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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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(2007) |
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"Where the original was defiantly not a concert film, but a chronicle of the astonished hubbub surrounding the first hipster folksinger, the follow-up's treasure lies with seven intact live performances."
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(2009) |
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"The heart of Mottola's autobiographical paean to young male mortification lies in the one-on-one scenes between his able leads, Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart."
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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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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For all the use of first takes and jerky camera moves, the John Cassavetes invoked by Baghead is not the indie pioneer saint but his Faustian thespian-husband character in Rosemary's Baby."
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director and co-writer Joseph Cedar loses all goodwill accumulated by his competent, plausibly close-knit cast with heavy-handed use of clichés."
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(1994) |
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"A still relevant call for communion among diverse African-American communities, and an elegy for an activist-artist."
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The directors balance portraying an everyday sense of the adolescents' wartime anxiety with the more commonplace juvenile relief."
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(1970) |
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"Camp it up, Mary, the Boys have been culturally rehabilitated, remastered and are drunk-dialing your number."
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3/4 |
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(1970) |
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"The sizzle of the bon mot%u2013tossing ensemble, intact from the stage original, is bracing and fuels the film's momentum."
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(2006) |
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"The mythic nuttiness gets under your skin just as these archetypal figures gradually penetrate each other’s subterfuges, skulls, and orifices.
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(2008) |
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"An anti-conspiracy lampoon of conspiracy thrillers, the Coens' Burn After Reading paints its floundering Washington inhabitants as intractably or even fatally stupid."
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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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(1987) |
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"Sembene never descends into the one-note shrillness of Spike Lee at his worst."
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(1987) |
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"A key postcolonial work of remembrance from Africa's father of film gets proper dissemination"
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(1967) |
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"The slick gospel of Luke is delivered with star sheen and ensemble luster in this middling package."
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(1967) |
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"Newman remains watchable and glamorous throughout, bloody, muddy or coated in torso-flattering sweat, but the film's efforts to sentimentally "humanize" him by psychological revelation are clumsy."
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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"As fine-looking a 3D stop-motion fantasy that four years of top-flight craftsmanship can produce."
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(1951) |
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"Iconic from the get-go."
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(1951) |
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"Supplying even screenwriter North's translation of "Klaatu barada nikto," this classic's new package has all a fan needs save for a model ship."
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"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."
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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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(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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(1973) |
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"Downbeat '70s crime with Beantown vowels, and a Hollywood icon's masterful melancholy."
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(1927) |
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"The General isn't likely to be the favorite opus of the star's purist fans, but it's the one with the trappings of ambition and historical poesy"
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(1927) |
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"The newly burnished look of a silent-cinema landmark demands a fresh gaze at Keaton's least characteristic great film."
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(2008) |
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"Glass's status as one of America's most venerated and mocked highbrows matches gracefully with his peripatetic cultural and spiritual life."
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(2008) |
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"Gran Torino being a Clint showcase helmed by the Last Movie Star himself, Walt's reformation is nearly inevitable, but skirts being cloying on the strength of the 78-year-old icon's raspy brusqueness."
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(2009) |
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"Grounds the life-and-death struggles of the downtrodden in the quotidian: where to sleep, how to get clean, who to love."
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(2008) |
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"An accomplished generational anecdote ... the subject still feels mostly like "just a football game.""
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Among the recent wave of music documentaries on the marginally infamous, this video history gets its juice from a love-hate affair with the vibe of a graying boho remake of The Sunshine Boys."
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(1969) |
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"Its poetics of insurrection still resonate with any armchair anarchists who’ve even fleetingly wished death to their oppressors.
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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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"The restless, mini-DV-camera-shot visual style of Lior Shamriz's semi-improvised fiction matches the wanderlust of its twentysomething gay hero."
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(2006) |
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"Both technical grace and an efficient ensemble smooth over some...clunky plotting."
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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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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A true tall tale that unfolds like the Great Unwritten Cold War Rock Novel."
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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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(1979) |
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"Mondo Video is far from the most refined or successful expression of O'Donoghue's darkly antic vision, but its spray of seething, occasionally fetishistic buckshot is unmistakably in its master's voice."
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(1979) |
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"A deserved dust-off for an aggressive form of stoner comedy long supplanted by Brand Apatow."
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3.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The dominant Maddin is the narrating filmmaker, more palpably present than usual in the sound of his voice, bemoaning a lost golden age of his hometown faced absurdities of the tall tale."
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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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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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(2006) |
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"Leesong Hee-il's miserabilist l'amour fou might seem on its surface to lack either the Sirkian glow or Fassbinderesque kick to make its melodrama work--and it does, but Leesong seasons the familiar hokeyness with some flair."
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(1959) |
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"The picture is hugely pleased with itself, but it's too funny and expertly calibrated to mind in the least."
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(1959) |
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"There is no George Kaplan, but there is still spiffy, hypnotic pleasure in this apex of the Master's perpetual-motion mode."
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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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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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(2008) |
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"Operation Filmmaker occasionally verges on damning its subject--one of the most gripping characters seen this year on film--for being a cagey, arrogant, single-minded narcissist, but hey, that's showbiz."
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