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"...An entertaining and effective expansion of the television series..." New York Times "...Kids will love it....The movie is sure to appeal to fans of the show..." USA Today "...Duff is a true beauty with a dazzling smile..." Chicago Sun-Times "...The Canadian Gelman is entirely convincing as a Latin teeny-bopper heartthrob..." Variety "...Duff is charming..." Entertainment Weekly "...[Duff] does have a starlike charm..."Rolling Stone "...A refreshingly old-fashioned, character-driven, feelgood romance..." Sight and Sound7.689541
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"...Director Johnathan Liebesman ratchets up the tension and delivers unexpected shocks..."Total Film "...An efficient little horror movie that doesn't waste its time getting down to business..."New York Times6.300959
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"Its strongest element is the austere majesty of the cinematography..."New York Times "Brosnan has never looked this spooked. He gets you on his side....[Neeson] gives Carver hints of a psycho drive beneath his righteous scowl. He and Brosnan are supremely well-matched foils..." -- Grade: B-Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "At times on par with the best Clint Eastwood horse operas....The acting and production values are first class throughout."Ultimate DVD 3 stars out of 5 -- "[W]ell cast: no one does hollowed-out regret quite like Neeson....[A] sincere, straightforward picture..."Total Film "Pierce Brosnan, continuing the career shift towards quirky, character roles marked by THE MATADOR, is wily and engaging as Gideon..."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "Von Ancken conjures something of the mythic smack of UNFORGIVEN, aided immeasurably by John Toll's cinematography."Uncut6.256779
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"[A] compelling snapshot of the Dead at that point in their career."Uncut6.196116
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"Eschewing feel-good bromides in favor of messy authenticity, THE BLACK BALLOON is a tough-minded coming-of-age drama....Filmmaker Elissa Down has drawn terrifically natural performances from her cast..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "THE BLACK BALLOON establishes this family with a delicate mixture of tenderness and pain....Luke Ford's performance as Charlie is a convincing tour de force..."Chicago Sun-Times "[S]weetly eccentric....What at first seems like a burden -- the stigma of difference -- proves to be filled with an uplifting lesson: We're all alone together."Washington Post6.140427
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"...The film remains a bruising attack on the sexual double standard..."USA Today "...An enormously popular movie....[With] one of cinema's most famous scenes..."USA Today5.799908
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"DEAD MAN DOWN benefits from potent visuals and a compelling international cast that also includes lead Colin Farrell, Terrence Howard and Isabelle Huppert."Hollywood Reporter 3 stars out of 5 -- "The hazy tech-noir gloom of the first half is hypnotic, with Rapace's crazy-eyed Beatrice adding a layer of uncanniness rarely seen in mainstream thrillers."Total Film 3 stars out of 5 -- "A pleasingly intricate double revenge plot anchored by excellent acting, with a terrific burst of action at the climax."Empire5.730064
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"ICE AGE: THE MELTDOWN blithely looks on the bright side of life, amassing a screen full of vultures to sing and dance 'Food Glorious Food' and daring us not to get happy." -- Grade: B+ Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]his sequel confidently juggles its humorous elements with well-handled action beats..." Total Film "With its appealing combination of humor and endearing characters -- many of whom are back from the first film -- it is at least as good as the original ICE AGE, and possibly better."USA Today "Overall, this is the best CGI picture since Pixar's THE INCREDIBLES..." Sight and Sound "[The] colors are beautifully rendered and well balanced, with very good contrast."Widescreen Review5.628897
