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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The movie avoids the darker aspects of the vampire myth, and like the books, it's more into horror than hormones."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Without a smirk, the film stands out from the many pop-culture-laden, wisecracking studio franchises."
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School Library Journal |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Lucid and startling"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite the hothouse atmosphere or the backstage tantrums and a suicide attempt, [director] Rodrigues lowers the temperature with his slow, steady camera for a flabby 138 minutes."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"More Cavalleria Rusticana than Gomorra."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A brisk, irreverent music-history lesson by way of Terry Gilliam."
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Film-Forward.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The sudden shock in tone may have another different and unintended effect than the director intended, relief that finally something has happened."
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Chouga never loses control%u2014a performance Lana Turner would be proud of."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Lorna's Silence is one of the few films in current release which left me wanting more."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Andersson's tableaus of the everyday are full of feeling, especially from the women (probably after a drink or two)."
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Film-Forward.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If you're going to be the poster man/child of any disability, you'd want to look like Hugh Dancy."
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"[Nina Hoss], one of Germany's rising stars, delivers ... the complexity that the film, layered with tangled relationships, seeks."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This modest but amicable tale has more depth and more spirit than many films twice its length."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film takes flight when the story is grounded in the world of Hogwarts."
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School Library Journal |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Can director Lynn Shelton sustain enough interest building up to the will-they-or-won't-they resolution? Yes, thanks single-handedly to the cast."
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2.25/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If ever there was a role to be cast based solely on looks, it's Colette's Chéri."
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3/5 |
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(1947) |
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"As brassy, boozy, and blonde entertainer Ida Arnold, [Hermione Baddeley] is a blast of smoky and stale music-hall air."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Quiet Chaos jerkily shifts tones, from oddly comic ... to blunt. And by blunt I mean an indiscreet, in-your-face sex scene that turns the viewer from observer to pervy voyeur."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Count on the first tear to fall by the 55-minute mark."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"This is gotcha journalism at its most insistent."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The story is so well told that the symbolism supports rather than sustains the plot."
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Without a touch of irony, Paris 36's forthrightly corny."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film has a train-wreck fascination about it."
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It may be true that every generation deserves its droll slacker comedy. But every five years?"
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Film-Forward.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A charmer that's a sleeper in the making"
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"In its funniest moments, the film displays the delicate timing of the best silent comedies."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Guest's focus on Sherman and her work is [the film's] strength, providing an in-depth and revealing glimpse of one of the most celebrated artists in the world,"
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If a man had directed The Girl from Monaco, this erstwhile comedy would be labeled misogynistic -- a charge that would stick."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Claude Chabrol's disappointing tribute to Georges Simenon and Agatha Christie ... is a pale follow-up to his baroque A Girl Cut in Two."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Lead Mathieu Bulle, an actual agricultural student, stands out among the cast of nonprofessional actors and is completely accessible -- well, as much as an emotionally guarded teenage boy can be."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Awash with celebrity, the documentary is a rubbernecker's delight."
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Film-Forward.com |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Téchiné's unsettling The Girl on the Train is his best film in years and already one of 2009's highlights, freely inspired by a sensational real-life media furor."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Jean-François Richet (Assault on Precinct 13) is proof that Luc Besson is not the only French filmmaker taking his cues from an American playbook."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Because Selick remains true to the novel's spirit, the film rises far above being a mere novelty."
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"What will rouse empathy and exasperation, though, is one teacher's attempt to act more like a colleague or mentor than an intimidating white male authority figure%u2014a teacher a student can call un ami."
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Film-Forward.com |
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Similar to the movie adaptation of Philip Pullman's The Golden Compass (Knopf, 1996), the filmmakers shoehorn most of the book's plot into a small amount of time, leaving little room for character development or nuanced acting."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.75/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film goes to the dogs. They don't steal the scenes, they are the scenes. They bring so much personality that it's hard for any of the actors to compete, even the kids."
[movie review] |
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School Library Journal |
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3.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Before you scoff at yet another benevolent look at a family straddling two cultures, Kechiche subtly subverts the genre."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.75/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Unlike so many animated films that are clogged with trendy pop-culture references, the filmmakers recall older tales with a wink and a nod."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The emphasis on the brotherhood of the ragtag rebels wouldn't be out of place in a 1940s war film"
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Shanley's play would seem ideally suited for the scrutiny of a camera. But if anything, the film feels less nuanced, bulldozed by Streep's take-no-prisoner performance."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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4/5 |
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(1953) |
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"If only more filmmakers would remember that not all fairy-tale romances need to have a pat, happily-ever-after ending."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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4.5/5 |
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(1950) |
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"Many of its featurettes ... benefit hugely from the participation of co-star Nancy Olson."
[dvd review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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1.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The actors are the exact opposite of what they should be: two teens in heat."
[movie review] |
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School Library Journal |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The family's vulnerabilities and eccentricities burrow under the skin."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Sophisticated and involving, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas offers a fuller picture of the period [than the book] and a stunner of a conclusion."
[movie review] |
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School Library Journal |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"It dares to be sentimental. Underneath the fly-swatted surface is a gentle coming-of-age."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"For actor Alfredo Castro's sinister steely stare alone, Tony Manero memorably stands out weeks after its screening."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Like her earlier films, [Jaoui] has turned kvetching and fumbling conversations into an art form."
[movie review] |
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Film-Forward.com |
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2.75/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Ah, to be middle aged, footloose, and fancy free!"
[movie review] |
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