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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"uses every second of his 70-minute runtime rather than adding on perfunctory storylines or resorting to expositional sequences"
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5/5 |
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(1950) |
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"grim and glorious"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"the sort of low-budget mix of social realism, crime and horror that makes Hollywood productions look downright condescending"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"documents the bass line running under the absurdly politicized, hyper-kinetic boxing match that found Muhammed Ali facing off against then-titan George Forman"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"has an even less assuming sense of comedy to it but is far more consistent in its gags"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"ultimately plays as behavioral experiment and, slapping their stomachs and chests in nervous rhythm, its leads are prime specimens"
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a film of convoluted shallowness and bloated melodrama"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Films are, in a way, just collective fantasies... and, in some cases, nightmares"
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Obsessed with the image of its tall and tan leading lady, The Girl from Monaco ends up a weak cocktail with a big red cherry floating between its ice cubes."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"film feels like it has more to say but can't get the wording right"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a film that acknowledges time and age without completely giving into their grim results."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"understands the key element in modern warfare: chaos reigns supreme."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Surveillance isn't rewriting history, but it's a solid, entertaining third draft."
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4/5 |
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(1941) |
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"Rarely has a more thoroughly harrowing and emotional portrait of life at home during wartime been rendered on the screen"
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3/5 |
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(1950) |
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"the film would not register above passable if not for its central figure"
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Nothing else in Cadaver features an understated concept of horror; rigor mortis sets in during the film's first few minutes."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"oddly eloquent"
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4/5 |
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(1971) |
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"an unsettling reminder that, more often than not, it is not overly clever traps but rather people who kill people."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"a tonally-consistent, lively thriller that is very much of the filmmaker's own little corner of the world"
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"reaches for palpable psychosis but, in the end, achieves only meandering dread."
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3.5/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The show remains very funny and entertaining but for the first time since the first season, we are able to see the lonely, distraught woman in Nancy rather than the crafty mother wolf."
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3.5/5 |
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(1941) |
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"has moments of ingenuity and, at times, reflects the prowess of its creator but it's also a testament to sheer talent"
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4/5 |
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(1947) |
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"nuanced and subtle"
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"For Walker fans, I imagine 30 Century Man will come as a bit of a vindication, having the knowledge that they knew this world before it had been fully documented and made ready for public consumption"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"By film's end, it feels like you've been talking to the same robot as always."
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4/5 |
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(1961) |
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"inexplicable and lovely; a fever dream without symptoms, an asylum run by the inmates."
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4/5 |
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(1974) |
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"An archeological specimen from nearly two decades before the advent of the Metrocard"
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4.5/5 |
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(1971) |
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"a world where the parental figures are never the real parents and almost everyone in plain view is still in some way a kid, regardless of the number of years they've lived."
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4.5/5 |
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(1962) |
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"might now finally find itself as a key part of post-Algerian France."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The fifth film by British theater director Sam Mendes, Away We Go, is the most unkempt movie the director has made so far in his career"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"becomes whatever the viewer wants it to be."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a very rough but dedicated character study"
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3.5/5 |
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(1975) |
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"for complete nonsense, it's really quite entertaining"
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4/5 |
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(1991) |
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"a dark and devastating romance"
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"will no doubt find a better home in lecture halls and classrooms than it will in the bustling landscape of arthouse theatergoing."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"shifts its tone effortlessly between white-knuckle suspense and investigatory drama"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Garrel has mastered a own very personal tone that makes even a minor work such as this feel essential and vital"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Too long by a solid 30 minutes and riddled with clichés of every creed and color"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"intelligent enough to understand where history and blood are built into Rwanda but realistic enough to know that forgiveness is a long way off."
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3/5 |
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(1993) |
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"What ruins the fun is the prattling need for structure outside the central rivalry"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"His reliance on and desire to highlight Coward's wit gives him less incentive to use his own intelligence and cunning as a filmmaker, making his film little more than a fan letter."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Soderbergh's enigmatic contraption is dependent on Ms. Grey's comfort with sex and being packaged to define her character realistically. As performances go, The Girlfriend Experience borders on documentary."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Assayas' film has more than a few lofty questions concerning art, nostalgia, and the national culture but he understands that ultimately history and culture are far more personal than one can imagine"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"succeeds as a tight genre exercise in tone"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"as with all the greats, Jacobs is still discovering, and even the old stuff seems new again."
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4/5 |
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(1992) |
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"Keitel's performance is perhaps the needed counterpoint to Christopher Walken's ice-cold overlord in Ferrara's visionary crime opus King of New York"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"perceptive and gripping"
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4/5 |
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(1979) |
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"perhaps the most ballistic of Huston's late-period films"
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The action is engaging but rarely exciting; the drama heftier but still far from convincing."
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