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"[T]here are sufficient pratfalls and Miley/Hannah quick-changes to satisfy the fans, while Cyrus retains that natural, unforced likability that made her a star in the first place."Hollywood Reporter "Propelled by the younger Cyrus' charisma and undeniable talent....[A] goofily endearing romp that might even lasso a few new fans..."Variety The key to star Miley Cyrus appeal is that shes equal parts pop star and spunky down-home girl.USA Today [T]he film allows Cyrus to deliver a solid ingenue performance, shimmering where she needs to shimmer, sassing where she needs to sass and, most important, continuing to offer audiences the image of a lovely but still recognizable real girl onto whom they can project their own dreams.Los Angeles Times "If you are a big fan of country music, you will enjoy it for the Taylor Swift, Rascal Flatts, Billy Ray Cyrus and of course, Miley Cyrus performances."Premiere "Miley Cyrus mixes it up here with something that sounds like real country....The singer-actress has screen presence to spare and a nice, rich voice."Washington Post5.447797
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"Thanks to the stars' charisma, this candy-coated TV-movie take on a hot topic goes down easy." -- Grade: BEntertainment Weekly5.423755
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"Cleverly entwining Australia's colonial history with the Western's mythic structure of betrayal and revenge....Huston in particular is chillingly convincing." Sight and Sound 5 stars out of 5 -- "The film is shot by Benoit Delhomme, who captures the cruel beauty of the Outback, while the score is a mixture of traditional folk and atmospheric instrumentals. The acting is exceptional..." Uncut "There is something heavy and monumental about the way Mr. Huston takes up film space, which makes a nice counterpart to the otherworldly Mr. Pearce....Both actors are memorable..." New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] feels startlingly fresh and original....THE PROPOSITION is a startling parable about man's savagery to man." Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Cave and Hillcoat add a new flavour to the oldest genre....A violent, yet lyrical frontier tale."Ultimate DVD 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] movie of startling visuals....[The images] speak potently and startlingly for themselves."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[T]he movie is a dazzle of mood, style, and mythologized history."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's hard to pick a standout performance from the extraordinary ensemble cast....[With] a premise as morally ambiguous as most of the characters that populate the film..."Empire5.1771
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"...The movie soars when the characters lighten up. The verbal pas de deux between Spike and his female nemesis is as challenging as their hand-to-hand combat..."Chicago Sun-Times "...[The] full-speed animation is potent....[The] range of moods expressed by drawing and colors fill the eye..."Variety "...This is a cool movie..."Box Office "...COWBOY BEBOP: THE MOVIE demonstrates how exciting and vital contemporary animated filmmaking is in Japan....The story unfolds with a sinister grace that any live-action director might envy..."Los Angeles Times "...[With] superbly detailed backgrounds..."Total Film "...COWBOY BEBOP succeeds as a stylish, enjoyable blend of genres and formats..."Sight and Sound4.995596
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"...Intensely sharp-witted....The anomalous proliferation of scenic beauty gives Mr. Nolan irony to play with, and he uses it spectacularly..."New York Times "...[INSOMNIA] has a marvelous sense of place....Al Pacino bares the soul of this agonized tragic figure; it's one of his most memorable performances..." Movieline's Hollywood Life "...Thoughtful, gripping and steeped in action....It's taut, tense and terrific..." Rolling Stone "...Nolan once again displays an unmistakable visual confidence and a feeling for bravura moments..." Los Angeles Times "...INSOMNIA is a gripping, highly dramatic thriller that more than confirms the distinctive talent of young Brit helmer Christopher Nolan..." Variety "...A superior version of an already very good film....[With] spectacular overhead cinematography..." Box Office "...Nolan her proves his assurance in handling a much bigger picture in every respect..." Sight and Sound "...Highly involving....[Nolan's] expanding talent is undeniable..."Total Film "A completely engrossing thriller that proved MEMENTO wasn't a fluke for director Christopher Nolan....[The actors] are at the top of their game..."Premiere4.915165
