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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"As loyal as Chéreau's film is to Conrad's story, the director expands its point of view by giving more authority to the female experience Conrad suppresses in his text."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Those who love Chéreau should not miss this exquisite chamber drama."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"L’Esquive consistently teeters on the brink of tragedy but dares to end on a chipper note."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"A tapestry of intersecting Hollywood lives that illuminates nothing except for writer-director Jason Freeland's obvious fondness for Short Cuts."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"New Jersey is not as ugly as Solondz would have us believe, nor is it as precious as Braff tells us, but we’ll take Garden State over Palindromes any day."
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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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(2004) |
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"In the immortal words of Bob Barker: Remember to have your pets spayed or neutered."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Strictly for those who didn’t want to crawl into the fetal position and die when Shaggy grew breasts in Monsters Unleashed."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film plays it straight and boring, chasing its predecessor's tail of mediocrity."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"What is Garmento but a lame approximation of sexier and deadlier works like Altman's The Player?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A stirring work of magical realist activism that documents over 50 years in the lives of an oppressed people."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Do you know that feline AIDS is the number one killer of domestic cats?"
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Low on context and consequence if not sex appeal, Gay Sex in the 70s is only desirable if Fleshbot is having a slow gay news week."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Romero gives his original masterpiece a modern-day reboot and scores a comeback after the dismal Land of the Dead."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2000) |
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"Sundance has never had a film this good and Criterion has made sure that we never forget it."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2000) |
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"George Washington is the closest thing we have to William Faulkner on screen"
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Not since his first film, Mala Noche, has Van Sant produced a film so pure, uncompromising and ravishing to watch."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Were you frustrated by Gerry? If so, “Salt Lake Van Sant” should equally annoy you."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"One could say that Innocence thinks so much that it ultimately has very little to say."
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Slant Magazine |
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.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Not only is the film's boo-yah opening sequence derivative of Beck's 13 Ghosts, so are all the music video tableau morts and cheesy one-liners."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2002) |
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"Acid freaks can rejoice: the DVD’s holographic cover art will give you something interesting to look at for hours on end."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2001) |
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"An ironic, humorous, painful and never pandering account of the ghostly nature that accompanies loss, hurt, regret, love and, ultimately, memory itself."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Gigante isn't a great movie, but it's likeably humble and scruffy around the edges."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Did you know that “It’s turkey time. Gobble, gobble” translates into French as “C’est l’heure d l’amuse-bouche. Scrountch, scrountch”?"
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Gigli pretends to be a sophisticated comedy of the sexes yet it’s written with the adolescent gusto of a fifty-year-old who’s finally discovered that a penis goes inside a vagina."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Call it Through a Glass Fatuously."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"John Fawcett's Ginger Snaps cleverly links lycanthropy to vaginal flow."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"One of those Chabrol productions perched awkwardly between thriller and comedy."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The filmmakers end up with one too many Superman fantasies piled up on top of each other."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Don’t bother looking for the political comedy buried somewhere beneath this 90-minute-plus male fantasy for heterosexual geeks."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Peter Webber’s gorgeous Girl With a Pearl Earring is a work of lightweight conjecture."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Yes they can swim, the title is merely Anne-Sophie Birot's off-handed way of saying girls find adolescence difficult to wade through."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Girls Will Be Girls is every bit as dull and offensive as it is frequently hysterical."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Keating wants to bust apart the myth of Giuliani's sanctification after 9/11, but with the film set to open only in New York, what he's really doing is preaching to the choir."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2009) |
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"Represents the most attractively shot twin porn off all time."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Is Terry reaching for her vagina or was he really trying to fasten her seatbelt?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Singer Carey has learned to nurture her inner kitsch, giving way to camp Mariah."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2001) |
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"The DVD incarnation of the campy Glitter deserves much more than what's offered here."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Alexis Dos Santos's artful doodle about a boy and his seething hormones in Argentina's dreary Patagonia region that recalls some of the seminal works of the New Queer Cinema movement."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Go For Zucker's humor is rooted in Jewish comic traditions, but does its broad, equal-opportunity kvetching disguise honest-to-God contempt?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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"Welcome to the seedy demimonde of the club Paradise, where Ferrara probes the dreams of lives less ordinary, including his own."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Behold, indie-rock hipsters: The Go-Getter, the cinematic navel lint from which She & Him crawled out to produce the almost cruel monotony of Volume One."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(1969) |
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"The narrative is random and disposable, which means you’ll have to settle for the allure of the film’s many women."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The assemblage of archival footage reveals itself as a rivetingly experimental evocation of the Nazi rise to power."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Something of a historical-publicity experiment, the film should only be played with by those who appreciated Downfall."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Going Under is mustier than Secretary."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Going Upriver really concerns all soldiers who returned from Vietnam only to discover that their nation had failed them."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Hung up on the nature of procedure, the film transpires in very distinct, hellish parts, as if moving slowly along the links of a great and heavy metal chain."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"Thanks to Martin Scorsese's seal of approval, Emanuele Crialese's Golden Door may now he salvaged from critical and popular disinterest."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Drably redundant, the over-praised Gomorrah may not deserve the Criterion treatment, but fans will be pleased by the solid audio/video treatment it has received."
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Slant Magazine |
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