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(2002) |
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"K-19: The Widowmaker may not be a keeper but Bigelow's films do lend themselves to repeat viewings."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"First Sergei, then Lena, now Kathryn. Who knew?"
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Slant Magazine |
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0/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Tailor-made for the K-Mart sect, K-PAX is a weepy regression fantasy for the psychologically half-conscious."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2008) |
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"There's real wit to Prendergast's aesthetic."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"However startling Delaporte’s images are, not only do they lack emotion, but a theoretical and philosophical foundation as well."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Like Kaena’s breasts, a video and audio presentation that will keep both eyes and ears popping."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2005) |
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"In spite of its individual pleasures, the film has very little in its head."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"The film is ungainly and lacks for focus, not unlike its subjects, but it has a heart as big as the Mississippi and believes in the future of New Orleans and its people."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Kandahar is Mohsen Makhmalbaf's wondrously absurd, always evocative (though sometimes heavy-handed ode) to the perpetually disguised Afghani woman."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Despite the film's offbeat premise, Kangaroo Jack's every twist and turn has been plotted with sad desperation."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2009) |
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"Kassim the Dream's aestheticization of human despair is nearly obscene."
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Village Voice |
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(2001) |
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"Wrap it up and give it to that woman in your life still hung up on Meg Ryan faking orgasms."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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""You're sucking the life out of American cinema," says a market research exec to Meg Ryan's titular Kate."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"One of the best films of the year is also one of the best looking. This DVD edition honors the film's vibrant aesthetic even if it is sadly without extras."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ranks alongside Werner Herzog's Lessons of Darkness as one of the most succinct and distressing expressions of landscape in crisis."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Less a film than a moment in time--at least that’s what Ken Park’s dreamy bookends would have you believe."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Hong's film is simply told but resonates with profound meaning."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Feels as if its being telegraphed from a cosmic fugue state, and means to get (and stay) beneath the skin."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"As in the recent Planet B-Boy, the impoverished conditions of the film's subjects matter significantly less than the rush of competition, but at least Planet B-Boy was a thrill to watch."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(1974) |
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"Quite cynically, Bava evokes a human society where no one is to be trusted."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1989) |
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"You’ve gotta love the type of show that can name their sketches “Power of My ****,” “Fat Hitch-hiker,” and “Stinky Pink.”"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film's raw, sensual realism and social consciousness brings to mind Frears's My Beautiful Laundrette."
[movie review] |
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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4/4 |
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(1966) |
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"This conflict between modern medicine and superstition lends Kill, Baby…Kill! a moral volatility that’s noticeably absent from other films in Bava’s canon."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Kill Bill: Volume 1 is a film that inspires audio-visual overloaded. Pity that it gets a video transfer here that nearly inspires blindness."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Kill Bill: Volume 1 is essentially a pop culture wanker’s failed multimedia experiment, a vacuous junk heap of dorky gags and riffs, violent anime and offensive slapstick."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"The deleted scene included on this Kill Bill: Volume 2 DVD is sure to whet everyone’s whistle until the inevitable two-film box set arrives."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"A spiritless Gen X whine."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Nowhere near as provocative as its title might imply."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's construction isn't groundbreaking but the shrill freakshow of talking heads is revealing, conveying how revolutionary spirits can spread their own form of oppressive bile."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1969) |
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"A glaring gap in movie history has now been filled with the long-awaited release of Burnett's Killer of Sheep on DVD."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Well, at least its better than Chapter 27."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Piddington never dares to diagnose Chapman's rage, settling for Wikipedia-style objectivity dressed in the more fatuous-than-provocative manner of Robinson Devor's Zoo."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1950) |
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"A class can be taught comparing British and American manners using only Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Family Jewels."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1950) |
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"The film's laughs are served on the rocks, but in spite of the humor feeling watered-down, this 1949 Ealings Studios comedy remains an interesting dissection of the pathologies of the British class system."
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Slant Magazine |
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85/100 |
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(1964) |
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"Losey creates a chilling sense of mood with nothing more than horrifying still images of a war-torn landscape."
[movie review] |
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Apollo Guide |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Some Latin boys go to hell while others just need a loving home."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Also add the film to that ever-growing list of films only Earl Dittman likes."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Between Elizabethtown, Domino, and Kingdom of Heaven, Bloom and the Brothers Scott have this week's entertainment market cornered. God help us."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"An extravagant doodle dealing with family and mental illness, this is Arnaud Desplechin's most straightforward and scattershot film to date."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"These boots, alas, are too creaky to be used for walking."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Somewhere, Jeffrey Lyons is rolling on the floor laughing."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"One question noticeably missing from the Interactive Sex Questionnaire: "When you take interactive sex questionnaires, do you easily become sexually aroused?""
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Where fools cheered the recycled explosions of Swordfish and the vapidity of Pearl Harbor, Kiss of the Dragon delivers the goods."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"For a G-rated film, Kit Kittredge's profound insight into the breakdown of society and families during the Depression and the country's subsequent rebirth is surprising."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A male weepie with a serious case of the cutes."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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1/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Forster transforms a presumably brutal and nuanced account of class difference and innocence lost into Disney-style kitsch."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"The ridiculous amount of extras packed into this two-disc DVD expand on the film's humor to unprecedented, at once hilarious and completely unnecessary degrees."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Like any Warhol/Morrissey relic, Arnon Goldfinger's The Komediant rediscovers chapters in New York's cultural past."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s Last Life in the Universe, Kontroll is another “chill out” production that’s alternately lovely and sinister."
[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(1983) |
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"Both Koyaanisqatsi and Powaqqatsi should find a comfortable home next to Baraka."
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Slant Magazine |
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