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3/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Staggeringly exposes the high-to-low complicity of many hands in the international captivity trade, though mostly it stands as a testament to one man's activist spirit and a reminder of how all social progress comes from the passion of the individual."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The end result isn't a relaxed and incantatory celebration of cross-cultural friction that finds emotional and spiritual resonance in the mundane, a la The Secret of the Grain, but a sitcomish harangue."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"From beginning to end, the director understands that life for most immigrants is an expansive turf war."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Manon on the Asphalt is a whimsical evocation of a woman's life flashing before her eyes, but On the Line is the real standout here."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1965) |
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"Buñuel's mini-masterpiece has smitten Patti Smith and Monty Python; all that's left now is the cult of Mel Gibson."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1962) |
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"One of the great cherry bombs of cinema finally gets the release it deserves, even if its characters are still clamoring for their own."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Back in Iraq, the film's trite, unexamined spectacle of men and women behaving badly proceeds."
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Village Voice |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Would that Morel had infused the project with the same variety of style he brought to District B13, but the subtle insights of the script and Neeson's splendiferous range more than pick up the slack."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Remarkable for bringing a little-known story of one woman's great courage and conviction to our attention but is most notable for director Roberta Grossman's dully strenuous cinematic sense."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"There isn't a malicious bone in the film's body."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"The shot of Blart quietly crawling into a hostage situation inside the mall's bank and walking through a roped line is a moment of absurd grace, only it's shot with the vulgarity of a Crash Test Dummies commercial."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Tiger's Tail, like Cassandra's Dream, prominently features a boat that is both symbol of financial attainment and emotional ruin; it also finds a master filmmaker defying the "show, don't tell" principle with almost crippling cynicism."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"One reacts to Joel Hopkins's Last Chance Harvey with about the same level of revulsion directed at its titular character by the people around him."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"The film's calculatingly minimalist style is in many ways as affected as all the gay Amerindie films at which writer-director Yen Tan snottily thumbs his nose."
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Village Voice |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Never feels philosophically uncommitted, nor does it scan as neo-colonialist exploitation."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Clearly Van Sant struggled to deliver something as conventional as he has, but if his visual digressions aren't exactly subversive, they affect a feeling of angst that's very much in sync with the time period depicted in the film."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Quaintly shot and paced, not unlike Shotgun Stories, but insanely over-written, Lake City dumps on audiences a plot that consists of 500-some-odd puzzle pieces that all come together exactly as you expect."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The material has been playfully updated, made into a parable of gay desire and wish fulfillment, but its significance remains the same, right down to Timothy's understanding that free will must ultimately be restored."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Give me the first Hellboy any day, but it's always fun to see the new creatures Del Toro comes up with for his netherworlds."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The end result not only constitutes an uncomfortable--dare I say, inorganic--collusion of fact and fiction but also suggests we're being indoctrinated into a cult."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"The film never quite recovers from writer-director Damian Harris's dithering way of shooting things."
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Village Voice |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Mijke de Jong employs a fractured style to match the personalities of its characters, but this synchronicity isn't so much heartfelt as it is solipsistic."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Give me torture porn any day."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Without its weirdo visual flourishes, The Guitar would be completely reprehensible."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Issues of class don't matter to the filmmakers, who pride above all else Fandila's justifications for what he does, romanticizing the possibility of his dying while giving the bulls he dances with the shaft."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Balthazar's aesthetic is ugly, aloof, maddeningly literal and unimaginative."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"In the end, it probably doesn't matter if you think Not Your Typical Bigfoot Movie is in fact a documentary, because the film's psychoanalysis is dull and reductive."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Pure bliss, Malick's incantatory New World suspends us in time--regardless of how long it runs."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"All that's missing from this Edenic scenario is Cyndi Lauper belting "Living High and Mighty.""
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Scraggly and aimless, a little cartoonish but highly personable."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The film means well, but it's hardly cutting, made notable only by Bernett's performance."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1959) |
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"It's always cool to spend time with Sleeping Beauty, but without a game that allows you to determine if you're more like Aurora or Maleficent, this Platinum Edition package falls just shy of definitive."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated."
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L.A. Weekly |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Changeling announces itself as an autopsy of an expansive body of lies that it never actually performs, and as such the surprisingly graceless and phony aesthetic is what lingers most."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Essentially the equivalent of a news story where the facts are still forthcoming."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"This ain't Elephant, even if it looks like one."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Or, rather, Allah Made Me Not Funny."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"What are these two privileged teens doing besides recreating scenes from Jean-Luc Godard's canon?"
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A more interesting exposé would have elaborated on the dreams of film schoolers and how Singer's ostensibly privileged upbringing gives him an advantage few in his league ever get."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As fabulous, scraggly, tough-minded, star-eyed and conflicted as the queen it documents."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"A preferable alternative would be watching Debbie Does Dallas while squirting Hershey's Syrup into my mouth."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"You may appreciate the ballsy critique of a nation's callous obsession with development and reconstruction."
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Village Voice |
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(2008) |
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"Tarr struggles to adapt to an outmoded genre and, in the end, produces his least personal work to date."
[movie review] |
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Village Voice |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"This gangly brunette is bananas, and the music on the soundtrack is perfectly in sync with her kooky mode of social expression, so that she suggests Mary Pickford as well as Polly Jean Harvey."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Argues that nearly 60,000 United States armed forces wouldn't have lost their lives in Vietnam had John F. Kennedy not been assassinated. Duh."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"It seems disingenuous to call Fraulein a film when it's more like a glossy fashion magazine layout."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Suggests a Black Snake Moan origin story as conceived by Blanche Devereaux."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A kissing cousin of Todd Field and Todd Solondz, Ball suffocates audiences with a guttersniping view or suburban life, a Haggassian act of exploitation that misrepresents even the most fundamental modes of human interaction."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Director Paul Krik would prefer if we all compared his feature-length debut to the practically minimalist The Parallax View, but Able Danger is really a hipster version of Soderbergh's inane The Good German."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"The Pool conveys a sense of having been made, not found, but Smith avoids mawkishness and has an ear for how young people speak and relate to one another."
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