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"oddly eloquent"
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"becomes whatever the viewer wants it to be."
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"This deep devotion to physicality and wordless expression has been part of Denis' repertoire for some time but it has never been so soulful and seductive."
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2/5 |
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"In its first half, 9 pulls you in with the promise of discovery and the thrill of action but its endgame becomes muddier as it trudges along."
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2.5/5 |
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"overbearing and muddled... laborious and earnestly weighty."
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3/5 |
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"an angry film for an angry country"
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3.5/5 |
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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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1.5/5 |
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"about as memorable as the proverbial stock picture that came with the frame"
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2.5/5 |
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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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"Simultaneously absorbing and alienating"
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4/5 |
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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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"surpassingly fascinating"
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3.5/5 |
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"a work of faith that treats the tenants of its story with as much respect as it treats the medium in which it operates."
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4/5 |
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"as it was with Kelly's last film, the widely despised, decade-defining Southland Tales, The Box never allows you to get your hands completely around it"
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3.5/5 |
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"a smart, visual dialectic on the ease of showing certain creative processes and the impossibility of documenting others."
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3/5 |
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"animalistic"
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1.5/5 |
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"transitions so fluidly from an unremarkable multi-narrative to abhorrently over-sentimentalized trash"
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1.5/5 |
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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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"Moore's most personal film since Roger & Me: a lone, passionate man's hopeful search for answers to the very root of all of our socioeconomic problems"
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3.5/5 |
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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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"inarguably Kaufman Lite, but I'm not sure if that's something to bemoan"
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3.5/5 |
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"keeps the welcome resurgence of mildly-intelligent, strangely-topical animated features rolling."
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3.5/5 |
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"Self-aware and just a little too coy"
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3.5/5 |
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"There's nothing innovative about The Damned United, but it does exactly what it sets out to do with a clear sense of character and purpose, helped immeasurably by Morgan's rich dialogue and crafty structure"
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2/5 |
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"Too long by a solid 30 minutes and riddled with clichés of every creed and color"
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3/5 |
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"a slight, crude metaphor for South Africa's shame."
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3/5 |
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"nothing could be as good as the film's title"
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2/5 |
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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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1.5/5 |
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"Has about as much to do with Dylan Thomas as it does the 1984 Summer Olympics."
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4/5 |
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"perceptive and gripping"
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3/5 |
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"As if culled from some infinite picture book from the early 1900s"
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3/5 |
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"a film that is, itself, fighting to break free of its own contrivances and conventions"
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2/5 |
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"comes off as somewhat heavy-handed, if not outright pointless."
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2.5/5 |
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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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"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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2.5/5 |
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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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4/5 |
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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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5/5 |
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"I have seen the film three times now and each time I find myself concentrating more closely"
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3.5/5 |
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"skims away so much of the noisy and excessive clichés of today's terror flicks that it feels like a breath of fresh air"
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3.5/5 |
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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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4/5 |
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"understands the key element in modern warfare: chaos reigns supreme."
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1/5 |
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"a film of convoluted shallowness and bloated melodrama"
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1.5/5 |
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"Who knew you could make graverobbing boring?"
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3.5/5 |
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"captures the danger, uncertainty, and overwhelming vitality of youth complicated by an inability to react to the world with anything but intense emotions"
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"about as formidable and entertaining as a case of blue balls."
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3.5/5 |
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"succeeds as a tight genre exercise in tone"
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3.5/5 |
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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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4/5 |
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"unwaveringly rhythmic"
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3/5 |
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"comes off as indecisive"
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