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(2006) |
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"The gimmick-machinery whirrs, but the human beings in it can't breath"
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CinePassion |
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(1954) |
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"Millard Kaufman's dialogue at times sticks to the roof of the mouth, but Sturges' visual construction is minute"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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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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(2008) |
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"The Duplass brothers waste a perfectly good porno premise by getting meta on our asses"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1941) |
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"You'd have to go to Barbara Billingsley for another jive session this enjoyable."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1941) |
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"After the rush of His Girl Friday, Ball of Fire is a more sedate ride, full of such marvelous passages as the conga line Stanwyck's delectable Sugarpuss teaches the professors."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1971) |
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"A study of the Cuban Revolution by way of Freedonia"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"A conventional humanistic parable that it is wise and graceful all the same"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1976) |
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"Arcane symbolism serves André Téchiné's bravura technique in this neo-noir panorama"
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Slant Magazine |
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(1991) |
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"Resembles not the artist's churning mind but the filmmakers' conjoined colon"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1982) |
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"Uproariously disgusting"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Looking at Nick Broomfield's filmography and seeing three decades of documentaries, you'd think that by now he would be more aware of the fallacies of cinematic objectivity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1926) |
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"Pugilism and Freud"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1963) |
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"So existential, so romantic..."
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"What a foul junkyard of Quirk it is!"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Playful and lucid, the film gives the heartening impression of endless hunger for people, experiences and images, of the camera's privileged ability to capture lived life."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1975) |
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"Beauty killed the beast, Borowczyk says, and erotic poetry freed the screen"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1953) |
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"Visionary from beginning to end"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1959) |
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"The contrast rests between the existentialism of Monte Hellman's direction and the satire of Charles B. Griffith's screenplay"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1949) |
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"Not so much a lament for the end of the West but for the end of the 1940s"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Like steel pins poking through the eyes"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1946) |
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"The feminist-political fable is couched in absorbing grey zones"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The hyperactive comic randomness is deadening"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1936) |
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"Easily the best of Gance's talkies, the film's creative élan scarcely wavers even at its most leadenly dramatic."
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"What saves Before I Forget from unenlightening depression is not just Nolot's refusal to beg for audience pity, but also his dry sense of humor."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Ferociously pleasurable"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The Old English poem ponderously, gracelessly expanded into an epic bore"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1986) |
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"Flows in a lambent pop style, warm to the touch and scarily intimate"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1981) |
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"While reviewers complain about dialogue and plot, Fulci does his best work in nauseous moods and textures"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1955) |
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"A pond of shifting alliances and kinks"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Filmed by Hill with a luxuriant eye for the Philippines, an appreciation for offhand poesy, and a rather Sirkian direction of actresses"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1986) |
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"A film to embody the Eighties, and justify them"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1967) |
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"Russell slams the I-Spy trappings into disjunctively eccentric frenzies"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A surprisingly thin session, but, when Billy Wilder Speaks, cinephiles nevertheless should listen."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1969) |
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"Vivid mayhem"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"It's the last thing a Verhoeven film should be: tasteful"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Visual marvel after visual marvel"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1966) |
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"A remarkably resonant portrait of cultural (hence, spiritual) dislocation and death"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1975) |
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"Instinctual ferocity all but eludes Malle, who can only tastefully arrange his shots to appear to rise from the subconscious"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Brisk, rambunctious splatter-comedy"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Snaps and crackles with comic verve"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Thin, monotonous"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Rossellini honors both sides of the era's metaphysical split"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1961) |
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"You'd have to wait until The Killing of a Chinese Bookie for a deeper autopsy of the gangland macho ethos"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It's too easy a joke to say that Blindness lacks vision; more accurate to say that it lacks control, lucidity and humanity, the last being a particularly calamitous absence in a film about civilization in crisis."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1938) |
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"A string of giddy hazards"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1964) |
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"Doing justice to an essential film, this 2-disc edition is a keeper for Bava fans."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1964) |
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"The dummies here reflect a society's ruthless commoditization of the body and flesh."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Diamonds may be forever, but Blood Diamond hopefully will only last through the Oscar season"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1984) |
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"The Coens remain fastidiously indifferent to the plight of their creations, the better to concentrate on the dazzle of their doom"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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