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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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"Unsettling borderline-incest and -pedophilia sequences crammed between as many clichés (and product placements) as possible."
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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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(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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(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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(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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(2008) |
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"The only problem with 4 Months%u2026 is that it comes too soon."
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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."
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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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(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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(2009) |
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"Jim and Pam: The Movie"
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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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"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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(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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"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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(2007) |
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"Essentially, the film is about acting consistently with one's faith."
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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."
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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."
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(2008) |
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"Isn't a man more than the sum of his occupation and ideology?"
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"Perhaps the purest example of the cinema's potential for pathos."
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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."
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(2008) |
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"Cloverfield is about terrorism's human effects, not its spectacle."
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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."
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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."
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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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(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.)"
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(2008) |
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"It plays for the heart, for the guts, in order to distract the head from the questionable politics it promotes--namely, fascism."
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(2006) |
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"A pleasant but slight portrait of some of life's good things."
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(2007) |
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"If anything, [the film] is a deromanticization of suicide bombing, at least its preparatory aspects, exposing them [as] relentlessly repetitive and banal, although the film manages to make them more absorbing than they have any right to be."
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(2007) |
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"Death Proof feels like it could stand to lose a reel, or all of its second half for that matter."
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"An unapologetically unromantic and downright cynical view of both war and soldierhood (no magnetic yellow ribbons here), Deathwatch...looks like an vehement counterpoint to the era's dominant strain of Anglo-American sisboombah warmongering."
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(2006) |
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"A news magazine piece, though with more prurient details than the FCC would ever permit, that merely parades repulsions around without ever directly confronting a sick and twisted man."
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"More than just a standard portrait of the artist, it's a portrait of an artist gone sincerely insane, and of the toll that the madness takes on those around him, without the romanticism history usually affords the tales of such deranged men of talent"
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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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(2009) |
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"It feels like this has all been done before. And better."
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(2007) |
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"The story is a bit unfocused, offering the viewer no way in and nothing to hold on to...Eastern Promises leaves you out in the rain from frame one."
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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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