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(2005) |
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"For all its filmmaking bravura, the film never transcends the confines of its period drama setting. We look at the artistry and marvel, but we are never really touched."
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(2005) |
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"Has a lot of promise, but despite two raw, excellent performances L'esquive does not deliver."
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(2005) |
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"A sepia-tinted exercise in 1910's Russian melancholy that could resonate with older, sophisticated arthouse audiences."
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(2007) |
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"Interesting for its portrayal of a type of domestic violence rarely seen on screen, but offers little else beyond this new angle and two very brave performances."
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(2005) |
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"Touches only on the very basics of Creation, but offers very pretty pictures."
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(2006) |
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"A thoughtful motion-picture about the inner workings of a woman's mind that is daringly melodramatic and as sparse with words as its photography is lush and colourful."
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(2008) |
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"Snappy timing, focused writing and pitch-perfect acting."
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(2003) |
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"Girl with a pearl earring (...) is a movie of few words and beautiful pictures, and the story is as understated as the acting."
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(2005) |
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"Glue is in fact similar to most people's adolescence: not without the occasional hiccough -- but what an adventure it is!"
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(2004) |
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"A mildly amusing My big fat Jewish funeral that does not overcome its TV sitcom origins."
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(2002) |
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"Top notch writing [...] and a fabulous performance by Mr Weeber make of this short work something that is not to be missed."
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(2007) |
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"Proof of the director's unwillingness to improve on the scattershot ideas and shaky character development that also plagued his previous effort Respiro."
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(2008) |
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"The Neapolitan mafia, known as the Camorra, gets the Syriana treatment in Matteo Garrone's Gomorra (Gomorrah), one of the most incisive organised-crime films to emerge from any country since the 1970s."
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(2007) |
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"Tatt av kvinnen is much like a musical but only without the songs; the form has to be accepted no questions asked for the film to function. And any detected realism is surely unintended."
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(2004) |
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"An enjoyable comedy about keeping a big thing secret from someone and an interesting drama about family ties and values and politics.
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(2003) |
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"Buongiorno, notte fails even as a lyrical meditation on the kidnapping because the characters do not engage the audience at any point."
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(2005) |
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"Opaque in its approach, the film is almost redeemed by its hilarious Wildean one-liners, even if delivered shakily."
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(2006) |
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"Grandhotel's mixture of juvenile comedy and grounded characters with real dilemmas never becomes a satisfying whole but is surprisingly funny and endearing nevertheless."
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(2005) |
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"The film is too slow; its very theme -- the fact that the inevitable end might just be around the corner -- does not materialise fast enough for the audience."
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(2007) |
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"Aided by two first-class performances by Karanovic and Mijovic, Grbavica is a low-key approach to one of the gravest, yet little-discussed problems of war."
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(2005) |
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"Rookie director Thomas Clay gives us a cinematic punch-in-the-face that is both real and violently unsettling."
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(2005) |
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"Quietly but surely defies expectations at every turn and does not once hit a false note in the process. One of the best films of the year."
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(2008) |
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"The lead actors are hot and the living is easy in the French summertime idyll Le fils de l'epicier (The Grocer's Son)."
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(2006) |
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"Most characters seem to live in need of constant proof of Murphy’s Law -- and seem to get it too -- but despite this Grounding is never less than compelling."
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(2006) |
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"The performances from her actors are tops, but what steals the show is Leopold's mastery of her visual language, dominated by Richard van Oosterhout's sumptuous widescreen lensing."
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(2006) |
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"The sexuality of the protagonists is just another plot twist in this mildly funny sports comedy that never seems to accept its characters as people rather than cliches."
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