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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Adam Salky's entry into the coming of age genre ... tells the age-old story with a few interesting wrinkles."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"Breedon's realization ... is a cinematic tour de force -- destined to have more people claim to know it than have actually savoured its generous length...."
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... 'Drowning your sorrows' takes on extra meaning as Hyeok-jin (a wonderfully naive performance by Sam-dong Song) is convinced by his boozing buddies that a change of scenery will mend his grieving heart."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"De-Lovely, de-Nearly delectable"
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Failures "R" Us succeeds."
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"... writer/director Hanan Peled has crafted a magnificent film that has as much to say about blind devotion and chronic denialism (ironically, on both sides of the Nazi persecution of the Jews) as the immediate and lingering effects of systemic ethnic cle"
[dvd review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Everyone into the pool!"
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JWR |
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3/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Much splat, little art"
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"This homage to one of the world's most creative, impassioned artists paints a fascinating portrait of Derek Jarman's life through the filmmaker's most extensive on-camera interview and a letter of retrospection written and read by long-time collaborator a"
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2007) |
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"To balance the chilling reality of the powerful having their unabated way with the miserably weak, the faces of carefree children mugging into the camera is a welcome balm on the wounds of systemic depravity."
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"An insiders guide to spitting out scripts"
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JWR |
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2.5/5 |
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(1983) |
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"This bat fails to take flight"
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Jackson's film shows promise even as he examines the twin dilemmas of history repeating itself in general ... and the fear of becoming our parents."
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JWR |
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5/5 |
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(2005) |
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"As Hitler, Bruno Ganz ignites the screen with every appearance: his rages against traitors and betrayal (perceived and real) are delivered with ugly conviction ...."
[movie review] |
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JWR |
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4/5 |
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(1931) |
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"The evidence of [Glass'] considerable genius being the decisions to (a) use only a string quartet (b) engage the services of Kronos Quartet ..."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"A production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed."
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Film Threat |
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5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"Maddin's Dracula takes us fantastically through gothic places that Bram Stoker failed to report in a production that is as sexually charged as it is beautifully designed."
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JWR |
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3.5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"It's a hot sequence that nudges the boundary of taste, but still manages to come off more as art than porn."
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JWR |
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4.5/5 |
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(2006) |
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"Director Serge Gigučre has wisely stood back and let his subjects speak, play, laugh, create and die for themselves."
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JWR |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"If Duska had ended after the first twenty minutes Jos Stelling's latest effort would have been hailed as a cinematic masterpiece ..."
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JWR |
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