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3.5 stars out of 4 -- "Lumet fuses dark wit, suspense and tragedy into a time-shifting movie that vibrates with energy. All the actors are first-rate..."Rolling Stone "Lumet energizes the material by continually shifting the audience's perspective on the characters....Hoffman gives a sharply etched performance."Box Office "[Lumet] works with vigor and cunning and wide-awake elegance of a virtuoso half his age....Lumet's talent is, in every sense, timeless." -- Grade: AEntertainment Weekly "A tense anti-caper...that's part thriller and part Greek tragedy....In it, Lumet breaks down the moral cause-and-effect process..."Los Angeles Times Ranked #8 in Rolling Stone's "10 Best Movies Of 2007" -- "Lumet takes a first-rate script by Kelly Masterson and keeps it popping."Rolling Stone 4 stars out of 5 -- "[W]hat is impressive is its youth, energy, and its willingness to play games with storytelling..."Uncut 4 stars out of 5 -- "[Lumet is] doing some of his best work, as this bleak, almost Shakespearean tragedy conclusively proves."Empire "Hoffman masterfully essays the elder brother's manipulative string-pulling..."Sight and Sound4.871927
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"...Cute, rambunctious....[A] clever mix of live action, highlighted by the unequaled skills of basketball superstar Michael Jordan..."Variety "...Handsome, ingenious....Director Joe Pytka brings maximum impact and pace to every moment..."Los Angeles Times "...SPACE JAM is a happy marriage of good ideas -- three films for the price of one..."Chicago Sun-Times4.824632
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"[The directors] keep the blood and the laughs gushing....This blast of fright and fun best catches the spirit of George Romero..." Rolling Stone "[With] genuinely witty slapstick....A delight." Uncut "[T]he filmmakers, clearly fans of the genre, have got the zom and the com parts down cold..." Entertainment Weekly "[The film] yields ironic dramatic dividends."New York Times "SHAUN has all the markings of a labor of love. It's a grisly but sweet ode to friendship, love and the George Romero zombie trilogy."Los Angeles Times "There are some funny scenes, particularly as the film's lead actors, a pair of Everyguys, fight off hordes of creepy flesh-eaters in creative ways and with unusual implements."USA Today "The intense hilarity here is best enjoyed with a friend..." Premiere4.815868
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"Cleverly entwining Australia's colonial history with the Western's mythic structure of betrayal and revenge....Huston in particular is chillingly convincing." Sight and Sound 5 stars out of 5 -- "The film is shot by Benoit Delhomme, who captures the cruel beauty of the Outback, while the score is a mixture of traditional folk and atmospheric instrumentals. The acting is exceptional..." Uncut "There is something heavy and monumental about the way Mr. Huston takes up film space, which makes a nice counterpart to the otherworldly Mr. Pearce....Both actors are memorable..." New York Times 4 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] feels startlingly fresh and original....THE PROPOSITION is a startling parable about man's savagery to man." Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Cave and Hillcoat add a new flavour to the oldest genre....A violent, yet lyrical frontier tale."Ultimate DVD 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "[A] movie of startling visuals....[The images] speak potently and startlingly for themselves."Rolling Stone Included in Entertainment Weekly's "Top 10 Films Of The Year" -- "[T]he movie is a dazzle of mood, style, and mythologized history."Entertainment Weekly 4 stars out of 5 -- "It's hard to pick a standout performance from the extraordinary ensemble cast....[With] a premise as morally ambiguous as most of the characters that populate the film..."Empire4.780787
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Included in the New York Times "10 BEST FILMS OF 1986"New York Times "LAW is Jarmusch's most satisfying work, using dry humor, great music, and especially the black-and-white cinematography..."Premiere "...A victory of form over content..."Sight and Sound "...Jarmusch is an American original....[DOWN BY LAW is] an unqualified delight..."New York Times "...An inkily comic dream of a movie....Few contemporary directors use unoccupied space and wordless glances with the comic wallop of Jarmusch; he's perfected a kind of formalist shaggy-dog style utterly his own..."Los Angeles Times4.780743
