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(2005) |
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"Strictly for people who see French films solely for the promise of seeing Louis Garrel's penis."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Pity Bale had to lose so much weight for so little."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"Reduces tragedy to a mere punch line, and as such its lead character exists less for himself and more for the gratification of the Memento fan club."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like John Boorman's Hope and Glory, Machuca conflates a boy's coming-of-age with a country's social upheavals."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This gonzo mashup of romantic comedy, political paranoia, and B-movie adulation is more confounding than thrilling."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"The filmmakers evoke children empowering themselves by coming together."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"It can't be said enough: less exploitative and infinitely more fun than Spellbound."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2008) |
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"How do I loathe the soul-crushingly predictable Made of Honor? Let me count the ways."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Without non-stop techno or the existential overtones of a Kieslowski morality tale, Maelström is just another Winter Sleepers."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1962) |
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"An alternately grim and amusing parable, but give me Cassavettes instead."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"That Magdalene Sisters arrives stateside with the full censure of the Vatican more or less confirms Mullan's job-well-done."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"The film's amusing running gags notwithstanding, Rejtman makes the mistake of adopting the depressed, disinterested feelings of his characters, confusing apathy for poetry."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2002) |
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"By film's end, Marisa swallows her shame and accepts her second-class citizenship with pride while Marshall and America learn to love their exotic asset."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The Majestic finds a presumptuous Darabont openly vying for Capra cred and, well, succeeding."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Émile Gaudreault’s comedy Mambo Italiano could have just as easily been called My Big Fat Gay Italian Wedding."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"An excellent video transfer, but with no supplemental materials specific to Émile Gaudreault’s glorified sitcom, you may want to rent rather than buy."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"No surprises here: a bare-bones DVD treatment for yet another shallow entry in Vin Diesel’s mostly intolerable acting resume."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Diesel pauses frequently to contemplate the carnage as if he were lost in an urban version of A Thin Red Line."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1956) |
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"Not exactly a definitive DVD package, but a must-own nonetheless."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1956) |
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"A deeply humanistic proclamation of the power of faith."
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Slant Magazine |
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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."
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Village Voice |
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1.5/4 |
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(2007) |
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"A neorealist drama passed through a J-Horror filter."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"She speaks Spanish. She can play the piano. She can swim Olympic-sized pools. Is there anything Dakota Fanning can’t do?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2008) |
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"Man on Wire becomes a thrilling study in contrast, succeeding not only at extolling Philippe's superhuman performance but attesting to the achievements of those who similarly defied death to give the man the stage he walked on."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2001) |
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"The Coens deftly handle the film's twists and turns, even if they hide behind noir jargon to oft-desperate effect."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Though his engagement of silent idiom recalls Chaplin, his leisurely pacing brings to mind Jarmusch."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Shunning depth for cosmetic thrills, Kohn doesn't ask us to seriously think about Brazil's contemporary malaise, only to groove to it."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Fans of the film will want to opt for the Nordisk Region 2 disc, which boasts better image quality and actual extras."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Alabama, 1933—during which time Von Trier uses the existence of slavery 70 years after its abolition as a metaphor for America's ongoing treatment of its black underclassman."
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Slant Magazine |
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1.5/4 |
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(2003) |
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"The film's awful sound design is trumped only by a shrill Chaturani's sadistic desire to add vocal contractions to her line deliveries."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"The filmmakers remind us that their subjects are owners of their pain before humanely mobilizing them as foot soldiers and architects of their salvation."
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City Pages, Minneapolis/St. Paul |
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(2005) |
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"Shake your tailfeather!"
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Like fat little men and women wobbling home after a night of hardcore drinking, these little buggers don't have to try very hard to be cute."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2003) |
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"Good transfer but no supplemental materials. Strictly for die-hard fans of La Kudrow."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2003) |
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"A sketch comedy that misses more than it hits."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2005) |
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"Redmon is impressively hands-off, allowing the material to speak for itself about the headless beast of globalization."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"I hold no grudge. Marebito is, for Takashi Shimizu, a step up from Ju-On, but it still doesn't hold a candle to any of the man's many influences, including Suspiria."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"What begins as a smart J-horror update of Blowup quickly turns into a sick joke."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2007) |
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"Like Malcom's mustache, it's all "meant to be funny," though the effect is more like drowning."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2004) |
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"Next to John Sayles’s Men With Guns, Maria Full of Grace may be the best movie about a Latin American crisis directed by a white guy."
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Slant Magazine |
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3.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Coppola doesn't ask us to take Marie Antoinette as she thinks she was but as she probably was: a little girl who didn't know better."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"Let the critics eat cake."
[dvd review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2006) |
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"There's dancing all right but not a whole lot of charm."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Suggest the first rom-com directed by Alejandro González Iñarritu.
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[movie review] |
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Slant Magazine |
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(2005) |
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"Mark Romanek's best work poses a serious challenge to others working in his field: Are you gonna go my way?"
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2003) |
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"Less shrill than Samira Makhmalbaf’s Blackboards, Bahman Ghobadi’s latest is also less didactic."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1973) |
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"Easily the most twisted film of Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s career, Martha (a favorite of his frequent cinematographer Michael Ballhaus) catalogs the tyrannical hold a bourgeois husband has over his wife."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(2002) |
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"Most impressive, though, is the film's open-ended finale that refuses to entirely close its characters' emotional wounds."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Good-hearted but dull and a slave to its director's outsider-looking-in bias."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1966) |
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"Not only does Paul’s battle with Madeleine represent a war between the sexes, but a clash between disparate philosophical and moral beliefs."
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Slant Magazine |
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