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"Gela Babluani creates tension with a stripped-down style and an unflinching camera and drives the film with a crisp pace that feels both out-of-control and achingly protracted."
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"Jensen doesn't pretend it's cute and/or harmless -- there's a fascinating ambiguity to the happy fantasy laid over the misery and failure."
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(2008) |
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"... the debut feature from French director Audrey Estrougo has echoes of Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive... but has its own sensibility and its own vivid surprises."
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"[Director Christoffer] Boe offers us a vision of love as a beautiful thing that leaves destruction and pain in its wake."
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(2008) |
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"The portraits of these kids often feel honest, sometimes intrusive, and occasionally they come off a little camera-conscious, which may simply be the nature of the beast."
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(1969) |
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"If anything, the vision is more fatalistic than any of Melville's crime classics."
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" ... a mix of poetic realism and expressionism in a story set around a corporate department store that is crushing its competition by design..."
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(2008) |
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"[Director Stuart] Townsend believes in the politics and the passion of the protesters; he makes their concerns heard over the media noise focused on the spectacle of conflict."
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(2008) |
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"A fascinating true story... is buried in a mundane story of generational conflict."
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(2005) |
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"... more than simply a love letter to the stylized artificiality of silent expressionist horror... the most faithful screen translation of the author's work to date."
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(2008) |
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"... for all the glorification of the mercenary methods of this elite squad, it's still a fascinating portrait of a nightmarish police and crime culture and a vivid narrative."
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(2007) |
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"The poverty and desperation is palpable, but where Slingshot showed the constant hustling and thieving in a male-dominated culture, Foster Child is anchored by women..."
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(2006) |
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"Crafted with a budget-minded luscious sense of period detail to distract from the rudimentary direction and clumsy screenwriting..."
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(2008) |
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"[Jessica] Chastain does a great job of igniting Jolene's mix of street-wise survivalist instinct and romantic soul. Her performance anchors a film that has no solid grounding"
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(2005) |
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"Tanovic turns the drama of three damaged sisters... into a full-blooded opera with performances to match."
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(2008) |
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"... the cinema is at its best when it's invisible and we can get lost in her amazing, funny, serious and moving monologue..."
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(1976) |
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"Max Havelaar works because it's not about Max's heroism -- it's about how his idealism is shattered and the hypocrisy of his entire service is laid bare."
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(2008) |
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"I found the texture of the relationships and the sly humor winning..."
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(2009) |
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"... almost indistinguishable from any other portrait of the aimless American male who is jolted from passivity to action by a reckless pal."
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"Altman enjoys the company of the characters and their swirl of sweet-and-sour chemistry but has little luck creating any drama from the situation..."
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(2006) |
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"Nick Cave's sinewy script looks austere and stripped down but echoes with a rich set of characters and conflicts..."
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(2006) |
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"The laid-back film is mostly easygoing talk, but Freeman makes you believe this self-effacing superstar genuinely enjoys the company of everyone he meets..."
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(2008) |
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"... a dull, dumb compendium of recycled adventure epic clichés."
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(1957) |
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"Sidney Lumet... effectively modulates the drama without ever taking the camera out of the jury room until the verdict is in and the jury is out."
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(2007) |
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"It's cute and funny and prickly, with a humor that cushions the conflicts humming just under the surface."
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(1957) |
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"As in the best of Harryhausen's creations, the creature from outer space has an endearing personality that comes through its skittish movements and uncomprehending face."
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(2007) |
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"Fresnadillo drives the scenes of zombie mayhem with a jumpy camera and a fractured editing style that adds a sense of panic to the chaos..."
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(2007) |
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"Forget realism, this is Greek history as "The Lord of the Rings" myth and spectacle, with thousands of gigabytes of black CGI blood spilled and spattered across the screen."
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(2007) |
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"It's a brutal film about brutal people on the frontier, where even the "good guys" are often thugs in it for the money..."
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(1957) |
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"Set during a drought in the empty, parched West, this is a film defined by emptiness and dust, its players alone and vulnerable in the eerie landscape."
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(1929) |
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"An Indian cast, a German director, and a mix of European and Indian financing came together to create this delicious 1929 silent romantic adventure..."
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(1951) |
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"Billy Wilder is the American cinema's most famous cynic, but nothing in his career is as scathing as his indictment of the American media circus..."
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(1988) |
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"The celebration of storytelling and the magic of fantasy is not really a kids film... but the whimsical treat does capture the spirit of innocent wonder, even with the nightmare ripples."
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(1992) |
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"[Tony] Scott's epic treatment is well crafted but lacks the drama of the modern crime classics his film evokes."
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(1964) |
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"It's overripe melodrama with an overtone of camp, a comically lush score, and plenty of heaving décolletage from (Michele) Mercier."
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(1960) |
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"... behind the sharp satire of corporate and personal ethics is a genuinely sweet and affecting romantic comedy."
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(2006) |
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"... a gripping, adrenaline-pounding, old-fashioned adventure epic with modern tools and a craftsman's eye for image, drama and primal emotion."
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(2007) |
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"... you can feel [John Woo's] presence in the two-handed gun battles, slow-motion acrobatics, and spent shell casings waterfalling to the ground."
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(2007) |
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"It's either utterly brilliant, dementedly puerile, or a crassly commercial knockoff ... or possibly all three."
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(2007) |
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"... bristles with life, lust, jealousy, betrayal and tragedy with a small t, the kind reserved for us mere mortals."
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(2007) |
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"... the "Oliver Twist" knockoff forgoes the social commentary of Dickens to play up the gooey romantic fantasy of music as the language of love."
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(2007) |
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"[Director Daniele] Thompson has a light touch and an upbeat style that keeps the film flowing through the stories..."
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(2009) |
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"It's hard to warm to a film so determined to ridicule, even when it steadies out in the final act as they find more centered and emotionally generous folks..."
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(2007) |
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"Straczynski is a better writer than director... and despite the fine visual effects it all feels constrained by the low budget."
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(2007) |
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"... the sometimes awkward, sometimes easy interactions of former national enemies who don't speak the same language but manage to find common ground nonetheless."
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(2008) |
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"... a terrific piece of heist filmmaking made with a rough-and-tumble attitude and old-school professionalism."
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(1925) |
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"Eisenstein orchestrates the film like a visual symphony, enhancing the movement of the action on-screen through the rhythm of the editing..."
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(2008) |
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"For Michel Gondry, [the film] becomes a kind of folk art spin on Hollywood gloss and a tribute to his own preferred style of filmmaking..."
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(1964) |
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"... what seemed majestic and theatrically impressive back then feels plodding and stodgy today..."
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"Director Sidney Lumet digs deep into the tawdry souls, peeling back the layers of arrogance and anger and self-delusion until all that's left is fury and fear and hate."
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