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A |
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(2008) |
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"The film's psychological and metaliterary complexities take a backseat to its madcap pleasures...Mad Detective, at root, is a flawless genre film."
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(1985) |
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"Van Sant explicitly avoids any moralizing or psychologizing, forcing the viewer to follow suit or succumb to dead-ended, frustrating speculation"
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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."
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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."
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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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(1971) |
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"[The film] is, in the end, just a failed experiment, a complete 180 from the standard Hollywood form, when all it needs is just a bit of complexity and ambiguity...it's simply black instead of white, when what it really ought to be is gray."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Too often [its] dialogue smacks of college-freshman outrage...and stale insight, though its identity-crisis concerns and sense of injustice are well-intentioned."
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The L 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."
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The L Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"What the film lacks in complexity it makes up for in moxie."
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The L Magazine |
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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."
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Cinepinion |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"While Winterbottom's personal stamp is observably present, ultimately A Mighty Heart belongs to Jolie...[which is] unfortunate because Winterbottom's the stronger filmmaker"
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"It might not be lauded in the film history textbooks, but gay-bashing America needs it right now."
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(1947) |
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"Verdoux no longer asks anything of us but to feel gratified, which must be why its reputation has, over the last several decades, blossomed."
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Cinepinion |
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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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(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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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"That the characters here are 'real' makes little difference; they're still, at this point, cliches, belying the promise of the Levittown Dream for the thousandth time."
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The L Magazine |
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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"."
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2008) |
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"My Winnipeg is a travelogue only of the director's subconscious."
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