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				Seventh Seal, The (1957) | 
			 
				
			
			
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				Film rated 4.5 / 5 
				(Chick rating: 4.6 / 5) 
				(Guy rating: 4.5 / 5)
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		| Death lengthens knight's days. | 
	 
	
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		| White Knight, Black Death. | 
	 
	
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		| Castling won't save Sydow. | 
	 
	
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		| Bergman plagued by doubt. | 
	 
	
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		| Bergman's revelationary movie. | 
	 
	
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		| Reaper employs Sicilian defence. | 
	 
	
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		| Knight stalemates death temporarily. | 
	 
	
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		| Gloomy, pretentious Scandinavian twaddle. | 
	 
	
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		| Death takes knight, checkmates. | 
	 
	
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		| Bergman's Death plagues Knight. | 
	 
	
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		| Bergman plagued, fate sealed. | 
	 
	
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		| Bergman's Death on denial. | 
	 
	
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		| Sudden Death Chess Play-Off. | 
	 
	
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		| Flagellating monks. Devastating chess. | 
	 
	
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		| Black death...Block's Knight. | 
	 
	
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		| Max's Hard Grayed Knight. | 
	 
	
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		| Chess scam scuppers Swede. | 
	 
	
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		| Silent knight, Holy knight. | 
	 
	
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		| Death takes Knight, mates. | 
	 
	
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		| Antonius blocks Death's moves. | 
	 
	
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		| Black Plague plagues Sweden. | 
	 
	
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		| Absence of seals bewildering. | 
	 
	
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		| Swedish, deep, brooding, funny. | 
	 
	
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		| Death, Bobby Fischer-style. | 
	 
	
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		| Crusader knight questions Death. | 
	 
	
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		| Playing chess prolongs life. | 
	 
	
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		| Self-sacrificing Sydow saves minstrels. | 
	 
	
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		| Bergman's apocalyptic medieval allegory. | 
	 
	
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		| Max suffers metaphysical Block. | 
	 
	
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		| Knight 'confesses' endgame strategy. | 
	 
	
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		| Chess becomes mortal combat. | 
	 
	
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		| Sydow tackles Black death. | 
	 
	
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		| Sydow hellbound, Bibi heavenly. | 
	 
	
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		| Blocking on Heaven's Door. | 
	 
	
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		| Death eventually checkmates Knight. | 
	 
	
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		| Reaper makes Rook-ie mistake. | 
	 
	
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		| Fear of death personified. | 
	 
	
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		| Another biblically illiterate story. | 
	 
	
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		| Superb symbolic humanistic masterpiece. | 
	 
	
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		| Death rooks inquisitive knight. | 
	 
	
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		| Bj�rnstrand: jolly, atheistic squire. | 
	 
	
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		| Death -- the ultimate grandmaster. | 
	 
	
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		| Knight's fun proves deadly. | 
	 
	
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		| Returning knight's chess game. | 
	 
	
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