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(2005) |
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"A work of stunning intensity underneath opulent fabrics"
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CinePassion |
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(1982) |
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"Gandhi is less personal than Reds, but also less complacent than Chariots of Fire and less doddering than Lean's own orderly post-colonial apologia, A Passage to India."
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(1982) |
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"A deluxe anniversary reissue is the best way to revisit an Oscar-winning '80s dinosaur."
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(1941) |
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"An uneven set illustrates the facets of Cooper's persona. Worth it for fans? Yup."
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(1959) |
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"Overrated when first released and underrated since, Rossellini's trenchant tale of redemption is ripe for rediscovery."
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(1959) |
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"A fascinating crossroads in Rossellini's career."
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(2008) |
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"Trenchantly implicates the media into the ongoing apocalypse that in previous Dead chapters already included family, capitalism, the military, class divides"
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Mike Hodges is a steely Diebenkorn, dry and dangerous"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Sheridan's surface vividness is applied around a vacuum"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"The hostile repartee between the characters is as ungainly as director Peter Segal's lumbering action sequences"
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CinePassion |
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(1956) |
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"Years before Kenneth Anger, Frank Tashlin located the decadent Babylon in Hollywood and found it not that different from the splashy Looney Tunes bonanzas he used to fashion during his salad days as an animator."
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(1963) |
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"The giallo gets its cinematic foundation in Mario Bava's wide-eyed "story of a vacation""
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Sex is acting, it's a product, but Soderbergh's film can't illuminate its commoditization"
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CinePassion |
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(1968) |
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"Check out George Cukor's Les Girls instead."
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(1968) |
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"Zetterling dives waist-deep into pretentiousness."
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(1925) |
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"Keaton's transcendent comedy of inadequacy"
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CinePassion |
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(1974) |
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"The view of desperate braggadocio behind the "lyrical" romping is withering"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Excruciating pap"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Sidesteps grandiose statements in favor of a lean and brutal gangster-as-capitalist analysis that at its fiercest feels like a continuation of Francesco Rosi's caustic mafia exposés."
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(2009) |
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"Sidesteps grandiose gestures and statements in favor of a grimly matter-of-fact chronicle of how pervasive the Mafia influence has become."
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(2007) |
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"The Affleck boys finally earn their stripes as cinematic artists"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Its heady mix of excess and inquiry doesn't really take off until the reptiles overrunning the Casino Strip go from projections of a substance-lubricated brain to manifestations of journalistic fury."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"An utterly gaseous film"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Lean study of the quandaries of asking questions in the media, and of crafting a political film in Hollywood"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Lifeless"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A Good Year suggests not so much the stirring of a soul as Sir Ridley grinding his teeth behind the camera, grimly muttering "I'm going to be breezy if it kills me, goddamit!""
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(2009) |
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"Behind the noble intentions and cluttered rooms and grimy windshields, however, lies a salt-and-pepper portrait with almost as many undercooked contrivances."
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CinePassion |
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(1924) |
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"There are cyclones amid the sprawling stolidity"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Cumbersome and often stilted, Goya's Ghosts remains a worthy drama"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Less a great film than a fascinating personal testament"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Simply put, The Greatest Game Ever Played has no balls."
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Slant Magazine |
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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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(2007) |
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"Half smirk, half transcendence"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Remarkable beauty and wonder"
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CinePassion |
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