrigall' is quietly dramatic, and 'Netherton's Teeth' ravishing."8.041853
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"...Excitingly taut and kinetic....Leaps from one suspense gambit to the next..." -- Rating: A-Entertainment Weekly "...Matthew McConaughey delivers a tense, terrific performance..."Rolling Stone "...A rousing, old-fashioned submarine adventure....Just the right blend of adventure, action and gritty realism to keep audiences riveted throughout....A smart, slick crowd-pleaser..."Box Office "...[A] well-executed tale...mixing some cinema-rumbling big bangs with plenty of screen-cinging pyrotechnics..."Total Film "...[A] smooth white-knuckler....It's a simple pleasure to watch..."Movieline's Hollywood Life "...[The film] gets high marks for tension and excitement. The action sequences are bracing and involving..."Los Angeles Times "In the cramped quarters of the submarine you can realistically identify with the high temperatures and sweat on the faces of the stressed crew."Widescreen Review4.297241
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"...A playful modern fable....Wood is currently the most confident, natural child actor of his generation..."New York Times3.941778
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"[G]reat fun....An ingenious, enjoyable romp..." Uncut "[T]he freshest performance comes from relative newcomer Justin Bartha as comic-relief sidekick..." Sight and Sound3.774043
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"[G]reat fun....An ingenious, enjoyable romp..." Uncut "[T]he freshest performance comes from relative newcomer Justin Bartha as comic-relief sidekick..." Sight and Sound3.774043
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"[G]reat fun....An ingenious, enjoyable romp..." Uncut "[T]he freshest performance comes from relative newcomer Justin Bartha as comic-relief sidekick..." Sight and Sound3.774043
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"[T]he freshest performance comes from relative newcomer Justin Bartha as comic-relief sidekick..."Sight and Sound "[G]reat fun....An ingenious, enjoyable romp..."Uncut3.774043
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Spin (p.92) - "Like most of his music with Magnetic Fields, REALISM is funny....But it's also Merritt's darkest work yet..."Entertainment Weekly (p.68) - "The twinkling arrangements sound like something out of a child's music box, even as they mask sobering despair and twisted observations about the absurdity of it all." -- Grade: A-CMJ - "Merritt and his trusted backing band have returned to the embrace of his gleaming, deceptively simple folk-pop."Billboard (p.32) - "[T]he Magnetic Fields' most organic effort to date -- and it doesn't stray too far from Merritt's pop-leaning background, making it the most successful of its synth-free siblings."Paste (magazine) (p.56) - "[T]his, the Magnetic Fields' eighth album, provides yet another example of why Merritt belongs on the shortlist of America's greatest songsmiths."Pitchfork (Website) - "[A] collection of elaborate, immaculately constructed songs, each encapsulating its own (distorted) 'reality'....Merritt is smart, thorough, and unerringly precise..."3.08483
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Q (7/99, p.144) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...MAGNETIC SOUTH is a stall-setting template, with the lurchingly fine hit 'Joanne', the Hank Williams-y 'Mama Nantucket' and even a good end-of-side-one joke....as good as anything else in country rock."Mojo (Publisher) (3/01/04, p.53) - Included in Mojo's The 67 Lost Albums You Must Own! - "Filled with deliciously compact and enigmatic honky-tonk songs..."3.079555
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Rolling Stone (p.78) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "NEW MAGNETIC WONDER is full of bright melodies that veer between the Beach Boys and the Kinks..."Rolling Stone (p.113) - Included in Rolling Stone's "50 Top Albums of the Year 2007" -- "Hypercatchy songs about encountering the eternal and getting your head together..."Spin (p.82) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Simple, catchy, unabashedly cheery -- even while exploring a new musical scale..."Entertainment Weekly (p.76) - "[E]ach of its 24 tracks snaps and crackles with Schneider's sugary, peerless pop." -- Grade: A-Q (p.116) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A]nyone who likes their psychedelia flavoured with a hint of bubblegum and a hunk of Jeff Lynne should head straight for 'Energy''s layered harmonies or the widescreen rumble of 'Beautiful Machine.'"CMJ (p.42) - "[T]he band's most expansive production yet makes like caramel on the Apples....A strong return."No Depression (p.113) - "Sweeping melodic hooks cut through densely packed musical arrangements -- Schneider used 96 track of instrumentation on some tunes..."3.075145
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Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he head-blasting instrumentals here are the stuff that makes glassy-eyed bass fiends growl 'siiiiiiick.'"Spin (p.73) - "Katy B leads a formidable guest list of vocalists and justifies her rising-star status via the seductive 'Perfect Stranger.'"Mojo (Publisher) (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[They] couple dubstep's trademark juddering basslines and paranoid atmospherics to trancey keys...and Pendulum-like anthems."Clash (magazine) - "Miss Dynamite's 'Fire' is as kinetic as any floor filler at dubstep's altar, club night FWD>>."Uncut (magazine) (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Between the deft pop maneuvers of 'I Need Air' and the eviscerating scree of 'K Dance', MAGNETIC MAN even boasts a few eureka moments."3.075145
