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C- |
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(2008) |
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"Frontier(s)' politics are so blatant...that they're insignificant; writer-director Gens is far more concerned with fashioning a pointless exercise in gore."
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Cinepinion |
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C+ |
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(2008) |
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"Laugier's ideas are so thin that most of the second half involves Morjana Alaoui vomiting in between getting punched in the gut and smacked in the face."
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2008) |
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"The actors...are all terrible...but as [the characters] settle down into horror movie archetypes, the movie picks up: it becomes old-fashioned (as in Raimi-esque) fun..."
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"A bit dim-witted, [but] what it lacks in intellectualism it makes up for in formal moxie..."
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Up begins as a shrewd film that suggests a need to protect the good parts of the past while discounting the bad. But it ends with a moral discomfiting in its plain-and-simpleness: out with the old, in with the new."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"Did Hasbro produce this in association with the Department of Defense and Palin 2012?"
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Like [Superbad], Year One essentially follows two sex-crazy guys as they wander through a nightmarish dry dream, in which the coitus is perpetually interruptus."
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The L Magazine |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Is The Postman Always Rings Twice a novel rooted in steamy sex or in social conditions? Solicit an American's opinion and you're sure to hear that it's about the sex. The hot, violent sex."
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"Is The Postman Always Rings Twice a novel rooted in steamy sex or in social conditions? Solicit an American's opinion and you're sure to hear that it's about the sex. The hot, violent sex."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"A lame, clueless, exhaustingly straight-faced portrait of the contemporary city."
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The L Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The worst thing about Woody's latest is Larry David."
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Slant Magazine |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"From any objective standard, [Egoyan's] films...are awful. So why are they so damn appealing?"
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"A glum, existential, psycho-philosophical mystery rooted in the tropes of retro sci-fi [is also] an exploration of space madness, the modern married man and corporate ethics."
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The filmmakers, like their characters, [are] just a bunch of asses, perpetuating the worst of society."
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Goofy old-school racism..."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"[There's] nothing really going on here: spectacle after dull spectacle, broken by America's horseplaying comic nobility on cruise control, as though just showing up is funny."
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Cormac McCarthy for the Transformers crowd."
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The L Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Yamada and crew almost go so far as to suggest that the Japanese had their A-bombs coming to them, if it weren't for the achingly sympathetic family at the film's core."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1964) |
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"The very Cold War Strangelove doesn't feel so relevant at the moment--unless we apply its nuclear anxieties not to American politics but to, say, Pakistan."
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"The first Obama-era blockbuster. Sort of, anyway."
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Cinepinion |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A makeshift-family affair: the Spanish-language version of the Apatow Dumpling Gang's excuse-for-a-vacation Forgetting Sarah Marshall, or the Soderberghers' excuse-to-hang-out Ocean's series."
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The L Magazine |
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D+ |
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(2009) |
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"An exercise in pseudo-stylishness finds Jarmusch clinging to a faded notion of what constitutes cool, to an ideal of hip that smacks distastefully of the '90s--back when this brand of indie-pretentious, faux-mystical hitman bull could pass muster."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"More Iron Man/Dark Knight hyperjingoistic bull - a Bush-era hangover spoiling Obama's first early-summer blockbuster season."
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The L Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"The story's joints creak under gutsy narrative demands, but Gilroy's serviceable direction manages to keep the scriptopuzzle together. The film's pleasures derive from watching him get away with it."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"On the one hand, we should commend horror directors that choose not to revel too long in geysers of blood (for not "Eli Rothing"); on the other, build-up without satisfying denouement is exasperating."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Anglo and American comic actors are meeting somewhere in the middle, finally catching up with their country's politicians who have been collaborating, troublesomely, for years."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Instead of a bloody political thriller, something quiet, complex and unexpected emerges: a moral tragi-tale sans heroes and villains."
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Each story adds up to nothing individually...and The Informers is exactly the sum of its parts."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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C |
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(2009) |
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"It feels like this has all been done before. And better."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"A Technicolor photocopy pastiching pastiche. It fetishizes not the 1950's but its empty pop culture signifiers. And as such, it doesn't just signify nothing--it's insignificant."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"At turns compelling and dull, moving and irritating, funny and eye rolling--much like A Chorus Line itself."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"Unsettling borderline-incest and -pedophilia sequences crammed between as many clichés (and product placements) as possible."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"For better or worse, this is Tyson on Tyson--not The True Story of Mike Tyson."
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The L Magazine |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"If Caine were as sick as his character appears, this would be a worthy performance to go out on, regardless of the iffy material that it supports."
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Cinepinion |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Demonstrates the difficulties that result from leaving home to find work, but in classic B-movie fashion it has a lot of fun with it too:"
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Monsters vs. Aliens is really Gays vs. The Church"
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The L Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A serio-charming slice of Iranian neo-realism [that] shrouds grave matters like despondence and destitution in the trappings of a culture-contrast comedy."
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The L Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Matt Aselton cites Buñuel as an influence, but he fails to understand the difference between being a surrealist and being a nonsense-ist."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"The calm and calming film's sauntering, sand-bogged rhythms are as soothing as a holiday's; to take in Megane is to take a quick vacation, or at least enjoy a lazy day."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"If this is with whom us average Americans are supposed to empathize, we deserve our recession."
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The L Magazine |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"A deceptively airy romance: a love story in love with stories, a work of art in love with art...that unfolds by folding in on itself."
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The L Magazine |
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C+ |
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(2009) |
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"It's more CW than Canal Plus, and there's nothing wrong with that--in theory, anyway."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2009) |
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"Taken is a knuckleheaded action movie about kidnapping and sex slavery. Or, Taken is a subversive thriller about girls gone wild and American hegemony. Or, both."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The Perfect Sleep is an empty homage to a bygone genre."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Now is not the time to venerate kings."
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Slant Magazine |
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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Kurosawa has fashioned his masterpiece: a biting, sensitive and comprehensible film that is also human, contemporary and political."
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The L Magazine |
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A- |
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(2007) |
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"An artful, strong-arming genre picture...Deftly paced and plotted, impeccably executed with a style no less than Kubrickian."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2008) |
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"That a documentary focused on the Twin Towers should be so focused on death...is fitting. Man on Wire's ostensible tribute to risk-taking fizzles, and the film is instead reborn as a loving tribute to the Towers."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2009) |
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"It succeeds photographically, as neo-realism, but with its focus spread across so many characters and shallow stories, it offers little personal or emotional insight, let alone context, into its visual revelations."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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2/5 |
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(2007) |
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"Had [Wajda] been able to make the movie at the other end of his 50-year career, it might not seem as trite and forgettable as it does now."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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