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"[I]t's a very funny movie....Full of the anarchic, generous, good-natured humor that is the show's enduring signature."New York Times 3.5 stars out of 5 -- "If you like the TV show, you're going to love the movie....The laughs come fast and furiously on the big screen."USA Today 4 stars out of 5 -- "THE SIMPSONS MOVIE honours the slickness, wit and ingenuity of Matt Groenig's creating with aplomb....A triumph..."Total Film "[T]he creative team have upped their game considerably for this special outing....This is certainly the funniest American animated movie since the SOUTH PARK film."Sight and Sound 4 stars out of 5 -- "[T]he team of writers masterfully avoids moralizing and instead delivers a raft of social satirical digs..."Ultimate DVD4.742633
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"[With] beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else..."Wall Street Journal "[With] dazzling visuals, dream-like inventiveness and lush romanticism."Los Angeles Times "[A] Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls...[with] visual imagination to spare..."Hollywood Reporter4.607565
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"[With] beautifully burnished images that you've never quite seen anywhere else..."Wall Street Journal "[With] dazzling visuals, dream-like inventiveness and lush romanticism."Los Angeles Times "[A] Romeo and Juliet-style romance between lovers from twin planets with opposite gravitational pulls...[with] visual imagination to spare..."Hollywood Reporter4.607565
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"Say what you will about Eliot Spitzer, he's a marvelous subject for a documentary, and Alex Gibney has made a film worthy of him..."Wall Street Journal "Say what you will about Eliot Spitzer, he's a marvelous subject for a documentary, and Alex Gibney has made a film worthy of him..."Wall Street Journal "While its full title suggest that CLIENT 9 is about the highs and lows in one powerful man's life, the movie is more rightly an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level."New York Times "While its full title suggest that CLIENT 9 is about the highs and lows in one powerful man's life, the movie is more rightly an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level."New York Times "[T]he film rescues the story from tabloid hell, and asks for a saner assessment of a deeply flawed man." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[T]he film rescues the story from tabloid hell, and asks for a saner assessment of a deeply flawed man." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[T]he proliferation of Alex Gibney films alone makes a strong argument for the idea that investigative documentaries are picking up the slack left by the decline of long-form magazine journalism."Movieline "[T]he proliferation of Alex Gibney films alone makes a strong argument for the idea that investigative documentaries are picking up the slack left by the decline of long-form magazine journalism."Movieline "Alex Gibney has expertly used his own set of skills to deliver a taut and compelling investigation of that scandal and what led to it."Los Angeles Times "Alex Gibney has expertly used his own set of skills to deliver a taut and compelling investigation of that scandal and what led to it."Los Angeles Times "While its full title suggest that CLIENT 9 is about the highs and lows in one powerful man's life, the movie is more rightly an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level."New York Times "While its full title suggest that CLIENT 9 is about the highs and lows in one powerful man's life, the movie is more rightly an anatomy of political gamesmanship at a high level."New York Times "[T]he film rescues the story from tabloid hell, and asks for a saner assessment of a deeply flawed man." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[T]he film rescues the story from tabloid hell, and asks for a saner assessment of a deeply flawed man." -- Grade: BA.V. Club "[T]he proliferation of Alex Gibney films alone makes a strong argument for the idea that investigative documentaries are picking up the slack left by the decline of long-form magazine journalism."Movieline "[T]he proliferation of Alex Gibney films alone makes a strong argument for the idea that investigative documentaries are picking up the slack left by the decline of long-form magazine journalism."Movieline "Say what you will about Eliot Spitzer, he's a marvelous subject for a documentary, and Alex Gibney has made a film worthy of him..."Wall Street Journal "Say what you will about Eliot Spitzer, he's a marvelous subject for a documentary, and Alex Gibney has made a film worthy of him..."Wall Street Journal "Alex Gibney has expertly used his own set of skills to deliver a taut and compelling investigation of that scandal and what led to it."Los Angeles Times "Alex Gibney has expertly used his own set of skills to deliver a taut and compelling investigation of that scandal and what led to it."Los Angeles Times4.556564
