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There are epic impulses everywhere you look in There Will Be Blood; what's missing is character development, focused storytelling and, most significantly (apart from that terrific opening sequence), any sense of raw, intuitive drama.

— Stephanie Zacharek Review of There Will Be Blood (2007)

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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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