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Entertainment Weekly (5/30/97, p.72) - "...seems designed to establish the Ace/Squeeze/Mike and the Mechanics vet as a sort of Michael Bolton for people with taste. And it largely succeeds...all showcasing Carrack's effortlessly soulful vocals." - Rating: BQ (9/00, p.120) - 3 stars out of 5 - "...Excellent car stereo fodder for those who like his work with Mike & The Mechanics: a collection of well-executed...love songs..."11.09005

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Billboard (p.32) - "The result is a sound that fits firmly in the rock mainstream without losing a club friendly underpinning that makes it a bit more hip than standard issue dance-rock."10.07986

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CMJ (3/15/04, p.20) - "The post-bop tunes are strong enough - all Lindner originals, some recorded before - but the band isn't tied down by them, venturing off into new territory and infusing them with jolts of adrenaline.""9.97694

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Rolling Stone (5/11/00, p.131) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...A sober, brutally visceral experience....This is one ball of aggression that hangs together, thanks to the band's smarts and funk. Just call XTRMNTR the BATTLE OF LONDON."Entertainment Weekly (5/19/00, p.74) - "...Mixes thunderous big beats and red-alert synth squalls into a loose concept album that rails against political oppression and other evils....the U.K.'s most adventurous pop band-turned-white-noise addicts." - Rating: B+Q (7/01, p.90) - Included in Q's "50 Heaviest Albums of All Time".Q (1/01, p.93) - Included in Q's "50 Best Albums of 2000".Q (3/00, p.110) - 4 stars out of 5 - "...a darkly uncompromising and often difficult record: uneasy, sinister and, in layman's terms, a bloody racket....anyone with the first notion about rock'n'roll will catch thye whiff authentic mayhem here....as avant-garde as the mainstream gets..."Alternative Press (11/00, p.144) - Included in AP's "10 Essential Political-Revolution Albums"Alternative Press (5/00, p.75) - 4 out of 5 - "...a Baskin-Robbins shop that makes 31 flavors of amphetamine sulfate instead of ice cream: each flavor is totally wired and totally tasty..."Magnet (1-2/01, p.45) - Included in Magnet's "20 Best Albums of 2000" - "...Hypnotic, frenzied songs...reinvigorate tired pop standards and introduce a new world order..."The Wire (1/01, p.34) - Included in Wire's "50 Records Of The Year".CMJ (1/08/01, p.17) - Included in CMJ's "Best of the Year" for 2000.CMJ (5/00, p.67) - "...They've ratcheted up the intensity quite a bit this time around....loud, kinetic bass and keyboards, a menacing mix of abrasive squeals, block-rockin' beats and post-'Blue Monday' electropop..."Mojo (Publisher) (p.59) - Ranked #65 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[A] harsh marriage of pounding electro and speaker-blowing punk rock..."Mojo (Publisher) (2/00, p.87) - "...a continuation of that sub-basement tapes attitude, frayed memories of revolutionary music...crafted into a rare kind of discordant anti-pop malevolence....Brutal, aggressive [and] subterranean..."NME (Magazine) (12/30/00, p.77) - Rated #2 in NME's "Top 50 Albums Of The Year [2000]".NME (Magazine) (2/14/00, p.44) - "...obligatory, heavy, urban and set out to take the strain of a world at war with itself. Their finest music since SCREAMADELICA set an early high-water mark, and in dealable quantities, there was even jazz, too. Trrfc."9.97694