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"Wirkola does a good job of setting up the elemental story....The characters are well distinguished, the actors are appealing, and the cinematography by Matt Weston makes the most of the eerie snowbound setting."Hollywood Reporter "With Nazis literally popping up out of the snow, Wirkola plays a game of fascist whack-a-mole where ravenous midnight audiences are bound to feel like winners."A.V. Club "Chomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in DEAD SNOW, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick..."New York Times "[A] sufficiently nightmarish splatter flick....Any horror movie with the moxie to play Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' during a zombie attack can't be all bad."Los Angeles Times "[A] comedy, but played absolutely seriously by sincere, earnest young actors....The movie is pretty funny."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "A blackly comic, terrifically violent riff on the Evil Dead template..."Total Film4.484512
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"Wirkola does a good job of setting up the elemental story....The characters are well distinguished, the actors are appealing, and the cinematography by Matt Weston makes the most of the eerie snowbound setting."Hollywood Reporter "With Nazis literally popping up out of the snow, Wirkola plays a game of fascist whack-a-mole where ravenous midnight audiences are bound to feel like winners."A.V. Club "Chomp-chomp, zip-zip go the Nazi zombies in DEAD SNOW, a self-consciously outlandish horror flick..."New York Times "[A] sufficiently nightmarish splatter flick....Any horror movie with the moxie to play Tchaikovsky's 'Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy' during a zombie attack can't be all bad."Los Angeles Times "[A] comedy, but played absolutely seriously by sincere, earnest young actors....The movie is pretty funny."Chicago Sun-Times 3 stars out of 5 -- "A blackly comic, terrifically violent riff on the Evil Dead template..."Total Film4.484511
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"[P]art of what makes THE DEAD so refreshing is its unabashed classicism, as admen brothers Howard and Jonathan Ford take their feature right back to the old school of George A. Romero."Sight and Sound4.481689
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"...Striking black-and-white camera work..."Rolling Stone "...DEAD MAN looks beautiful....Neil Young's soundtrack has many moments of great beauty..."Sight and Sound "...A piquant humor and eccentric mood that brand it with the mark of one of America's most distinctive indie filmmakers..."Variety "...Sensational....The movie beautifully sustains a vision of the West as wild in the most primal and scary sense of the word..."New York Times "...Hilarious, silly, facetious, violent, mystical....DEAD MAN is finally a poignant lament for the cursed coming of the white man to the West..."Los Angeles Times4.477091
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"...A genuine sense of consolation....Profoundly moving....Sarandon has never been better...and Penn gives by far his finest performance to date..."Sight and Sound Ranked #5 in Entertainment Weekly's "10 Best Movies of 1995"Entertainment Weekly "...Prodigious performances in an unsparing movie....Acting doesn't get much better than this..."Rolling Stone "...[Breaks] into a terrain that can only be described as spiritual. DEAD MAN WALKING is a bold, searching, wrenching experience..." -- Rating: AEntertainment Weekly "...A highly intriguing drama....An intimate chamber piece for two, superbly acted by Susan Sarandon and Sean Penn....[A] mature, well-crafted movie..."Variety "[A]n emotionally complex drama about capital punishment."USA Today "...[A] moving portrait....Refreshingly de-exoticized..."Premiere4.468133
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"...Tautly directed....Well photographed..." USA Today "...An undeniably effective thriller....[Kidman is] impressive..." -- Rating: B Entertainment Weekly "...A spare, smart, seductive piece of real movie making....[With] a superlative cast and enough tension to keep us all hyperventilating for hours..."Los Angeles Times4.453703
