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(1962) |
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"The plot is straight out of the grayish, state-approved, thesis-tidy Ballad of a Soldier bin, but the landscapes and visions are Andrei Tarkovsky's and nobody else's"
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CinePassion |
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(1968) |
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"A furiously inspired anthology of lusty American fixations"
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CinePassion |
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(1989) |
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"Makhmalbaf builds the race towards a crowd-pleasing climax, but the film's concluding freeze-frame entraps rather than cheerleads his underdog"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1957) |
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"Further developments of Hammer Studios as a spook-house Ealing"
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CinePassion |
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(1977) |
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"War is hell, but for Peckinpah it's also the sadist's Olympian joke"
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CinePassion |
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(1970) |
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"A great analytical joke by David Cronenberg, who has already the impeccable deadpan style to tell it"
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CinePassion |
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(1935) |
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"Dostoyevskian? No, no -- Sternbergian!"
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CinePassion |
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(1977) |
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"Rejection of "childhood innocence""
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CinePassion |
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(1936) |
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"An indictment of a system where womanhood is made to deform itself"
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CinePassion |
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(1983) |
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"A twilight smorgasbord, serenely avant-garde, and the culmination of the development of Lewis' cinematic language"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1968) |
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"Blocky men test themselves in perilous missions, but modernist tension cracks the mold of classicism"
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CinePassion |
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(1943) |
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"A searching light on humanity's warts and pockmarks"
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CinePassion |
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(1975) |
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"A flamethrower of confrontational cartooning"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1974) |
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"A spry drawing room comedy with roots in My Man Godfrey"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1940) |
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"The story traces the gradual erosion of the Dane's neutrality in the face of menace, but Powell's freewheeling camera can't be stilled by patriotic piety"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1982) |
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"Visualizing Robert E. Howard's creation in the midst of the Reagan era is an offer the auteur can't refuse"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1976) |
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"Jean-Luc Godard's wry exercise on the quicksands of communication"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1962) |
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"Bernardo Bertolucci the poet, declaring a change of medium"
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CinePassion |
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(1978) |
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"Pakula approaches the open spaces of the frontier to escape from urban claustrophobia and instead finds reflections of it"
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CinePassion |
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(1985) |
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"Or: Ivan Got His Gun"
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CinePassion |
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(1927) |
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"Cartesian slapstick"
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"A translucent comedy of procrastination"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1973) |
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"Grier is the movie's bristling force"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1946) |
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"The ugly ruthlessness on both sides of the conflict attests to Lang's pragmatic refusal to pit simple "good" versus "evil""
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1980) |
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"Total cinema"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1944) |
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"Dark elation, double lives, a variety of musical cathedrals"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1983) |
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"Fifties fetishism here is not nostalgia but critique, the cultural residue that deforms consciousness"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1976) |
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"Fassbinder's grinning, glittering comedy"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1972) |
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"Bruce Lee at his fiercest"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1983) |
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"A very dry comedy, essayed in the style of Jack Hill, or possibly Verhoeven"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1949) |
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"European incantation has given way to the shadows of American noir"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Uncanny"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Jazzy welter of Hitchcockisms"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1967) |
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"First and foremost a moral document in the face of faddish decadence"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1980) |
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"Ruggero Deodato's purposefully unwatchable opus questions the film image's validity while debasing it"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1980) |
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"A curious anagram of Rabid, with borrowings from Lolita and The Third Man and Antonio Margheriti's joking feeling for systematic chaos"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1983) |
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"A lithe and dangerous tango, a kind of romantic Wesselmann"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1979) |
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"Kieslowski lays the foundation of robust realism and takes off in a search for transcendence"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1979) |
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"Not so much the culmination of '70s porn-chic cinema as its purposefully degraded last hurrah"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1969) |
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"Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing in Ritchie's and Redford's pointed study of competitive obsessions and Phyrric victories."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1969) |
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"Downhill Racer stands as lean condemnation of the calculating underdog clichés Rocky would bring make the norm."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It may not have the wounding thrust of Ferrara's, but it shares with that film a bottomless compassion for its crazies, to say nothing of the exhilaration of seeing a fearless director and a fearless actor pushing each other beyond extremes."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1956) |
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"The Taming of the Shrew appears oddly depressing when re-imagined as a mid-century hick minstrel show"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1989) |
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"Dante's excoriating view of homegrown isolationism is as profound and misunderstood as Spielberg's in 1941"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1976) |
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"Scabrous revues of myopic mythology"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"A fairy tale from an auteur aware of how close soaring and crashing can be"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1961) |
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"Less a failed horror piece than an elaborately chintzy mural"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"The main event is George Segal's whirligig of hipsterisms in the face of accelerating disaster"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1968) |
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"A brilliant film, or rather a brilliant "sen-sation""
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1990) |
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"A work of varied and strange miracles"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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