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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Gondry finds his pathos in the tragic disconnect between life and invention."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(1964) |
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"Fritz Lang famously quips that Cinemascope, in which the film is shot, is only good for capturing snakes and funerals, and so we get a film full of slimy, serpentine characters and a memorial service for the cinema."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"If this isn't a chase movie...then what is it?"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"If you can't be Woody Allen, it's better not even to try."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Flight of the Red Balloon is as exhausting, in its languor, as the febrile culture Hou seems to criticize."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Apparently our greatest enemy is evolution itself. (Especially when it's taught in schools?)"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"A stern and somber lesson that mostly goes straight over my non-Russian head...for international audiences, Alexandra slides into thematic esotericism."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"[The film] touches on a lot of Big Ideas, but above all it focuses on the nature of narratives...[Bar-Lev's] film is simply a story that he's created, and though it deals in real people and facts, it's not necessarily "the truth"."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"In the Rolling Stones, Scorsese has found himself, despite their superficial dissimilarities."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"If cinema is a glass of water, Honore and Garrel are two tablets of Alka Seltzer. Unfortunately their carbonating effects wear off after about 45 minutes and the glass of water that is Love Songs goes tepid again."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"Like the father who, catching his son smoking, makes him smoke the whole pack in succession. But what if the kid likes chain smoking?"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Its earnest outrage at corporate corruption is at best naïve and at worst facile."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"The film's purpose is to Christianize an ungodly book."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Though set around the turn of the 20th Century, There Will Be Blood is, in its pitting of capitalism against revivalism, conspicuously more about the state of the union at the turn of the 21st."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"Romero...criticizes videojournalism, as well as its consumers, by arguing that there are times when, morally, it's time to stop shooting and start helping, to stop watching and start acting."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"Its love story only serves as an allegory for its politics. While it might be an effective metaphor on paper, the love story is never quite credible enough to carry the symbolic weight Lou thrusts on it."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2006) |
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"Iran may have its problems of policy, the film suggests, but its people are, by and large, decent and good and slowly, in small ways, working to make their country free."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A+ |
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(1961) |
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"The film seems set inside cinema itself...it takes as its model the abstract senselessness of our unconscious recesses."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"The only problem with 4 Months%u2026 is that it comes too soon."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Far more egomaniacal than altruistic."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"Allen [is] like an old uncle at a holiday gathering, telling the same old story year after year, but it's such a good story and he tells it so well (and, hell, you love the guy) that you can't help but want to hear him tell it again and again."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"Cloverfield is about terrorism's human effects, not its spectacle."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"In Between Days is a remarkably faithful chronicle of the teenage experience, especially as, just like those years, it turns out to be so inconsequential."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Joshua covers, by and large, pretty familiar territory, but it at least grounds its story in the ambiguity of reality."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A+ |
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(1931) |
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"Perhaps the purest example of the cinema's potential for pathos."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"The Orphanage, to its detriment, is tough to pin-down up until the very end, if at all."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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C |
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(2007) |
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"For every genuine or cleverly subtle moment there is another that rings twice as false or twice as loud."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"It's a gift to the senses, with the lush feel of a grand, old-fashioned period piece. Thankfully, however, it replaces that genre's characteristic stuffiness with pulsating vitality."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"Less the tale of Iran told through one woman than the tale of one self-absorbed woman incidentally set in Iran"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"While your typical movie musical uses music to bring two innocent young lovers together, Once uses two young lovers to bring its music together."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(1986) |
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"A veiled, disturbing and piercingly autobiographical confessional of lust and domestic dissatisfaction."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Before the Devil Knows You're Dead is easily the best-acted film of the year, but what's more is that it's a sharp piece of cultural criticism about late capitalism and the depths of tragedy it's capable of producing."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"With its authentic sense of place, the film rises above the head of your average abducted child procedural in a manner its director rarely rises above the head of your average actor--through naturalistic credibility."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(1949) |
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"The Reckless Moment is essentially about love and the the redemptive acts of seflessness it can inspire, but it's also about teaching a woman to know her place and the chaos that occurs when the nuclear family unit is splintered."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"A celebration of level-headed agnosticism, easily read as both anti-science and anti-religion, anti-military and anti-civilian."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"It isn't an accident that, from what we can gather from the quick flashbacks, the threat to America's stability begins in Manhattan, that hotbed of secular humanism."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"What a terribly impolite Christmas movie."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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C- |
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(2007) |
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"If only the film had the credibility of thematic focus and narrative discipline to back up its politics...it could've sat proudly on the shelf next to Joe Dante's Homecoming."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Isn't it time the Gilmore Girls crowd had a movie about teen pregnancy to feel good about and call their own?"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Even though it doesn't entirely succeed, it does offer a blessed aesthetic alternative to the boilerplate formula of dreckish fare like Ray. Point well taken and much appreciated, Mr. Haynes, if nothing else."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"the film's ample amount of laughs stem, in equal measure, from the genre spoofing as well as from the natural comic acumen (and comic-foil rapport) of the leads"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"What began as a sort of commentary on horror movie violence slips into an exercise in mere horror movie violence, but Vacancy, still, is the product of strong filmmaking."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"The hitherto rowdiest and most lyrical expression of post-9/11 and Iraq War anxiety."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"The film's greatest asset...is that the Coens have thankfully dropped their propensity for eccentricity, which has always been their Achilles' Heel as filmmakers."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Rather than stick to what he knows and what he's good at, Baumbach unfortunately gave into the irresistible temptation to work with Nicole Kidman, who isn't as deft in handling his particular brand of comedy and its obligatory delivery style."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"[Verhoeven] has triumphantly reemerged with this bitter romance that, incidentally, serves as a nice allegory for his American career."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"The Darjeeling Limited is, thankfully, a movie about learning to stop feeling sorry for yourself, not about the satisfaction of wallowing in one's own misery (proving that Anderson is a hipster only deceptively.)"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2006) |
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"When it's all over there seems something pointless about having gone through the whole thing."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(1962) |
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"It's a sad lesson for the nostalgic in all of us."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"The backgrounds, not coincidentally where the parents often are to be found, are usually blurred to emphasize Van Sant's distaste for context. As with Elephant and Last Days, he is directly concerned only with the what and not the why."
[movie review] |
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