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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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(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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(2006) |
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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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