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(2009) |
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"What surprises and delights is how complete the work feels, finished in every way aesthetically and thematically, any longueurs or asides entirely part of Nemescu's indelible emotional tapestry."
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The House Next Door |
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3/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This Bond is rough and raw ... despite his divinely piercing blue eyes, he might just as well have emerged from primordial sludge to do the bidding of Beelzebub."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(1976) |
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"Jacques Rivette's masterpiece is a deceptively light-hearted confection that begins and ends (or, rather, begins again) at the entrance to a Parisian wonderland."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"A desiccated nowhereland, like something waiting to be feasted on by Stephen King's ravenous Langoliers."
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UGO |
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(2008) |
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"As if watching a gaggle of mountaineers indifferently scale K2."
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UGO |
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4/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It makes sense that, within his own act of remembrance, Ferrara would include a hotel tenant’s home-movie footage of the September 11 attacks. The underlying message, in both cases, is the same: Never forget."
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Time Out New York |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"It would be foolish to deny the supreme technical achievements of Children of Men."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2007) |
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"A love unique in every respect -- nothing to sniff at and forever to be treasured."
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The House Next Door |
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(2008) |
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""Things never happen the same way twice," says the Christ lion Aslan - we can presume that goes as much for movie franchises as for lightning strikes."
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UGO |
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(2005) |
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"A literalist's portrait of apocalypse."
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The House Next Door |
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1/4 |
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(2006) |
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"I can only speak for myself, but I couldn't tear my eyes away from this Euro-art train wreck."
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Slant Magazine |
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(2008) |
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"Quoth the false prophet: "It's only a movie.""
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UGO |
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(2004) |
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"All genetically predisposed cinephiles must own Code 46."
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Slant Magazine |
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4/4 |
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(2004) |
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"A 92-minute, color-coded mood enhancer boiling over with provocative ideas and unsettling imagery."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2004) |
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"The film’s focused portrayal of Al-Jazeera clashes with its more haphazard grouping of American media outlets."
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Slant Magazine |
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2/6 |
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(2009) |
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"If great movies resulted purely from wizardly technical displays, then Czech writer-director Bohdan Sláma’s The Country Teacher would be a masterpiece to give Béla Tarr pause."
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Time Out New York |
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2/4 |
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(1956) |
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"The whole thing is shallow and obvious in ways that Rivette's features never are."
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Slant Magazine |
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1/5 |
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(2009) |
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"It’s too easy to say that Peter Billingsley shot his eye out with this inept comic trifle, but…well, he shot his eye out."
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Time Out New York |
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2/4 |
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(2006) |
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"This is as detestable a hard-R offense (equal-opportunity offender though it may be) as has ever been released to theaters."
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Slant Magazine |
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(1994) |
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"Hotchi Motchi! “The Critic” gets a respectful and well-deserved DVD treatment."
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Slant Magazine |
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2.5/4 |
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(2006) |
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"Zhang Yimou moves ever closer to grand opera with Curse of the Golden Flower, though this garish familial melodrama-cum-action extravaganza plays better in retrospect than it does in the moment."
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Slant Magazine |
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