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(2006) |
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"Too meekly middlebrow to really affront"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The most cloying family meeting since A Very Brady Christmas"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The melancholy is mostly notional and entirely unearned, bought ready-made in '60s songs"
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CinePassion |
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(1946) |
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"Not dark enough, but a Corner still worth a stroll."
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2.5/4 |
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(1946) |
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"No less than other noir classics, The Dark Corner is full of sadistic bits of business."
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(2008) |
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"Middling as a summer blockbuster, zero as art, and more than a bit alarming as a phenomenon"
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CinePassion |
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(1939) |
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"Bette Davis's frisky sprint sets the pace"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Gives off an inclusive hum"
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CinePassion |
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(1982) |
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"A parlor trick, but the kind -- an inquiring jester making his way through the ghosts of cinema's past -- that gets Godard at the Moviola to layer Histoire(s) together"
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CinePassion |
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(1961) |
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"Rapidly proliferating ideas in a condensed style"
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CinePassion |
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(1948) |
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"Far from scrapping the bottom of the genre's barrel, this trim collection fascinatingly maps out the progression of the vixens at the heart of noir."
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(1955) |
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"An academic but intriguing critique from a filmmaker who should be remembered for more than just being Javier Bardem's uncle."
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2.5/4 |
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(1955) |
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"Explicitly designed as a shock to the system, Death of a Cyclist too often settles for academic subversion."
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(2006) |
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"Easily the year's most useless picture"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Clearly the work of somebody who has ingested Carol J. Clover's Men, Women, and Chainsaws, yet it is also more"
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CinePassion |
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(1974) |
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"Nixonite gorge-riser"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"The tone is desaturated gravity, the action is smudged, the Old Testament parables subtle as anvils"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"An intriguing proposal squandered on a well-oiled hack mechanism"
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CinePassion |
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(1963) |
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"An upstart's precocious proposal on artistry, independence, and the business of family, or vice-versa"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"You must understand farce before you can understand tragedy, and Scorsese understands both"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"A poor schmuck's History of Violence"
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CinePassion |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"An earnest ode to an outlaw artist, Derek lovingly but unadventurously documents the life and art of the late British filmmaker Derek Jarman."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Blank screamers, fastidiously amplified "boos," and the most confused intimations of lesbianism since High Tension"
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CinePassion |
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(1933) |
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"Welcome to bohemia!"
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CinePassion |
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(1945) |
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"Ulmer's threadbare bondage-noir masterpiece"
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(1996) |
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"People find may momentary solace in food and sex, yet the film's gloom is so pervasive that, when someone says that "life's a *****, but it's exhilarating," you only believe the first half."
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(1996) |
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"Despair comes too easy to Devarim, but it should be seen by anyone interested in Amos Gitai's still-underrepresented oeuvre."
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(1957) |
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"If Siodmak was less a determinist than Lang, he was also less icy -- he views the fall-guy ordeal of piggy, pathetically lecherous officer Werner Peters with characteristic sympathy."
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Nimbly assembled and tartly performed"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Pulled off with just the right spatial élan"
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CinePassion |
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(1973) |
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"Plenty of dapper technique"
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CinePassion |
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4/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Not the least among its achievements, Terence Davies's wondrous Distant Voices, Still Lives offers a crystallization of the appeal of the musical."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Intriguing but ultimately jejune space-bug yarn"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Triumph of the human spirit to the Miramax, predictable in its crowd-pleasing, middlebrow vulgarity but with a few inventive, free-floating passages"
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CinePassion |
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1/4 |
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(2005) |
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"For masochists who always wondered what Sgt. Hartman's threat to "gouge out your eyeballs and skull-**** you" in Full Metal Jacket might have felt like."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"The bitterness of the playwright's vision is expanded by the director's fascinated fondness for American culture"
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CinePassion |
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(1959) |
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"Claude Chabrol's dissection of the living-dead bourgeoisie"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Shanley's continuous straining for that Great Unknown is undercut by tidy characters and cinematic deficiencies"
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CinePassion |
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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."
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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."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(1920) |
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"A stolid horror drama, but a beguiling showcase for John Barrymore."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1920) |
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"The split persona at the center of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde hews intriguingly close to the personal foibles of star John Barrymore."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1963) |
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"Capably brings together Caribbean travelogue, Gropius-type architecture, and cardboard computers with "danger level" plaques"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"A frequently beguiling fantasy packed with ticklish sights and vocals"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"The tone of escalating ghoulish farce is beautifully sustained"
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"A sample of wholesome family entertainment that makes this critic thank God for David Lynch."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"A musical for people who've forgotten how to listen, and how to feel"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(1948) |
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"Kurosawa's early stylistic experimentations turn a nightclub stopover into a monstrous parody of an American jitterbug dance-off, and when blood gets finally spilled, it's in a slip-and-slide Yakuza frenzy choreographed amid splattered paint."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1948) |
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"Country, heal thyself: Kurosawa's feverish early gem is worth catching."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As tepid peruke-and-corset periods go, The Duchess goes down with relative ease."
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Slant Magazine |
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