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White Man's Burden 1.0 stars

Writer-director Desmond Nakano sets up an alternate world, a bit less radical than the re-evolved world of Planet of the Apes, in which blacks are on top and whites on the bottom. It's an attempt to make old, familiar lessons ...

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Red Dawn 2.0 stars

John Milius's envisionment of a Colorado small town occupied by Allied Communist Invasionary Forces starts out in a genuine nightmare vein; but it soon seems to wake up and to enter a controlled daydream vein, a conscious conjuration of the ...

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Woman in the Dunes 4.0 stars

An entomologist, on expedition in the desert, is taken captive by the natives of the region and imprisoned with a lonely widow at the bottom of a sand pit, there to toil into eternity. Hiroshi Teshigahara's neat little existential parable ...

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Quai des Orfèvres 3.0 stars

Postwar film noir from the country that gave us the term. (Originally released in the U.S. as Jenny Lamour.) The final plot twist reveals nothing so much as the essential trashiness of the project, yet the atmosphere of damp nocturnal ...

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Last Embrace 0.0 stars

A Secret Service agent, gone to pieces after losing his wife in a furious gunfight, comes out of three months in a sanatorium with shaky hands and a stupendous suntan, and back at his apartment finds an anonymous death threat ...

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Mr. Deeds 1.0 stars

Steven Brill's update of the Depression-period Capra-Cooper antique, populism and preachiness intact, is an above-average Adam Sandler comedy, about a sweet-natured rube who inherits a bundle. (Forty billion, for inflation.) The average is raised in large part by the rest ...

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Antz 2.0 stars

The second fully computer-animated feature, and a significant advance. The illusion of three-dimensionality, with finely sculpted and shaded bodies in cavernous and engulfing space, is quite remarkable. And the nuanced facial expressions, to say nothing of the perfect synchronization of ...

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The Last Hard Men 1.0 stars

Some small effort is made to heat up the drama (the hero has to look on helplessly while his daughter is attacked in slow motion by a pair of skin-crawlingly reptilian rapists), but for the most part this hurried Western ...

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Madadayo 2.0 stars

Akira Kurosawa's final effort is plainly not one of his better ones: simple, spare, slow, sentimental. And there is something slightly embarrassing about seeing so much adulation heaped from one old master onto another -- from one sensei onto another ...

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Walkabout 5.0 stars

Edward Bond's screenplay — two school children, accustomed to crisp uniforms and transistor radios and such things, find themselves marooned in the Australian outback — possibly is more complex in its ideas about a cultural misalliance than is readily apparent. ...