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Rolling Stone (5/13/99, pp.79-80) - Included in Rolling Stone's "Essential Recordings of the 90's."Rolling Stone (3/9/95, p.66) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...Assertive rhythms and quirky production save Portishead from languishing in any coy retro groove. Instead they manage yet another--very smart--rebirth of cool..."Spin (p.134) - "[They] combined odd sample noises and instruments with haunted vocals....A perfect pop album."Spin (9/99, p.140) - Ranked #42 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."Spin (3/03, p.118) - "...Turntable wicky-wicky, film-noir theremin, hammer dulcimers, and the tearful vocals of Beth Gibbons...Entertainment Weekly (11/18/94, p.108) - "...mixes cocktail keyboards, spaghetti-western guitars, eerie tape loops, and dub-wise rhythms into what could be called `acid cabaret'....as musically compelling as it is emotionally chilling..." - Rating: A-Q (12/99, p.82) - Included in Q Magazine's "90 Best Albums Of The 1990s."Q (6/00, p.66) - Ranked #61 in Q's "100 Greatest British Albums"Q (10/94, p.125) - 4 Stars - Excellent - "...perhaps this year's most stunning debut album..."Alternative Press (7/95, p.116) - "...On their debut, instrumental wunderkid Geoff Barrow and torch vocalist Beth Gibbons draw on grooves from Isaac Hayes to the present to create dark, dense tracks that inspire gentle rocking instead of frantic pumping..."Village Voice (2/28/95) - Ranked #14 in the Village Voice's 1994 Pazz & Jop Critics Poll.Mojo (Publisher) (p.62) - Ranked #35 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "[S]loping beats, inventive samples and freaky melodies create an unsettling emotional topography."Mojo (Publisher) (1/95, p.50) - Included in Mojo's "25 Best Albums of 1994" - "...A stunning, stylish first album."New York Times (Publisher) (1/5/95, p.C15) - Included on Neil Strauss' list of the Top 10 Albums Of '94 - "...The eeriest and most original dance-music album of the year."NME (Magazine) (8/12/00, p.29) - Ranked #29 in The NME "Top 30 Heartbreak Albums" - "...An easily accessible, but still richly emotional new sound for the beginning of the '90s."NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #6 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'9.97694

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Rolling Stone (3/14/02, p.71) - 3 out of 5 stars - "...she's got severely coquettish charm....[her] most discotronic disc, is fast, full of old-fashioned hooks and newfangled techno hiccups....Entertainment Weekly (3/1/02, p.80) - "Disco lives! [Kylie] coos her way through...retro-dance smash..." - Rating: B+9.97694

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Rolling Stone (4/20/95, p.80) - 3.5 Stars - Very Good - "...A soundtrack for those British rave hordes who dodge Tory truncheons, MUSIC FOR THE JILTED GENERATION thrills initiates with a political buzz Americans might miss. But the Prodigy's hard-core techno generates universal dance fever....Truly trippy..."Spin (9/99, p.150) - Ranked #60 in Spin Magazine's "90 Greatest Albums of the '90s."Alternative Press (4/95, p.84) - "...JILTED GENERATION throws much darker shapes than its predecessor. Moreover, it slams harder and rawer and covers more ground--21st century hip hop, Latin funk, horror trance, Vapourspace-like ambient--in addition to their usual crowd-pleasing, hi-NRG tekno. Thumbs up for the use of guitar and flute, too..."Option (7-8/95, pp.129-131) - "...the Prodigy jolts an industrial sensibility with techno drive and then rides the seemingly endless grooves until we're numb...for intensely pumping dance music, this album has more life than most..."Q (Magazine) (p.117) - 4 stars out of 5 -- "Inspired by Rage Against The Machine, Dr. Dre and European techno, Howlett set out to make everything as hard and heavy as possible....Even now, the whole album sounds amazing: lean, hard and vicious."Mojo (Publisher) (p.56) - Ranked #83 in Mojo's "100 Modern Classics" -- "One-man Bomb Squad Liam Howlett was a breakbeat maker without peer."NME (Magazine) (12/24/94, p.22) - Ranked #9 in NME's list of the `Top 50 Albums Of 1994.'Record Collector (magazine) (p.83) - 5 stars out of 5 -- "Under the booming breakbeats, thrash guitars and inflammatory soundbites Howlett's,supernova's upernova talent was on overdrive..."9.622796

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Entertainment Weekly (p.68) - "Charles Kelley's and Hillary Scott's voices intertwine with a piercing white-soul lilt that feels uniquely theirs." -- Grade: B+9.05113

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NME (Magazine) (11/17/01, p.48) - 7 out of 10 - "...Another tidy junglist-modernist mix album..."8.473706

