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(1974) |
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"One of the decade's great defenses of New York"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Uses the Peace & Love event as white-noise for another flaccid coming-of-age story about an unformed youth's Summer I Grew Up"
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CinePassion |
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4/4 |
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(1951) |
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"As in Reign of Terror, Anthony Mann fashions a noir mini-masterpiece out of incongruous period reconstruction."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Rambunctious and synthetic, Talladega Nights boasts its fair share of inspired Ferrell riffs, even if, as a satire of the NASCAR subculture, it mostly runs on fumes."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Solemn and ash-hued"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Tetro moves and startles"
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CinePassion |
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(1988) |
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"Sustained with satirical expressionism for indelible clamminess"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"The joke fizzles"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The kooks in Raul Ruiz's That Day tenderly cultivate their insanity as if tending to exotic flowers."
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(2003) |
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"A cinematic jest so airy you only afterwards notice how macabre it is. To quote one of the nincompoop coppers: "Evidently something to reflect on.""
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(1958) |
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"Picnic on the Grass suggests the harmony between mind and libido, but here Renoir savors the possibilities of the human split"
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CinePassion |
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film is a piercing pas de deux that excoriates romance even as its doomed characters are consumed by it."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"There will be blood, indeed"
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CinePassion |
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(1968) |
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"Lays out stone-cold architecture only to warm it up with the heady rush of sensual intoxication"
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CinePassion |
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(1981) |
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"The disappointing extras shouldn't detract from the charm of Bogdanovich's lilting urban valentine."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1981) |
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"The film is a delicately staged roundelay of intertwined pursuit."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1993) |
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"It's no Nashville, but give this comedy-drama a second chance."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1993) |
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"The Thing Called Love charms and touches."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1979) |
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"A parallel vaudeville of anger and disillusionment, a Dziga Vertov Group revue done over by Macke"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Its fierce style and ripe humor are hard to resist"
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CinePassion |
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(1942) |
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"A great vein of noir tropes, greatly mined"
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CinePassion |
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(1923) |
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"The intertwined chases in all three settings already point to Keaton's knack for comic architecture"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Exerts considerable, groggy power"
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Lambent"
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CinePassion |
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(1974) |
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"Lindberg executes the vengeance audiences came to cheer, and spiritually dissolves."
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CinePassion |
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(1958) |
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"The world of moonshine transporters is keyed to Mitchum's fatalist-hobo wryness"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"More benign than Three…Extremes and less uneven than Eros, Tickets offers a triptych of slender yet genuine delights."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1954) |
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"Riefenstahl's ambivalent meta-fantasy of herself as an exotic wanderer whose gifts are indulged and explored by charismatic monsters"
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CinePassion |
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(1914) |
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"The frame is always static but the agitation within keeps getting cranked up into combustion"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Another Burtonesque blur of wise-guy nudging and romantic exhilaration"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A slight but striking mood piece."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1959) |
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"Like any genius pitchman, Castle straddles the line between carnival barker and conceptual artist"
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CinePassion |
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(1955) |
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"Not the most profound of Hitchcock's studies of thieves, but then again Marnie never got to ask Cary Grant if he's a leg man or a breast man."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1955) |
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"Hitchcock and screenwriter John Michael Hayes posited voyeuristic spectacle as the essence of cinema in Rear Window; in To Catch a Thief they validate their thesis with plenty of spectacle to be voyeuristic over."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"An intense, baroque epic that just misses greatness, To the Left of the Father is still a unique film experience."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Long, heavy, and soberly elating, the film envisions a heightened reality, like Visconti's Rocco and His Brothers."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The extraordinary thing is the way Kurosawa systematically dismantles the fabrics of the nuclear family."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Tickles, repulses, and beguiles"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Scarcely satisfies, yet it lingers -- limpidity of image along with imperceptible epiphanies"
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(1973) |
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"Pales next to director Sergio Martino's more inventive sleaze-thrillers."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1973) |
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"Though not without voyeuristic subtext and sleazy kicks, Torso makes for a pretty anemic bloodfest."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1993) |
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"Life is f***ed up, Araki is saying, but it is worth living."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1993) |
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"The film has more than enough angst and alienation to go around, though the spiky humor and compassion push it well over its rough spots.
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Slant Magazine |
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(1969) |
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"It's like Mizoguchi is alive and well and shooting kung-fu epics"
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"The discomfort zones of a young girl cry for sympathetic toughness, not Ball's snickering at pubic hair and clammy suburbanites"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(1971) |
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"Tati making tentative amends with technology"
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CinePassion |
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(2005) |
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"Lifetime through Sundance"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2007) |
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"Morphs from Army-enlisting ad to toy ad (on its way passing through a panoply of car ads, computer ads, beer ads) without ever becoming a movie"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2006) |
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"Coogan and Brydon make a beautiful squabbling couple"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2008) |
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"Not a third as "dark" or "ferocious" as it believes it is"
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CinePassion |
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