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"...Nobody plays a sick twist better than Crispin Glover....Want your skin to crawl? This one's for you..." Rolling Stone "...[Glover] plays it straight and intense...building each scene to an elegant Gloverish crescendo of fear and loathing and operatic hysteria..."Entertainment Weekly "...[Glover] is a sympathetic Willard; his panicked grief gives the movie a kick....WILLARD also has a rapid-fire Ermey performance that nearly burns up the screen..." Box Office "...The human actors are good..." Chicago Sun-Times "Glen Morgan's direction has the quirky stylisation of a kid's movie -- think MOUSEHUNT gone seriously wrong." Uncut34.1074

"...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987" New York Times "...An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama..." Variety "...A powerful and centered statement of outrage....It is a muscular return to form..." Los Angeles Times "The picture looks like it was shot in the 70s, which is suitable for the setting of the storytelling." Widescreen Review33.85362

"...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid..." New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987" New York Times "...An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama..." Variety "...A powerful and centered statement of outrage....It is a muscular return to form..." Los Angeles Times "The picture looks like it was shot in the 70s, which is suitable for the setting of the storytelling." Widescreen Review33.85362

"...An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama..."Variety "...A powerful and centered statement of outrage....It is a muscular return to form..."Los Angeles Times "...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid..."New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987"New York Times "The picture looks like it was shot in the 70s, which is suitable for the setting of the storytelling."Widescreen Review33.85362

"...Rare and noteworthy....Ermey does a natural, sympathetic turn here, warm, grizzled, patriotic and worn-out, and gets to show real star power..."Los Angeles Times33.85362

"...An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama..."Variety "...A powerful and centered statement of outrage....It is a muscular return to form..."Los Angeles Times "...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid..."New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987"New York Times "The picture looks like it was shot in the 70s, which is suitable for the setting of the storytelling."Widescreen Review33.85362

"...An intense, schematic, superbly made Vietnam War drama..."Variety "...A powerful and centered statement of outrage....It is a muscular return to form..."Los Angeles Times "...Harrowing, beautiful and characteristically eccentric....The performances are splendid..."New York Times Included in the New York Times "10 Best Films of 1987"New York Times "The picture looks like it was shot in the 70s, which is suitable for the setting of the storytelling."Widescreen Review33.85362

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"...Its passion for the mystique of trains is palpable....The film builds up a powerful metaphor for deadly forces about to collide at a fateful crossroads..."New York Times "...R. Lee Ermey (as the sheriff) hasn't had such a good role since 1987's FULL METAL JACKET..."USA Today0.922282

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"...Funny..."USA Today0.4306653

"[H]ilarious..." Entertainment Weekly "[I]t laughs at our addiction to love, lust and status, but its group hugs are minimal, its imagination vivid..." Uncut0.4060352

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"...CHAINSAW eventually revs up and bites right to the bone..." Total Film "[A] slicked-up remake of director Tobe Hooper's minimalist classic."USA Today0.3045264

"...CHAINSAW eventually revs up and bites right to the bone..." Total Film "[A] slicked-up remake of director Tobe Hooper's minimalist classic."USA Today0.3045264

"...CHAINSAW eventually revs up and bites right to the bone..." Total Film "[A] slicked-up remake of director Tobe Hooper's minimalist classic."USA Today0.3045264

"...CHAINSAW eventually revs up and bites right to the bone..." Total Film "[A] slicked-up remake of director Tobe Hooper's minimalist classic."USA Today0.3045264

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CMJ (9/4/00, p.23) - "...Near-classic-sounding soul-pop ditties....Talent this effortless is a rarity..."12.46208

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"...Seductive, engaging....[Lee is] terrific at ambience, at a real feeling for backstage talk..." Los Angeles Times11.11998

"...Inventive....Many amusing moments and a fine central performance..."Sight and Sound "...Frenetic..." USA Today "...An intriguing premise and an appealing lead performance by Theresa Randle..."Variety "...In its star, Theresa Randle, Lee has a talented actress who can project the warmth, vulnerability and sensitivity needed for audience involvement..."Los Angeles Times9.706705

