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(1956) |
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"An actor's piece, a supreme example of The Power of the Method...about a South in transformation, both economically and culturally."
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 A- |
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(2008) |
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"Think Hannah Gets Pushed Down the Stairs. Or Hell-OL."
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 A |
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(1975) |
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"Barry Lyndon is akin to a three hour walk through the Metropolitan Museum of Art while listening to a book on tape."
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(2008) |
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"Gondry finds his pathos in the tragic disconnect between life and invention."
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(2009) |
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"Bujalski is the Apatow of the Underground."
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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."
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(2002) |
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"The Believer is nothing but a cheap-indie, not merely in its production values, which would be forgivable, but in its tone and style."
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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."
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(2008) |
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"A non-polemical rebuttal to the Palinheads tired of apologizing for America, The Betrayal shows there's still plenty to be sorry about."
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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."
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(1999) |
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"Perfectly tapped into the pre-millennial, late-Clinton-era zeitgeist."
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(1986) |
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"A Nancy Drew nightmare of suburban depravity...but Velvet tackles more than red-county debauchery; it's not only about sex in America but sex in movies."
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(2009) |
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"A parable about The Wars, about Americans' willingness to kill strangers in exchange for prosperity--as long as they don't have to get their own hands dirty, of course."
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(2007) |
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"Breach's execution is American moviemaking not at its worst, but at its most frustratingly mediocre."
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(2007) |
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"The film's purpose is to Christianize an ungodly book."
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(2009) |
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"Almodóvar's movie about movies...feels half-realized, the hasty production of an unpolished draft."
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(2009) |
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"Bruno, really, works as a parodic primer on How to Become a Celebrity, mocking A- through D-listers, as well as those who aren't even on a list..."
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