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5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"While its ending notes may be those of possible catastrophe, Planet Earth can't be anything but hopeful, as really less a nature show than a series of snapshots of reasons to live."
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(2008) |
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"Ultimately holds together as a smart meditation on mortality and love that uses its literary genesis as more of a boost than limitation."
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's not to say that the filmmakers should have resorted to pulp dramatics, but in correctly straining to not exploit their subjects, they forgot to fill in the spaces left behind."
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Filmcritic.com |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"...a more real piece of work than one would expect."
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(2008) |
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"A poor man's City of God that suggests the only answer to the problems of Brazil's slums are blazing guns wielded by a neo-fascist police force."
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Film Journal International |
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2/4 |
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(2004) |
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"From the very beginning, the film’s primary dysfunction is that it can’t decide exactly how smarmy or adorably postmodern it wants to be."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/5 |
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(2008) |
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"More often than not, though, Wolf makes her points simply and believably"
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Filmcritic.com |
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8/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...uncharacteristically revolutionary among today's issue documentaries, and all the more refreshing for its bluntness."
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PopMatters |
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...crafts a crackling thriller out of the tangle of crafty maneuvering that ended apartheid."
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PopMatters |
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3/5 |
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(2007) |
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"a worthy distraction from the messy realities of life."
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Filmcritic.com |
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5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"Kaufman has here dug into a deeper, more heartfelt core and come up with one of the best films ever made about memory, its importance and malleability."
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Film Threat |
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5/5 |
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(2004) |
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"All of this would be just showmanship, if Gondry and Kaufman hadn’t kept the film as grounded as it is -- everything is just too believable."
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Film Threat |
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3/5 |
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(2004) |
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"manages to be that oddly rare quantity: the actually enjoyable stupid comedy."
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1.5/5 |
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(2003) |
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"content with its own limited horizons"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"essentially the story of people auditioning for a show about auditions"
[movie review] |
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Filmcritic.com |
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2/5 |
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(2005) |
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"...an incomplete thing which easily loses its way, and will likely leave viewers stranded along with it."
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ToxicUniverse.com |
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(2006) |
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"The cockroach-like resilience of the Sicilian Mafia is examined with careful calculation in this passionate but ultimately resigned documentary."
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Film Journal International |
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(1961) |
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"...one of the great under-seen cinema gems of the 1960s."
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Film Journal International |
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(2007) |
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"An act of nearly overwhelming self-congratulation ... like Wings of Desire directed by Zalman King."
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Film Journal International |
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(1959) |
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"Well-rendered package for this creepy but somewhat underwhelming film."
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Slant Magazine |
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3/4 |
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(1959) |
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"It’s not a masterpiece but it certainly isn’t forgettable.
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Slant Magazine |
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