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Stitch
Head
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Stitch Head deserves a better
movie than Stitch Head offers him.
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Anniversary
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Anniversary
features such a compelling idea, only for the movie's execution to keep getting
in the way.
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Violent
Ends
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The
story comes down to a string of clichés and some not-so-shocking twists.
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Self-Help
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Self-Help
can be disturbing, but it's only so in strokes too broad to really succeed.
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Little
Amélie or the Character of Rain
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This animated film is fascinating in the way it communicates the main character's arrival
into and constantly evolving self-awareness.
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Dracula
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It mostly feels as if the director wants to get a rise out of the audience with the movie's
start-and-stop approach. After enough of those delays, the whole affair stalls.
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If
You See Something
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If You See Something has a point to make, but the
strength of its characters means it is a compelling drama first and foremost.
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Springsteen:
Deliver Me from Nowhere
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The filmmaker doesn't fully trust that he can
or should stray too far from the comfort of formula.
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Regretting
You
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This is such a tonally strange movie that it's a wonder the actors are
able to play any of it with a straight face.
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Bugonia
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Bugonia is a
pointed character study and a clever battle of wits.
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Last
Days
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The simplicity of the story, the characters,
and the ideas of Last Days does none of them any favors.
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Queens
of the Dead
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The film and the next-generation Romero stand enough on their own to do
something different with a familiar subgenre.
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In
Our Blood
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The film shows itself to be a clever bit of
sleight-of-hand trickery.
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This
Too Shall Pass
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This Too Shall Pass is a thin copy of other, similar movies.
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Boxcutter
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The film's study of incapacitating
self-doubt and the fear of being seen comes across honestly.
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