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Rolling Stone (1/23/97, pp.62-63) - 3.5 Stars (out of 5) - "...combining jolting beats, pristine melodic fragments and random noises into elegant--if at times unnerving--futuristic pop....manipulates his infinite palette of tweaked synth tones like a classical composer arranges a string section..."Spin (2/97, p.88) - 7 (out of 10) - "...in bringing dreaded Meaning to a genre born to deny it, James again removes all bets on what DJ music might become....This is the touching sound of another shut-in boy genius disappearing down his own ear canals in an effort to connect with the world..."Entertainment Weekly (1/31/97, p.58) - "...his quirkiest, most personal work....If machines could joke or cry, this is how they would sound."- Rating: A-NME (Magazine) (12/21-28/96, pp.66-67) - Ranked #20 in NME's 1996 critic's poll.8.063885

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Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.105) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...The sauciest Mick, the broodiest Keith, the prettiest Brian, the funkiest Bill and Charlie - now and forever Charlie..."Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.105) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...The sauciest Mick, the broodiest Keith, the prettiest Brian, the funkiest Bill and Charlie - now and forever Charlie..."Entertainment Weekly (9/20/02, p.104) - "...[While] available in both US and UK versions, opt for the Brit take, which includes extras like the biting parental put-down 'Mother's Little Helper'..." - Rating: A-NME (Magazine) (7/8/95, p.46) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a pivotal Stones album, with Brian Jones continuing to progress as a musician. `Under My Thumb' is perhaps the group's most perfect pop song to date, `Stupid Girl' hints at the sleazy rockers ahead..."NME (Magazine) (7/8/95, p.46) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a pivotal Stones album, with Brian Jones continuing to progress as a musician. `Under My Thumb' is perhaps the group's most perfect pop song to date, `Stupid Girl' hints at the sleazy rockers ahead..."7.181092

Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.105) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...The sauciest Mick, the broodiest Keith, the prettiest Brian, the funkiest Bill and Charlie - now and forever Charlie..."Rolling Stone (4/11/02, p.105) - Ranked #2 in Rolling Stone's "50 Coolest Records" - "...The sauciest Mick, the broodiest Keith, the prettiest Brian, the funkiest Bill and Charlie - now and forever Charlie..."Entertainment Weekly (9/20/02, p.104) - "...[While] available in both US and UK versions, opt for the Brit take, which includes extras like the biting parental put-down 'Mother's Little Helper'..." - Rating: A-NME (Magazine) (7/8/95, p.46) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a pivotal Stones album, with Brian Jones continuing to progress as a musician. `Under My Thumb' is perhaps the group's most perfect pop song to date, `Stupid Girl' hints at the sleazy rockers ahead..."NME (Magazine) (7/8/95, p.46) - 7 (out of 10) - "...a pivotal Stones album, with Brian Jones continuing to progress as a musician. `Under My Thumb' is perhaps the group's most perfect pop song to date, `Stupid Girl' hints at the sleazy rockers ahead..."7.181092

3 stars out of 5 -- "[T]here's a very funny turn by Christopher Lloyd, who does piranha risk assessment for the sheriff in his best Doc BACK TO THE FUTURE style."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Ruthless and ridiculous, Aja's horror comedy has a purity of vision."Box Office "The movie should have been called JAWS GONE WILD....This MTV apocalypse delivers the goods." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly "[A] pitch-perfect, guilty-pleasure serving of late-summer schlock that handily nails the tongue-in-cheek spirit of the Roger Corman original."Hollywood Reporter "[S]hamelessly entertaining....Aja tips his hat to Steven Spielberg and then it's off to the low-rent races."Rolling Stone "Ah, the pleasures of unapologetic, good-natured exploitation....Aja gets the tone just right..."Movieline7.126386

"[T]he critters here are real, with only CGI-enhanced facial expressions....Young kids will laugh..."Sight and Sound7.126386

The film provides genuine jumps....The ride is enjoyable, and there is enough camp, warmth and chills to make this a family film.Hollywood Reporter 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE HOLE is a horror that's done its homework, paying dues to a host of classics. It's also a reminder that tales of terror can be bloody good fun too..."Total Film7.126386

