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4/4 |
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(1930) |
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"L'Age d'Or: Where thwarted love must transcend itself in order to win its war against oppression."
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(1930) |
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"L’Age d’Or still resonates as a recipe for cultural revolution."
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4/4 |
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(1960) |
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"Characters root themselves separately in background and foreground planes, their emotional distance rendered via the director's unnerving use of deep focus."
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4/4 |
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(2006) |
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"A miracle."
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(2006) |
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"Give a chance to L'Enfant, because more so than any film released this year in the United States, it deserves it."
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1.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Prepubescent homoeroticism and loveable pederasty highlight this preposterous and pointless provocation."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Not only is The Code visually unexciting, it doesn’t seem to have a discernable point beyond trying to set up an elaborate shoot-out."
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The film is an unpretentious blank slate--almost totally without point but so unassuming it earns consideration."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"La Tropical may be the first documentary about Cuba to seriously address the island republic's complex, lingering racial problems."
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"If the insult of La Zona is not as significant as Paul Haggis's Crash, that's because director Rodrigo Plá doesn't trivialize a society's racial dynamics, only its class relations."
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(2004) |
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"It’s a darn shame this Ladder 49 DVD didn’t come with a copy of Enya’s Memory of the Trees and a box of Lucky Charms."
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1.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"As for the soulless fire sequences, they’re so big and suspenseful you half expect to see Celine Dion standing on top of a building wailing “My Heart Will Go On.”"
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"At the very least, it’s more sensitive than more Lucky Charmed productions of its kind like Waking Ned Devine and Calendar Girls"
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"The Lady and the Duke is Eric Rohmer's economical antidote to the bloated costume drama"
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1.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"With Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, Park Chanwook delivers more virtuosic but empty flash."
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(2004) |
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"Become “one” with Irma P. Hall’s killer humdingers with the DVD’s enhanced ScriptScanner enhanced computer feature."
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"There's back-stabbing, inter-racial desire and, most importantly, singing and dancing."
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65/100 |
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(1988) |
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"Cheap effects and gratuitous displays of nudity only heighten the film's delirious demeanor."
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Apollo Guide |
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65/100 |
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(1988) |
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Click here to see the review!
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Apollo Guide |
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3/4 |
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(1988) |
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"Christianity and paganism clash in Ken Russell's campy The Lair of the White Worm."
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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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(2006) |
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"One could say that the sparse décor of the titular abode's interior explains, if not necessary excuses, the disc's slim extras."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The Lake House's opening credit sequence, during which calligraphic letters overlap and burst into plumes of smoke, is the first of the film's many charms."
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(1975) |
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"For Bresson fans, this is as good as it gets…for now at least."
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Wenders is content wandering the American heartland with his iPod and camera-as-divining-rod, looking for a thematic purpose to anchor his groggy, music-infused aesthetic."
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4/4 |
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(1932) |
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"Today, Las Hurdes is remembered less for its politicized images than it is for Buñuel parodic manipulation of documentary style."
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Lantana is Ray Lawrence's Aussie rendition of Short Cuts, a multi-character relationship saga disguised as a bubbling thriller."
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(2001) |
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"A flawed but intimate DVD presentation for Australia's critically acclaimed Lantana."
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The Cradle of Life is infinitely more fun and feral than its precursor, and it exudes an attitude worthy of the diva that rides it."
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Never has Lassie's proletarian spunk felt so alive."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Ricther understands that there is strength in numbers."
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1/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Rod Lurie accomplishes the impossible by churning out a flag-waving action yarn even more ham-fisted than Pearl Harbor."
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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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(2005) |
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"Dark and distressing, Last Days is as anti-anthemic as "Smells Like Teen Spirit.""
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"For three films now, Van Sant has been hard-selling a form of cinema absentia, where the action that transpires offscreen is as important as what happens inside the frame."
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3/4 |
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(1972) |
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"Back in 1972, Wes Craven's feature-film debut The Last House on the Left pushed more than a few puritanical buttons."
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(1972) |
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"Considering the source material, an all-around good DVD package fit for that special ghoul in your life."
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(2006) |
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"Approximates through its fictional lead character (a white doctor who spins a globe, closes his eyes, and plops his finger on Uganda) what it might be like for, well, members of The National Board of Review to be air dropped into the middle of Africa."
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2/4 |
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(2002) |
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"There's enough melodrama in this Magnolia Primavera to make PTA proud yet director Muccino's characters are less worthy of Puccini than they are of daytime television."
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3/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Last Life in the Universe isn’t so much weightless as it is liable to inspire weightlessness."
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(2004) |
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"Image quality is a major letdown but the Chris Doyle commentary track certainly is not."
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2.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"As the film builds to its nail-biting conclusion, the children will have connected with the War on Terror and foreign philosophical belief systems in the interest of mankind's salvation."
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"By film's end, Last Orders becomes a male weepy of the rarest kind: one that earns its tears."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"The audio and video transfer is so good, you may forget just how offensive it is that Cruise and Zwick are trying to teach the Japanese how to be Japanese again."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"More or less a neutered version of Robert Altman’s sexy beast The Player."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Director Go Shibata's coup is never sentimentalizing Sumida's condition, instead inviting our identification with him as someone just as capable of slipping into a moral abyss, but the director's style can be dumb."
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3.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"Dover Kosashvili's first feature Late Marriage so boldly confronts Jewish Orthodox traditions it's a minor miracle it never becomes glib."
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(2003) |
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"Laurel Canyon will make you wish that your mother liked to smoked pot. By film’s end, though, you’ll have realized that the only way to tolerate Laurel Canyon is under the influence of illicit substances."
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(2004) |
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"Love always has the last word? No, love means never having to see this movie."
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"In spite of its improvisational roots, Le Petite Lieutenant feels a little too cleverly thought-out, but this is still a rare police film that uses work to illuminate life."
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