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"...Mr. Mangold handles the revelations and reversals of Michael Cooney's script with nerve-racking aplomb. There are horror-film conventions -- eerie sounds, slow camera movements, half-open doors and carefully arranged shadows -- that retain their effectiveness..."New York Times "...John Cusack is convincing....With moments of mind-bending creepiness..."USA Today "...Delighting in his own considerable cleverness and cineast's knowledge of movie history, Mangold shuffles the elements like a three-card-monte pro..." Entertainment Weekly "...A snappily executed little thriller..." Variety "...With a third act that causes us to rethink everything that has gone before. Ingenious, how simple and yet how devious the solution is..." Chicago Sun-Times "...Sleek and clever....IDENTITY is fine escapist fare with a saving sense of humor..." Los Angeles Times "...Stylish....A clever twist on the old strangers-stranded-in-scary motel plot..." Total Film 4 stars out of 5 -- "Mangold's noir thriller plays like Agatha Christie meets Alfred Hitchcock....A thriller that satisfies the grey matter, IDENTITY deserves to be seen."Ultimate DVD4.443463
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"...[Franklin] is charming as the exchange student trying to win Cusack's heart..."Variety "...A sharp satire that foreshadowed films like HEATHERS....It's a freak show that makes adolescence look as painful as you remember it..."Entertainment Weekly4.427262
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"...Stunning cinematography and a star-making turn from [Ormond]..." Premiere "...Gorgeous....[Pitt] proves himself a bona fide movie star, stealing every scene he's in..." Rolling Stone "...Pitt's diffident mix of acting and attitude works to such heartthrob perfection....Gripping material and good actors..." New York Times "....[Featuring] an epic performance from Brad Pitt..."Sight and Sound "...Pitt is perfectly casts in a traditional heartthrob way....Zwick orchestrates everything with welcome gusto..." Los Angeles Times "...The movie is a showcase for acting, and in addition to Ormond and Hopkins, it also shows how strong Aidan Quinn and Brad Pitt are..." Chicago Sun-Times4.319078
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3 stars out of 5 -- "[The film] offers a deliciously simple premise and sticks to it like glue, as hoodies become heroes in the midst of one almighty alien invasion."Total Film "Cornish draws superb performances out of his inexperienced central quintet, especially John Boyega and Alex Esmail....Films this cine-literate are rarely this unpretentiously enjoyable..."Sight and Sound 4.5 stars out of 5 -- "Cornish's idiomatic dialogue is hilarious and the longtime comic's sense of timing is perfect....This small movie is hugely entertaining..."Box Office "Pulsing with a rowdy energy, the film works as both a sci-fi horror flick and a teen adventure film..."Los Angeles Times 3 stars out of 4 -- "[A]n entertaining thriller in the tradition of 1970s B-action films, with an unknown cast, energetic special effect and great energy."Chicago Sun-Times "[A] clever blend of sc-fi and comedy, which its toothy furball space invaders against young South London thugs."USA Today "The special effects are restrained and fairly effective; Cornish, to his credit, has done a lot with a little."Movieline "[T]his fabulously inventive debut feature, written and directed by the British comedian Joe Cornish, never flags."New York Times "ATTACK THE BLOCK has a clever script and winning underdog spirit..."A.V. Club 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "It's hot, fierce, funny, vicious and ready to bite, baby. ATTACK gets its teeth from writer-director Joe Cornish, in a smashing debut."Rolling Stone "[I]t's a blast to be drawn into this urban ecosystem that is, to us Yanks, itself a bit alien." -- Grade: B+Entertainment Weekly 3.5 stars out of 4 -- "ATTACK THE BLOCK demands to be seen simply because it is a thrill -- a pulse-raiser whose perfect construction and pointed wit make it one of the year's most exciting films."Washington Post4.281383
$16.74
Alternative Press (p.110) - 3 stars out of 5 -- "[F]eaturing plenty of headbanging riffs and screaming solos, all leading into big, sing-along choruses. It's a solid modern metal record..."Billboard (pp.28-29) - "[T]racks like 'The Taste of Fear' and 'Still I Rise' reflect a newfound economy of purpose..."4.248755
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"...There are certainly good laughs to be had..."Variety "...The CHICAGO co-star rules the roost with her brassy attitude..."Total Film "[The] rap star turned actress turned movie star makes the most of every moment on screen. She doesn't steal scenes; she simply dominates them."Wall Street Journal4.209432
$10.12