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Rolling Stone (p.74) - 3 stars out of 5 - "His mix of acoustic guitar and R&B-bred singing is more reminiscent of Bill Withers or Tracy Chapman."Entertainment Weekly (No. 809, p.73) - "[T]his Philly troubadour crafts concise, soulful songs with a warm palette of acoustic colors..." - Grade: B+Uncut (p.97) - 3 stars out of 5 - "He's got a sly easy-on-the-ear voice that lies somewhere between Seal and James Taylor..."Vibe (p.168) - "[S]tout in musicianship yet delicate in tone."Dirty Linen (p.61) - "He utilizes his falsetto quivering voice in a very effective manner and will sometimes go into a scat style that has tinges of a jazz singer's delivery."9.030472

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Q (8/00, p.116) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...Extraordinary....Dorsey sings with an almost child-like innocence....creating some of Southern soul's most sonorous moments..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The album] pushed things forward, pioneering the syncopated rhythms of New Orleans funk."8.992849

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Uncut (magazine) (p.80) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "[This] features blues titans beside doo wop angels, superior dance crazes and one indefatigable rhythm machine."8.052521

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"...Perfectly conceived....THE ICE STORM is cinema at is most immaculate..." Sight and Sound "...A jewel....A methodically constructed social satire of suburban boredom..." USA Today "...The film is often satirical and frequently very funny, and quietly observant in its performances..." Chicago Bulletin "Kevin Kline is heartbreaking....Lee's self-help suburban hedonists try and fail to make sense of a world that's changing too fast..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "Ang Lee's elegant, shattering adaptation of the Rick Moody novel....The big chill is hardly reserved for the outdoors."Wall Street Journal7.908926

"...Perfectly conceived....THE ICE STORM is cinema at is most immaculate..." Sight and Sound "...A jewel....A methodically constructed social satire of suburban boredom..." USA Today "...The film is often satirical and frequently very funny, and quietly observant in its performances..." Chicago Bulletin "Kevin Kline is heartbreaking....Lee's self-help suburban hedonists try and fail to make sense of a world that's changing too fast..." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly "Ang Lee's elegant, shattering adaptation of the Rick Moody novel....The big chill is hardly reserved for the outdoors."Wall Street Journal7.908925

"...[The film's] widescreen images have a sweeping, sometimes desolate beauty..."Variety "...[A] striking, brave picture....Maguire is thrilling as Roedel, whose passage to manhood is faithfully chronicled by Schamus and Lee..."Premiere "...A texture of fine-grained observation that brings history to life on the molecular level..." Sight and Sound "...Worthy and beautifully crafted..." Total Film "...Visually arresting....[Maguire gives a] sensitive, understated performance..."New York Times "...Maguire shows an increased maturity that suits him well..." Los Angeles Times "...The technical and acting credits are first rate..."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he dialogue gives RIDE WITH THE DEVIL its own offbeat personailty....Lee and Schamus superbly illustrate the confusion of the times..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club7.891746

"...[The film's] widescreen images have a sweeping, sometimes desolate beauty..."Variety "...[A] striking, brave picture....Maguire is thrilling as Roedel, whose passage to manhood is faithfully chronicled by Schamus and Lee..."Premiere "...A texture of fine-grained observation that brings history to life on the molecular level..." Sight and Sound "...Worthy and beautifully crafted..." Total Film "...Visually arresting....[Maguire gives a] sensitive, understated performance..."New York Times "...Maguire shows an increased maturity that suits him well..." Los Angeles Times "...The technical and acting credits are first rate..."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he dialogue gives RIDE WITH THE DEVIL its own offbeat personailty....Lee and Schamus superbly illustrate the confusion of the times..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club7.891746

"...[Cushing is] thoroughly compelling..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "...The sets look sumptuous and the pace never slackens..." Total Film7.879719

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"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."Los Angeles Times "It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..."Movieline "Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....Hes managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...'Uncut7.873446

