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(2009) |
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"Terry Gilliam, the veteran film director who cut his teeth as the animation wizard of television's legendary Monty Python's Flying Circus, has flirted with genius throughout his career, and bedded her from time to time. In The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnas"
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(2009) |
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"Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, sometimes unsettling, and always engrossing, The Maid is a domestic drama about the gulf that exists at impossibly close quarters between the worlds of upstairs and downstairs, the worlds of employer and household servant,"
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(2010) |
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" Despite a few laggard moments of slow going, Ritchie has pulled off an entertaining coup in giving us a Holmes for the 21st century by digging back to the 19th century original and adding a few bells and whistles."
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(2009) |
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"It's really not all that complicated. But it is entertaining. It's pure, simple fun, with Meryl Streep and Alec Baldwin playing Doris Day and Rock Hudson as they might have been if they had ruled in the sexually knowing oughts, instead of the virginal ear"
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(1940) |
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"(Clooney and Farmiga) keep the wit and chemistry bouncing back and forth like a modern-day Tracy and Hepburn, if you can picture Hepburn sashaying across a hotel room wearing nothing but a man's necktie looped around her waist."
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(2009) |
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"What Eastwood has done is to assemble a cast of American and South African actors and allow them to create something moving, exciting, and improbably true."
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(2009) |
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"A superb performance by Robin Wright Penn illuminates Rebecca Miller's intelligent and revealing look at the inner wild child beneath a 50-ish Connecticut matron."
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(2009) |
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"When a movie offers you a couple of hours with a drunk, he better be a charmer. And even then, it's a gamble; we've all known charming drunks, but a little can go a long way. Fortunately for Crazy Heart, it has Jeff Bridges, who brings enough charm and ve"
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(2000) |
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"Brothers is about deaths. Many kinds of deaths. Physical death, living death, emotional death, slow death and sudden death, death of the spirit, death of illusion, the illusion of death. It's also about resurrection, but that takes second billing. This is"
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(2009) |
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"This Victoria is not particularly Victorian, but then she is young; and everyone wants a piece of her, politically speaking. Emily Blunt is lovely and strong-minded as the Young Vic."
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(2008) |
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"Madsen has acknowledged a strong debt to Pierre Melville's 1969 classic Army of Shadows. This one deserves a seat at the same table."
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(1969) |
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"It's hard to overstate the impact that this Oscar-winning procedural thriller had in 1969, on a world roiling in political activism, repression, and discord."
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(2009) |
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" The Cockburns paint a picture of a financial world devoid of morality and scruples, a culture in which reckless disregard of reason and caution led to a towering house of cards that could only come crashing down."
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(2009) |
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"Campion, who won fans with The Piano (1993) and lost them with the dismal In the Cut (2003) here returns to the top of her form."
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(2009) |
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"There are cycles of inspiration and rebirth, but the barbed promise of the early going loses its way in choices aimed at sentimentality rather than, as Harvey Kurtzman memorably put it, humor in a jugular vein."
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(2009) |
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" Bichlbaum and Bonanno don't just try to make the world a better place. They treat it as if it already were."
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(2009) |
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" The centerpiece of An Education is the breakout performance of young Carey Mulligan. She is enchanting, and almost convincing as the teenage Jenny, though she can't completely obscure the (justified) suspicion that she's in her twenties and old enough f"
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(2009) |
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" Writer-director Robert D. Siegel grew up listening to callers like Paul on The FAN, New York City's all-sports radio, and he gives us a bizarrely sympathetic portrait of a guy who is as devout and as obsessive as any religious fanatic."
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(2009) |
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" Curtis's movie is loosely based on the historical truths of the time, but it isn't meant as a documentary, a rockumentary, or even a docucomedy. It's just a hell of a lot of fun."
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(2009) |
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" Petzoid takes the Cain themes of lust and duplicity and twists them into a reflection on modern Germany, where nationalism and loyalties and identity and economics are jumbled and thrown into confusion."
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(2009) |
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"Its biggest flaw, though, for those who care about such things, may be its moral attitude. That might seem a stodgy thing to bring up in the context of a Quentin Tarantino movie, but it takes such center stage that it needs to be examined."
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(2009) |
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"The good parts of this movie are often wonderful, but Apatow never finds the rhythm to keep it going. It lurches from inspiration to inspiration, but always manages to muddy its feet in mediocrity in between, as it drags on toward the two-and-a-half-hour"
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(2008) |
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"But ultimately it's a fascinating, sometimes exhilarating movie that seems to make a genuine contact with the classroom, and shows us an educational system struggling, and managing, to survive."
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(2009) |
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" The film takes flight on the brilliant title performance by Tony Servillo (Gomorrah), who plays Andreotti like a mummified Alec Guinness, as if encased in layers of plaster of Paris."
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(1995) |
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"The most remarkable revelation of the movie is its subject's thoughtful, reflective eloquence and unflinching self-perception."
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(2009) |
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"The Cove is guerrilla journalism at its best. Structured and paced by director Louie Psihoyos as a thriller/caper movie, it brings audience-grabbing cinematic conventions to work in telling its story of dolphin genocide"
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(2009) |
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"n Summer Hours, Olivier Assayas's gently provocative rumination on family and possessions, a trio of siblings wrestles with the problem of what to do with the old homestead once Mother is gone."
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(2009) |
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"Hamer creates a quirky, beguiling, and very funny mood piece that reflects on age, adventure, uncertainty, and humanity. Owe gives the character of Horten an off-center dignity that will suggest comparisons to Jacques Tati and Buster Keaton"
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(2008) |
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"Eran Riklis, who directed and co-wrote with Suha Arraf (they also collaborated on The Syrian Bride), has made a compelling movie that takes its strength from the ground-level picture it gives of the human aspect of the problems in that part of the world."
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(2009) |
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"It's all up there on the screen in this impassioned, exhilarating documentary. They want to dance for you. It's what they did for love."
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(2009) |
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"In traditional terms, this is hardly a film at all. It's more like a bootlegged YouTube video."
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(1983) |
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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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(2008) |
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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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(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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