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The Sopranos: The Complete First Season

Grade: A+ | By Bryant Frazer on December 27, 2009 11:35 AM

The Sopranos: The Complete First Season

My review of The Sopranos: The Complete First Season on Blu-ray Disc is online at FilmFreakCentral.net:

In later seasons, The Sopranos would too often threaten to disappear up creator David Chase's asshole as he ruminated, sometimes vigorously, sometimes ponderously, on the mysteries of American family life. But the first season has none of that leisure, expertly modulating stretches of comedy and drama en route to those crucial moments that leave you gasping.

District 13: Ultimatum (Patrick Allessandrin, 2009) B
Big Fan (Robert Siegel, 2009) B
Humpday (Lynn Shelton, 2009) B+
The Headless Woman (Lucretia Martel, 2008) B
Streets of Fire (Walter Hill, 1984) B-
Avatar (James Cameron, 2009) B-
Joshua (George Ratliff, 2007) B+
The Lovely Bones (Peter Jackson, 2009) C
House of the Devil (Ti West, 2009) B-
Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009) B+
It Might Get Loud (Davis Guggenheim, 2008) B-
Fish Tank (Andrea Arnold, 2009) B+
Jennifer's Body (Karyn Kusama, 2009) C+
Crazy Heart (Scott Cooper, 2009) B-
Paranormal Activity (Oren Peli, 2007) B-
A Perfect Getaway (David Twohy, 2009) B
Julia (Erick Zonca, 2008) B+
Up in the Air (Jason Reitman, 2009) C+
Vincere (Marco Bellocchio, 2009) B+
The Sopranos: The Complete First Season (, 1999) A+

Jimmy Page in It Might Get Loud
Howard Hawks and Angie Dickinson
Still from Woman in the Dunes
Cyril Raffaelli and David Belle in District 13: Ultimatum
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Patton Oswalt in Big Fan
Mark Duplass and Joshua Leonard in Humpday
Maria Onetto in The Headless Woman
Giovanna Mezzogiorno and Filippo Timi in Vincere
Diane Lane in Streets of Fire
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Jacob Kogan in Joshua