"Lee delivers an entertaining light comedy about a real-life person who somewhat inadvertently helped the whole iconic concert to take place."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "[A] gentle, anecdotal comedy that has oodles of nostalgic charm, as the locals of the Catskills find themselves swept up in an event whose transformative power changed a generation."Box Office 3 stars out of 4 -- "This is a comedy with some sweet interludes....TAKING WOODSTOCK has the freshness of something being created, not remembered."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] meticulously rendered and achingly authentic portrait of a time and a place....The filmmaker has an acutely sensitive eye for family and tradition..."Los Angeles Times "It's as adventurous a film as Lee has ever made, utilizing split-screens, zoom lenses, kinetic slides in the mud, astonishingly long DeMillian takes featuring hundreds of stalled cars and a cast of thousands..."Movieline "Lee captures the fractious, joyful, monstrously evolving mass it all was." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly Lee makes a series of fascinating choices in TAKING WOODSTOCK, starting with the decision not to film Woodstock, the concert....Hes managed to make a moving that, for all its sweetness, is surprisingly subversive.Washington Post 4 stars out of 5 -- "Lee shows the experience from the outskirts...we see Woodstock as most attendees saw it: down among the mud and chaos...'Uncut7.873445

"[I]mmaculately made...with career-making performances by its two reluctant lovers, Gyllenhaal and Ledger....Count them both in at nomination time." Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "[O]ne of the truly convincing movies about romantic love to come along in years..." Premiere "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal..."Rolling Stone "[I]t's a nuanced and complex study of desire, loneliness and the ambiguities swirling beneath the accepted codes of rural life. And, as such, one of the finest movies of the year." Uncut "The lonesome chill that seeps through Ang Lee's epic western, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is as bone deep as the movie's heartbreaking story..." New York Times "It's a heart-wrenching portrayal of unfulfilled Wyoming love....The movie soars for the duration..."USA Today "[T]he screenplay is a model of sensitive adaptation....The screenwriters' most significant contribution is their investment in well-defined, plausible female characters." Sight and Sound Ranked #11 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "A beautiful, elegant, elegiac movie, directed with great sensitivity and enhanced by outstanding performances." Uncut Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[A] quietly revolutionary weeper..." Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] beautiful movie....The wide-open spaces of Wyoming, with its jagged, snow-dipped peaks and too-puffy-to-be-true cloud formations, linger long after the credits have faded. There's also a fragile, internalised beauty..." Total Film "Stellar performances, a haunting Oscar-winning soundtrack, and beautiful cinematography make for an unforgettable story." Widescreen Review "Mr. Gyllenhaal's Jack is a mercurial mix of plain, poetic and practical. Mr. Ledger's Ennis is touchingly bleak, and self-contained..."Wall Street Journal7.856295

"[I]mmaculately made...with career-making performances by its two reluctant lovers, Gyllenhaal and Ledger....Count them both in at nomination time." Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "[O]ne of the truly convincing movies about romantic love to come along in years..." Premiere "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal..."Rolling Stone "[I]t's a nuanced and complex study of desire, loneliness and the ambiguities swirling beneath the accepted codes of rural life. And, as such, one of the finest movies of the year." Uncut "The lonesome chill that seeps through Ang Lee's epic western, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is as bone deep as the movie's heartbreaking story..." New York Times "It's a heart-wrenching portrayal of unfulfilled Wyoming love....The movie soars for the duration..."USA Today "[T]he screenplay is a model of sensitive adaptation....The screenwriters' most significant contribution is their investment in well-defined, plausible female characters." Sight and Sound Ranked #11 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "A beautiful, elegant, elegiac movie, directed with great sensitivity and enhanced by outstanding performances." Uncut Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[A] quietly revolutionary weeper..." Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] beautiful movie....The wide-open spaces of Wyoming, with its jagged, snow-dipped peaks and too-puffy-to-be-true cloud formations, linger long after the credits have faded. There's also a fragile, internalised beauty..." Total Film "Stellar performances, a haunting Oscar-winning soundtrack, and beautiful cinematography make for an unforgettable story." Widescreen Review "Mr. Gyllenhaal's Jack is a mercurial mix of plain, poetic and practical. Mr. Ledger's Ennis is touchingly bleak, and self-contained..."Wall Street Journal7.856295

