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(2008) |
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"Pulsates with life"
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CinePassion |
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(1969) |
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"Coppola charts a perilous new freedom both in people's lives and in the industry"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Sly may be a crass tyrannosaurus, but he's not a fake"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Genuine enchantment"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1973) |
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"The mining injustices of The Stars Look Down, transmuted into return-of-the-oppressed horror"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Dismal"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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 2/4 |
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(1997) |
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"As for Stendhal, for real cinema, try Argento's Syndrome.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1997) |
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"Three hours plus is a high price to find out that not every European TV miniseries can reach the heights of The Best of Youth."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1984) |
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"Released in the midst of renewed Cold War nuclear dread, Red Dawn doesn't starve for unintended wackiness."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1984) |
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"Surviving better than it should, Red Dawn comes to teach a new generation about the perils of commie invasions. Take that, Hollywood liberals!"
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"No drab stone is left unturned"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The director's concern is deeply felt, yet it is his old obsession, the camera's unreliability, that still engages him the most"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"A Kickboxer installment that got too big for its breeches"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1949) |
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"Noir visits the French Revolution, as the emphasis on vicious brutality suggests an account written by the Marquis de Sade."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Mike Binder, a director of TV-sized smarm, continues to dismantle his own best effects"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"The sort of schematic slog that stirs more discussion about the cluelessness of the filmmakers than anything else"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"A TV-special metallic ring hangs over the whole production, skimming surfaces without touching emotion"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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 3/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Like his obsessed heroes, Werner Herzog continues to hear the call of the jungle."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Groovy bit of multiplex pandemonium"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1940) |
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"The abstruse stylization of Rancho Notorious is still a decade away, though the frontier is already a severe plain enlivened by intimations of hellfire"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Middlebrow self-consciousness"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"An unwieldy, short-circuiting film, packing "more tricks than a clown's pocket" yet imbued with brute spiritual force"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"A profound example of unashamed feeling expanding across cultural barriers"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1927) |
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"A striking welter of symbols, broad and subtle"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"This mostly forgotten entry of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's early futzing-around period feels unaccountably close to an American road-trip comedy."
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1970) |
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"A film of mementos, of deliberately pale shadows"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1969) |
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"A virtuoso riff, played fast and close"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"The director's slovenliness is a torture device of its own, but the grueling point is well taken"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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""Baby, I don't care." But you do, Bob, and this set proves it."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"A judiciously argued account with intriguing asides"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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 2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Romance & Cigarettes feels like a Jacques Demy film played at the wrong speed."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Blissful"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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 3.5/4 |
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(1948) |
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""A crime for most, a privilege for some" is how Rupert classifies murder, but Hitchcock's eye-am-a-camera technique in Rope is after more than Nazi-superman residue still lurking after WWII."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1948) |
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"Hitchcock's experiment goes beyond look-ma-no-cuts stunt and into a suffocating moral inquiry."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1942) |
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"An outstanding gallery of connivers"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"All you can see are a pair of aging jocks laboring for condescending yuks"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Strictly for the Anderson-Baumbach crowd of privileged idiots"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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