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(1987) |
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"Even for non-fanatics, this packaging of perhaps the most beloved European film of a generation is heaven-sent."
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3.5/4 |
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(1987) |
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"It's hard to think of another movie of its era that makes the viewer so fully feel like a denizen of its setting; the roving, dollying, craning camera makes angels of us all."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A jokey mess so far from the humane, satirical alchemy of Three Kings that a revocation of the producer-star's cinematic passport to the land of military-industrial japery seems in order."
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(1969) |
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"This edition of Z lives, perhaps ironically, through the beauty of its surface and sheen."
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3/4 |
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(1969) |
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"It's still an eye-catching, fast-paced watch."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This immersive tour of the mortal manipulations fueling Europe's 17th-century cultural capital supplies wit and intellect while it starves the emotions."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Katherine Dieckmann, who demonstrated some natural comic rhythms and efficiency with actors in Diggers, is here unable to surmount the sitcom dreariness of her first original screenplay, apparently a "write-what-you-know" misjudgment."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Gives a convincing, contagious taste of its protagonist's playful optimism."
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3/4 |
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(1987) |
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"The bilingual parrying between the withholding diva and her frustrated chronicler often seems like Sunset Boulevard re-imagined as a radio play, with sex removed from the equation but marlenus interruptus aplenty."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Even more so than in the previous film, The Yes Men Fix the World indulges in faux-naïve disappointment."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"American Journey works only sporadically as a supplement to the cultural moment it chronicles, and the passionate, serendipitously intimate breadth of Frank's lens."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Perhaps as a result of channeling Ozu, Denis's incipient humanism comes through more directly than in her existentially forbidding The Intruder or even her acclaimed, baroque Herman Melville remix Beau Travail."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Chooses not to follow the money but one man's evolution in the pursuit of principle."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"An enviro-doc that doesn't soft-pedal the fact that the calculated, consciousness-raising media event it chronicles is a conceptual stunt, No Impact Man manages to present its New York do-gooder couple as both likably idealistic and inevitably conf"
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(1941) |
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"The wartime flag-waving beloved by Churchill seizes That Hamilton Woman from the rightful ownership of Vivien Leigh."
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2.5/4 |
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(1941) |
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"That Hamilton Woman gains much from Leigh's playfulness and placid beauty."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Taxidermia is merely slimy biological vaudeville."
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(1967) |
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""If you can't afford LSD, buy a color TV," or perhaps use both to dive into this heady Godardian brew."
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3.5/4 |
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(1967) |
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"The dualities that abound in Jean-Luc Godard's 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her are ubiquitous at whatever starting point one chooses."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The problem is not the farfetched contrivance of Humpday, but how unmoored it seems from anything but self-satisfied cuteness."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The lost-world aura of the film's clumsy youths provides an inexorable dig into Brezhnev-era diffidence."
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.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Local Color is a sappy brick to the audience's forehead."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A twee Danish comedy that alternates trite New Age psychological moves with outbursts of cartoonish violence."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A much duller tale than its Irish literary festival setting would suggest."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A largely sentimental documentary of the final months of the Valhalla of New York punk clubs and the failed attempts to save it."
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Sex Positive uses the dual activist/sexual outlaw persona of "safer sex" pioneer Richard Berkowitz as a prism through which to view the life-and-death struggles of an era."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Structured like a comedy, but outfitted with only the most tedious sexual-identity riffs, generic characterizations, and no singular point of view."
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(1996) |
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"Perhaps Denis's most approachable mix of humanism and erotic meditation."
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3.5/4 |
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(1996) |
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"A sibling drama of unsentimental urban grit and swooning lyricism."
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(1973) |
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"Downbeat '70s crime with Beantown vowels, and a Hollywood icon's masterful melancholy."
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3.5/4 |
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(1973) |
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"It's a slug's-eye view of autumnal Greater Boston, remote when not sleazy; even when Mitchum and Boyle attend a Bruins hockey game, it's in the nosebleed seats."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Stephan Elliott is determined to contemporize a playwright whose rhythms, concerns, and craft are all permanently bonded to the '20s art of British sophisticated escapism, art being short for "artifice.""
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(1979) |
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"A low-budget success in capturing the flesh, and some of the soul, of O'Connor's twisted salvation fable."
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3/4 |
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(1979) |
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"Huston's Wise Blood is a sharp, busy canvas that, like a man with a good car, doesn't need to be justified."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"To the annals of romantic stalker comedies, the appallingly creepy Management adds pretension and may blaze new, jaw-dropping territory: the predatory Beast totally rehabilitates Beauty."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Sergei Loznitsa's choice to intersperse footage of smiling farmers and dogma-spouting steelworkers with folk dancers and village choirs throughout Revue doesn't feel flippant, or even discordant."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This Star Trek essentially turns out to be a war film, with the occasional philosophical timeout to discuss love, friendship, and duty until the next bone-crunching fistfight or multi-weapon rumble with the Romulans."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"moothly compelling with its sleek, mass-produced shapes and beautiful minds that fetishize ergonomics and the ideal of perfectability."
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1/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Gael García Bernal and Diego Luna reunite in Rudo y Cursi to denigrate rubes from Jalisco as slow-witted provincial brothers and banana plantation workers whose unlikely rise to soccer stardom supplies the purported comedy."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"One can at least partly embrace the concept that outing pols who torpedo gay rights is defensible and still find Dick's film too frequently a would-be sensationalistic bit of tut-tutting for queer Dems and their politically-connected friends."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"With a plot recalling the fevered fictions of Jim Thompson, late Polanski, and Isabel Allende, The Fish Child banks on the sizzle of its pair of young female stars and their enactment of class and erotic tensions to flavor its Sapphic noir melodram"
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Exasperating for its mundane narrative of youthful non-courtship camouflaged by Manhattan street-video naturalism, The Exploding Girl occasionally suggests mumblecore with less improvisation and heaps of undergrad preciousness in place of snarky ir"
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3.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A revelatory howl against the still-gestating, $8 trillion-and-counting financial-services industry bailout, American Casino follows the money that changed hands, or account columns, at every step of the subprime home-loan scam."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"If you're looking for an adultery- and revenge-fueled family melodrama so subdued that it keeps a hit-and-run fatality, cuckoldry, and murder entirely off screen, Three Monkeys is your movie and Nuri Bilge Ceylan your not-so-genre-inclined auteur."
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Revanche is almost fatally reluctant to get its hands dirty, its milieu shifting on a violent twist from a grimy Vienna brothel to the rural exurbs for buckets of guilt, angst, and frequently clumsy metaphors."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"A baroque high comedy of endemic corruption, Il Divo doesn't treat the early-'90s scandal that brought down Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti as a tragedy, thriller, or tale of long-delayed comeuppance, but with resigned wit and florid carica"
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Asserts that, under a tragicomic two centuries of home misrule, the most devalued citizens of Lima have failed to be consigned to the limbo ("el olvido") the oligarchy has constructed for them."
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Kevin Macdonald can't begin to approach the paranoid genre mastery seen in the films of John Frankenheimer and Alan Pakula."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"American Violet has the necessary anger to engage its subject but also the generic topical-telefilm aesthetics that often render it glib and inauthentic."
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"At best a cute anecdote that scrapes by at just over 70 minutes."
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