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(2007) |
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"Inevitably, ideas give way to special-effects"
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"David Durston's blast of undiluted grindhouse surrealism always has a handful of jokes up in the air"
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CinePassion |
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(1955) |
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"Akira Kurosawa's social x-raying is a continuation of Ikiru"
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CinePassion |
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(1958) |
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"Acerbic satire of matrimony"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Displays considerable heart"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Pootie Tang was spikier and funnier"
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CinePassion |
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 2/4 |
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(1989) |
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"I Want to Go Home has a splenetic oddball quality at odds with the evanescent tendencies of Alain Resnais' later films."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1989) |
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""I much prefer Daffy Duck to Donald Duck." Finally a pensée I can get behind."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Where is the defiant, sensuous expansiveness of Dylan's songs?"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Dead cold"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Mike Judge's nervy futuristic comedy survives studio cluelessness on its way to cult appreciation."
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Slant Magazine |
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 3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"By refusing to distance itself from its targets, Mike Judge's brand of satire risks being mistaken for what it's satirizing."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Its hodgepodge plot only heightens its stale smell"
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CinePassion |
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(1955) |
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"The progression from comedy to tragedy signals Fellini's most religious work"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Straddles fascination and irritation"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1959) |
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"As the clothes evaporate, Meyer wisely sits back and appreciates the show."
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"No chit-chat passes by without an ornate bit of would-be profane drollery"
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Condescending liberal dreck like In the Valley of Elah is just as awful as a thousand Fox-News commentators"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Gore gets admirable points for using intelligence in his arguments rather than fear"
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CinePassion |
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(1975) |
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"Gallic avant-gardists make great zombie movies"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Exhilarating"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1953) |
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"Bowdlerized or not, the aching pathos of two aging ingénues huddled over a restaurant table and pouring over their mutual fragility remains intact"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Better than Capote"
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CinePassion |
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 2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The Informant! is Soderbergh in larky mode, which in its sterility has recently become virtually indistinguishable from his cerebral mode."
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Slant Magazine |
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 3/4 |
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(1913) |
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"There's little danger of words trumping images."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Magnificent"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Unspeakably beautiful"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1987) |
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"For all the Amblin technology on display, Dante's greatest effects are humanistic"
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CinePassion |
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(1960) |
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"The intimacy and piquancy of a tango"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A limp ride that, for all the shove of the camera and the grabby intimations of buried corruption, is no different from a John McTiernan Joint"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"It's not a bad thriller, but it's dispiriting to see the gifted Tykwer doing the Ridley Scott fandango"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The kind of insipid hero-worship that traps the subject in wax"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Shoddy and soulless"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Flaccid rom-com uplift and cut-rate snark"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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 2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Shut-down factories, unemployment lines, and prole strikes feature prominently, unfortunately only to be glazed by Core's top '70s hits nostalgia."
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Slant Magazine |
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 3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Style comes occasionally close to taking precedence over its heartfelt humanistic intentions, yet the film's deep respect for human resilience and hope ultimately renders cynical accusations of touristy condescension moot."
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Slant Magazine |
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 3.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"The post-modern compulsions on display here may bring movies together, but they also keep people apart."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1996) |
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"Alternately dreamy and scratchy, Assayas's meta-satire still beguiles."
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Slant Magazine |
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 2.5/4 |
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(1924) |
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"It's a large canvas, and one that the filmmaker, then 29, often has trouble filling."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Intriguing for its meta-narrative of celebrity redemption"
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CinePassion |
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(1945) |
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"Mark Robson's direction here reduces a country's political/spiritual unrest to pronouncements by pinned-down actors about "uneasy conscience" and "fool's courage""
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CinePassion |
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(1946) |
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"Capra's film should be freed from its syrupy holiday status, but, like Clarence the angel, this mostly recycled Collector's Set lacks wings."
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Slant Magazine |
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 3/4 |
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(1946) |
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"Without overlooking its lapses into populist bathos, it's necessary to rescue It's a Wonderful Life from its spot at the centerpiece of untouchable American "classics.""
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Slant Magazine |
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(1955) |
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"The idea is the winnowing of guys-out-together exuberance for the self-loathing in it"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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 2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A waif's doleful eyes make easy tools of manipulation, and, though The Italian is guilty of abusing them for viewer approval, the final shot movingly restores their importance."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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