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Sort by RATING      Sort by TITLE/YEAR      Sort by QUOTE      Sort by SOURCE       1.5/4      Easy Virtue (2009)      "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."" [movie review]      Slant Magazine       1.5/4      Eclipse (2009)      "A much duller tale than its Irish literary festival setting would suggest." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       2.5/4      The Edge of Heaven (2008)      "Akin's Head-On infused its hellish misfit romance with in-your-face violence; here even two violent deaths are rendered discreetly to the point of bloodlessness." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       2.5/4      El Niņo Pez (2009)      "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" [movie review]      Slant Magazine       2/4      Everlasting Moments (2009)      "Troell's lens doesn't consistently uncover the beauty and character we're asked to believe his heroine finds with hers." [movie review]      Slant Magazine       1.5/4      The Exploding Girl (2009)      "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" [movie review]      Slant Magazine

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