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(2009) |
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"The couple's fluctuations between amorous rapture and wounding are matched by the film's own seesaw of poignancy and irritation"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Moody, gliding filmmaking and ripples of quizzical humor save it from being a lugubrious game of therapeutic musical chairs."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Observant, soulful, often achingly attuned to clashing emotions"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Smotheringly conventional"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"The old "stay in school" adage has rarely been trotted out to such cop-out effect"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Glum adaptation"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"A hoot"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Life's prisons, whether behind bars or outside of them, are the underlying theme in Ozcan Alper's visually gorgeous but ultimately listless Autumn."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Away you go"
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"It may not have the wounding thrust of Ferrara's, but it shares with that film a bottomless compassion for its crazies, to say nothing of the exhilaration of seeing a fearless director and a fearless actor pushing each other beyond extremes."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Playful and lucid, the film gives the heartening impression of endless hunger for people, experiences and images, of the camera's privileged ability to capture lived life."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Militantly unenchanting"
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Illustrates not the public's gullibility but a comic's waning sense of danger"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The film groans with shoddy ironies and overbearing serendipity."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Unfortunately, Moore's slapdash approach withers before the sprawling canvas, and his dot-like anecdotes rattle around."
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Fond and funky elegy"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Coraline has enough exhilaration and dread to remind viewers of the first time they read about Gretel pushing the Witch into the oven"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Crude is both a tribute to human-rights tenacity and a sobering account of the multinational-Moloch greed that can keep justice in limbo."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Intriguing but ultimately jejune space-bug yarn"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"The tone of escalating ghoulish farce is beautifully sustained"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"The results are mistimed and misshapen, like Lubitsch after a vasectomy"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Sepia-toned and tough-minded"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Useless remake"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"'Please feel sorry for me' buttons don't make great comedy"
[movie review] |
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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"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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."
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Fear and loathing and douchebaggery in Las Vegas"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"The most disappointing of the bunch, if only because it opens so promisingly"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"May be the decade's greatest zombie movie"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Home is finally hopeful in its view of familial bonds holding together as the characters are forced to face the far from idealized world they are inescapably a part of."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A coolly elegant kineticist, Kathryn Bigelow specializes in impressionistic phallus jostles."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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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."
[movie review] |
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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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(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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(2009) |
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"Flaccid rom-com uplift and cut-rate snark"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"This year's prize for most ludicrous set-up and most ludicrous punchline"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Eimbcke has an undeniable gift for deftly doleful wavelengths."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Unlike the Craven film, there's little of the audience implication that made these visions of violated innocence and draining retribution so troubling."
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"A limited but revealing look at Bogdanovich's remembrances of cinematic things past."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Lifelines pitches its tone of suburban purgatory early, with nerve-wrecked matriarch Nancy staring at the camera while sing-songy yearning for a rope to hang herself with."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"To Lisandro Alonso's wandering characters, every place they go seems like the edge of the world."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Lorna, the young Albanian immigrant at the center of Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne's Lorna's Silence, is both the newest addition to the twin auteurs' gallery of spiritually anguished outsiders, and a subtle departure from it."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Bong is less interested in shocks than in the synergy between the country's vast fields and the equally mysterious inner landscape of the dazed matriarch making her way across them."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Should have been called New York, I Sorta Kinda Like You but Only as a Friend, Okay?"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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(2009) |
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"Observe and reject"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Of Time and the City never less than throbs with emotion, a reminder of what a loss Davies's absence from the screen has been."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Candid and unpretentious."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Have we learned nothing from the Blair Witch hoax?"
[movie review] |
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CinePassion |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With its ritualistic repetitions and concluding act of violence, Rivero's film is something of a pocket-book Jeanne Dielman."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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