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"...goes on so long it starts to feel like the fifth piece of chocolate cake when two or three would have been more enjoyable."
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7/10 |
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"...by the end of the 88 minute journey you'll learn more about contemporary Afghanistan than you will from a month of watching television news in the United States."
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"But the main message ... is that movie studios think a lot of people will pay good money to see Sandra Bullock humiliate herself yet again in front of the camera."
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"If there's an overarching theme it's that people respond to incentives and so regulation of the financial market is necessary to see that the incentives offered are not perverse."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"American Harmony is the Pumping Iron of barbershop quartet singing."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Dabis wisely keeps her film firmly grounded in the personal and specific...focusing on the experiences of one family which she makes us care about."
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9/10 |
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"...a complex and morally ambiguous story which rewards the audience's attention without resorting to pushing their buttons."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"It certainly helps that Gervasi has a sense of humor... the band's adventures often resemble a real-life version of This is Spinal Tap"
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7/10 |
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"Edel doesn't force an interpretation on the audience: instead his film provides an experience which raises questions rather than answering them."
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4/10 |
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"...reduces the complexities of human relationships to a series of aphorisms and sitcom-like scenes, each of which is carefully designed to teach a lesson or establish a plot point."
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6/10 |
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"A creative community is as fragile an ecosystem as any salt marsh and just as easily destroyed: Chelsea on the Rocks celebrates a hotel which nurtured some of the greatest talents of the twentieth century."
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6/10 |
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"Cherry Blossoms is not a complete train wreck, although at 127 minutes it's way too long for the ground that it covers."
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6/10 |
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"The script...adheres closely to biopic conventions but is brought alive by the magnetic performance of Tautou with strong support particularly from Poelvoorde and Devos."
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7/10 |
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"The actors are interesting rather than glamorous, their acting style consistently low-key, and their triumphs and failures realized on a human rather than grandiose scale."
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6/10 |
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"...feels like two films, one which is a perceptive and naturalistic study of modern life in Japan, and one which is an animated Hallmark card of montages and soaring strings..."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...mostly a celebration of gray eminences who are very satisfied with themselves."
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5/10 |
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"While all the pieces are there for an intriguing film, John Maybury's The Edge of Love never really becomes anything."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Director Kate Churchill's acknowledged struggles to impose a story on ... six months' worth of documentary footage is not particularly successful..."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Everlasting Moments ... returns the viewer to a time before reproduced images had saturated our culture..."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Every Little Step is on firmer ground with the 2006 revival; the filmmakers' great coup was winning the right ..to film the audition process."
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6/10 |
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"Five Minutes of Heaven is a frustrating inconsistent film which provides a vehicle for some truly outstanding acting..."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Garrone avoids punching the usual emotional buttons: His stories have no heroes, his crime lords no glamour, and his victims no nobility."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Given how conventional and formulaic The Great Buck Howard is, it's a wonder that it works as well as it does."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince won't win any awards for intellectual depth, but it's a thoroughly enjoyable summer movie..."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Bigelow has taken the truism that "movies are life with the boring bits cut out" to the extreme..."
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7/10 |
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"... Sorrentino avoids the dreary conventions of the biopic in favor of a cheeky mix of music montages, dramatic re-enactments and hilariously deadpan takes ...."
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9/10 |
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"...gives equal time to our brethren across the Atlantic who are no less status-obsessed and have much more impressive collections of expletives..."
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1/10 |
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"Seldom has one movie offered so much fertile ground for ridicule..."
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8/10 |
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"In a just world, the Dardenne brothers would be as well known as the Coens; outside the United States they probably are already."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Moon has heart, brains and a sense of humor, not to mention some nifty model-based special effects ... and a blockbuster performance by Sam Rockwell..."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Despite opening with a statement that basketball should be a means to an end rather than an end in itself, the film itself is about 99.9% basketball."
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2/10 |
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"It's too bad My Life in Ruins fails so miserably at the macro level, because there are some good moments at the micro level."
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"If this sounds like a stunt, it is. But it's tough to get a book contract these days."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"In comparison with the documentary feature Anvil! The Story of Anvil...the main difference is that NOFX Backstage Passport is a lot more fun."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...this Paris is a fantasy unlikely to be encountered by either tourist or resident, but considered as a travelogue for intellectuals, it's an enjoyable way to spend a few hours"
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6/10 |
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"This is a film which does not take itself seriously and sends up everything from A Perfect Storm to Spartacus to Titanic as well as every teenage music flick you've ever seen."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The quiet cinematography by Martin Gschlacht underscores the film's emphasis on characters rather than action while placing the characters in very specific contexts..."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The best segments of Revolution '67 are those concerning the riots themselves, which contrast contemporary media coverage with eyewitness testimony from many individuals..."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Above all, Fukunaga has great respect for his characters and their story."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...Meadows' method of working with improvised scenes shot in long takes gives it a sense of emotional truth which is lacking in many more ambitious films."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Many films have shown more explicit (and often gratuitous) violence, but the impact is greater in this film as it is intensely personal ..."
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Kurosawa's relaxed pacing and lack of concern for explaining every last thing will be a welcome relief if you've wearied of blockbusters..."
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3/10 |
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(2009) |
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"The role of Boris was written for Zero Mostel, who just might have been able to pull it off. But with David instead of vulnerable humanity you get a lot of agitated monologues..."
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9/10 |
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(2009) |
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"As in most sports movies, the matches are really a means to an end, in this case the maturation of Bliss from a compliant but unhappy daughter to a young woman who knows her own mind."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...Williams delivers a scarily plausible portrait of a sad sack whose need for success is so great he doesn't hesitate to exploit his son's death..."
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6/10 |
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(2009) |
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"... a good introduction to Gertrude Berg for those who have never heard of her and a pleasant journey down nostalgia lane for those who grew up with her shows."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Sometimes the village looks like an antique postcard come to life, at other times like outtakes from a lost Marx Brothers film or an overly precious PBS documentary."
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7/10 |
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(2008) |
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"If Anita O'Day had to choose a motto for her life, it would probably be "That's how it went down.""
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4/10 |
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(2008) |
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"Sometimes Appaloosa seems bent on exploiting the standard cliches of the western genre ...while at others it seems striving to be a modernist update full of ambiguity ..."
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6/10 |
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(2008) |
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"...Ballerina looks behind the scenes ...to offer a closer look at the system of selection, training and rehearsal which keeps Russian ballet the envy of the world."
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