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8/10 |
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(1999) |
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2001) |
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"Makhmalbaf's astounding and haunting imagery tells a story of devastation, desperation and poverty."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1975) |
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"Despite the exotic title Karate Bull Fighter is a classic tale of the maverick champion who stands up to the orthodoxy of the federation..."
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MSN.com |
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(2007) |
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"Andrjez Wajda, whose father was one of the officers killed in Katyn, uses the event to explore some of the unhealed wounds suffered by the Poles in World War II."
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Seanax.com |
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B+ |
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(2004) |
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"Affliction has rarely been so sensitively explored."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1977) |
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"This quietly observant black-and-white film school thesis... features a cast of non-actors, a slow-dance rhythm more akin to European cinema than American drama, and a rich soundtrack..."
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MSN.com |
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(1984) |
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"First time feature director Roland Joffe shoots the drama with an unforced realism lent a terrible grace by the handsome images and smooth, unobtrusive long takes..."
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Seanax.com |
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B |
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(2006) |
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"Milo Addica's script delves into emotionally messy territory... and director James Marsh embraces the ambiguity, sometimes at the expense of the characters."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(1958) |
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"Elvis rises to the occasion of his fourth feature. He's a natural, more attitude and impulse than complexity and nuance, as he burns through the role..."
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MSN.com |
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B- |
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(2007) |
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"... perfectly genial and agreeably modest character piece."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B+ |
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(2007) |
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"Seth Gordon's portrait of obsessive classic arcade game players finds high drama and murky intrigue in the competition for the Donkey Kong world record."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C |
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(2005) |
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"A labor of love film where you feel love much stronger than you feel the film."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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C+ |
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(2001) |
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"There's nothing new in this mix of family crises, marital infidelities and long-held grudges, and little satisfaction in the easy personal triumphs."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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A |
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(2005) |
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"His scenes ripple with undercurrents of awkward emotions... creating a film both devastating and uplifting, but he passes no judgments."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2000) |
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"Simultaneously immediate and alienated, [Gitai] captures a chaotic portrait of the war with no glory, only the confusion, fear, and fatigue of a tour under fire."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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B- |
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(2003) |
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"The bouncy, bright tune that drives the dancing credits also sets the toe-tapping tone: lighthearted, hopeful, harmless fun, with a little continental attitude."
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
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(2007) |
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"Apatow's gags are strewn with crude language and extreme behavior but his humor is all grounded in character and relationships and prickly moments of self-realization and guilt..."
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MSN.com |
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(1961) |
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"Konga is a giant ape movie to be sure but Gough's Dr. Decker is a mad scientist in the mode of Peter Cushing's Dr. Frankenstein from Hammer's series..."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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(1997) |
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"Kundun is surely the most gentle and meditative of Scorsese's films, a placid biography with the scope of an epic, the quality of a storybook, and the dramatic stakes of a tragedy."
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Turner Classic Movies Online |
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B+ |
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(2005) |
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"Chow packs a lot of action, a crazed cascade of comedy, a parade of characters and a non-stop barrage of loving jabs at classic martial-arts adventures into 99 minutes."
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