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" Director Laurent Cantet has pulled together a story that feels startlingly authentic, using Mike Leigh-like methods of extensive improvisation with a cast of real inner-city kids and a real teacher. To paraphrase the Buck Owens/Beatles hit, all they had"
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(2008) |
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"Time stretches out to the limits of endurance, Slimane's and ours, and there are moments toward the conclusion of this picture when you will want to scream and throw things at the screen, but it's mesmerizing. When it does end, suddenly, it feels a little"
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" Mouret is the cinematic offspring of Woody Allen and Eric Rohmer. From the former he takes the actor-director presenting himself as neurotic but satisfying lover; from the latter he absorbs the pleasure of extended talk. Mouret's talk is enjoyable, but i"
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(2008) |
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"There's no denying the film's visual beauty. And if you are willing and able to allow yourself the patience to enter into the rhythm of the story, and slow your pulse to its pace, you will find it a powerful, even a stunning experience."
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(2009) |
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"In the hands of a director more suited to the material The Soloist might have been a deeply moving experience. Here, we know something important is being played out before us, and there are times when it hits home with force. But in their exercise of dram"
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(2009) |
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"Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa (no relation to the master) is best known for his up-market horror films (Cure, Retribution, and many others.) Here he is dealing with a horror of a different sort: the meltdown of the Japanese economy and the collapse of the soc"
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(2009) |
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"Why are quality pros like Howard and Hanks involved in this enterprise? Do they need the money? Angels and Demons is sure to make plenty. But their artistic souls will do hard time in purgatory for it."
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(2009) |
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"The most remarkable revelation of the movie is its subject's thoughtful, reflective eloquence and unflinching self-perception...Tyson may or may not be entirely who he says he is, but he's probably not who we thought he was, either."
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(2009) |
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" This is not a rare movie, but it does have a warm red center. It's likable, and its appeal grows as it recovers from a shaky start and finds its footing."
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(2009) |
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" The sense of authenticity in this movie is palpable, but the scenes are sometimes so dark and so impenetrable that it takes a herculean effort to keep up with who's who and what's going on."
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(2008) |
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"The title of this movie suggests the difficulty in writing about it. You can't reveal a secret without spoiling it, and in this intriguing, complex family drama spread out over several time frames covering half a century, the secrets keep on coming"
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(2009) |
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"The International is strewn with wild improbability, but that hardly deters from its appeal."
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(2008) |
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"There is precious little in these movies to fill out our understanding of what it was that made Che a rebel, a leader of men, and the repository of the romantic dreams of several generations of armchair revolutionaries"
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(1991) |
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"Andrzej Wajda (Ashes and Diamonds), the octogenarian master of Polish cinema, sets the stage for the tragedy of a nation caught in a conflict of forces of destiny and evil immeasurably greater than itself."
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(2008) |
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"If Mt. Rushmore were to make a movie, it would probably look a lot like a Clint Eastwood movie."
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(2008) |
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"If Revolutionary Road had been filmed back in 1961, when the novel came out, it would have been timely and powerful."
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(2008) |
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"There is hardly a scene that does not produce exquisite discomfort and a strong desire to be somewhere else."
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(2008) |
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" This is a thriller, though, in the sense that it is a thrill to watch Scott-Thomas give one of the finest performances of the year."
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(2008) |
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"Klaudia Kovacs's riveting documentary on the 1956 Hungarian Revolution sketches the fragile, shifting line between war and peace, liberty and tyranny, hope and despair, and life and death."
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(2008) |
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"Langella inhabits the pouchy skin of the man he's playing, until soon any meaningful distinction between actor and subject disappears."
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(2008) |
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"Shanley, who has not directed a feature film since his maiden misadventure almost twenty years ago with Joe Versus the Volcano, has neither the skill nor the perspective to turn his Broadway powerhouse into a movie of similar punch."
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(2008) |
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"Director Stefan Forbes has assembled a brilliantly complex portrait that shines an unnerving light on the man who painted the landscape of contemporary American politics."
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(2008) |
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"Considering the canvas the story provides, and the richness of the tradition it taps into, the amount and quality of the music is pretty disappointing."
