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"[A] thoughtful sports movie....COACH CARTER is daringly truthful."Uncut "Mr. Jackson acts with his usual steely authority....Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Brown are especially strong..."New York Times "Jackson rules the movie with his joyful inflections..."Entertainment Weekly "The basketball scenes are filmed with infectious energy....COACH CARTER emerges as an entertaining and unexpectedly thought-provoking American sports movie."Sight and Sound "[With] a combination of kinetic scenes on the court and meaningful, well-acted ones off it."Premiere "[Jackson's] cool factor never falters."Movieline's Hollywood Life36.39469
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"[A] thoughtful sports movie....COACH CARTER is daringly truthful."Uncut "Mr. Jackson acts with his usual steely authority....Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Brown are especially strong..."New York Times "Jackson rules the movie with his joyful inflections..."Entertainment Weekly "The basketball scenes are filmed with infectious energy....COACH CARTER emerges as an entertaining and unexpectedly thought-provoking American sports movie."Sight and Sound "[With] a combination of kinetic scenes on the court and meaningful, well-acted ones off it."Premiere "[Jackson's] cool factor never falters."Movieline's Hollywood Life36.39469
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"[A] thoughtful sports movie....COACH CARTER is daringly truthful."Uncut "Mr. Jackson acts with his usual steely authority....Mr. Gonzalez and Mr. Brown are especially strong..."New York Times "Jackson rules the movie with his joyful inflections..."Entertainment Weekly "The basketball scenes are filmed with infectious energy....COACH CARTER emerges as an entertaining and unexpectedly thought-provoking American sports movie."Sight and Sound "[With] a combination of kinetic scenes on the court and meaningful, well-acted ones off it."Premiere "[Jackson's] cool factor never falters."Movieline's Hollywood Life36.39469
$6.19
"...Impressively choreographed....Cast with personable, good-looking young actors..." New York Times "...[An] appealing young cast and period score..." Variety "...The movie is a somber, smoothly crafted drama....[Leonard] has a face that grows more interesting the longer you look at it..." Entertainment Weekly36.2655
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"...The big action scenes are cleverly staged and Eddie Murphy is back on his game again, with a high-energy performance and crisp dialogue..." Chicago Sun-Times36.2655
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"...[The film has] smart performances and pulls off the rare trick of tackling some thorny racial issues without becoming blandly moralistic..."Total Film "...[Stiles'] performance, and her dancing, blossom in a pleasant, spirited way....Thomas projects a potently attractive self-confidence..."Variety "...SAVE THE LAST DANCE teaches that you should never give up your dreams and that love is all you need..."Entertainment Weekly "...Well-crafted and smoothly paced, SAVE THE LAST DANCE benefits most strongly from its predominately youthful cast....Lawson and the most appealing Washington make impressions as vivid as those of Stiles and Thomas..."Los Angeles Times "...The development is intelligent, the characters are more complicated than we expect and the ending doesn't tie everything up in a predictable way....[Stiles is] one of the most talented of the emerging generation of actresses..."Chicago Sun-Times36.2655
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[With] a powerhouse turn from Woody Harrelson in the title role."Total Film "THE WALKER subordinates its murder mystery to the slow revelation of the protagonist's psychology and works most poignantly as a study of the fragile means by which an isolated underachiever keeps himself together."Film Comment 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Harrelson] reveals surprising new depths in this classy, intelligent thriller."Uncut 3 stars out of 5 -- "Parallels with Schrader's body of work, notably AMERICAN GIGOLO, add appeal to a pleasing intrigue and character trajectory strewn with bon mots..."Empire "The real richness of the film lies not just in Harrelson's moving, finely judged performance but in the caustic satire at the expense of the power elite."Sight and Sound4.594187
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"...Cruise gives his deftest performance yet....Gooding turns in a ferocious, star-making turn..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance....Smartly written and boasting a sensational cast, Cameron Crowe's shrewdly observed third feature also gives Tom Cruise one of his very best roles..." Variety "...A heartwarmer....The film is often a delight, especially when Cruise and Zellweger are together on the screen..." Chicago Sun-Times "...It can still clearly melt the hardest of hearts..." Total Film "A key twist on The Cruise Grin....[He] loses the lot, learns life lessons and wins it back again." Total Film4.478663
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"...Cruise gives his deftest performance yet....Gooding turns in a ferocious, star-making turn..." -- Rating: A- Entertainment Weekly "An exceptionally tasty contempo comedic romance....Smartly written and boasting a sensational cast, Cameron Crowe's shrewdly observed third feature also gives Tom Cruise one of his very best roles..." Variety "...A heartwarmer....The film is often a delight, especially when Cruise and Zellweger are together on the screen..." Chicago Sun-Times "...It can still clearly melt the hardest of hearts..." Total Film "A key twist on The Cruise Grin....[He] loses the lot, learns life lessons and wins it back again." Total Film4.478663
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The Wire (p.60) - "[T]he blues is at the heart of it all....In essence, these elemental ballads -- full of allusions to storms, roads and dreams -- conjure a dark, mythic Americana where everyone is searching for redemption."Record Collector (magazine) (p.96) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Throughout, Suzanne Langille incants like a mythologising banshee, placating unseen spectres in a series of feral howls/moans equal parts Patti Smith and Charalambides' Christina Carter."0.2636057
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Entertainment Weekly (3/20/98, p.93) - "If any label can claim to represent the best of black pop from the late '40s through the '70s, it's Ahmet Ertegun's Atlantic. Here, as part of the label's 50th anniversary, [is part of a series] stuffed with nothing but high points..." - Rating: B+0.1469845
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Mojo (Publisher) (12/99, p.130) - "A sweaty hour an a quarter in the vaults of Stax and Atlantic....the remastering and packaging are all done in the best possible taste..."0.1307201
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BOOK REVIEWS COMING SOON!!!!0.1295186
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"[T]he beauty of BAADASSSSS! is the way Mario Van Peebles salutes his father's truth by coaxing it into legend." Entertainment Weekly "It's a funny, plausible account of the daily disasters, financial shortfalls and hastily improvised solutions that shape most independent films."New York Times "[A]n entertaining movie....[I]t's a blisteringly paced look at filmmaking on the fringes."USA Today "Mario Van Peebles has done his parent proud and in the process has made his most accomplished film to date....Terrific fun."Los Angeles Times "The story itself is remarkable and Mario presents it with a vivid and textured mix of dramatic interpretation and documentary material..." Sight and Sound "A magnificent, insightful film about film-making, it deserves to be ranked among the best of the genre..." Uncut0.1102384
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Record Collector (magazine) (p.98) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[S]ome of the best blues you've possibly never heard before will be here....[With] examples of a regional sound that speaks with unlimited moods and voices."Uncut (magazine) (p.80) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "Blind Willie Johnson delivers the fire and brimstone, Oscar 'Lone Wolf' Woods tells tales of evil-hearted women..."0.09448296
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Down Beat (May 2002, p.58) - 3.5 out of 5 stars - "...[The disc] mirrors each image with a corresponding music track....an excellent period overview and is quite moving..."0.09186532
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