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3.5/5 |
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"...spry and spiky satire..."
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"9 is a grey and grim thrill ride packed full of kiddie morality lessons and creepy frightenings, as though Steven Spielberg had induced the Brothers Quay to create a summer blockbuster."
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(2009) |
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"A loping comedy of displacement that snaps off dozens of easy laughs without breaking a sweat..."
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(2009) |
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"Although sadly rife with gut-clenching moments as those, Afghan Star is most thrilling when depicting the show's delicately balanced effort to bring Afghans together despite their fractious ethnic and clan boundaries."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"purrs along like a finely-calibrated machine for its first two thirds"
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5/10 |
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(2009) |
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"A finely pedigreed comic road film that, when all is said and done, is too finely-tooled for the NPR set to have much life left in it."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Krasinski stitches these raw blasts of the subconscious with interludes that exude a pleasing, Woody Allen-esque tone, all fall colors and potent theorizing over white wine"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"burns bright with brilliance before sputtering out in the end"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"often inscrutable but still fresh and surprising"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A beautiful tissue-paper piece of art that falls to shreds should you so much as blow upon it"
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(2009) |
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"A beautifully shot, would-be-penetrating drama about a closeted teacher in a small Czech village falls victim to a wandering plot and muffled characterizatio"
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Film Journal International |
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"while Berlinger allows the film to get a little too star-struck, spending less time with the winningly humble patchwork alliance doing the lawsuit's hard work, Crude at least acknowledges the reason behind this shift"
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4/10 |
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(2009) |
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"Those who enjoy virtual roller-coaster rides and long falls from high places are encouraged to attend."
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The film threads enough thoughtful commentary into its whirligig media-fractured action plot to mostly make up for its lapses into cliché."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a dashing and bright entertainment that aims to please without scraping the floor for your approval"
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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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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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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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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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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"essentially the story of people auditioning for a show about auditions"
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It's like a treehouse for grownups..."
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Enough is enough"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"it's hard not to feel by the end of this film that one is looking into the giggling face of evil."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a so utterly disposable comic-book film that one forgets it before it ends"
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1.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"it's all pose, with hardly a laugh in sight"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A mob film that's as far from the genre's standard operating procedure as could be imagined"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A generally superb model of how to make a pop documentary"
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"the tale of an unlikely friendship, one that reaches across generational and cultural barriers"
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(2009) |
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"At what point did the Harry Potter film franchise become a race against repetition?"
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(2009) |
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"Glenn McQuaid's microbudgeted debut is a jauntily gothic period spook story."
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Il Divo is as showy as Gomorrah was spare, sometimes taking your breath away with its gutsy leaps of brilliance and sometimes acting like a bratty child desperate for attention."
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(2009) |
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"Tarantino seems to have gotten high on the fumes of his own (admittedly addictive) creation here and just not known when to quit."
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7/10 |
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(2009) |
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"...isn't just some vanity piece for boomer rock fans...It asks how music gets made, and occasionally why."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"could have been a perfectly fine B-grade thriller, but Bornedal overestimates his cleverness"
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(2009) |
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"The soul shivers at the film's cold beauty."
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"A sad but clever science-fiction exercise about a man working alone on the Moon, with nothing but a talking computer and tape-recorded calls back to Earth to keep him sane."
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Film Journal International |
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(2009) |
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"This straightforward history lesson casts Daniel Ellsberg and his leaked Pentagon Papers as the first shot in the war that brought down the Nixon regime."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"A polarizing family secrets drama whose moment of revelation is continually diverted in favor of enticing new fragments of the truth..."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"one more cultural artifact lost in translation"
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3.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"What with all the fatal accidents, deadly diseases, bar fights, and virtual stalking going on, this could almost be an American film."
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(2009) |
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"As a kind of Rorschach-blot interpretation of cinema, The Pervert's Guide to Cinema contains all kinds of wicked fascinations."
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2/5 |
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(2009) |
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"Were it not for the jangly screwball energy ... The Proposal would be just another desperate attempt to jam as many winning formula elements into one graceless package as possible."
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"delicate and indefinable, with only a thin reed of a story."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"seems already dated"
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3/5 |
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(2009) |
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"both leads are at the top of their game in a story that normally brings out the worst in actors of this caliber"
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4.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"a greatly satisfying parable of happenstance"
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(2009) |
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"And just think, they haven't gotten to the Klingons yet..."
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2.5/5 |
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(2009) |
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"The portrait may be accurate but Schmid's overly muted take on the story hardly does justice to the stark terror and injustice that lies at its core."
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(2009) |
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"Mill's towering righteousness is just too much for this weak little film, whose only interest is in affirming the white patriarchal prerogative."
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