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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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(2007) |
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"The lesson here is not simply to vilify the Japanese soldiers of that era, but to make sure that we never forget who we are and what our country stands for today."
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(2008) |
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"The Counterfeiters, written and directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky, is a morally challenging twist on the long and honorable tradition of forgery movies."
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(2007) |
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"The Band's Visit has pathos, but it is also very funny."
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(2008) |
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"It's a bit of a guilty pleasure, with its formulas and its sap, but if it can get Lou Dobbs reaching for that Kleenex, it will have done its job."
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(2008) |
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"You won't need a degree in Korean cinema to anticipate that complications will arise."
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(2008) |
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"Sachs combines humor, suspense, and twists of plot that keep the ground shifting under our feet."
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(2006) |
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"Accuracy be damned. It's a very entertaining movie."
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(2008) |
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"There are shivers of humor from time to time, but the mask in place here is the mask of tragedy."
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(2003) |
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"For God's sake, if you're going to commit incest with your sister, and she's the Queen of England, close the damned door!"
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(2008) |
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"Taxi to the Dark Side joins a growing list of outspoken documentaries that question the rationale and conduct of America's presence in Iraq and Afghanistan, and our willingness to destroy freedom in order to save it."
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"The Island is visually stunning in its bleak, blue-hued austerity, but its storytelling is simplistic."
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(2007) |
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"It is wonderful to watch this joyous slice of the cultural lives of these victimized, traumatized children struggling to survive and build a better life in a desperately troubled part of the world."
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(2007) |
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"Starting Out in the Evening is thrilling in a way that a movie larded with car chases and explosions can seldom be, because of the way it deals with that basic building block of civilization, the creative process."
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(2007) |
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"It's billed as a comedy. You may or may not find much to laugh at."
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(2007) |
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"Daniel Day-Lewis bestrides the narrow world like a colossus as Daniel Plainview, a turn-of-the-last-century prospector for gold and silver who stumbles upon oil in rural California and goes after it with the ferocity, focus, and ethical sensitivity of a f"
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(2007) |
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"You get the performances you expect from these two great stars, which lift this story mercifully but marginally above its meager content."
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(2007) |
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"The Kite Runner is dramatically and visually sumptuous"
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(2007) |
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"In a season seasoned with off-beat originality in the movies, from Lars and the Real Girl to I'm Not There, you still have not seen anything quite like John Turturro's extraordinary Romance and Cigarettes."
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(2007) |
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"Nichols and Sorkin have made a Cadillac of a movie, a handsome, beautifully designed chassis with a powerful motor and luxurious attention to detail."
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(2007) |
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"Thoughtful, sobering, hopeful, despairing, inspirational, depressing, and just in time for the holidays comes Darfur Now, a documentary about genocide in the Sudan."
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(2007) |
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"DiCillo's themes are loyalty and friendship and betrayal and redemption."
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(2007) |
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"As the Shadow used to say, the weed of crime bears bitter fruit, and Lumet has made a delicious pie out of it."
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(2007) |
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"It means to use the Cruise-Redford-Streep star power to get us talking about things we ought to be talking about."
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(2007) |
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"How much truth we get in the movie version is hard to say...nobody much cares if it's gospel, as long as it's riveting. Here, alas, it is not."
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(2007) |
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"...we're surprised to find that it's possible to feel a real emotional attachment to an anatomically correct girl made of quality plastic."
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(2007) |
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"...the long and winding road that is Julie Taymor's opulent, eye-filling, and disappointingly uninvolving musical extravaganza..."
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(2007) |
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"This is romantic fantasy, not history, and much of the time you fully expect Kapur, here making his third post-Bollywood feature, to turn his cast loose in song and dance."
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(2007) |
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"When it's got the pedal to the metal, which is a substantial fraction of the running time, The Kingdom delivers the goods."
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(2007) |
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"The movie fills us with wonder, and pride, and a tugging sense of loss."
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(2007) |
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"Watching The Bourne Ultimatum is like being strapped to a vibrating bed set on high for two hours in a cheap motel."
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"Ultimately it is deeply romantic. The exposure that affects us most deeply is...the nakedness of soul and spirit as they come closer to each other than the coupling of bodies alone can provide."
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(2007) |
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"Herzog builds this movie around another strong, eccentric performance from Bale, who is gaining a reputation for outsized talent and for downsized physicality."
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(2007) |
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"Ultimately Crialese misses the boat in terms of sustained and compelling story. The movie is all background."
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(2007) |
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"Evan Almighty belongs to that sorry cinema subgenre, Comedy without the Funny Bits."
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(2007) |
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"This is a movie to see in a theater. It'a group experience. All through the show you'll hear people laughing, crying, muttering, cheering, sighing, swearing, and gasping. And at the end, chances are they'll be on their feet applauding."
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(2007) |
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"Movie characters like McClane are the Paul Bunyans and John Henrys and Pecos Bills of our age, the stuff of tall tales spun with the technology of an age whose campfires are found in multiplexes with stadium seating."
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(2007) |
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"Familiar situations and trite dialogue give this movie the feel of something freeze-dried and reconstituted."
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(2006) |
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"It's a bit of a shaggy dog story, with threads that go nowhere, but nobody's in a hurry, and it's easy to go along for the ride."
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(2007) |
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"One of the more interesting themes of this movie is the question of which is more important to a cause, the man or the money."
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(2006) |
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"Instead of guys named Danny and Polack and Sol and Brooklyn, you've got guys named Said and Yassir and Messaoud and Abdelkader. But it's the same deal. Prick them, do they not bleed? Blow them up, do their limbs not scatter and their guts not spill?"
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(2007) |
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"The serving temperature of revenge has seldom been colder, nor the time of preparation longer, than for this gourmet French plat froid from writer-director Denis Dercourt."
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(2007) |
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"This fascinating documentary examines the issues raised by Nader's runs for the presidency...that shone a powerful light into our grubby political shadows, and also played a part...that twice put George W. Bush into the White House."
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(2007) |
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"This film is about many things, but the magic key that unlocks the treasure chest is literacy."
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(2007) |
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"Fracture is the kind of polished cat-and-mouse movie thriller that depends entirely on the cat and the mouse having read and agreed to the script in advance."
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(2007) |
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"Paul Verhoeven's WWII drama stars the lovely Dutch actress Carice van Houten as a Jewish Resistance worker, and costars her breasts. All three deserve awards consideration."
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(1977) |
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"The strength of this little movie is its artlessness, the non-plotted story acted by non-actors, the raw unpretentiousness of real life in the Watts ghetto of Los Angeles."
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