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(2004) |
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"“You Bled My Momma. You Bled My Poppa. But You Wont Bleed Me.” Words to live by."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"BAADASSSSS! is a celebration of Melvin’s struggle to make Baadassss Song on his own terms despite an endless string of financial and personal mishaps."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Comparisons to Crash are fair only up to a point, given how Babel is prone to sacrificing character at the altar of the almighty shock tactic, but the film more accurately brings to mind the schematic, globe-trotting Syriana."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Baby Mama confirms that if Tina Fey is in something she didn't write herself, it just ain't funny."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Woefully reductive and painful."
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Village Voice |
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3.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"La Espalda del Mundo. It's an evocative title that reinforces the second-class citizenship of director Javier Corcuera's documentary subjects."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"With Back to Normandy, a nostalgic travelogue with philosophical aspirations, director Nicolas Philibert not only returns to the scene of a crime but the scene of a movie shoot."
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Slant Magazine |
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35/100 |
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(1995) |
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"Nice to look at, the film's glum Miami Vice plot is subverted by the jiggy flavour of a film that’s nothing more than an excuse for Martin Lawrence and Will Smith to play cops and robbers for two hours."
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Apollo Guide |
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0/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Michael Bay’s latest jingoistic fetish film, Bad Boys II, could be the most vile creation to come out of Hollywood since Patch Adams."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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""Welcome to my church, where we worship money," says the film's Czech ghoul. Words fit for Bruckheimer."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Almodóvar’s canvas—like that of another hot-blooded drama queen, Federico García Lorca—is one of uncensored emotion and pure energy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"I wonder if Gael García Bernal is paying his electric bill beneath that blob of squares covering his head, which seems to be undulating up and down between a man’s legs."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"Fans of the film will want to opt for the Region 2 disc of the film if they wish to hear Kim yap away over the non-stop spectacle of female degradation.
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"A potty-mouthed reconfiguration of a sports classic for our Bad Santa age. Funny stuff."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Not to be confused with Life with Judy Garland, Bad Santa is the perfect DVD to use to entertain unexpected guests and small children."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Baise-moi is the kind of film that Ferrara would have made during the 70s, when Times Square was something more than a Disney theme park."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Lance Hammer's Ballast suggests and suffers from the influence of the Dardenne brothers."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The filmmakers truly understand the symbolic struggle of Cubans trying to escape their island home’s political and economic suppression."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Someone, quick, put Balseros on George W. Bush's Netflix."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"After the resonant and lyrical experience of Sissako's criminally unseen Waiting for Happiness, which could have been an alternate title for Bamako, this new film represents a colossal downgrade."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Never has a film with Luc Besson's fingerprints on it popped so little, but only directors Joachim Roenning and Espen Sandberg are to blame for the film's lack of imagination."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Shamelessly devoid of subtext, Barry Levinson's Bandits is a pointless ode to modern-day Robin Hoods."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Hawn's lively spirit and nasty potty mouth makes The Banger Sisters easier to swallow."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Oxide and Danny Pang transform Bangkok into ready-made speed for the raver sect."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Never thought I would stay this, but give me another hit of Crank instead."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Baran is shockingly devoid of your typical Majid Majidi shoe-loving, crippled children."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Father’s day is over, but what better way to show good old Dad that you love him (or hate him) by giving him a copy of The Barbarian Invasions."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Privileged audiences that swooned for Decline of the American Empire should expect more of the same oh-so-witty jibber-jabber and specious political “noise” exchanged between Arcand’s motley intellectuals."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Barbershop is ennobled by its simplicity but it offers nothing daring or refreshing on the topic of race or civic relations."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The red, white, and blue barber’s pole is getting a little rusty, but fans of the wholesome franchise probably couldn’t care less."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This is the most dubious animation since Robert Zemeckis's creepy The Polar Express, only uglier, lazier, and with a more indisputable racist streak."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Consists largely of nasty knocks against the fat, old, and Asian, all of whom are framed in cramped compositions that suggest the influence of Simpsons animation cells and Ulrich Seidl."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Jonathan Parker's Bartleby should have been the be-all-end-all of the modern-office anomie films."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"McTiernan’s Basic is just that: a mundane military thriller whose only goal is to appeal to an audience’s basic desire to be tricked into multiple corners."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"No, Basic Instinct 2 will not cure cancer, but it isn't trashy enough to give you gonorrhea."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Stone doesn't so much enter and leave the film of her own volition so much as she's carted on and off like Hannibal Lecter, the difference being that she'd rather sit on your face than bite it off."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Image is serviceable but the audio delivers the goods."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Should the audience choose to take this film on, the battle that's waged here is against conventional artistic expressions of political and sexual turmoil.
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"9 Songs was sexy but meant nothing. Battle in Heaven is unattractive but meaningful."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Good-hearted and intelligent, Be Kind Rewind still lacks for the gravitas of The Science of Sleep."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"An appalling mix of bird-brained satire, sub-protozoan thesping, and (non-)direction."
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Village Voice |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Cachorro sets out to prove that not every gay man looks like Montgomery Clift or Rock Hudson—some, in fact, look like Dom DeLuise."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1999) |
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"Beau Travail is an allegorical tale of revenge and jealousy set within a French Foreign Legion outpost in Africa."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The birth of Parinya’s gender struggle is Freudian to the nth degree, but the confusion is evoked as a magical-realist pageantry of clashing cultural and sexual signifiers."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Persistence is everything in Asghar Farhadi's visually undistinguished but affecting Beautiful City, a simple film about the power of forgiveness."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"There are enough features on Universal's A Beautiful Mind disc to make anyone crazy."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A Beautiful Mind is like a brick to the head to anyone who ever winced at the utterance of "infinity plus one.""
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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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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"So, can anyone tell me what the Czech word for magnolia is?"
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Life is a stage in the film%u2014a feeling confirmed by the final shot, in which the characters arrange furniture and pose for the audience, waiting for a standing ovation that will never come."
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Slant Magazine |
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