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Rolling Stone (p.72) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he head-blasting instrumentals here are the stuff that makes glassy-eyed bass fiends growl 'siiiiiiick.'"Spin (p.73) - "Katy B leads a formidable guest list of vocalists and justifies her rising-star status via the seductive 'Perfect Stranger.'"Mojo (Publisher) (p.109) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[They] couple dubstep's trademark juddering basslines and paranoid atmospherics to trancey keys...and Pendulum-like anthems."Clash (magazine) - "Miss Dynamite's 'Fire' is as kinetic as any floor filler at dubstep's altar, club night FWD>>."Uncut (magazine) (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Between the deft pop maneuvers of 'I Need Air' and the eviscerating scree of 'K Dance', MAGNETIC MAN even boasts a few eureka moments."3.075145
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Rolling Stone (pp.109-110) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his album is Metallica becoming Metallica again....[T]he spectacular 'All Nightmare Long' -- a thematic sequel of sorts to 'Enter Sandman' -- combines relentless MASTER OF PUPPETS guitars with a BLACK ALBUM-worthy chorus."Rolling Stone (p.89) - Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "[H]eavy metal's resurrection of the year."Spin (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he album is more of a rebirth, with Metallica exploring the past buy applying what they've learned during their 20 years at the top of the heavy-metal slag heap, which means ingratiating more finesse when they mark their territory."Spin (p.48) - Ranked #28 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[D]on't look this gift monster in the mouth. It's hungry, and it's teeth are sharp."Entertainment Weekly (p.71) - "MAGNETIC's tracks are all 6-to-10-minute extravaganzas with seemingly unlimited chordal changeups and tempo shifts." -- Grade: B+Kerrang (Magazine) (p.48) - "[T]he key ingredient of DEATH MAGNETIC is the skill with which it releases its thunder, its sense of flow, its understanding that power is nothing without control."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.66) - Ranked #1 in Kerrang's Best Albums Of The Year 2008 -- "They rediscovered their metal..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett is afforded more shredding space than in recent years, the rhythm guitars thrum like chopper blades....The sound is fantastic...everything crackling, huge and alive."Mojo (Publisher) (p.64) - Ranked #45 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "A Rick Rubin-produced return to form."Blender (Magazine) (p.72) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Rubin pointed the direction, but credit goes to the band -- which, for the first time on record, includes new bassist Robert Trujillo -- for recapturing their old sound and reconciling it with what followed."3.074388
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Rolling Stone (pp.109-110) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his album is Metallica becoming Metallica again....[T]he spectacular 'All Nightmare Long' -- a thematic sequel of sorts to 'Enter Sandman' -- combines relentless MASTER OF PUPPETS guitars with a BLACK ALBUM-worthy chorus."Rolling Stone (p.89) - Ranked #9 in Rolling Stone's 50 Best Albums Of 2008 -- "[H]eavy metal's resurrection of the year."Spin (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he album is more of a rebirth, with Metallica exploring the past buy applying what they've learned during their 20 years at the top of the heavy-metal slag heap, which means ingratiating more finesse when they mark their territory."Spin (p.48) - Ranked #28 in Spin's "40 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "[D]on't look this gift monster in the mouth. It's hungry, and it's teeth are sharp."Entertainment Weekly (p.71) - "MAGNETIC's tracks are all 6-to-10-minute extravaganzas with seemingly unlimited chordal changeups and tempo shifts." -- Grade: B+Kerrang (Magazine) (p.48) - "[T]he key ingredient of DEATH MAGNETIC is the skill with which it releases its thunder, its sense of flow, its understanding that power is nothing without control."Kerrang (Magazine) (p.66) - Ranked #1 in Kerrang's Best Albums Of The Year 2008 -- "They rediscovered their metal..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.100) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Lead guitarist Kirk Hammett is afforded more shredding space than in recent years, the rhythm guitars thrum like chopper blades....The sound is fantastic...everything crackling, huge and alive."Mojo (Publisher) (p.64) - Ranked #45 in Mojo's "The 50 Best Albums Of 2008" -- "A Rick Rubin-produced return to form."Blender (Magazine) (p.72) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Rubin pointed the direction, but credit goes to the band -- which, for the first time on record, includes new bassist Robert Trujillo -- for recapturing their old sound and reconciling it with what followed."3.074388
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