Pretentious and overrated

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Wings Of Desire [1987] [DVD]
1.  Wings Of Desire [1987] [DVD] DVD ~ Bruno Ganz
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  "Boring, amorphous and sentimental. Echoes the same insipid, maudlin messages as It's Wonderful Life under the guise of "sophistication"."
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American Beauty [DVD] [2000]
2.  American Beauty [DVD] [2000] DVD ~ Kevin Spacey
The list author says:
  "A film that sneers at middle-class neurotics for the enjoyment of middle-class neurotics."
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Nathalie [DVD]
3.  Nathalie [DVD] 
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  "Infuriatingly smug, yawn-inducingly trite."
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Chasing Amy [DVD] [1997]
4.  Chasing Amy [DVD] [1997] DVD ~ Ben Affleck
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  "You would have to have lived your entire life in an Amish settlement to find this kind of sophomoric, self-satisfied "humour" provocative or quirky."
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Lost In Translation [DVD] [2004]
5.  Lost In Translation [DVD] [2004] DVD ~ Bill Murray
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  "Vacuous, uninspired and sneeringly racist towards the Japanese."
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The King Of Comedy [1982] [DVD]
6.  The King Of Comedy [1982] [DVD] DVD ~ Robert De Niro
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  "Rightly ignored by Americans, unduly praised by British critics. Purports to be a media satire but fails due to a lack of narrative drive and comic timing."
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Apocalypse Now [1979] [DVD]
7.  Apocalypse Now [1979] [DVD] DVD ~ Martin Sheen
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  "Ostensibly an "anti-war film", teenage Republican boys will still no doubt relish the blood-soaked, testosterone-fuelled spectacle."
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Schindler's List [DVD] [1994]
8.  Schindler's List [DVD] [1994] DVD ~ Liam Neeson
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  "A disgusting subject around which to tell a story that idealises powerful businessmen and politicians."
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Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) [DVD]
9.  Moulin Rouge (Special Edition) [DVD] DVD ~ Moulin Rouge (2001)
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  "The reason they invented ritalin."
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Fight Club (Special Edition) [DVD]
10.  Fight Club (Special Edition) [DVD] DVD ~ Fight Club
The list author says:
  "The reason ritalin doesn't always work."
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Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut [DVD] [1995]
11.  Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut [DVD] [1995] DVD ~ Woody Harrelson
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  "The reason ritalin, for some people, is a complete waste of time."
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Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Special Edition) [1993] [DVD]
12.  Reservoir Dogs (2 Disc Special Edition) [1993] [DVD] DVD ~ Harvey Keitel
The list author says:
  "Tarantino thinking it clever to inject levity into the subject of torture, as if the subject of violence hadn't already been trivialised enough by two decades of Stallone and Schwarzenegger films."
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True Romance : Special Edition [DVD] [1993]
13.  True Romance : Special Edition [DVD] [1993] DVD ~ Christian Slater
The list author says:
  "One of the worst Tarantino films Tarantino never did."
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Far from Heaven [DVD] [2003]
14.  Far from Heaven [DVD] [2003] DVD ~ Julianne Moore
The list author says:
  "Struggled to keep a straight face. What the critics saw in attempting to revive a format as redundant at the 1950's melodrama, I don't know."
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Brazil [1985] [DVD]
15.  Brazil [1985] [DVD] DVD ~ Jonathan Pryce
The list author says:
  "Visually imaginative, at times funny, but masterpiece it's not. Lacks the sense of craft and understatement that made Blade Runner a cult classic."
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Punch-Drunk Love [DVD] [2010]
16.  Punch-Drunk Love [DVD] [2010] DVD ~ Adam Sandler
The list author says:
  "A real chore, as mediocre as any Adam Sandler film."
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Road to Perdition [2002] [DVD]
17.  Road to Perdition [2002] [DVD] DVD ~ Tom Hanks
The list author says:
  "A sentimental film about murderers and gangsters. Makes you sick, doesn't it."
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Bully [DVD] [2002]
18.  Bully [DVD] [2002] DVD ~ Brad Renfro
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  "D-Grade exploitation masquerading as a "gritty coming-of-age drama"."
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Donnie Darko [2002] [DVD]
19.  Donnie Darko [2002] [DVD] DVD ~ Jake Gyllenhaal
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  "David Lynch-lite"
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Do The Right Thing [DVD] [1989]
20.  Do The Right Thing [DVD] [1989] DVD ~ Danny Aiello
The list author says:
  "Violently picketing an ITALIAN takeaway for only displaying photos of ITALIANS, and not african-americans on their OWN walls. The phrase "get a life" springs to mind."
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Lost In Translation [DVD] [2004] forum
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Subtitles, can anyone one help me ? 		0 30 Nov 2010
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subtitles 		0 13 Nov 2010
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