"[I]mmaculately made...with career-making performances by its two reluctant lovers, Gyllenhaal and Ledger....Count them both in at nomination time." Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "[O]ne of the truly convincing movies about romantic love to come along in years..." Premiere "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal..."Rolling Stone "[I]t's a nuanced and complex study of desire, loneliness and the ambiguities swirling beneath the accepted codes of rural life. And, as such, one of the finest movies of the year." Uncut "The lonesome chill that seeps through Ang Lee's epic western, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is as bone deep as the movie's heartbreaking story..." New York Times "It's a heart-wrenching portrayal of unfulfilled Wyoming love....The movie soars for the duration..."USA Today "[T]he screenplay is a model of sensitive adaptation....The screenwriters' most significant contribution is their investment in well-defined, plausible female characters." Sight and Sound Ranked #11 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "A beautiful, elegant, elegiac movie, directed with great sensitivity and enhanced by outstanding performances." Uncut Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[A] quietly revolutionary weeper..." Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] beautiful movie....The wide-open spaces of Wyoming, with its jagged, snow-dipped peaks and too-puffy-to-be-true cloud formations, linger long after the credits have faded. There's also a fragile, internalised beauty..." Total Film "Stellar performances, a haunting Oscar-winning soundtrack, and beautiful cinematography make for an unforgettable story." Widescreen Review "Mr. Gyllenhaal's Jack is a mercurial mix of plain, poetic and practical. Mr. Ledger's Ennis is touchingly bleak, and self-contained..."Wall Street Journal7.851199

"...[The film's] widescreen images have a sweeping, sometimes desolate beauty..."Variety "...[A] striking, brave picture....Maguire is thrilling as Roedel, whose passage to manhood is faithfully chronicled by Schamus and Lee..."Premiere "...A texture of fine-grained observation that brings history to life on the molecular level..." Sight and Sound "...Worthy and beautifully crafted..." Total Film "...Visually arresting....[Maguire gives a] sensitive, understated performance..."New York Times "...Maguire shows an increased maturity that suits him well..." Los Angeles Times "...The technical and acting credits are first rate..."Chicago Sun-Times "[T]he dialogue gives RIDE WITH THE DEVIL its own offbeat personailty....Lee and Schamus superbly illustrate the confusion of the times..." -- Grade: A-A.V. Club7.849342

"[I]mmaculately made...with career-making performances by its two reluctant lovers, Gyllenhaal and Ledger....Count them both in at nomination time." Film Comment 4 stars out of 4 -- "[O]ne of the truly convincing movies about romantic love to come along in years..." Premiere "BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is that rare thing, a big Hollywood weeper with a beautiful ache at its center. It's a modern-age Western that turns into a quietly revolutionary love story." -- Grade: A Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "Ang Lee's unmissable and unforgettable BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN hits you like a shot in the heart. It's a landmark film and a triumph for Heath Ledger and Jake Gyllenhaal..."Rolling Stone "[I]t's a nuanced and complex study of desire, loneliness and the ambiguities swirling beneath the accepted codes of rural life. And, as such, one of the finest movies of the year." Uncut "The lonesome chill that seeps through Ang Lee's epic western, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN is as bone deep as the movie's heartbreaking story..." New York Times "It's a heart-wrenching portrayal of unfulfilled Wyoming love....The movie soars for the duration..."USA Today "[T]he screenplay is a model of sensitive adaptation....The screenwriters' most significant contribution is their investment in well-defined, plausible female characters." Sight and Sound Ranked #11 in Uncut's Best Films Of 2005 -- "A beautiful, elegant, elegiac movie, directed with great sensitivity and enhanced by outstanding performances." Uncut Included in Entertainment Weekly's Top Ten Films Of The Year -- "[A] quietly revolutionary weeper..." Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[A] beautiful movie....The wide-open spaces of Wyoming, with its jagged, snow-dipped peaks and too-puffy-to-be-true cloud formations, linger long after the credits have faded. There's also a fragile, internalised beauty..." Total Film "Stellar performances, a haunting Oscar-winning soundtrack, and beautiful cinematography make for an unforgettable story." Widescreen Review "Mr. Gyllenhaal's Jack is a mercurial mix of plain, poetic and practical. Mr. Ledger's Ennis is touchingly bleak, and self-contained..."Wall Street Journal7.808795