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A- |
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(2007) |
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"Porumboiu implies it doesn't matter who started the revolution as much as it matters what's happening right now and what's going to happen tomorrow. In Romania, it seems like not much."
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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."
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2003) |
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"t could be accused of uneven-ness but, rather, I think the disparate sections speak to its broad, complex and multilayered assessment of modern life. It's far-reaching without ever becoming muddled or unfocused."
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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""The rage virus," which turns the population into irrational, blood-thirsty brutes and activates a vicious military campaign, becomes an apt metaphor for the frenzied fear of terrorism pervading the post-9/11 (and post 7/7) West."
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(2005) |
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"I suppose it could mark the way in which true love survives all obstacles, or show how love dies in the face of modernity's oppressive institutions. Either way, it's beautifully beguiling."
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Cinepinion |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"I'm all for revising the old ways and means, but palimpsestic films like 3:10 to Yuma ought not forget nor elide those things that used to work just fine, like lapidary storytelling."
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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."
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"In the Reagan years, there were subversive critiques of disingenuous "family values" moral posturing in films like 1987's The Stepfather; today, in the George W. Bush era, we have The Abandoned."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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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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"Palely imitative...which no amount of Bela Tarr pacing, no cloak of arthouse legitimacy, can hide. This **** is a sham."
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The L Magazine |
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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."
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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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C+ |
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(2007) |
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"Though a pointless orgy of sex, drugs, vulgarity and violence, there's admittedly something alluring about Cassavetes' stylized vision of contemporary teenage debauchery"
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"Another clich-soused bildungsscreenplay. So, that on screen it's anything other than an object of infuriation is a near-miracle, one that owes its...lack of utter failure to its stellar cast and its extra-Hollywood pedigree."
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The L Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"For a while it's wonderful...grappling with the contours of grief, the effects of toddler suicide, the limits of psychotherapy and the dynamics of marriage. And then Charlotte Gainsbourg has to spoil it all by doing something stupid..."
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The L Magazine |
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B+ |
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(2006) |
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"Apocalypto seems meant as a parable for what happens to the unChristianized savage--is it supposed to serve as a warning for secular humanists with their rampant abortions and callous stem cell research?"
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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(2007) |
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"Dominik's film may be lengthy, but it's never digressive nor superfluous; he knows exactly where he's been going the entire time."
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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."
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Cinepinion |
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1/5 |
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(2008) |
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"Luhrmann is...a parodist. And this is his Epic Movie."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Jim and Pam: The Movie"
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Cinepinion |
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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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The L Magazine |
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A- |
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(2008) |
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"Think Hannah Gets Pushed Down the Stairs. Or Hell-OL."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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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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Cinepinion |
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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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B- |
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(2009) |
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"Bujalski is the Apatow of the Underground."
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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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D+ |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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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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4/5 |
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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."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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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."
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Cinepinion |
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A- |
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(1999) |
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"Perfectly tapped into the pre-millennial, late-Clinton-era zeitgeist."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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A |
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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."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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C+ |
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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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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."
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Cinepinion |
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(2009) |
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"Almodóvar's movie about movies...feels half-realized, the hasty production of an unpolished draft."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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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..."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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B |
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(2007) |
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"Essentially, the film is about acting consistently with one's faith."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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4/5 |
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(2008) |
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"We have no choice but to call Cargo 200 a horror movie...like the best horror movies, though, it's no mere revulser but a violent political parable."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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A- |
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(1971) |
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"Carnal Knowledge does nothing if not remind us that life in post-war America was a lot dirtier than we're often led to believe."
[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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B |
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(2008) |
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"Isn't a man more than the sum of his occupation and ideology?"
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"[Director Desplechin] has a knack with actors, and for up-close, liberated filmmaking, but he has little sense of how to fit the pieces together."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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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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A |
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(2008) |
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"The student-teacher movie finally done right...[it] unobtrusively doubles as a microcosmic exploration of France's failed melting pot society; Cantet handles the literal and the symbolic with dexterity, allowing both to exist independently."
[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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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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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"[It] might be thematically unremarkable, even dishearteningly cynical, but it compensates with an unpredictable visual vocabulary that's anything but."
[movie review] |
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The L Magazine |
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B |
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(2008) |
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"A parade of insipid insight [that] unexpectedly finds strength in the simplicity of an inevitably tragic love story."
[movie review] |
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Cinepinion |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Deceptively, it goes down in a flash, easy and breezy, but its complexity, optimism and joie de cinema linger."
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