"The film enjoys an actual plot....With its plot and lead performance, THE COLLECTOR is, at least, an unusual specimen."Los Angeles Times "THE COLLECTOR is a surprisingly stylish and confident high-concept thriller..."Variety7.126386

4 stars out of 5 -- "Bridges is sensational again, here in a groundbreaking performance. This reboot is blockbuster entertainment..."Box Office "LEGACY is beautifully constructed. The ribbons of light that trail the Lightcycles as they race across the grid are mesmerizing, with the overall 3-D effect something of an ethereal stunner..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "[The film] hits the ground running, in a 3-D sound and light show that plays the eyes and ears..."Chicago Sun-Times "It's a sleeker, sharper, far more visually intoxicating machine dream of a movie, with a darkly liquid electronic texture of its own." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly 3 stars out of 4 -- "The special effects are award-caliber in this sequel to the 1982 TRON, the pioneering cult film in computer technology."Rolling Stone "[A] sleek-looking reboot. It's all about the whiz-bang special effects and the return of Jeff Bridges -- always the coolest guy in any space, cyber or otherwise."USA Today 3 stars out of 5 -- "This is a movie of astonishing high-end gloss, fused to a pounding Daft Punk soundtrack, populated with sleek sirens and chiseled hunks, boasting electroluminescent landscapes..."Empire 3 stars out of 5 -- "This is an architect's mind at work -- Kosinski's background -- and he proves himself a highly imaginative level designer....Daft Punk's score paints its own sombre, synthy soundscapes..."Total Film7.126386

"[A]n amusing, lightfooted caper about a team of aging CIA veterans rudely forced out of retirement."Variety "Mirren is most at ease in her role, handling her lines with aplomb and firing automatic weapons like she means it."Los Angeles Times "[W]hat keeps the movie going is the gameness of the cast, some of whom strike a perfect balance between self-consciousness and credulity."Hollywood Reporter "RED mixes high and low with a mad chemist's abandon....RED is given a hyper- and yet imaginatively stylized treatment by director Robert Schwentke..."Movieline "[T]his is a capable, experienced cast with extensive acting chops..." -- Grade: B-A.V. Club "Ms. Parker is a graceful comedienne, and it's no news that Mr. Willis is a past master of delicate -- yes, delicate -- self-irony, so their characters generate welcome fizz in the course of a fraught relationship."Wall Street Journal 3 stars out of 5 -- "Willis and Parker make an appealing couple, the latter's neurotic energy fueling possibly the best onscreen partnership Willis has had since Moonlighting."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "Over 20 years since DIE HARD, Bruce Willis is still playing that guy -- sardonic, wisecracking, good at killing -- and it works a treat."Empire "[I]t is Helen Mirren, as the demure Victoria Winslow, who is the real casting coup."Sight and Sound7.126386

"FROZEN delivers enough thrills and gory chills to satisfy the horror film crowd..."Hollywood Reporter "A minimalist setup delivers maximum fright in FROZEN, a nifty little chiller that balances its cold terrain with an unexpectedly warm heart."New York Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "Adam Green's sparse drama about three college kids abandoned in a blistering ski lift is a chillingly real look at spur-of-the-moment survival instincts..."Box Office 3 stars out of 5 -- "Green's raw, no-CG approach ensures you really feel the frostbite."Total Film7.126386

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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Ryan Reynolds has limited space to work in, and body language more or less preordained by the coffin, but he makes the character convincing..."Chicago Sun-Times "Chris Sparling's script is cleverly constructed....Reynolds is terrific..." -- Grade: BA.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[T]hose drawn to unusual, unflinching feats of filmmaking and rare acting turns as well as sustained suspense will be captivated by BURIED."USA Today "[G]ripping....This is shrewdly considered and edited genre work, spiced -- bitterly -- with the right variety of complication."Los Angeles Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The] film is electrifying stuff, and its refusal to provide a cop-out ending is commendable."Uncut "[I]t's a fascinating, gripping exercise in filmmaking, and in a performance vibrating with primal fear and unspeakable frustration, Reynolds holds you captive from start to finish." -- Grade: A-Entertainment Weekly7.126386