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It's possible [director Jody] Hill has a style, of sorts. But he doesn't work from the heart, or from the gut, as a good comedy director generally needs to. He operates from one guiding question: "How disturbing can we make this shit?"

— Stephanie Zacharek Review of Observe and Report (2009)

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This film Phantom takes everything that's wrong with Broadway and puts it on the big screen in a gaudy splat.

Review of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Phantom of the Opera (2004)

It would be destined for the trash heap of Shakespeare adaptations, if not for its female lead, and its heart, 17-year-old Claire Danes.

Review of William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (1996)

The bigger question to ask about 300 is why, for a supposedly rousing tale of heroism, it's so curiously unaffecting.

Review of 300 (2007)

This sprawling epic is as lively as a natural history museum diorama.

While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.

Review of 9 Songs (2005)

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