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(2008) |
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" Eastwood, who has made fine movies in recent years, has got hold of a humdinger of a story. But he's too detached and lazy here."
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(2008) |
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"What it lacks in subtlety and intelligence it makes up in violence, brutishness, and hackneyed story lines. These are qualities best enjoyed at home."
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(2008) |
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" As Poppy Bush says, and says again,"You disappoint me, Junior.""
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(2008) |
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"Good solid far-fetched multiplex action-adventure fare in the Bondian mode, with awe-inspiring technology and just enough moral philosophizing laced through it to give the mind a little something to chew on."
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(2008) |
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"The movie is filled with wonderful moments, set pieces of absurdity, and a richness of humor. But underneath, Menzel and Hraba have a wry and sometimes painful story to tell of the history of their country in the 20th century."
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(2008) |
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"If it doesn't rise to the level of It's a Wonderful Life, it's because Marc Abrams is no Frank Capra. And after all, this isn't about angels, it's about windshield wipers."
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(2008) |
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"Maher is essentially and professionally a comic, and the measure of this movie is not just the thoughts it provokes but the laughs it generates."
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(2008) |
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"Lee is a filmmaker who, through talent, accomplishment, and a constant working of the refs in the Hollywood system, has earned autonomy over his films. I'm all for artistic freedom, but here he could have used a bit of oversight."
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(2008) |
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"The transporting power of this experience is in the passionate and almost outlandishly eloquent verbal expression Trumbo poured into his correspondence, and the vividly American principles he defends."
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(2008) |
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"With his fierce, impeccable craft Kingsley shows us around David's tortured, preening, desperate psyche."
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(2008) |
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"In this exhilarating, palm-moistening documentary by British filmmaker James Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip), the twin towers are back to celebrate one of their finest moments."
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(2001) |
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"Bangkok Dangerous mixes mindless violence, sappy romance, and philosophical pretentiousness. On the whole, it does the first better than the other two."
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(2008) |
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"Lelouch is now 71 years old, and I bet he's never had as much fun with a film. Roman de Gare threads plots and characters and twists together like a demented weaver."
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(2008) |
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"The performances are all wonderful, but top honors go to the amazing Penelope Cruz."
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(2008) |
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"Though its quiet pastoral charms may not change your life the way they do Antoine's, you'll find the scenery comforting, the humanity reassuring, and the story appealing."
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(1981) |
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"A movie deserves to stand or fall on the basis of what it brings to the screen, not on the baggage brought to it by memories of a book or another adaptation. By this yardstick, Julian Jarrold's film does admirably."
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(2008) |
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"As powerful as the opera material is, the history and science trumps it in this film."
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(2008) |
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"When we think of the fearsome Genghis Khan, we don't picture him as ever having been a little boy. But he must have been, and that is where this grand throwback to the sweeping historical epics of yesteryear takes up the Great Khan's story."
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(2008) |
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"The great Serbian actor Rade Serbedzija gives Fugitive Pieces its heart."
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(2008) |
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"Morris offers valuable new perspectives on Abu Ghraib, but the paying customers may not care to go there again."
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(2008) |
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"Lamorisse's film was a third of this length, and was lighter than air. Hou's is about the weight of air itself on a muggy day, and whether that sustains over 113 minutes will be between each viewer and his attention span."
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(2008) |
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"Jennings is clearly having a wonderful time recreating the fantasies of his youth, but sometimes his perspective get a little too inbred, and the picture suffers for it."
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(2007) |
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"The thrill of this documentary is in the remarkable story of the Little Country That Could."
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(2008) |
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"It makes an urgent case for the futility of most wars, which serve immediate political goals that afterward don't seem terribly important."
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(2008) |
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"If you like your women half-naked, strung upside-down from pulleys, and sliced like deli meat, this is the movie for you. Whether the victims are more tortured than the plot is a serious question."
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(2007) |
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"If the artist is an elusive target, the art is as sharp as a razor blade. The portraits are extraordinary."
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(2008) |
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"Writer-director Jia Zhangke is a keen observer of the effects of the break-neck modernization that is stampeding China toward a future that no one can predict, control, or contain."
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